Guard your money jealously
Monday, May 15, 2023 | 200 Views |
This is despite warnings from competent regulators of products such as collective investment undertakings, who include the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority, Botswana Stock Exchange, and Competition and Consumer Authority.
The last few days have been painful for several Batswana who invested their money in one such scheme by the name of Ecoplexus. Those who decided to ‘try their luck’ by putting their hard-earned monies into the ‘get-rich-quick scheme’ were left with eggs on their faces following disappointing news that the Ponzi scheme had collapsed.
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...