BDC on track to meet divestment target

FRANCISTOWN: Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) says it is on track to divest from 12 percent of its portfolio.

The corporation announced early this year it will shed 12 percent of companies that are not aligned to its strategy and those that have matured enough to be effectively run by the private sector.

At the time BDC, which invested in manufacturing, property, and the services sectors, also indicated that divestiture was part of its normal course of business as a corporation, to empower the private sector and Batswana in general.

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