Inside Botswana’s billion-Pula diet plan: How GPO fasting trimmed the deficit

Inside Botswana’s billion-Pula diet plan: How GPO fasting trimmed the deficit

Sunday Standard Inside Botswana’s billion-Pula diet plan: How GPO fasting trimmed the deficit Government’s mid-year belt-tightening is starting to pay off, with new cash-flow controls and a freeze on most Government Purchase Orders (GPOs) narrowing the deficit and forcing tougher scrutiny of spending. In the first quarter of the 2025/26 fiscal year (April–June), total revenue rose 8.6 percent year-on-year to P18.7 billion, while expenditure drop…