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One thing you need to know about government tenders worth billions of Pula is that a majority of them continue to roll on the foreigner’s high-way. While this

Statistics Botswana says that the nationwide enumeration phase of the 2022 Population and Housing Census ended on 4th April 2022. The institution says that it was after the initial enumeration period of 18th-31st was extended by four days to allow for its completion.

Botswana nationals who refuse to be enumerated during the country's population and housing census that ends on Wednesday could face a lengthy jail term, a hefty fine, or both.

A directive by President Mokgweetsi Masisi forced Statistics Botswana to undertake the rigorousprocess of Population and Housing Census five months earlier

Government continues to support Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) with a revenue grant meant to cushion consumers against what would otherwise be exorbitantly high electricity tariffs, this yearly cash injection through the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, goes a long way in keeping the corporation afloat. For the 2022/23 Financial year BPC will receive P600 million, Parliament recently approved. 

Botswana’s households and businesses will have to endure another assault on their disposable incomes and recurrent budgets as fuel prices continue to rise. On

Statistics Botswana is facing a lawsuit from 2022 Population and Housing Census trainee supervisors and enumerators.

The rate of inflation remained at 10.6% in February, unmoved from January, with marginal price movements of various goods and services between the two months, a Statistics Botswana report released today indicates.

Cost of living goes high, consumers feel the pinchFebruary Inflation remained unchanged at 10.6%BoB anticipates inflation to rebound to 5.7%

Botswana’s inflation rate was stable in the first two months of the year but still at its highest rate in over a decade, with fears that consumer prices may