SPEDU looks to curtail project failures
Friday, November 06, 2015
Mokubung
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.
Acting Agriculture Minister, Edwin Dikoloti, is right in saying opening an export-ready facility whilst Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is still spreading would risk getting the whole country blacklisted before a single carcass leaves the door.A ban like that would break the already stressed nation. So, the postponement, painful as it is, is the right thing to do. The local economy is being squeezed from both ends. FMD has already slammed the door...