Passion Keeps Phikwe's Elegant Designs In Business

SELEBI-PHIKWE: What was once a thriving bag design business with orders from Gantsi and Maun is now a shell of a company driven only by the passion of its remaining shareholders.

Elegant Designs’ woes come from the general downturn in the economy of Selebi-Phikwe, the once thriving copper and nickel-mining town rendered a near ghost town by the closure of BCL Mine in 2016.

Elegant Designs, established in 2011 and funded by the Women’s Affairs Department to the tune of P249, 000, began with five shareholders but now only has two, one having passed away and the others having withdrawn.

Editor's Comment
Get back what was stolen, and lock the door

That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...

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