Botswana’s unsettling debacle Poverty amidst mineral wealth

STAFF WRITER editors@thepatriot.co.bw   Blunt truth was told; difficult questions posed. One South African businesswoman declared – ‘nobody should be poor in this country when you look at the mineral endowment and the size of the population. Where is the problem – is it political leadership?” Botswana has a population of 2.4 million. “Botswana’s GDP…