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Northern Trade Fair kicks off

Flashback: The Northern Trade Fair is Francistown’s biggest business meet-up FILE PIC
Flashback: The Northern Trade Fair is Francistown’s biggest business meet-up FILE PIC

FRANCISTOWN: The cream of the country’s business crop has landed here as the Business Botswana Northern Trade Fair (BBNTF) gathers momentum, with the focus for this year’s event being placed on boosting industrialisation in the region.

The Fair is scheduled to take from May 24 to 28 at the Gerald Estates Show Grounds.

The BBNTF Regional Manager (North), Eileen van der Est said the largest business exhibition in the northern part of the country will be held under the theme, “Promoting Economic Growth Through Industrialisation”.

Editor's Comment
Time to end informal sector fronting

The Francistown Umbrella Informal Sector chairperson, David Mbulawa, has highlighted this growing concern, revealing that many local traders are using their licences to facilitate the entry of foreign goods into the market at a fee.Fronting undermines the very fabric of our local economy. It allows foreign traders to exploit the system designed to benefit Batswana, using local licences to cross borders and sell goods at prices intended for local...

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