After inheriting an empty national purse, Vice President and Minister of Finance, Ndaba Gaolathe is scrounging around for every Thebe he can get to finance the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC)’s expensive election promises. The country’s purser is aware that US tech giants- such as Amazon, Google, eBay and Netflix do not pay taxes in Botswana although they are raking huge profits from Botswana users.
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