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Harvesting diamonds from the sky

Hello sunshine: SEB has more than 8.6MW of projects in the pipeline
Hello sunshine: SEB has more than 8.6MW of projects in the pipeline

As the world transitions from fossil fuels to green energy, a wholly citizen-owned firm, Sustainable Energy Botswana, has become the first fully registered engineering, procurement and construction company providing the full array of clean energy services. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI speaks to its founder, Eunice Ntobedzi

Eunice Ntobedzi has enjoyed an illustrious career. A graduate of the University of Pretoria and following sponsorship from the UK government via a Chevening scholarship, Ntobedzi was awarded her MSc in Management (Enterprise & Business Growth) by the famous Adam Smith Business School University of Glasgow. She was then offered an exceptional talent Visa by the United Kingdom (UK) Government but decided to return to Botswana to develop her business ideas.

In 2018, the Innovate UK Energy Catalyst programme awarded its largest grant to collaboration partners of which Ntobedzi was the African partner. She founded African Sustainable Energy (ASE) in late 2020 to commercialise research funded by the UK Innovation agency ‘Innovate UK’.

Editor's Comment
Ruling party should tread carefully on cadre deployment

But on the particularly sensitive question of cadre deployment, the BNF must tread very carefully.The issue deserves robust debate, not ideological enthusiasm. Recent public comments from the BNF leadership are reassuring: the party has said that government positions should be based on merit and competence rather than party membership, and that it does not have a specific cadre-deployment policy.That principle should remain firmly at the centre...

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