Viable Oil Business Hits Land Snag

SELEBI-PHIKWE: It is now eight years since a business comprising 10 women that officially registered last year has been failing to secure a plot in Selebi-Phikwe and its surroundings.

The company, Tyrolised Solutions Company intends to manufacture mixed oil, petrol, diesel, paraffin, gas and cement from waste plastics and tyres. Efforts to secure a plot from places like Sefhophe, Bobonong and within Selebi-Phikwe hit a snag forcing them to apply for a 10-year lease from council to setup their operations within the landfill.

Without land or a plot to setup they cannot access funding.  The company learned that the Citizen Entrepreneurship Development Agency (CEDA) would need land as security to fund them.  The Department of Environmental Affairs last week closed their invitations for proposals to fund some projects, but this company failed to submit their proposal because of the land issue. 

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