{"id":46141,"date":"2024-03-29T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?p=46141"},"modified":"2024-03-29T16:52:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:52:35","slug":"minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay","title":{"rendered":"Minister To Investigate UB Salary Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Minister of Education and Skills Development (MESD), Dr Douglas Letsholathebe, will launch an investigation into what led to March salaries of University of Botswana (UB) employees being delayed and map a way forward.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the institution caused panic when it informed its employees that their March salaries would not be paid in due time because of financial constraints.<\/p>\n<p>While the institution managed to credit the salaries just a day after announcing the delay, Minister Letsholathebe has been prompted to act because he suspects someone slept on the job and says he will investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Tuition fees<\/p>\n<p>The areas of his probe will be the Department of Tertiary Education Financing (DTEF), the Ministry of Finance and UB itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe university relies on tuition fees to pay its salaries,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cBut it seems when they announced the delay, they were yet to be credited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor tuition fees to be paid, the procedure is that UB compiles a list of its sponsored students. This is sent to DTEF and eventually to Finance (ministry), which will then credit the money to the university.<\/p>\n<p>Supplementary budget<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation will determine what transpired in this very process. The outcome of the investigation will guide us on the way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister added that although Parliament only approved UB\u2019s supplementary budget last week, this cannot be the reason for the delay in March salaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if the supplementary budget was credited to UB late, tuition fees should have covered the salaries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Payment confirmed<\/p>\n<p>Reached for comment, the Secretary General of the University of Botswana Academic Support Staff Union (UBASSU), Dr Batlang Seabo, confirmed payment of the staff salaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that the employees started receiving their salaries on Friday last week,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat we gathered from management is that the government delayed to credit the tuition fees that are used for staff salaries.\u201d<\/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. The Minister of Education and Skills Development (MESD), Dr Douglas Letsholathebe, will launch an investigation into what led to March salaries of University of Botswana (UB) employees being delayed and map a way forward. Last week, the institution caused panic when it informed its employees that their March salaries would not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-46141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>Minister To Investigate UB Salary Delay - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Minister of Education and Skills Development (MESD), Dr Douglas Letsholathebe, will launch an investigation into ...\" \/>\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\/minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister To Investigate UB Salary Delay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister of Education and Skills Development (MESD), Dr Douglas Letsholathebe, will launch an investigation into ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-29T17:22:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2024\/03\/sm_1711718385.490089.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"811\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Minister To Investigate UB Salary Delay\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-29T17:22:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay\"},\"wordCount\":334,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2024\/03\/sm_1711718385.490089.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/minister-to-investigate-ub-salary-delay\",\"name\":\"Minister To Investigate UB Salary Delay - 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