Local entrepreneurs urged to be globally competitive
Friday, September 08, 2023 | 210 Views |
Helping hand: Agosi addressing trainees during the entrepreneurship development programme launch
PIC: LESEDI MKHUTSHWA
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.
“The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.”~ Robert NozickWhile government must contain the disease, it must also confront the growing economic hardship caused by its response. For many rural households, cattle remain a source of livelihood and the only means for tending for thousands of families, and for these kind of people the longer the restrictions continue, the...