BPC management contract to start in June

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Irish company, Electricity Supply Board International (ESBI) will take over the operations of Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) by the end of June this year. And among its first tasks will be a human resource capacity evaluation exercise of the parastatal to determine which staff is retained or retrenched.

BPC is currently finalising negotiations of a three-year management contract with ESBI with the aim to have put pen to paper on the deal by June, BPC board chairperson Sebetela Sebetela told Mmegi Business yesterday.

Sebetela said ESBI would be tasked with a mandate of turning around the financial and operational performance of the troubled parastatal by 2018.

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