BIDPA study reveals hideous wage disparity
Friday, November 21, 2014
According to a study on export diversification conducting by Professor Roman Grynberg of BIDPA, the high salaries for skilled labour in the non-mining private sector have eaten into the rate of return for investing in Botswana thereby discouraging investments into the sector.
Because of the high-end colossal wages in the products and services, Grynberg says that Botswana has become uncompetitive for the export market throwing spanners in the economic diversification efforts.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...