Walk the Talk On Privatisation.

(From Mmegi / The Reporter (Botswana) - AAGM)

It is rather pathetic that Botswana's privatisation process that started in the mid-1990s to help improve service delivery in the public service and assist government reduce costs is not moving at the pace the public was made to believe it would.

Although the Public Enterprise Evaluation and Privatisation Agency (PEEPA), that was established in 2001 has carried out extensive groundwork and laid down the requisite infrastructure, the pace of the whole process has been discouraging. There was heightened optimism following the approval of the Privatisation Master Plan last year. The hope was that this would …