BURS, media need each other
Friday, January 20, 2023 | 130 Views |
Hence, the Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) should be hailed for its continued effort to cement relations with the local media, something that the tax agency has been doing over and over again.
The semi autonomous tax agency has been concerned about media reports that often times carried ‘misrepresentations’ of its activities. As a result, the BURS has apparently been itching to find a platform to air its concerns and share information with members of the Fourth Estate.
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...