Dear Mmuso - When they said �oketsa madi� they meant salaries, not coin size!

Last week when one teller from my local supermarket handed me change which included the new coins, I was surprised. I had forgotten about the new coins and for a few seconds wondered why she was giving me casino slot machine tokens! The medals/coins are so huge that you can’t put them in your pocket; they might create holes. Mmuso, kana your children asked for a salary increase, not money size increase!

When those white people claimed that Batswana are unhappy, I suspect they meant our civil servants. I have noticed that nowadays they walk with their heads down and shoulders slumped. As much as passion should propel them to keep at their work, we all know that passion is overrated.

Passion alone will not pay your bills or help you build your dream house; money will. With cost of living ever increasing, but with no salary increase, things are getting harder for them. I bet some just go to work for the sake of it. Don’t most people here?! It’s a case: Better the peanuts than nothing at all!

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