Disposal of BK11 Mine hits snag
Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Tshekedi Khama
It emerged this week that Tango Mining Limited has told Firestone Diamonds that it was unable to pay $0.3 million (P3 million) into an escrow account as a deposit for the company’s assets.
The deposit was the fulfillment of the first part of the conditional sales agreement between the two companies announced in July.
It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...