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.
But on the particularly sensitive question of cadre deployment, the BNF must tread very carefully.The issue deserves robust debate, not ideological enthusiasm. Recent public comments from the BNF leadership are reassuring: the party has said that government positions should be based on merit and competence rather than party membership, and that it does not have a specific cadre-deployment policy.That principle should remain firmly at the centre...