Honest Buti Billy

"Programmes are ongoing to help the creative sector."

"We introduced the National Arts Council of Botswana that will hire its CEO soon (and) already have a Director of Research, creative strategy, a Director of Legal Affairs and a Director of Corporate Affairs. The Arts Council will be used as a platform to better the creative industry as it is going to promote and regulate the sector."

"The 2020 Dubai Expo and the Forbes Under 30 Summit helped our youths to gain exposure and those who participated will help grow the sector and employment will be created."

"We have also changed the President’s Day Competitions into the National Arts Festival and staged a fashion show in Francistown to better the creative sector."

"That is why we created the Arts Council because we want to better the creative sector to hire masses."

"This whole council will have 98 employees and they will be covering all the sectors of the creative industry."

"It is not right for the President to be reading SONA to people and leave it to MPs to discuss without listening to them. Even those who try to defend him at times will make mistakes because he understands what he was saying better than us. This will be for the good; let’s not think of the bad only."