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Botswana secures mega deal to revamp Morupule plants

President Boko and other dignitaries at the press Conference
President Boko and other dignitaries at the press Conference

After years of blackouts, boiler explosions, and expensive electricity imports, Botswana’s troubled Morupule power complex is set for an investment turnaround.

President Duma Boko has announced that the government has secured a multi-billion pula deal with a consortium of global investors to rehabilitate Morupule B, extend Morupule A’s life by 15 years, and put the country on the path to energy self-sufficiency.

Addressing a presser on Thursday, Boko said the government would, later in the day, sign an agreement with multibillion-dollar investors who will inject capital and new technology into the national power system.

Editor's Comment
The Boko-led administration has to tread carefully

‘When you make peace withyourself, you make peace with the world’- Maha GhosanandaThis may come at a huge cost if not handled properly. What started off on Labour Day in Letlhakane this year, where Boko was in attendance when the militant lawyer-cum-trade unionist, Robert Rabasimane rebutted the President’s address in defence of the trade union has seemingly spiralled out of control. The issue is now creating a cat-and-mouse type of a...

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