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Puma, Choppies plan five more convenience stores

Shop and go: Dignitaries during the recent launch at the Boatle interchange
Shop and go: Dignitaries during the recent launch at the Boatle interchange

Pula Energy and Choppies Botswana plan to open five more convenience stores around the country, as they expand their partnership designed to simplify customers’ shopping experience.

Known as “On the Go by Choppies” the partnership has already yielded two stores strategically located at the Boatle interchange complex and at the Mahalapye Puma Energy service station by the entrance to the village.

The partnership between the two groups provides the strategic location of Puma service stations to the easy shopping of Choppies, the country’s largest retail chain. Puma has 43 sites across the country, while Choppies has 95 stores.

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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...

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