Business community urged to form consortiums to buy BCL

BCL workers
BCL workers

SELEBI-PHIKWE: Business Botswana (BB) president, Lekwalo Mosienyane has urged the local business community to team up and form consortiums that can buy government shares in BCL Mine.

BB, which has appointed a task team to look into the BCL and Tati Nickel mines and suggest the way forward, held consultations with the local business community and other stakeholders.

Mosienyane said if government cannot inject funds into BCL operations so that it continue running, then the business community must come in and tender for the mine as a long-term strategy.

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