MDCB targets $1bn investment portfolio by 2028

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State minerals investment firm, Minerals Development Company Botswana (MDCB), is assessing investment opportunities valued between one and two billion pula as part of a target to ramp up its portfolio to $1 billion (P13.7 billion) in the next five years.

Briefing editors last week, MDCB executives said the investment firm currently had a P7 billion portfolio and was keen to add more assets as part of a strategy to grow the company into Botswana’s largest investor and a significant contributor to government.

The transactions of between one to two billion pula are in the local market and cut across various commodities and stages of development.

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