Junior explorer to start production at Botswana mine

Junior explorer to start production at Botswana mine
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly - Garden View,South Africa
Base-metals exploration company African Copper on Friday said its Mowana mine, in Botswana, would start production in the second quarter of this year, ...

Big day out for Swaziland and Botswana

Big day out for Swaziland and Botswana
IRB - Dublin,Ireland
Swaziland play Botswana in Gabarone at the weekend, the prize a place in Pool 4 of this year's Africa Cup alongside Uganda and Madagascar, and a priceless ...

Botswana commits to EPA

Botswana commits to EPA
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
He said the outcome of trade terms was a great success as Botswana and other SADC states now had duty free and quota free access to all production, ...

Botswana scoops awards at Indaba

Botswana scoops awards at Indaba
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
The Chief Executive Officer of Botswana Tourism Board, Ms Myra Sekgororoane said: This is a great honour and privilege and highlights that Botswana has ...

Botswana April inflation quickens to 11.1%

Botswana April inflation quickens to 11.1%
Financial Express - Bombay,India
Johannesburg, May 16: Botswana's consumer price inflation rate quickened to 11.1 percent year-on-year in April from 9.8 percent in March, ...

Alfred and Emily, by Doris Lessing Twenty Chickens for a Saddle ...

Alfred and Emily, by Doris Lessing Twenty Chickens for a Saddle ...
Independent - London,England,UK
By contrast with Lessing's book, it is not about colonial, but post-colonial Africa – in this case, Botswana, which borders Zimbabwe. ...

Botswana women not a bad team - Mphukuthi

Botswana women not a bad team - Mphukuthi
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
Botswana Football Association (BFA) development officer Tshepo Mphukuthi says the senior women football team can match any Southern African team in terms of ...

China Touchroad Group wants Africa industrial parks

China Touchroad Group wants Africa industrial parks
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
He said construction on the industrial park -- estimated to be worth a total $200 million -- situated on a 5 square kilometre site in Botswana's capital, ...

Zambia: Flood Victims Get More Donations

Zambia: Flood Victims Get More Donations
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
He was speaking in Lusaka yesterday when he received donations from India, Botswana, US and Tazama Pipelines Limited. The donations were made at the ...

South Africa: Country's Own 'Branson' is Painting the Continent Blue

South Africa: Country's Own 'Branson' is Painting the Continent Blue
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
And today Blue Financial Services will be dual listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange, earning yet another first for Van Niekerk. Botswana was the first ...

BOTSWANA DIAMOND DISCOVERER, DR GAVIN THOMAS LAMONT, PASSES AWAY

BOTSWANA DIAMOND DISCOVERER, DR GAVIN THOMAS LAMONT, PASSES AWAY
Tacy - Ramat Gan,Israel
Dr Gavin 'Doc’ Lamont, the geologist who led the decade long search for the diamond mines of Botswana , died last month. His leadership, tenacity and deep ...

Botswana to Boost Cuban Collaboration

Botswana to Boost Cuban Collaboration

Gaborone, May 15 (Prensa Latina) The Minister of Education and Professional Development in Botswana, Jacob Nkate revealed Thursday that his government expects to obtain more collaboration from Cuba.

Nkate emphasized that more perspectives of collaboration have been opened between the two countries after the visit of President Seretse Khama Ian Khama to the island.

The also general secretary of the Botswana Democratic Party (government) referred possibilities of increasing the number of students from his country to the Caribbean nation, among other objectives.

The leader was interested in having young fellow citizens being trained in higher-education in the Antilles nation, especially in health technologies.

According to Cuban ambassador here Jorge Luis Lopez, all those preoccupations will find a respond at the Tenth Session of the Intergovernmental Mixed Commission that will be held in this capital.

Lopez also gave Botswana's minister an invitation from the Cuban Communist Party to join a working visit to the Caribbean nation.

HIV/AIDS challenge is huge, long-term and worsening

HIV/AIDS challenge is huge, long-term and worsening
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
The prevalence of HIV/AIDS exceeds 15 per cent in at least eight countries — Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, ...

Botswana may play home fixtures away

Botswana may play home fixtures away
BBC Sport - UK
By Tshepho Bogosing Botswana may be forced to play some of their joint 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in neighbouring South Africa. ...

South Africa: Nelson Mandela Children's Fund to Honour Madiba

South Africa: Nelson Mandela Children's Fund to Honour Madiba
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The national series will start in Lesotho on 8 June 2008 and ends in Botswana on 22 June 2008, whilst the regional leg including SADC region countries will ...

