Response by the Ministry of Lands and Housing to Sunday Standard story of 8/2/09 `Government in secret land deals with South African Company`

26 February, 2009 in Botswana

source: Republic of Botswana (16/2/09): TAUTONA TIMES no 3 of 2009
The Weekly Electronic Press Circular of the Office of the President “Democracy, Development, Dignity and Discipline”

C6) 16/2/09: Response by the Ministry of Lands and Housing to Sunday Standard story of 8/2/09 “Government in secret land deals with South African Company”

In the interest of public clarity, the Ministry of Lands and Housing finds it necessary to respond to a number of points raised in a recent article entitled “Government in secret land deals with South African Company”, which appeared in the 8/2/09 edition of the Sunday Standard newspaper. A request for right-of response was sent to Sunday Standard for publication on the 12th February 2009, but they did not honour the agreement. Therefore, we feel compelled to make a public statement to that effect.

To begin with, we wish to reassure the public that, notwithstanding the insinuation made in the above headline; there have been no secret deals between Government and the Tati Company.

Further to the above, the document referred to in the article is nothing more than a recently received proposal by the [continue reading]

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