Leather Park aims for December production
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | 3770 Views |

Value add: Leathern tannery activities could soon kick off in Lobatse
The Leather Park has been in the pipeline since 2014 with little progress, a fact that has frustrated authorities and residents in the border town.
The implementation of the Leather Park was said to be delayed by the need for project reconfiguration to address emerging risks from a change in the project scope and location. The declining national herd warranted a review of the project’s business case to determine the minimal amount of raw material required to kick-start a viable leather processing operation.
For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...