The ear tags tender and �the for sale BMC' -but you can't do that yet?

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Two recent newspaper articles have forced my hand to pen this piece. The article that appeared in the Sunday Standard of 12 January 2014 relates to a tender for supply of the ear tag which it says was cancelled by the Directorate of Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the other, appearing in the Weekend Post 11 January 2014 alleging that the Minister of Agriculture, Christian de Graaf has received an unsolicited bid from an American company to buy Botswana Meat Commission (BMC).

That the Ministry of Agriculture begins the New Year with a torrent is hardly surprising.  In the few years past, the ministry, together with its parastatal BMC, dominated the news for all the wrong reasons.

And, it is not likely to be any different in 2014, the impending national notwithstanding.

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