Botswana Ash ready for business with new partners

FRANCISTOWN: Botswana Ash says it is ready for business with new shareholders Chlor Alkali Holdings (CAH) after the latter took up a 50 percent stake in the soda ash and salt mining company.

CAH formally took over from a consortium of corporate investors styled B Shareholders that included Anglo American, De Beers Botswana, First Rand Bank and the Standard Bank Group at a ceremony at the mine in Sowa Town last week.

The General Manager of Botash, Derek Cochrane says operations with the new shareholders, CAH, have to start now.  Speakers at the handover ceremony said the sale of the shares was the longest such transaction ever.

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