Botswana's Inflation Accelerates to 21-Month High (Update1)

Botswana's Inflation Accelerates to 21-Month High (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
By Antony Sguazzin May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Botswana's inflation rate climbed to 11.1 percent in April, the highest in almost two years on higher transport ...

SADC advised to market itself despite package

SADC advised to market itself despite package
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
DURBAN:South African Tourism has advised SADC countries, including Botswana, to do their own marketing despite the fact that tourism is now marketed as a ...

Reserve open to tourists while Bushmen walk 400km for water

Reserve open to tourists while Bushmen walk 400km for water
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
Botswana's government is this week promoting the Central Kalahari Game Reserve as a top tourist destination, but it has banned the reserve's Bushmen from ...

Good news as Eskom suspends load shedding

Good news as Eskom suspends load shedding
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
The South African power utility, Eskom, last week made the Botswana business community happy when it announced that it was suspending its periodic load ...

Attract foreign direct investment Swartz

Attract foreign direct investment Swartz
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
GHANZI - The increasing number of mobile phone operators in Botswana gives an assurance that governments initiative to liberalise and therefore develop the ...

Botswana and Zimbabwe: A Tale of Two Countries

Botswana and Zimbabwe: A Tale of Two Countries
AMERICAN.COM - Washington,DC,USA
“We used to look at Botswana as our poor cousin, but now we do all of our shopping there,” said David Coltart, an opposition member of the Zimbabwean ...

Two Stabbed to Death

Two Stabbed to Death
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
In just a matter of days, two people were stabbed to death in different instances of bloodshed in the Phase IV area in Francistown. Thirty-three-year-old ...

Criminals Target Barclays Bank

Criminals Target Barclays Bank
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
More than P988 000 has been stolen from Barclays Bank in Kasane area through the use of different MasterCards and Visa cards. According to Police deputy ...

BDF Major Accused of Applying Military Type Confession ...

BDF Major Accused of Applying Military Type Confession ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The alleged torture at the hands of Major Keratwaemang Mike Solomon of the Botswana Defence Force left a struggling security guard and part-time gardener in ...

Changing Times - A World View!

Changing Times - A World View!
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Concerns about this are already noticeable in Botswana since only this morning I was listening to a debate on the radio about such issues and their impact ...

Botswana: Zebra's 6 Points Up

Botswana: Zebra's 6 Points Up
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Botswana senior national team, Zebras, may have six points credited into their account as the World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations kick start. ...

Where are our sons?

Where are our sons?
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
By Shaun Smillie That is what Joe Mamasela, a police informer, probably found in 1985 when he convinced 10 youths to cross the border into Botswana to join ...

Zimbabwe: Landlords Charging Tenants in Forex

Zimbabwe: Landlords Charging Tenants in Forex
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
MOST landlords in Bulawayo's western suburbs are charging their tenants in South African Rand and Botswana Pula, citing the depreciation of the local ...

Swedish Embassy donates childrens books

Swedish Embassy donates childrens books
Republic of Botswana - Gaberone, Botswana
The Minister said the books will make a considerable contribution in the promotion of a reading culture among the people of Botswana. ...

Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana

Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
By Mosah Mokganedi Stakeholders have expressed concern that the Botswana government is taking too long to ratify the UNESCO Convention against doping. ...

Botswana launches new self-catering and camping accommodation

Botswana launches new self-catering and camping accommodation
e-Travel Blackboard (press release) - Sydney,NSW,Australia
Earlier this week in Tuli Block, Botswana, a ceremony took place to officially launch Molema, a community based self-catering and camping option for ...

Bushmen denied access to water

Bushmen denied access to water
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
The Botswana government has banned Central Kalahari Game Reserve bushmen from accessing their own water but has given permission for a tourist lodge to do ...

'Khama's Initiatives No Threat To Opposition'

'Khama's Initiatives No Threat To Opposition'
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
Other schemes are the creation of constituency football leagues with players paid allowances under the Botswana Football Association (BFA), the employment ...

Professional Journalism Vital - Nkate

Professional Journalism Vital - Nkate
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
Nkate was the guest speaker at the Mass Media Complex at an event hosted by Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Botswana) to commemorate World Press ...

Issues In Education

Issues In Education
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
In this context Botswana has a standardised system. For this research the author used PISA data from a study in 2000 in 32 countries that assessed reading, ...

How much is that Bushman in the window?

