Thumps Up All Round For Boseto

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MAUN: The people of Ngamiland have given Discovery Metal Limited (DML) their full blessing for the construction of Boseto Copper Mine site at Ngwaku, 80 kilometres southwest of here, the company's Vice Chairman has announced.

Speaking at the Kgotla last week, Dithapi Atsowe said approval of the project came through a series of consultative kgotla meetings addressed by the Tawana Land Board (TLB) at Toteng, Sehitwa and this world famous resort town of Maun.

The project consulting engineer who represented Discovery at the kgotla meeting, David Edwards, said construction would soon start, now that the people of the district had endorsed the project. Welcoming the first-ever mine in the district, people said the project should translate into jobs, especially for the youth, and generally improve livelihoods for communities in the vicinity of the mine.

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