BIH honours young innovators
Monday, August 18, 2014
Dr Budzani Tacheba.
Participants were tasked with developing and designing an innovative engineering solution that can be implemented to solve current mining problems in Botswana.
The competition was classed in two categories, National Biotech and CleanTech and the engineering and mining design. Participants were supposed to come up with solutions to any challenge in the pipeline from mineral exploration, mining, mineral processing to use of mine effluents and waste.
Smash-and-grab incidents became common at traffic lights, Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) bombings made headlines too often, cash-in-transit robberies terrified security personnel, while home invasions left families traumatised in the very places they were supposed to feel safest. The situation had reached alarming levels and threatened not only the peace of ordinary citizens, but also the country’s reputation as one of the safest and most...