How much is that Bushman in the window?
Thought Leader - Johannesburg,South Africa

In 1998, De Beers conducted a feasibility study of the Gope region in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). As it turns out, the San who are titled “remote area dwellers” by the government were sitting on $2,475billion worth of diamonds.

The past decade has seen the government of Botswana embark on a policy of forced relocation. The San have been denied hunting permits by the Department of Wildlife, and prevented from accessing boreholes and other water sources — deliberate policies designed to force them into a catch-22 situation: starvation or relocation.

“The Department of Wildlife”, says Jonathan Mazower of Survival International, an organisation supporting tribal peoples worldwide, “is doing everything they can to make life impossible for the San, by blocking the High Court judgement which gave the Bushmen the right to return to the CKGR and live there.”

In 2006, Botswana’s High Court declared the forced relocations enacted by the government to be illegal. The San successfully argued that diamond deposits underpinned the displacements and deprivations imposed on them, not tourism or the provision of facilities.

Yet, the government maintains that the San left willingly. Kaudwane, one of two “settlement” camps constructed by the government in 2000, was the scene in which the one and only consultation played out — with a handful of San.

What are the conditions in the camp?

“The conditions are very grim”, says Mazower.

“All the usual indices of development — child mortality, levels of suicide, alcoholism, etc — have increased since the relocation.”

How did De Beers respond to the evictions?

“Their managing director in Botswana publicly welcomed the evictions at the time”, he responds, “but obviously we don’t know what they have said in private.”

De Beers, based in Johannesburg, has a presence in over 25 countries and are the primary handlers for more than 45% of the world’s diamond trade. In 2005, revenues exceeded $6,5-billion.

How can the government give the go ahead when mining conserved land constitutes environmental terrorism?

“It is odd,” Mazower states, “that they are prepared to allow a large mine in a game reserve, when one of the reasons the government gave for the evictions was for the conservation of the reserve’s wildlife and environment.”

Recently, Gem Diamonds acquired the Gope concession from De Beers. How much did Gem pay for a deposit deemed sub-economic by De Beers?

Angela Parr of Gem Diamonds says, “Gem Diamonds paid $34-million for 100% of the share capital of Gope Exploration (Pty) Ltd, which was held by a joint venture between De Beers and Xstrata. At that time Gope held a suspended retention license over the Gope area.”

The mines are situated in environmental protected regions — has the Department of Environmental Affairs in Botswana, approved of mining the conserved land?

“The environmental department has indicated that they do not object to mining within the CKGR in principle.”

Will Gem refuse to mine the region if the San explicitly state that they feel the government has transgressed their human rights?

“The issue of any transgression of the rights of the Basarwa by the government was the subject of a court case that closed in 2007. Gem Diamonds does not seek to take a stance on the matter.”

“To date the public participation process (PPP) meetings conducted as part of the environmental impact assessment have indicated that the Basarwa are by and large in favour of a mine at Gope.”

Is there a conflict of interest, I ask Mazower, when the Governor of the Bank of Botswana, Linah Mohohlo, and Botswana’s Attorney-General Athalia Molokomme — two people in key positions of power concerning the fate of the San, are positioned on the board of Debswana, De Beers venture with the government?

“Yes, we believe there is,” he says, “Legally, they do not have title to most of their traditional lands. The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have no title at all.”

But Angela, quoting from a High Court ruling states, “It was the prospectors or an agent of the prospectors, who gave the name ‘Gope’ to that particular locality.”

“The settlement of Gope was established as a result of diamond prospecting as opposed to having been closed down because of diamond mining.”

“It was the availability of water at the prospecting site that had attracted people there and led to the establishment of a settlement,” she said.

The name designated by the San for the Gope region is unknown, in fact, even the appellation San and the derogatory “Bushmen” are merely titles superimposed on a people that constitute the oldest inhabitants of the region.

According to Harvard genetic paleontologist Spencer Wells, the San are the “genetic Adam” — one of the oldest, if not the oldest race in the world, They are the living organisms through which man can trace the origin of the human species.

The San call themselves Xu! Wasi, or Real/Original Peoples; several months ago, I got in touch with an brilliant linguist called Lameen Souag for a period script I was in the process of writing.

Later, I interviewed him for a magazine in the Middle East and, during the course of the interview, he mentioned the language of the Xu! Wasi peoples.

“The only languages to use ‘click’ sounds as consonants in their normal vocabulary are spoken in southern and eastern Africa,” he said. “If these had become extinct, linguists might wrongly think that such sounds could not be used in speech.”

“Apart from its contribution to our understanding of ourselves as humans, such knowledge could in the long term potentially have implications for any field that makes use of linguistics, from speech therapy to search engines.”

