One of the most cliched metaphors for Botswana’s civil service work ethic is the jacket casually draped over the back of an empty office chair on a Friday afternoon.
In a culture that has spawned what came to be known as “the cattle-post mentality” Botswana’s civil servants are infamous for putting up “out of office” signs on Friday noon and dashing off to their cattle-posts for the weekend.
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