{"id":18193,"date":"2022-12-09T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/majority-of-batswana-believe-president-masisis-office-is-corrupt-afrobarometer-report"},"modified":"2022-12-09T10:11:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:11:34","slug":"majority-of-batswana-believe-president-masisis-office-is-corrupt-afrobarometer-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/majority-of-batswana-believe-president-masisis-office-is-corrupt-afrobarometer-report","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Batswana believe President Masisi&#8217;s office is corrupt &#8211; Afrobarometer report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Four years into the presidency of Mokgweetsi Masisi in Botswana, a growing number of Batswana are beginning to see corruption in his office, a new report says.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to Afrobarometer&#8217;s study findings, nearly eight in 10 Batswana feel that at least &#8220;some&#8221; president&#8217;s office officials are corrupt, with half thinking that &#8220;most&#8221; or &#8220;all&#8221; of them are complicit.<\/p>\n<p>And as far as Masisi&#8217;s personal reputation goes, only 6% believe the presidency is free of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that young adults, who make up the majority of the country&#8217;s workforce, and those with above-average education are more convinced that corruption in the president&#8217;s office exists.<\/p>\n<p>The report said:<\/p>\n<p>The perception that at least &#8216;some&#8217; officials in the president\u2019s office are corrupt is more widespread among younger citizens (up to 87% of 26 to 35-year-old), more educated respondents (89% of those with post-secondary qualifications), men (84%), and urban residents (83%) than among their various counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Afrobarometer noted that the rate of corruption perceptions increased by 18% during Masisi&#8217;s administration, compared to the Ian Khama era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The perception that &#8216;some,&#8217; &#8216;most,&#8217; or &#8216;all&#8217; officials in the president\u2019s office are involved in corruption has increased by 18 percentage points since 2012,&#8221; the report found.<\/p>\n<p>But Transparency International\u2019s (TI) corruption perception index ranks Botswana as the least corrupt country in Africa, just below Portugal and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>With a GDP per capita of around $70 in the 1960s, among the world&#8217;s poorest nations, Botswana&#8217;s diamond-backed economy has since developed into an upper-middle-income nation with one of the fastest-growing economies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Four years into the presidency of Mokgweetsi Masisi in Botswana, a growing number of Batswana are beginning to see corruption in his office, a new report says. According to Afrobarometer&#8217;s study findings, nearly eight in 10 Batswana feel that at least &#8220;some&#8221; president&#8217;s office officials are corrupt, with half thinking that &#8220;most&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-18193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Majority of Batswana believe President Masisi&#039;s office is corrupt - Afrobarometer report - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/majority-of-batswana-believe-president-masisis-office-is-corrupt-afrobarometer-report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Majority of Batswana believe President Masisi&#039;s office is corrupt - Afrobarometer report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. 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