Levies cause more harm than good
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Participants from the private sector shared their frustrations, and the inconveniences caused by these levies.
Speakers minced no words on what they deemed problematic ones, such as the UTC milk, wheat flour, alcohol, road safety, tourism and the BOTA training levies. They, however, agreed that some, particularly the National Electrification Special Fund and the Road levies, were justified.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...