Gaborone Mayor Plans To Set Up Investment Fund

Kagiso Thutlwe
Kagiso Thutlwe

Gaborone City mayor, Kagiso Thutlwe says are creating a fund called the Mayor’s Investment Fund to raise funds forsocial issues pertaining to the community, infrastructure and investment, health and safety, education and human resources as well as planning and development issues.

Speaking during a consultative meeting recently, Thutlwe called out on the business community, together with investors to start coming up with solutions to diversify Gaborone and make it an investment city.

“As you are aware we are an old city and today we face the challenges of how to drive the ‘city’s or urban regeneration’ given our limited financial base. We need to refurbish and add a new face particularly to our old malls of the African Mall and the Main Mall,” he said.

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