What Are Urban Percent Of Botswana

21% are hungry- BCWIS

The objective of the survey was to provide comprehensive data and update information on income, expenditure, poverty datum line and other household characteristics needed for socio-economic planning, monitoring and evaluation processes.

Five questionnaires were administered for the survey, namely the household questionnaire, daily record (for receipts and daily household expenditure), community questionnaire (administered to community leaders), schools questionnaire and health questionnaire.

The survey, which was carried out over a 12 months in 2009/2010, also reveals that in urban villages 12 percent of households sometimes go for a day without food, while in cities and towns, seven percent of households have indicated the same.

Announcing the preliminary results of the survey late last week, acting statistician general, Anna Majelantle, said the survey included a module where households were asked to assess their economic situations by comparing their situations at the time of the survey with their situation a year ago. Households were also asked to report on their short-term food security.

Despite the steady rise in food prices, fuel prices, utility rates and housing costs in the last couple of years, 37 percent of Botswana households have indicated that their economic situation was the same as the year before.

BCWIS shows that 20 percent indicated that they were "much worse" than the year before while 21 percent indicated that they were "a little worse." Nine percent indicated that they were "a little better" while four percent thought they were "much better."

The survey also indicates that 18 percent of households in cities and towns, as well as 18 percent of urban villages regarded their economic situation as "much worse now", while 22 percent of rural households thought the same. 

Households were also asked to make observations on their general living conditions in comparison to other households in the community, Majelantle said.

BNF 1999 Botswana Manifesto « SADCblog

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FOREWORD

The 1999 Election is the eighth in Botswana since 1965. This election represents several years of experience for our nation and the Botswana National Front (BNF). The election also signals the end of an era. This is an election that takes us as a nation, through the last few months of the 1990′s decade which in fact, also marks the end of the 20th century. Since the mid-1960′s Botswana has seen three decades of uninterrupted one party rule of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). It is up to us as a nation to judge the achievements and failures of the present government but I wish to point out the following simply to help you take stock of things and make your decision on who to vote for, in a proper perspective.  Three decades of post-colonialism in Africa have been turbulent and generally disastrous in terms of development, human rights, institutional development, economic growth and environmental protection. As well as the inequitable distributions of the national resources resulting in the division of the population into the high percentage of the extremely poor and the small percentage of the extremely rich. The resultant situation is growth in poverty, unemployment, the collapse of the agricultural sector, constant military and police intervention to silence the poor, phenomenal growth in unemployment and poverty resulting in crime and corruption, ethnic strife, growth in refugee population and above all political bankruptcy and corruption of unparalleled magnitude.  Today, in Botswana we have large numbers of doctors, university lecturers, accountants, engineers, architects, quantity surveyors, etc, from Tanzania, Sudan, Ghana, and of course China. These countries have been able to equip their rationales with the necessary skill to fill up posts which should have been filled by the locals. In Botswana, how many citizen doctors, health inspectors, architects, engineers, etc, do we have after 33 years? The BDP government has been able to lay down the basic social and physical infrastructure in terms of roads, schools, clinics, water supply and telecommunications. I believe as a nation we all know and appreciate this. The laying down of infrastructure is considered, throughout the world, as the basic need and requirement for all countries. Many countries in the world including much poorer ones in Africa have managed to build schools, health facilities, universities, telecommunications and provided water and housing for much larger population than ours have performed in the area of infrastructural development over the past three decades of independence). The BDP government has failed in three decades to take this country beyond infrastructural development hence: 3. Agriculture has collapsed not largely because of drought but because of the lack of proper planning. At present the government spends millions of Pula on drought relief in an apparent attempt to help the people. But there is neither assurance to farmers, the unemployed, female headed households, the people in the most disadvantaged regions of the country that this assistance will continue or that BDP government will come up with something better for the future. 5. The rapid increase in corruption especially among people holding high office, has resulted in the emulation of leaders by the ordinary people. Corruption, abuse of power and arrogance by the BDP leadership have grown and many millions of Pula have been lost at BHC, NDB, BCB, BBS, BAMB and Government ministries and departments. While denying these the Government has come up with the so-called “Economic Crime Act or Corruption Law”. Why since they deny that they are corrupt? 6. Consultation has become a mockery under the BDP rule. Laws are prepared and passed in a rush without consultation, even with the BDP backbenchers. The following are a few examples : Incomes Policy (1990), Agricultural Policy (1991), Wildlife Policy (1993), Tribal Land Amendment Act (1993), Amendment of the Abortion Law (1993), Corruption Act (1994) and the Kanye incident where the chief was replaced with his son without first consulting the community. 10. The acute shortage of houses and the short-sighted view of the government of the Botswana Democratic Party which considers the housing of the nation as a commodity to be enjoyed by the well to do, who have the financial power to buy and sell.  This same government wants to be returned to power when they offer no new ideas about creating a hly democratic system of government, creating more economic opportunities, providing markets for our enterprising entrepreneurs and providing better assistance to the needy and disabled and providing a comprehensive social security for the nation. 10. The 1999 general elections offers Batswana another opportunity to make Botswana of the 21st century and happy place to live in by voting for the BNF.  The present trend contains a time bomb and social strife that as a small and young nation we cannot afford.

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