Changing weather patterns pose greater risk to property

Recent heavy rains caused widespread damage to property across the country
Recent heavy rains caused widespread damage to property across the country

The Botswana Insurance Company (BIC) has urged the public to take risk management as a core component of business and personal planning to alleviate or mitigate possible exposures and risks.

This comes on the backdrop of the dry spell experienced throughout 2015, which led to desiccated rivers and dams, low water levels, livestock deaths and crop losses. Following the long dry season, the country recently experienced heavy rains, which lasted for about two weeks and caused damage to some buildings, inventory, office and household contents.

The rains were expected to provide relief in improving water levels and availability, however with the heavy rains, unfortunate circumstances arose particularly in Ramotswa and some other parts of the country.

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