Dreams of a consumer activist

When he dreams of the future, Wankie Wankie, the chairperson of Botswana Consumer Centre for Advocacy Research and Orientation (BCCARO) has a vision of police officers enforcing food hygiene at public eateries and consumers boycotting businesses that exploit them. He says a certain supermarket in Gaborone farms cockroaches on a commercial scale and on a normal business day, sells rotten fruit. If Botswana had a strong consumer movement, that supermarket would have been severely punished or put out of business long ago, he says.