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Business Den offers silver lining

Cross Kgosidintsi
Cross Kgosidintsi

As the economy takes debilitating hits from the COVID-19 pandemic effects and the Russia-Ukraine war, the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) is offering a bit of a silver lining.

The country's main agency for commercial and industrial development is calling on young innovators to submit business plans for its youth entrepreneurship programme, the Business Den.

The Business Den is BDC's project that aims to reach out to enterprising youths to give them an opportunity to pitch their business ideas in front of a panel of seasoned and established savvy professionals and entrepreneurs to secure a P500,000 grant and mentorship.

Editor's Comment
Get back what was stolen, and lock the door

That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...

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