BPC leads loss-making parastatals
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
In a damning report, the Auditor General has stated that parastatals providing essential services like BPC, Botswana Meat Commission (BMC), Water Utilities Corporation (WUC), Air Botswana and Botswana Postal Services lead in loss-making. In general, most of the parastatals are failing to pay the statutory 25 percent dividend due to government. Even some that made profit like Botswana Telecommunications Corporation have not declared dividends to government.
Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!In this very edition, there is an...