Local entrepreneurs urged to be globally competitive

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Helping hand: Agosi addressing trainees during the entrepreneurship development programme launch
PIC: LESEDI MKHUTSHWA

SELEBI PHIKWE: Entrepreneurs have been advised to collaborate and focus on breaking into international markets, in order to rebuild the economy here following BCL Mine's closure.

Before its closure in 2015, BCL Mine was the economic backbone of Selebi Phikwe and surrounding areas for decades.

Premium Nickel Resources Botswana (PNRB) Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) vice president, Shamil Agosi, said that entrepreneurs should reflect upon and analyse their businesses, which were greatly affected by the closure of BCL.

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