By my count, 9 pilots have been hired over the November/ December period. They are now working through the paperwork for licence validations and work permits.
For now, the companies all seem to be well stocked with pilots, but things change all the time. No one knows what tomorrow may bring.
However, if you are not adverse to preying on the bad luck of other pilots, there has been an interesting development which has the potential to create an opening or two... The CAAB has written two new papers for the law exam, one of the first steps in the lengthy validation/permit process. The old exam papers have been well used and the answers circulated for some time, but these new ones are a bit of an unknown quantity and proving a bit of a challenge for some of the new hires. Like many ICAO countries there is a rule that if you fail three times you will be suspended from sitting again for a specified time period. If this happens, you are effectively unemployable to any company in Maun. There's a couple of guys going for their third attempt soon. I hope it woks out for them.