It’s an embarrassment for her husband, Energy Minister Jeff Radebe and brother-in-law President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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Botswana’s decision to slap travel restrictions on Bridgette Radebe comes despite the personal intervention of President Cyril Ramaphosa who sent his Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu to Gaborone to smooth things over with President Mokwetsi Masisi.

Radebe is understood to have bankrolled former foreign minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi’s battle with Masisi for leadership of the Botswana Democratic Party.

The travel restriction is understood to have been imposed against Radebe even before Sisulu’s meeting with Masisi.

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The statement from the executive says the President will brief the media on this package tomorrow.

President Cyril Ramaphosa tipped his hand on the economic stimulus package last Friday when he briefed ambassadors posted  in South Africa.

He spoke of ending the regulatory uncertainty that has hamstrung the country and clearing economic bottlenecks.

He’s after $100 billion in foreign investment into South Africa over the next five years and he’s called a summit of foreign investors in Johannesburg   month to get this moving.

South African investors, whom he sees as the major contributors to the economic stimulus are saying the so-called Ramaphoria he’s inspired needs hard data to overcome the disappointing growth, the  slide into recession and the weaker rand.

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He says it will advance economic development  and improve food security through better agricultural production. 

Adressing the diplomatic corps in Pretoria, which he’s planning to do on a more regular basis, Ramaphosa says land reform is attracting much attention at home and abroad.

He’s confident South Africans will demonstrate their consensus-building ability to find a way of redressing historical wrongs. 

There were  well over 1,2 million inputs from South Africa when the constitution was crafted in 1994.

On land reform there have been more than 700 000 submissions from the public.

“This is the South African DNA. When confronted with matters of national importance, they go forth and build consensus,” he said

Ramaphosa says South Africans will build consensus on land reform as they did in 1994 under the late Nelson Mandela .

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