Stronger Pula stifles SA bound exports
Friday, May 13, 2016
Kapur
This emerged during a debate on the Pula to Rand parity at a special annual general meeting of the Botswana Exporters and Manufacturers Association (BEMA) in Gaborone this week.
Subhash Kapur of Reliance Foundries said the foreign exchange rate policy was the single biggest factor that made Botswana manufacturers uncompetitive, resulting in loss of revenue for the exporters as well as loss of jobs.
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...