Mining giants drive entrepreneurship
Monday, December 02, 2013
Minister of Trade and Industry, Dorcas Makgato-Malesu
The idea aims to help the growth of small and medium scale businesses and assist excelling students to gain skills and knowledge in respective fields.
Both projects, which were officially launched on Thursday, are the collaboration of the three mining companies and the government of Botswana in an effort to maximise the benefits Batswana derive from the mining industry and the growth and diversification of the economy.
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...