It’s unlikely that the government of Botswana, however, will give a shit.

Diamonds constitute the core of Botswana’s economy, which holds 23% of the world diamond market with a cumulative total value of $3,2-billion annually, comprising over 80% of their economy, 50% of government revenue and 35% of GDP.

Yet just under one third of the population lives on less than a $1 per day; even though the country has one of the world’s highest economic growth rates with a per capita GDP of $11 000 in 2006, the official unemployment rate of 24,5% with unofficial estimates placing it at 40%.

Debswana, the joint venture between De Beers and the Botswana government, produces 30% of the world’s diamonds, soon to increase with the discovery of the Gope mines. Mining in Southern Africa is largely concentrated in four countries: Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Tanzania.

Speaking off the record, a lawyer from Bots laughingly told me exactly how the “Bushmen” would be handled.

“That movie, where they drop the bottle cap from the sky?” he says, “well, this time, maybe the government will drop a diamond on the Bushman.”

“One diamond will be enough to keep them busy for many years.”

“Everyone will take turns polishing it.

Botswana Tour Operator At Durban Indaba

Botswana Tour Operator At Durban Indaba
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
By Kabo Mokgoabone DURBAN: Several of Botswana tourism actors, including the Botswana Tourism Board (BTB), are showcasing their products to thousands of ...

Cracks In Sadc Support For Mugabe?

Cracks In Sadc Support For Mugabe?
The Southern African - Toronto,ON,Canada
However, Botswana – the region’s undisputed leader in democracy - has broken ranks with the rest of the regional members, opting to confront the Mugabe ...

South Africa: Blue Subsidiary to Buy Zambian Lender Nedfin

South Africa: Blue Subsidiary to Buy Zambian Lender Nedfin
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
CEO Dave van Niekerk said Blue's Botswana-based unit, Blue Employment Benefits (BEB), planned to acquire the entire share capital and shareholder loan ...

BOTSWANA ESTABLISHES DIAMOND HUB

BOTSWANA ESTABLISHES DIAMOND HUB
Tacy - Ramat Gan,Israel
The government of Botswana has embarked upon a substantial number of important infrastructure and investment projects and initiatives in an effort to ...

Pick of the day

Pick of the day
guardian.co.uk - UK
When Robyn Scott was six, her parents moved from New Zealand to the Botswana bush, where they set up home in a converted cowshed. As Scott père built up his ...

Japan Pursues Botswana Resource Development, Vying With China

Japan Pursues Botswana Resource Development, Vying With China
Bloomberg - USA
By Yoshifumi Takemoto May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Japan, lagging behind China in securing minerals and energy from Africa, will help develop resources in Botswana ...

‘I suppose f**k-knuckle sold none’

Just one of the insults my boss hurled at me, says employee

The former financial manager of a soda-ash conglomerate has hauled the company and his former boss to court for his abusive swearing and insults.

Botswana Ash’s lawyers offered Durban chartered accountant Richard Pascoe R5000, arguing that the swearing — including calling him “f**k-knuckle” — was accepted language within the industry. But Pascoe has refused to back down.

Now, more than seven years after instituting legal action against the firm — an Anglo American associate company — and its former managing director Paul Henry, Pascoe will finally have his day in court when his three-day trial begins in the Botswana High Court in Labotse this week.

Pascoe wants more than R500000 in damages for mental anguish suffered as a result of the insults, claiming he was humiliated, degraded and his reputation injured by Henry’s vulgar insults, often made at executive committee meetings and in the presence of colleagues.

He is also claiming more than R3-million for unlawful dismissal, saying the grounds for his 1999 axing — which include leaving work without permission and conduct unbecoming of a senior manager, in which not taking care of his “nuisance” dog was cited as one of the reasons — were baseless.

But both Botswana Ash and Henry denied Pascoe’s allegations, saying in court papers that the onus was on him to prove his claims.

The company’s current MD, Derek Cochrane, believes they have a “very strong case” as “strong leadership was required to rebuild the company after its liquidation in 1995 and a severe flood that flattened the company a year later”.

Pascoe, who joined Botswana Ash in 1998, claimed in papers before the court that the company was “vicariously liable” for Henry’s conduct, who acted within the scope of his employment.

He claimed that during his brief stint at the company, Henry “on numerous occasions” hurled insults at him in front of his colleagues, telling him to “f**k off” and that he was “f*****g useless”.

