MDCB targets $1bn investment portfolio by 2028
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Prime asset: MDCB holds equity on behalf of government in De Beers
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.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...