NO LICENCE REQUIRED

THE Botswana government this week waved the requirement for councillors to have driving licences before benefiting from a 50% car subsidy scheme. But this waver does not extend to members of parliament and members of the House of Chiefs who are required to have current driving licences before they can be given the subsidy. Minister Boometswe Mokgothu said the government has decided that the condition of the possession of drivers licences under the scheme should be waved in respect of councilors because a number of councilors who do not possess drivers licences were known to employ drivers.