He alleges that incidents of provocative and vulgar language include:

ý Henry saying at an executive committee meeting, “wish you were normally so f*****g observant”;

ý Henry “frequently referred to the participants as f*****g c**ts” at a budget meeting organised by Pascoe and attended by colleagues;

ý Henry announcing, at an executive committee meeting, “I suppose f**k-knuckle on the right (Pascoe), has not sold any,” referring to raffle tickets for a show he had organised. Henry then added that Pascoe “deserves to lose his pens, he’s so f*****g useless”; and

ý Henry accusing Pascoe of being “too soft” and that he should learn to “f**k people up”.

According to Pascoe’s court papers, Henry once barged into Pascoe’s office, throwing documents in front of him and asking “what the f**k is this s**t”, intimating that his work “is manure and of a low quality”.

He also referred to Pascoe and his two colleagues as a “bunch of cowboys”, which suggested “they are better suited to tend cattle than to work in an office”, the papers stated.

It is further claimed that Pascoe suffered “humiliation, bewilderment, damage to his dignity and self-esteem, and has suffered extreme mental anguish”.

In the minutes of Pascoe’s disciplinary hearing, which form part of the court papers, he said the main reason he failed to communicate with Henry was the latter’s “ use of language”.

Henry said “there was an accepted degree of use of industrial language in the mining and production industries”.

He said “much of it is due to frustration caused by failure of some individuals to react to instructions or just failure to do their jobs”.

Henry likened the situation to “ blowing a horn to a donkey, which is not bothered to move”.

Gadsden native shares journey

Gadsden native shares journey
Gadsden Times (subscription) - Gadsden,AL,USA
After training for three months, Snyder felt she was ready for her adventure in the Republic of Botswana. The young woman, unassuming and gentle-spirited, ...

TWENTY CHICKENS FOR A SADDLE

TWENTY CHICKENS FOR A SADDLE
New York Times - United States of America
By MARCUS MABRY The first scene in Robyn Scott’s memoir takes place shortly after her family has arrived in Botswana. Her parents had decided on the spur of ...

FMB named Capital Bank in Botswana

FMB named Capital Bank in Botswana
Malawi's Daily Times - Malawi
BY HENRY MCHAZIME FIRST Merchant Bank of Malawi (FMB) will be trading as Capital Bank Limited in Botswana, the bank said Thursday. FMB Manager for Business ...

Zulu Energy Corp. Raises $8.0 Million in Private Placement

Zulu Energy Corp. Raises $8.0 Million in Private Placement
CNNMoney.com - United States of America
The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary Nyati Botswana, owns exploration licenses covering 2.2 million acres in the Kalahari Karoo Basin. ...

Tsvangirai returns home to contest runoff election

Tsvangirai returns home to contest runoff election
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
He has been in self-imposed exile in Botswana where he was a guest of the new Botswana president, Ian Khama. Tsvangirai did not indicate whether party ...

Southern Africa: Botswana Bans Sale of Bulk Fuel to Zimbabwe

Southern Africa: Botswana Bans Sale of Bulk Fuel to Zimbabwe
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Botswana last week banned the export of bulk fuel to Zimbabwe, in a move seen as welcome regional pressure on Mugabe's regime, to respect the will of the ...

Botswana bans sale of bulk fuel to Zimbabwe

Botswana bans sale of bulk fuel to Zimbabwe
SW Radio Africa - Zimbabwe
The government of Botswana last week banned the export of bulk fuel to Zimbabwe, in a move seen as welcome regional pressure on Mugabe’s regime, ...

Botswana seeks to expose Zimbabwe?

Botswana seeks to expose Zimbabwe?
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
FRANCISTOWN: The Botswana government has reportedly instructed state media to expose the goings-on in Zimbabwe to the international community. ...

Hana Mining Confirms Large Potential of Ghanzi Copper-Silver ...

Hana Mining Confirms Large Potential of Ghanzi Copper-Silver ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... diamond drilling program at its sediment-hosted Ghanzi Copper-Silver Project in Botswana, Africa which confirm the large potential of the prospect. ...

Zimbabwe: Cross-Border Fuel Lifeline Cut

Zimbabwe: Cross-Border Fuel Lifeline Cut
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
In the latest blow to Zimbabwe's wounded economy, the Botswana government has banned the export of bulk fuel to the neighbouring country. ...

Drifting through Africa's vast Okavango

Drifting through Africa's vast Okavango
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
When to Go: The best time to visit Botswana is during the dry season, from May to August. The days are warm and dry, and the nights are cool and clear. ...

