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Warranty! Does it warrant peace?

Consumers, not only in Botswana, are generally not knowledgeable about many products and services they buy. Quite often the knowledge resides with shop assistants, marketers, suppliers and manufacturers.

A decision to buy a product could turn into a daunting project which often ends with the seller shoving down a product onto the arms of a not so skeptical but excited consumer.

What can consumers do? It is hard to keep up with the many products that are churned out from the cauldron factories of the world that are forever competing for the attention of a fatigued consumer! Thankfully, business and manufacturers have devised some quality disclosure mechanism to assure their prospective customers that the goods they sell can be trusted to an extent of putting an assurance on the product, which is technically called a warranty.

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The time is now to relax adoption laws

Over the years, there has been many reports of infants being abandoned by parents. Many factors can contribute to child abandonment, some of which may stem from mental health issues and lack of support, but other reasons may be that one could have made better choices with proper education. Some parents abandon their infants due to financial difficulties and the fear of having to provide for a newborn. Many developed countries have come up with...

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