SPEDU looks to curtail project failures

Friday, November 06, 2015

SELEBI-PHIKWE: Director of Projects and Programmes at SPEDU, Jezenger Uezesa says they evolve with technology and use advanced technologies to minimise possibilities of their projects becoming white elephants in the future.

Members of Ntlo ya Dikgosi, who visited the agency this week, were curious to know the plans that have been put in place to ensure that the projects being implementing do not turn into white elephants.

Previously, projects that were meant to improve the economic fortunes of the town such as the textile factories and other Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) projects crumbled and left thousands jobless.

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