NBFIRA on financial literacy campaign
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Through various financial literacy education programmes delivered through media and public workshops, NBFIRA this week embarked on a seven-day financial literacy education week in Gaborone and in Francistown.
The regulator states that the Financial Literacy Week is an initiative central to helping consumers make better decisions about management of their money conversely avoiding over indebtedness.
Unfortunately, petty thieves tend to be more vicious around this time as they also prepare for the festive season. Culturally, many Batswana go home for the holiday, and petty thieves are amongst those who go home. Burglaries, car break-ins, and attacks on unsuspecting pedestrians seem to be on the rise!That is not all, as scammers continue to take money from pensioners as well as other Batswana who may fall prey to their unscrupulous tactics....