China�s Special Economic Zones: A textbook benchmark for Botswana

Government has embarked on an ambitious programme to set up eight Special Economic Zones (SEZ) across the country to boost economic diversification and bolster exports, which are precariously 80 percent dominated by the fast depleting diamond resource. Staff Writer, BRIAN BENZA was recently in China’s pioneering Special Economic Zone, Shenzhen city, as a guest to Huawei Technologies. There he observed that Botswana could pluck a leaf or two from the tale of a seemingly miraculous and inspirational economic revolution that overhauled this former peasant farming village into China’s third largest economic hub and the country’s top export zone over a three decade period