Budget Speech by MEC Collins Chabane 8 May 2007

It gives me a great honour to announce that today we are joined in this house by brothers and sister from sister countries in the region and other parts of the world.

On the 09th February 2007, the President of the Republic has delivered his annual State of the Nation Address in the National Assembly wherein he outlined a comprehensive government action plan which provided a roadmap towards a journey to better the lives of our people. In the same address the President posed a question: “what progress have we made in the quest to achieve the objectives to which we honestly told the nation we were committed, as a result of which our people gave us the overwhelming authority to govern our country from 2004 until the next election in 2009?”

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