Let me be blunt. A good number of organisations in Botswana and across Southern Africa do not buy public relations. They buy damage control.
They call when the journalist is already asking questions, when social media has turned hostile, when the regulator is circling, when the board is nervous. They expect communications to “fix it.” By that stage, nothing is being fixed. It is already a salvage job.
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