Batswana fed mis-lablelled meat?

They say when South Africa sneezes, Botswana catches flu. The flu has started. Batswana are also caught in the meat scandal after it was found that South Africa, which produces the bulk of what is consumed here, thanks to its many chain stores, is also involved in wrong labelling of meat products.

For Botswana's diverse tribal make up, the South African meat mislabelling may have led to people eating totem symbols (sereto), all thanks to some greedy Mzanzi dealers.

Segwapanyana, the biltong, is one of the much-adored snacks among Batswana. But it may be not what many believe it is, after a research in South Africa unearthed that game meat packaged as biltong is one of the mislabelled food items. According to DNA results of South African biltong, which is also sold in many shops on this side of the border, most of the biltong contains undeclared meat. 

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