SPEDU targets 10,000 new jobs in four years
Thursday, September 08, 2016
Mokubung
Speaking at the launch of SPEDU’s new brand here on Tuesday, CEO Mokubung Mokubung said the company has already identified strategic priority areas that will be key in job creation within sectors such as tourism, horticulture and manufacturing. “In terms of our 2015-2020 strategic plan, SPEDU must attain the status of a regional benchmark for driving regional economic development in the next five years. “We also want to do something even more ambitious, that is making Selebi-Phikwe Botswana’s first industrial city,” he said.
According to Mokubung, the new brand is symbolic of the opportunities that SPEDU will open for Batswana. He added that SPEDU region is evolving very fast as evidenced by the fact that the region is rapidly becoming a premier site for the development of innovative, high technology companies.
Whilst the project received mixed reactions from members of the public, the project is indeed a welcome development, which needs to be implemented as soon as possible. Many shared their opinion, with those against the project decrying that if implemented, it will kill the already struggling public transport industry.Many countries around the world have state-run public transport, and those who have travelled to such countries will give testimony...