Sechaba Feels Pinch Of Beer Regulations
Monday, November 23, 2015

In the group’s results for the half-year period ending September 30, 2015, the brewer stated that total volumes for the period ended 0.74 percent below the year before.
Clear beer, alcoholic fruit beverages and sparkling soft drinks showed promising growth, while the ongoing water and power shortages affected the performance of the non-alcoholic beverages category, but more especially the traditional beer category.
Particular trepidations lie with the seemingly embedded nature of embellishing tender sums, in most cases without the barest minimum of authority. The worrying thing is that the inflated amounts run into millions of pula across the government ministries and departments. The Auditor General’s report of March ending 2022, which we cover extensively in this edition, paints a gloomy picture on management of the government coffers. It depicts the...