Botswana is at a stage of building the necessary capacity for effective participation in the Biosafety Clearing House (BCH)

Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
GABORONE - Botswana is at a stage of building the necessary capacity for effective participation in the Biosafety Clearing House (BCH) Officially opening a ...

Habitat leader from Botswana to join local build

Habitat leader from Botswana to join local build
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY,USA
The national director of Habitat for Humanity in Botswana will be in Evansville next week to help with a two-week building blitz at the New Haven ...

Act not solution to alcohol abuse in Botswana

Act not solution to alcohol abuse in Botswana
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
This was a show to showcase Botswana talent alongside African musical giants such as Oliver Mtukudzi. The organiser of the show had laid out a great ...

Botswana goes to Durban fair

Botswana goes to Durban fair
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
The Public Relations and Communications Officer of the Botswana Tourism Board, Mrs Keitumetse Setlang, said the movie would be shown to tour operators and ...

Hope for Africa's endangered wild dogs

Hope for Africa's endangered wild dogs
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Only six countries - Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa - are thought to have viable populations of more than 100 wild dogs. ...

Absa Capital and Barclays execute another bond issue for a ...

Absa Capital and Barclays execute another bond issue for a ...
ITInews - Insurance Times and Investments News - South Africa
Absa Capital, a division of Absa Bank Limited, and Barclays Bank Botswana today announced the successful issuance of the BWP70 million Botswana Vaccine ...

Botswana: G4s Security Revenue Up

Botswana: G4s Security Revenue Up
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The security services group, G4S Botswana has released good results with the company's revenue growing by 14.7 % to P90.3 million for the year ended 31 ...

Albidon to produce first nickel concentrate

Albidon to produce first nickel concentrate
Mining MX - Sandton,South Africa
As well as the Munali nickel project in Zambia, Albidon has significant nickel prospects in Botswana. The company has a lease of 30000 square kilometres ...

Unions Splintered On 'May Day'

Unions Splintered On 'May Day'
Mmegi - Gaberones, Botswana
While the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions, the mother body of other trade unions in the country held commemorations, a splinter group held its own ...

FNBB Embraces The Deaf And Hearing-Impaired

FNBB Embraces The Deaf And Hearing-Impaired
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
The First National Bank of Botswana (FNB) last week said it has produced a 15 paged Banking Sign Language Booklet aimed at improving the communication of ...

Talking Musica

Talking Musica
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
I was annoyed at the fact that successive ministries of culture over the past 25 or so years had missed the point that this column made, that if Botswana ...

FNBB Embraces The Deaf And Hearing-Impaired

FNBB Embraces The Deaf And Hearing-Impaired
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
The First National Bank of Botswana (FNB) last week said it has produced a 15 paged Banking Sign Language Booklet aimed at improving the communication of ...

Record timber cargo for East London

Record timber cargo for East London
Dispatch Online - South Africa
The timber – destined for building supply and hardware outlets across South Africa and Botswana – is expected to boost artisan jobs in East London. ...

IAMGOLD Reaches Three Year Labour Agreements at Niobec

IAMGOLD Reaches Three Year Labour Agreements at Niobec
CNNMoney.com - USA
IAMGOLD Corporation ("IAMGOLD" or "the Company") (TSX: IMG)(NYSE: IAG) (BOTSWANA: IAMGOLD) is pleased to announce the successful negotiation and ratification ...

South Africa: Debtech's Products to Go On Show

South Africa: Debtech's Products to Go On Show
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... and its partner companies around the world, which means its sorting units are being used from Tanzania to Namibia, Botswana and Canada as well as SA. ...

2007 DIAMOND PIPELINE: SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN EQUILIBRIUM

2007 DIAMOND PIPELINE: SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN EQUILIBRIUM
Tacy - Ramat Gan,Israel
The most ambitious of all the producer countries is Botswana , where 16 cutting and polishing companies were licensed. Furthermore, Botswana ’s polished ...

New principal at Sarum College

New principal at Sarum College
Salisbury Journal - Salisbury,England,UK
In 1996 he was appointed the founding director of the Botswana Accountancy College, which specialises in accountancy and business skills. ...

Hail to new kid on the softball block

Hail to new kid on the softball block
Sowetan - Soweto, South Africa
Other affiliates are softball-crazy countries such as South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho and their experience in terms of players and development background ...

Industry News in Brief

Industry News in Brief
Railway Gazette International - London,UK
The recent establishment of companies in South Africa and Botswana marks a major expansion for the Italian signalling and technology group Ansaldo STS. ...