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.
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...