Mogae Spoils Metropolitan's Party
Monday, September 10, 2007
The President's original speech was supposed to pay tribute to the company's citizen empowerment initiatives, especially the re-location of many of its functions that were previously carried out in South Africa to Botswana.
Mogae skipped that part and instead told the company management something else. He said that Nkani, who left Metropolitan Botswana under a cloud early this year, told him that the company was still being run from South Africa.
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