Fresh bid to privatise Air Botswana
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
The last attempt to sell Air Botswana was in 2017
In an Express of Interest (EOI) notice, the Ministry of Transport and Communications said it was inviting companies, consortiums or service providers capable of offering efficient air transport services to meet the needs of Botswana’s business and tourism sectors by operating Air Botswana.
“The Ministry is open to receiving proposals for privatisation forms including ownership, joint ventures, franchising, concessions, partnerships with commercial airline operators or potential investors, with management competency to run viable air transport service on the existing Air Botswana network as well as developing new routes,” reads the notice.
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...