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Friday, May 29, 2015
One of the longest-running was TVI Express, a pyramid scheme that claimed to be based on the sale of travel discount vouchers. Let us be clear about one thing. A discount voucher is not a product, it is a reduction in the price of a product. What they were really interested in is you recruiting more and more people beneath you, forming the pyramid that makes the people at the top so much money.
Luckily authorities around the world, in places as varied as Namibia, Lesotho, the US State of Georgia and Indonesia soon realised they were a scam and outlawed them. They soon disappeared here in Botswana too as the noose tightened around them.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...