24th January 2021
A decision by Botswana Government to impose heavy levies on alcohol a little over a decade ago inadvertently led to KBL managers becoming semi-political operators.
That was because levies demanded an ability on managers at Kgalagadi Breweries limited to have one eye on the sales and another on the politics.
It was not a role KBL managers gladly embraced.
The heavy levies by former President Ian Khama were a source of exasperation for both the alcohol consumers and alcohol sellers alike.
If the current Managing Director had thought that was now history, recent events must have given him a rude awakening.