Creation of SPEDU chamber of commerce delayed

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SELEBI-PHIKWE: SPEDU and Business Botswana (BB) this week postponed the planned signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as they said they realised that there are issues that needed to be ironed out first.

The MoU was expected to kick start a collaboration between the two organisations in the establishment of a regional chamber of commerce and informal sector.

SPEDU chief executive officer, Mokubung Mokubung said they postponed the signing, which was supposed to take place on Monday this week, because they still needed to thrash out some issues in the MoU before the signing could take place. He said the signing will take place before the end of September.

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Get back what was stolen, and lock the door

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