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How are publicly owned enterprises faring in Botswana generally? Last week, in writing about the public ownership status of Boiteko, I made mention of other publicly owned bodies that I had a hand in establishing. One of them is the Swaneng Consumers Cooperative Society which had started off next to what is now the Serowe Hotel, and which later established its Main Store in Central Serowe, and the Tshwaragano Hotel and a butchery on the hillside opposite the Main Store.Ignorance is no defence
It is commonly assumed within legal circles that ignorance can never be used as defense. However, in a layman's view any private dealing outside proper documentation can be done without bearing in mind the implications thereafter. Today lawsuits are normally the means of resolving any disputes whether business or private. Interestingly most of these lawsuits are in most cases resolved on the basis of the information contained in records or documents. Similarly there are other lawsuits that arise when electronic privacy is infringed upon.Consider the economic cost of infidelity
On Wednesday evening I happened to catch some of a midnight program on marriage problems on one of the local radio stations. It happened to be dealing with one major relationship issue of our day and age. The question of infidelity? As such I was inspired to write this article as a response to all those people out there who ignorantly engage in this behaviour without prior calculation of the costs and consequences of their actions. I propose to ignore the moral and social issues of this topic (which never make any headway anyway in this argument) but at this juncture to only focus on the economic consequences, of infidelity. In this day and age we find it is often only the fool who talks of love without talking of economics, we find that often where we think love exists the ugly monster of money issues has reared its head and the results are usually in the least a sad story of life's woes or at worst another statistic of murder suicide cases, another case file for the law enforcement department.
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