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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Businesses more bullish in 2011

Mmegi: "Businesses in Botswana are showing a significant increase in confidence in 2011 expecting the operating climate to improve fuelling the their willingness to invest more in order to increase production as they expect sales to rise, according to a survey carried out by the Bank of Botswana.

The Business Expectations Survey (BES) shows 67 percent of businesses expect that conditions will be more favourable in the first half of 2011 while 73 percent of respondents believe the whole of 2011 will have improved conditions."

Zimbabwe: Botswana Project Poses Fresh Threat to Victoria Falls

allAfrica.com: "The attractiveness of the mighty Victoria Falls, one of the natural wonders of the world, is under threat if Botswana goes ahead with its planned extraction of large volumes of water from Chobe River for use in its interior, a cabinet minister has said.

This would affect foreign currency inflows for both Zimbabwe and Zambia pumped in by tourists who throng the falls annually to witness the 'smoke that thunders.'

Botswana has notified other southern African countries of its intentions to abstract some 30 cubic metres from the Chombe River where it meets the Zambezi River for a planned irrigation scheme in the Pandamatenga area and for domestic water supply."

Botswana: Get To Know The People And The Wildlife « Travel News

Travel News: "Travel along the Okavango Delta teeming with abundant wildlife to the might Victoria Falls in Zambia, meeting the warm hearted Tswana people of Maun to get a real taste for the different cultures and landscapes this fascinating part of the world has to offer."

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