Blue Cross calls for more tax on alcohol
Friday, October 29, 2010
Anders Wengen was speaking at a two-day alcohol evidence-based intervention workshop hosted by Blue Cross Botswana at Thapama Hotel that ended on Tuesday.
Both Blue Cross Norway and Blue Cross Botswana are members of Blue Cross in Switzerland, whose mission is to improve people's quality of life by addressing alcohol, drug and other substance abuse through prevention, treatment, after-care and support to those directly and indirectly affected.
“Betrayal hurts, but knowingwho was betraying hurts even more.”- Garima SoniWhat the men of Ditlharapa, Molete and neighbouring villages uncovered is a cross-border enterprise. The modus operandi, as the suspect himself reportedly confessed, is industrial: groups operating in multiple villages, fences cut with impunity, stolen goats walked into South Africa, warehoused at Makhubung, then sold in batches of 200 to a commercial farmer in...