Let's fight intellectual property theft - Hlatswayo

Intellectual property is important to our lives, Microsoft anti-piracy manager Abednego Hlatswayo has said.

Addressing journalists and police officers at a workshop on intellectual property in Gaborone yesterday, he said intellectual property theft is dangerous because it affects lives both economically and socially.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), he said, 10 percent of all pharmaceutical products are counterfeit "and this is a danger to people's lives".

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