Parley did well on BIUST

Last Friday, the National Assembly adopted a motion calling on the Government to establish a Selebi-Phikwe campus of the Botswana International University for Science and Technology (BIUST).

The motion was a response to the recent closure of the BCL Mine, which resulted in over 5,000 jobs being lost.  The motion was supported by members from both sides of the floor, among them Cabinet ministers.

It is sad that when this University was still at conception stage in the early 2000s, some members of the House, especially from opposition, had called on Government to build the University in Selebi-Phikwe warning of the impending closure of BCL. 

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