Copper and nickel production is set to resume in the country, six years after all the country’s mines closed. Investors are leveraging on stronger base metal prices to finalise acquisitions of suspended operations and fast-track new mines.A...
Mmegi: Please give a brief outline of your career path leading to your current positionOdumetse: Having completed my high schooling in 1996, I was employed at The Duck Inn, a famous bar and restaurant in Maun, as a waiter/barman. In 1999 The Duck Inn...
“Someone came to me and said renewable energy will create 330,000 jobs in South Africa and I said give me the formula looking at the 90,000 jobs we have in coal.“I have not found that formula.“I grew up in the Eastern Cape and I recently took a...
PANDAMATENGA: The Local Enterprise Authority estimates that the production of the 16 crops currently banned from being imported into the country will have to rise by 116% to meet the national demand.Farmers in the country’s prime commercial...
Generally, the country consumes about 50,000 tonnes of sorghum each year, with local production accounting for most of this and the balance imported from South Africa.Pandamatenga Farmers Association chair, Ryan Neal says floods experienced late last...
He started from humble beginnings with the bailing of grass and selling to the government through the Livestock Advisory Centres (LAC) that subsidised feed for farmers during drought years.When asked as to what keeps him here in the bush while he...
Agro-tourism or agricultural tourism is an industry built around visiting a working farm or any agricultural, horticultural or agribusiness operation for leisure, education, or active involvement in the activities of the farm.When government...
Squatters, or as they call themselves, informal settlers live here in small mud houses with roofs hammered together out of fragile wood and covered with black plastics. The houses are not much to look at and the huts most probably cannot handle harsh...
PANDAMATENGA: The Mmegi news crew meets 35-year-old Basadi Molelekeng on the way to her farm as she rushes to deliver fertilisers because the tractors and planters are ready to roll. Molelekeng is very hands-on and doesn’t wait for anyone to do a...
Norman Songa (34)I am a resident, I was born here. I was in Kasane and Kazungula a few years ago but since I got here, I have realised that there are no formal employment opportunities only farm jobs. The opportunities come during the busy periods...
The first is a legend told by the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) recruits. Their Panda sounded like a great adventure. We used to listen in equal measure of disgust and admiration to the gory and funny stories told by the fresh-out-of-war-school...
One version says Pandamatenga was named after a renowned elephant hunter called ‘Mutenga’ who used a strategic spot by the bush around the Mpanda trees (rain trees) near the river as his favourite hunting base. As this version of the story goes,...
Local clean energy firm, Sustainable Energy Botswana, calls it “letting the sun do the work,” a reference to the potential solar power has in transforming the country’s electricity mix from its current finite fossil fuel base, to a more...
In his response to the 2022 Budget Speech this week, former Finance Minister, Thapelo Matsheka, took legislators down memory lane, recalling how the Budget Speech of 1997 spoke to the themes of tighter public finance management as a tool for more...
Whilst previous ministers had touched on much of the same issues, this time it felt as if the issues were getting the due attention they deserve. It felt like the ministry and minister had finally listened to a lot of the complaints Batswana have...
While the leading indicator of poverty is monetary income, global experts are increasingly studying the different dimensions of hardship to better guide policies and interventions.Ten years after the University of Oxford and the United Nations...
This is in line with our policy of youth affirmative action which includes among others, 15% preference margin on general tenders and 20% in micro procurement”.Despite efforts by government to make the business environment conducive, it remains...
The British government and Parliament plans to ban the import of hunting trophies as part of a conservation initiative to protect endangered animals have been received with great enthusiasm by many organisations and individuals globally – and with...
Hot humid and dusty! Those were my first thoughts as we disembarked from the very small East African airline. French filled the air! The language, the culture. There was a dusky hue to the horizon, like a scene in a high-end film when the protagonist...
INTRODUCTIONMr. Speaker, I have the honour this afternoon to present to the National Assembly, the Budget Proposals for the 2022/2023 Financial Year. Mr. Speaker, the 2022 Budget Speech marks several highlights in our development agenda, as a...
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