• From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurshipJune 27, 2025
    BAKANG PHUTHEGO BUSINESS WITH BK RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae   In the early years after independence, Botswana stood out as a… Read more: From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship
  • Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic ImperativeJune 27, 2025
        RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae Dr Dimakatso Polokelo  Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is emerging as a core component of socio-economic… Read more: Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative
  • ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISINGJune 25, 2025
    SOLOMON TJINYEKA editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae UDC impress BagaMmangwato   Illegal wildlife trade is escalating in northern Botswana, specifically in the pristine Okavango Delta, following a gruesome discovery… Read more: ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING
  • Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur MothooagaeJune 25, 2025
    STAFF WRITER editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Local techpreneur Ogone Mothooagae has urged upcoming entrepreneurs to focus on identifying a problem that urgently needs to be… Read more: Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae
  • UDC impress BagaMmangwatoJune 24, 2025
    Kgosi Khama happy over regaining control of Serowe kgotla Bangwato curiously await BDP apology from Balopi BAKANG TIRO editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae UDC impress BagaMmangwato   Residents of… Read more: UDC impress BagaMmangwato
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport
  • Analysis & Opinions
  • Vacancies & Tenders
  • Login
  • Register
Friday, June 27, 2025
17 °c
Gaborone
21 ° Tue
22 ° Wed
24 ° Thu
26 ° Fri
The Patriot On Sunday
Subscribe
Advertisement
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport
  • Analysis & Opinions
  • Vacancies & Tenders
No Result
View All Result
Cart / $0.00

No products in the cart.

  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport
  • Analysis & Opinions
  • Vacancies & Tenders
No Result
View All Result
The Patriot On Sunday
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Government frustrates BHC

patriot by patriot
January 3, 2021
in News
245
0
491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
ShareShareShare

Botswana Housing Corporation (BHC) Chief Executive Reginald Motswaiso has blamed all the parastatal’s failures on government, saying it impedes the corporation’s desire for positive achievements, leading to frustrations.

Motswaiso vented out his frustrations over government when giving perfomance overview of BHC before the parliamentary committee on Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises on Tuesday. He regretted that government has for the long time delayed the rental hikes for BHC houses, a factor which he considers to be impediment towards generating efficient profit for BHC survival.

RelatedPosts

ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING

UDC impress BagaMmangwato

DIKGOSI ON GBV CRISIS ‘Our communities are perishing’

“Rental prices were last adjusted in 2004 hence this is not seating well with us at all. Rental hike will make enough profit that will be useful for other project developments since we are self-financing. If water and electricity are subsidized why cant houses be subsidized as well,“ he protested.

BHC Act disaster

 Asked on what delays rental hiking, Motswaiso pointed out that BHC Act is also an impediment as it binds BHC desires only on the hands of the minister and cabinet, calling for the repeal of act.

According to the BHC Act, the Corporation applies to the Minister for a rental increase, who then consults with Cabinet before approving or rejecting the application. He said he has been writing regularly to the parent ministry of Infrastructure and Housing Development which is supposed to take the proposal to the cabinet for consideration.

Motswaiso being disgruntled indicated that BHC hardly gets feedback on their proposals noting that with the latest request two months ago received response that their proposal has been turned down.

Gabane-Mmankgodi MP Pius Mokgware said the BHC Act needs to be reviewed so that it accords the parastatal independence to regulate its prices based on the continuous changing value of property in the market.

Rentals across the BHC’s properties were last increased 15 years ago while in the provisional, the Corporation has struggled with higher inflation and materials supply costs, which have contributed to abrupt delays in maintenance of the rental properties. BHC boss, however, remained optimistic that the newly Tsholofelo 372 units will sell out efficiently as this will be helpful to recover costs and top up the drying BHC purse.

He said the P 440 160 000 price of the units will still remain as it is adding that the houses will be sold on mortgage inclusive of Value Added Tax (VAT).

Govt project angers BHC

Displeasure that Motswaiso further raised against government is the SHHA Turnkey housing projects formerly under Local Government authorities being the district councils.

It was assigned to BHC following the introduction of Single Housing Authority (SiHA) through Presidential Cabinet Directive CAB20 (B) 2010 on July 2010. The presidential directive amongst others ordered the transfer of all housing implementation programmes to Botswana Housing Corporation (BHC) as a single housing delivery vehicle.

