Vol.21 No.78

Friday 21 May 2004    

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BoB predicts turbulent economic performance
THE Bank of Botswana (BoB) has projected a turbulent economic performance in 2004 in the face of an expected decline in the key mining sector. The Bank said in its annual report released last week that diamond production is estimated to have declined by an average of 14 percent in the first half of the 2003-4 financial year as compared to the same period last year.

Stockbrokers predict increased May inflation
THOUGH inflation figures for April went on a slide, it is not anticipated that the trend will persist this month, Stockbrokers Botswana Limited has stated.

CEDA to process loans within one month
THE Citizen Entrepre-neurial Development Agency (CEDA) has put measures in place to hasten the processing of loan applications, Finance Minister Baledzi Gaolathe has said.

Govt moves to protect farmers in cattle feed sector
THE Ministry of Agriculture has stepped into the booming cattle feed business to save desperate farmers from unscrupulous people selling sub-standard products.

New brick company hopes for success
THE managing director of Kwayedza Enterprises Batshani Ndaba has said that they hope to make it in the brick moulding industry even though the market is flooded.

  

 
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