Debswana MD warns against fronting in P20bn initiative

Known as the Citizen Economic Empowerment Programme (CEEP), the procurement programme launched in 2019 and expects to see a cumulative P20 billion in citizen spend value by 2024, with the creation of 20,000 citizen jobs in the process.

The targets are the most ambitious transfer of citizen value creation in the history of the country’s minerals sector, an industry where procurement registries are dominated by large, well-established multinational entities and other foreign titans.