Consumer Watchdog

A few weeks ago, this column was entitled "1st, 2nd or 3rd" and it was my feeble attempt to suggest that it's up to us in Botswana to decide whether our country is considered a 1st, 2nd or 3rd world country.

Of course I know that some people still use these terms and base them on things like GDP, average income and other economic indicators but my point was more about how a country is perceived.  More importantly I was trying to suggest that if we decide to define ourselves as a 1st world country,  then that is how (to a limited extent) we will appear to the people of other countries.