Botswana Mining Review Comprehensive Coverage of the Progress and Achievements in the Mining Sector

A Mining Centre (MC) has been set up by Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) in an attempt to improve appropriate skills to ensure easy industrial absorption for graduate mining students and also to provide services to the local mining sector. The goal of the BIUST MC is …

Organisers of the continent’s biggest mining jamboree – African Mining Indaba have announced postponement of the event, slated for early next year. Simon Ford, Portfolio Director at Investing in African Mining Indaba the decision has been propelled by the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. “We are sorry to announce the 2021 edition …

Condition monitoring specialists, WearCheck, recently invested several million Rand in four brand new laboratory instruments for their flourishing transformer division laboratories in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. WearCheck managing director Neil Robinson says the company’s investment in the equipment has relieved some of the current sample volume pressure and reduced …

World Bank Botswana’s representative Guido Rurangwa, has stated that Botswana had approached the institution and negotiations were underway on the request for budgetary support. “The government and the World Bank are currently discussing details of the support, including the amount,” Rurangwa said in an emailed response. Botswana has approached the …

Finance Minister Thapelo Matsheka predicts that Botswana’s economy will recover and expand by 7.7 per cent in 2021 from the 8.9 per cent contraction expected this year, on the back of improved sentiment in the global diamond industry He said this during a recent World Bank online conference. Botswana’s economy …