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Govt should change its mindset on investors - Ibrahim
Businessman and president of the Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM), Iqbal Ibrahim could not have found a better way of describing the hurdles of trying to do business in Botswana than using the story of Microsoft founder and Botswana's HIV/AIDS benefactor, Bill Gates. Besides the hassles of processing residence and work permits "and all those minefields that you have to go through", Ibrahim pointed out that had Bill Gates come to Botswana 20 years ago with the $400 he used to start his business, he would have been turned back.BMC retrenchments begin
FRANCISTOWN: The Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) retrenched its first batch of employees at the end of August. The BMC Chief Executive Officer Motshubi Raborokgwe said the 162 retrenched employees were from both Lobatse and Francistown abattoirs.Retrenchments do not answer overstaffing - BNPC
The Executive Director of Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC), Tembo Lebang has said even if reports that the civil service is bloated are true, it should not lead to retrenchments.
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