BDC sees profits doubling
Friday, September 23, 2016
Gaetsaloe
The corporation’s draft results for the year ended June 2016 indicate a profit before tax of P200 million, almost two-fold from P110 million in the previous year.
According to documents presented to the parliamentary committee on statutory bodies recently, the projection includes P129 million of divestment income as well as ordinary and special dividends from wholly-owned subsidiaries. The results reflect a recovery for the government investment arm, which had experienced huge losses of P176 million in 2012, P222 million in 2013 and P76 million in 2014.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...