Dogs to pay tax

This was an answer to the call to local governments to come up with new avenues of revenue collection. So the smart Gaborone City (GC) civic leaders decided that dogs should pay tax.

They beat a hasty retreat when GC residents picketed against this. Many will dispute this picketing actually happened but this was a modern type of picketing that happened on-line. GCians took to Facebook and trashed the thought and a deeply repentant mayor decided to withdraw the tax. However, the adage don’t insult the alligator until you cross the river seems lost to most GC folks. So the civic leaders nicely put on the ‘Batswana forget easily’ cloaks and when everyone had forgotten about the tax for dogs, they threw it again on the laps of the unsuspecting public. GC civic leaders are like sloths except sloths are way more productive.