Debswana places multi-billion pula bet on local
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Power to the people: Debswana plans to procure at least 50% of its supplies and services from citizen contractors by 2024 PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Debswana’s targets for its Citizen Economic Empowerment Programme (CEEP) are bold. Having started CEEP in 2019, the country’s premier diamond producer plans to reach P20 billion in citizen spend value by 2024 and create 20,000 citizen jobs in the process.
The targets are the most ambitious transfer of citizen value creation in the history of the country’s minerals sector, an industry where procurement registries are dominated by large, well-established multi-national entities and other foreign titans.
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