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• `Botswana SMMEs can benefit from the Chinese experience`

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi ISAAC PINIELO Correspondent The Chinese ambassador to Botswana, Liu Huanxing, says Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in Botswana can benefit from his country’s experience. Speaking at a Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) stakeholder consultative forum in Gaborone last week, ...
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• Govt to accelerate privatisation, diversification – finance minister

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 11 November, 2009 GABORONE – There is no enthusiasm in both government and Parliament to privatise some government departments for economic diversification. Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Mr Kenneth Matambo told BOPA that the governments privatisation drive has not achieved much, ...
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• Mphetlhe urges SMMEs to be innovative

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 11 November, 2009 GABORONE – Owners of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) have been urged to adopt productivity tools if they were to succeed both locally and internationally. Speaking at a stakeholders forum the Botswana National Productivity Centre organised, Acting Permanent Secretary in ...
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• Restore dignity-SRC tell Venson-Moitoi

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi MARANYANE NGWANAAMOTHO Staff Writer The new Minister of Education, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi has been told by student representatives from various colleges to restore dignity and trustworthiness to the ministry. During a meeting with the minister on Monday, one student representative said they have lost ...
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• Parliament needs restructuring

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 11 November, 2009 GABORONE – Speaker of the National Assembly Ms Margret Nasha has accentuated the need to streamline parliament. Speaking during an orientation seminar for MPs, Ms Nasha pointed out that there were certain structures as well as parliamentary procedures that needed to be restructured ...
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• BDP gets 106 ,gives oppositon 8

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi EPHRAIM KEORENG Staff Writer Once again the opposition received a dismal number of seats as the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) took the lion’s share of the 114 special council seats to boost its numbers in district councils around the country. Though the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) won 75 ...
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• African Diamonds bullish as De Beers exists AK6

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 171
  LONDON (ShareCast) - African Diamonds has rallied again, helped by today’s announcement that Canada’s Lucara has bought De Beers’ stake in the AK6 Botswana diamond project. The AIM-listed miner, which has partnered De Beers at the project for six
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• SADC seeks malaria elimination

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 10 November, 2009 BOBONONG, – The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has a goal to eliminate malaria in the region by 2015, hence member states are urged to consolidate their malaria control and intervention programmes. Giving a keynote address at the commemoration of SADC Malaria Day at ...
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• Diamonds annual sales plummet to P9,3bn

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi WANETSHA MOSINYI Staff writer Botswana’s diamond exports totalled P9.3 billion year-on-year at the end of September against the current forecast of P13.9 billion and the 2008 total of P21.3 billion. According to Capital Securities Economic Review report released last Friday, this resulted in total ...
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• Efficient procurement leads to efficient implementation – Matambo

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi EPHRAIM KEORENG Staff Writer Procurement is a critical function in leading organisations. In an address to a Commonwealth Conference on Procurement in Gaborone yesterday, the Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Kenneth Matambo said governments and companies are increasingly emphasising the ...
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• Engen Volumes Increase Despite Oil Prices Rise

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi Staff Writer Engen Botswana volumes have increased despite the upturn in international oil prices, which has seen local fuel pump prices going up. The company published first half-year results to September 2009, reporting a 17.3 percent increase in Earnings Per Share to P0.26. Though volumes ...
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• Border post workers need to protect Botswana`s image

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 10 November, 2009 LOBATSE – Workers at border posts have been implored to serve customers diligently in order to maintain Botswana’s positive image to the outside world. Addressing Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) employees at Ramatlabama and Pioneer Gate border posts, finance and ...
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• Boreholes Rescue Makgadikgadi Pans Wildlife

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe Staff writer The provision of 12 boreholes and artificial watering pans for the wildlife at a national park in the vast Makgadikgadi Pans is expected to improve the quality of wildlife and tourism activities in the area. Last year the Kalahari Conservation Society (KCS), ...
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• Choppies faces collapse as armed robberies cripple their operations

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Sunday Standard by Sunday Standard Reporter 09.11.2009 1:44:32 A The management of local supermarket chain Choppies has revealed that they might face collapse if the spate of armed robberies that have been targeted at their countrywide operations are not stemmed with immediate effect. Speaking to The ...
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• Police operation nubs 53

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 10 November, 2009 SELEBI PHIKWE – A total of 53 offenders were nabbed and charged during a two-day police operation dubbed Defrost Two in Selebi Phikwe. The Selebi Phikwe Police combined forces with other government departments such as Botswana Defence Force, Bye Law, Labour officers, Immigration ...
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• Water Galore For The Bushmen In The CKGR?

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe Staff Writer Who needs to ferry tanks of water in trucks now when the wilderness is alive with boreholes of free flowing water? The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) may not need to load trucks with water tanks now after 10 boreholes inside the wilderness were ...
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• Diamond industry offers opportunities – Tombale-bizz

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: BOPA 10 November, 2009 GABORONE – Entrepreneurs have been called to take advantage of unlimited investment opportunities available in the diamond industry brought by beneficiation and expansion of Jwaneng Mine. Speaking during the Global Expo business forum at the Pavillion last week, the Coordinator of ...
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• Trade Official Tips SMMEs On Productivity Systems

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi Baboki Kayawe Staff Writer A senior government official has urged Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMME) to build productivity systems into their management so that they can compete internationally. Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Bonniface Mphetlhe told SMMEs ...
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• Mailbox Monday

  
  Suko's Notebook — Authority: 112
  When I received a package from Botswana today, practically covered with colorful stamps, I knew I had to do Mailbox Monday . Every week Marcia from The Printed Page hosts Mailbox Monday . Ive never done this meme before, although Ive often commented on others Mailbox Monday posts. The book from Botswana is ...
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• Khama Meets Obama

  
  Palapye.com News Blog — Authority: 148
  source: Mmegi PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello, everybody. I just want to welcome President Khama to the Oval Office and to make a brief statement about Botswana and its relationship to the United States. Although Botswana is not a large country, it is truly one of the extraordinary success stories in Africa. Since the ...
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