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School Uniform Shopping Basket

Local tailors seem to be struggling to meet the demand for school uniform following the government's decision to impose a ban on uniform import.

In 2020, the government took an initiative to promote local citizens by reserving businesses and certain industries for citizens only in what has since been dubbed Citizen Economic Empowerment by its supporters.

However, since then clothing retail stores were granted a waiver to import until the government effected a total ban in 2022.

In December 2022, retail stores, among them PEP Botswana and Ackermans B...