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Motsumi attacks foreign companies for not empowering Batswana

03-02-2008 - Sunday Standard Reporter

Works and Transport Minister, Lesego Motsumi went on a tirade Friday saying that she is not satisfied with the level of knowledge and skills foreign companies operating here transfer to Batswana. Officiating at the Botswana Railways event to mark the commissioning of a trail-blazing safe working system project at Phakalane level crossing, Motsumi acknowledged the positive developments brought...


 

AVCA organizers upbeat about the conference

03-02-2008 - Sunday Standard Reporter

Organisers of the 7th Annual African Venture Capital Association conference (AVCA) were upbeat about the upcoming conference saying it addresses the most crucial issues of luring investors into Africa. Venture Partners Botswana and Botswana IFSC are the organizers of the event which will see 3000 international and local delegates looking for investment opportunities gathering in Gaborone next...


 

BOCCIM hosts budget review dinner in the north

03-02-2008 - Godfrey Ganetsang

The Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower, together with Grant Thornton Acumen, will next week hold a budget review dinner at Marang Hotel in Francistown and Bosele Hotel in Selibe Phikwe. BOCCIM Regional Manager, Eileen Van der est, told The Sunday Standard last week that they have invited the business community, the media, government officials and the local authority to the...


 

Energy prices to push inflation up to double digits

03-02-2008 - Sunday Standard Reporter

Keith Jefferies, chairman of Botswana Insurance Fund Management’s (Bifm’s) investment committee said the country should brace itself for a double digit inflation rate as a result of power crisis and the high crude oil prices. Writing on Bifm’s economic review ahead of the budget speech to be delivered on Monday and the upcoming Bank of Botswana’s annual Monetary Policy Statement, Jefferies said...


 

Government urged to cut expenditure

03-02-2008 - Sunday Standard Reporter

The government has been urged to stop the funding of politically motivated projects in favour of more efficient funding exercises in the coming National Development Plan 10 (NDP 10) in a bid to save for hard times ahead. Writing in the current edition of Bifm Economic Review, Keith Jefferies said that the position of Botswana’s economy in the medium to the long term is not positive and called for...


 

European Union launches EU/SQAM Project

27-01-2008 - Kgomotso Kgwagaripane

The European Union this week launched a P129.2 million project called the European Union’s Support to SADC Member States in Standardization, Quality Assurance, Accreditation and Metrology, commonly referred to as the EU/SADC SQAM project. Speaking at the launch held at the Cresta Lodge, EU Ambassador, Paul Malin, said this is a five-year project which is expected to provide support in critical areas...


 

VW’s new product – Tiguan – worth the wait

27-01-2008 - Kgomotso Kgwagaripane

Volkswagen Botswana will soon unveil its exciting new compact four-wheel-drive vehicle, dubbed Tiguan, which is an entirely new generation of Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) and more like a little brother to Touareg. Clement Matswagothata, VW Sales Manager, explained that the new Tiguan, designed to offer the best of all worlds, is compacted whilst offering a truly spacious interior, coupled with...


 

FirstRand CEO visits Botswana

27-01-2008 - Sunday Standard Reporter

The First National Bank of Botswana (FNBB), a subsidiary of FirstRand Bank, this week hosted the Chief Executive Officer of FirstRand Banking Group, Sizwe Nxasana, who shared his views and expectations when doing business at FNBB with the bank’s corporate customers. Nxasana’s experience in the financial services industry includes non-executive directorships since 2003 at FirstRand Bank and Rand Merchant...


 

VPB punches the air over the upcoming AVCA conference

27-01-2008 - Sunday Standard Reporter

Venture Partners Botswana (VPB), the largest venture capital outfit in the country, stood shoulder-to- shoulder with its co-organiser for the African Venture Capital Association conference, IFSC, stating that the move will bring money into Africa but Botswana entrepreneurs stand much to gain from the conference. The conference which brings about 300 monied international delegates into the country...


 

BPC looks at new sources of power supply

27-01-2008 - Sunday Standard Reporter

The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), the monopolistic power supplier, embarked on desperate attempts Friday aimed at assuaging customers’ confidence as it tries to recoil to power outages that have sent the country to the dark ages. Top official from the corporation told reporters that they have standing “supply agreement” with Eskom—the South African power suppliers— for the next five years...


 

 

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