Business mentorship programme comes alive

Victor Mong-gae
Victor Mong-gae

The eagerly anticipated Tokafala Business Mentorship programme will next month conduct its first workshop entitled ‘How to Grow Your Business’ for small businesses in Gaborone.

Next month’s workshop marks the first in the Tokafala programme, a six-month old partnership between government, Anglo American, De Beers and Debswana aimed at promoting economic development and employment creation through SMME support.

Tokafala offers advisory support, personalised business mentoring, market access assistance and linkages to existing government programmes. In future, the programme will provide financing to a select group of SMMEs parallel to mentoring and advisory support to ensure business success.

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