SPEDU targets 10,000 new jobs in four years

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.