Cars Are Dangerous

Why don’t cars carry health warnings since they contribute to the annual cull of humanity resulting in an estimated 1,300,000 global deaths and over 50,000,000 casualties? Bringing it to Botswana, over 5,000 people died in Botswana due to road crashes in the last 10 years. This translates to nearly 500 people killed on our roads every year!!This is totally unacceptable!!

The message on smoking as a danger to life is widely publicised but road death remains off the radar as a serious health issue.

Why do motor manufacturers produce projectiles that vastly exceed the speed limit in most countries and maim and kill? Is this a responsible act? They know that if they do not produce performance then people will not buy them. It is supply and demand.

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The Boko-led administration has to tread carefully

‘When you make peace withyourself, you make peace with the world’- Maha GhosanandaThis may come at a huge cost if not handled properly. What started off on Labour Day in Letlhakane this year, where Boko was in attendance when the militant lawyer-cum-trade unionist, Robert Rabasimane rebutted the President’s address in defence of the trade union has seemingly spiralled out of control. The issue is now creating a cat-and-mouse type of a...

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