Under the turnkey project, BHC has been mandated on a paltry considered budget wage from government to build at least 17 SHHA turnkey houses in all 57 constituencies countrywide. For Motswaiso, BHC is running in a huge cost for building the houses across the country noting that the P 45 000 to P 60 000 initial budget per the house from government is low and prompts BHC to incur huge costs.

“If BHC is failing is not our intention but all fault of the government. This project is bleeding our coffers harshly, because we only told to work with the little amount we are given but that money is not sufficient. And government will tells us that they will be no surplus to the money,” said frustrated BHC boss.

Motswaiso further revealed that it also an uphill battle in implementing the project as it is anticipated by the government, the reason being that constructing companies shun the tenders.“We also have a big problem which will also brought before the government over reluctance by the companies to construct the houses owing to the project being not profitable to them. Nobody responded to us at all” he added.

Lack of service land is also a paramount challenge that BHC continues to encounter into developing more property for leasing adding that another challenge in areas where BHC has been allocated land lacks connection to services such as water and electricity.

Responding to Motswaiso’ frustrations, MP Mephato Reatile voiced concern on how the government has just seemed to have thrown its brain child project on BHC shoulders, but not providing enough resources. He observed that the councils were also struggling to fully execute the project decrying budget constraints similarly to BHC, pointing out that a new development shall materialise to ease BHC burden.

For his part, another committee member Gilbert Mangole said land has been since availed for BHC at Pilane village in Kgatleng district to build houses, therefore urging BHC to utilise the land.

Related

Tags: BHCGvt

Get real time update about this post categories directly on your device, subscribe now.

Unsubscribe
Previous Post

Makgato vows to uproot corruption

Next Post

CEDA refuses with forensic audit report

Related Posts

ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING
News

ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING

June 25, 2025
UDC impress BagaMmangwato
News

UDC impress BagaMmangwato

June 24, 2025
DIKGOSI ON GBV CRISIS ‘Our communities are perishing’
News

DIKGOSI ON GBV CRISIS ‘Our communities are perishing’

June 23, 2025
Auto Draft
News

BOKO’S WAR ROOM

June 23, 2025
News

AP, BPP ‘steal’ democrats

June 18, 2025
Wayei, Basubiya reject Motshegwa
News

Wayei, Basubiya reject Motshegwa

June 17, 2025
Next Post
CEDA refuses with forensic audit report

CEDA refuses with forensic audit report

Please login to join discussion
  • From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurshipJune 27, 2025
    BAKANG PHUTHEGO BUSINESS WITH BK RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae   In the early years after independence, Botswana stood out as a… Read more: From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship
  • Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic ImperativeJune 27, 2025
        RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae Dr Dimakatso Polokelo  Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is emerging as a core component of socio-economic… Read more: Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative
  • ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISINGJune 25, 2025
    SOLOMON TJINYEKA editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae UDC impress BagaMmangwato   Illegal wildlife trade is escalating in northern Botswana, specifically in the pristine Okavango Delta, following a gruesome discovery… Read more: ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING
  • Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur MothooagaeJune 25, 2025
    STAFF WRITER editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts From tenderpreneurship to true entrepreneurship Digital Public Infrastructure as a Strategic Imperative ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Local techpreneur Ogone Mothooagae has urged upcoming entrepreneurs to focus on identifying a problem that urgently needs to be… Read more: Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae
  • UDC impress BagaMmangwatoJune 24, 2025
    Kgosi Khama happy over regaining control of Serowe kgotla Bangwato curiously await BDP apology from Balopi BAKANG TIRO editors@thepatriot.co.bw RelatedPosts ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE RISING Be a problem solver – Tips from tech-preneur Mothooagae UDC impress BagaMmangwato   Residents of… Read more: UDC impress BagaMmangwato
The Patriot On Sunday

© 2024 Copyright The Patriot On Sunday - Inspired by Search Mart.

Navigate Site

  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Disclaimer
  • Contact Us

Follow Us

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Login
  • Sign Up
  • Cart
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport
  • Analysis & Opinions
  • Vacancies & Tenders

© 2024 Copyright The Patriot On Sunday - Inspired by Search Mart.

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.
Are you sure want to unlock this post?
Unlock left : 0
Are you sure want to cancel subscription?