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Business
Makgato-Malesu to lead BITC mission to South Africa 24-05-2013 - The Telegraph Reporter
The Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC) will kick-start its investment promotion missions with a meeting that will share the country’s story with the South African investment community.
The mission, to be led by the Trade and Industry minister, Dorcas Makgato-Malesu, was expected to meet at the Michelangelo Hotel, Sandton, on May 21, 2013, at 18:30 and the organisation will share the country’s...
BTCL donates to Shorobe community 24-05-2013 - The Telegraph Reporter
Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited (BTCL) continues to be responsive to the needs of Batswana by donating to different communities countrywide.
As part of efforts to reduce the poverty of information and promote digital inclusion, BTCL recently donated ten computers and four printers worth 169 000 thousand pula to the community of Shorobe.
The donations were handed over as part of the...
Ear tagging starting end of May 24-05-2013 - Morula Morula
The Ministry of Agriculture’s exercise to tag ears of 2.5 cattle across the country is scheduled to start at the end of May.
Geoffrey Pheko, the Principal Public Relations Officer in the ministry, said that it was initially scheduled to start in January but had to be postponed as the ear tags had not yet been delivered from Switzerland’s Datamars SA Company, which won the P7 million tender for the...
Africa Business Center gives support to Botswana’s EDD 24-05-2013 - Ngonidzashe Dzimiri
The Director at Africa Business Center, Michael Lalor, has commended Botswana Economic Diversification Drive as an initiative that would lead to an increase in Foreign Direct Investment.
In an interview, Lalor said Botswana remains one of Africa's bright lights, providing a benchmark for many others in terms of political stability and economic development and transformation.
“The process of economic...
‘We are awake to arrival of new players, but we remain the big guys’ – Chivese 19-05-2013 - Spencer Mogapi
Indaba Durban show a boon for Botswana’s tourism and travel 19-05-2013 - Spencer Mogapi
The Indaba premier tourism and travel show organized by South African Tourism offers the hospitality industry in Botswana an opportunity to meet their agents and sign new contracts as well as renew already existing ones.
Indaba is held in Durban every year around May.
This year it was held over the last week.
Being the biggest travel and tourism show in Africa, and the third largest in the world...
Botswana tourism facilities overpriced – Rannoba 19-05-2013 - Spencer Mogapi
The General Manager of Maun Lodge, Alfredo Rannoba, has said as a result of the world’s economic downturn, increasingly tourism agents are showing signs of being overly sensitive to price increases.
He said it is important for hotel facilities in Botswana not to price themselves out.
“As Maun Lodge, we try very hard to be affordable. Our intention is to avoid pricing ourselves out.
Because we are...
BDC poised to increase investments in tourism, including in SA 19-05-2013 - Spencer Mogapi
The Botswana Development Corporation, which is the investment arm of Botswana government, continues to scale opportunities in tourism as it seeks to bolster its presence in the sector.
This was said by the head of Public Affairs, Gomolemo Zimona.
Zimona was part of a BDC team of senior executives that travelled to Durban to attend the Indaba Travel and Tourism show organized by South African Tourism.
The...
‘Significant Safety Concern’ tag still dogs Botswana 19-05-2013 - Ngonidzashe Dzimiri
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has not lifted the Significant Safety Concern tag from Botswana aviation, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB).
The ICAO task team was in Botswana to conduct an ICAO Coordinated Validation Mission (ICVM) in April 2013.
The validation mission has noted two potential Significant Safety Concerns (SSCs). One from the Flight...
Govt to slaughter thousands of sheep and goats 19-05-2013 - Morula Morula
In an extraordinary measure to control Foot and Mouth Disease, the government has taken the decision to slaughter 30,000 sheep and goats which were infected in the North East.
It has been announced that the exercise will take a month and that owners of all the slaughtered animals will be compensated in kind, meaning that farmers will have their livestock replaced after verification that the...
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The Head of Marketing at Cresta Group of Hotels, Patrick Chivese, has said his company is awake to the changing dynamics in Botswana’s hospitality industry.
He said in the overall these are exciting times to be in the hospitality industry in Botswana.
Chivese said over the recent past there has been an influx of new players, which have come into the market, a development that he said has resulted...