Thumps Up All Round For Boseto
Monday, November 01, 2010
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.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...