Troubled BPC readies for dawn of new era

New BPC CEO Schwarzfischer
New BPC CEO Schwarzfischer

In spite of the troubles that the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) has endured over the years, management is adamant on transforming the beleaguered national electricity utility.

Hopes of a reversal in fortunes are embedded in the corporation’s five-year game plan dubbed Masa 2020 Transformation Strategy that was initiated with the intent to turnaround the status of the corporation and make it profitable and efficient by 2020.

Masa is a Setswana word that means dawn, and it is the tagline that management is pinning its hopes on for the corporation’s rebirth.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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