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This has not only left them with a psychological distress but hopelessness of where their next meal would come from after they receive their last salaries at the end of this month. They have already received threats by commercial banks that failure...

He said this in a question and answer session during a recent meeting addressed by the Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Sadique Kebonang last week. To the applause of the concerned business community and...

Some say they have been contacted by parents requesting to withdraw their children from schools because they cannot afford to pay school fees. Headmasters early this week asked the Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security,...

The opposition leaders indicated during a press conference they addressed yesterday that they are confident with the support of other MPs, they can enforce other alternatives instead of liquidation of BCL Mine. Botswana National Front president,...

In a meeting with the business community, the leaders of the state-owned agencies said they would work to stimulate the private sector to fill the vacuum left by the Mine’s demise. Botswana Investment and Trade Centre CEO Letsebe Sejoe said the...

He told the key stakeholders that Dixon-Warren would take over the control of BCL assets and any claims in terms of the law. He pleaded that the liquidator be allowed to do his job without any interference. Masisi said that government would take...

The MP, who is also the chairperson of the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee said it was not necessary to romanticise or compromise, but for the government to tell people the truth that nothing else can be done to save the BCL Mine. Speaking...

Mmadinare residents say the fact that their constituency’s councillors are divided between the Palapye and the Bobirwa Sub-District Councils is affecting service delivery and weakening the area’s decision-making powers. Mmadinare village, which...

The team that includes Selebi-Phikwe East MP, Nonofo Molefhi visited the mine a fortnight ago. Speaking at the handover of the Nickel Park by BCL to the Selebi-Phikwe Town Council (SPTC), Mojuta pleaded with the team not to make a verdict that would...

The department has observed that some of the challenges the projects that were initiated by the groups faced are financial mismanagement, group dynamics, inability to penetrate markets as well as non-submission of quarterly reports. Some of the...

The locomotive monument, situated next to the stadium will be officially unveiled on Tuesday next week. Deputy district commissioner, Orapeleng Modimoopelo told Mmegi that the independence activities would start next Sunday with a service attended by...

Addressing a kgotla meeting held to “take Parliament to the people” on Tuesday, Kokorwe dismissed comments by one community member who insinuated that the Speaker uses certain sections of the standing orders to put ‘opposition MPs’ at a...

Pula Steel was placed under administrative closure because it failed to meet the pollution control system in place. At the time, the company management explained during an interview that the closure has aggravated the already weak financial...

Speaking at the launch of SPEDU’s new brand here on Tuesday, CEO Mokubung Mokubung said the company has already identified strategic priority areas that will be key in job creation within sectors such as tourism, horticulture and manufacturing....

Speaking at the launch of SPEDU’s new brand on Tuesday, Mojalemotho said Selebi-Phikwe’s survival hangs in the balance because when the town ails, the effects are felt in the rest of the region that depends on the town for goods and...