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The Botswana Mining Workers Union (BMWU) has weighed in on a matter in which the liquidator of BCL, Sivalutchmee Moodliar, has warned current and former

Citing resource control, the President is joining with a Belgian start-up diamond trader to challenge the De Beers empire, After 54 years in mining diamonds and 10 years in trading them, Botswana is moving downstream in the business by taking a 24% stake in Belgiums HB Antwerp, a diamond trading, cutting and polishing start-up company.

Botswana's mining union has issued a stark warning over the government's purchase of a 24 per cent stake in the Belgian manufacturer HB Antwerp announced last

Mowana Copper Mine in Dukwi will finally pay its former employees a total amount of P23, 789, 984.00 end of this month. For over three years Mowana Copper Mine has been under judicial management. Updating members, Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) Executive Secretary Kitso Phiri this week said the High Court issued an order for the implementation of the compromise scheme of December 9, 2021 and this was to be done within 30 days after court order.

The government is increasing efforts to diversify Botswana's economy, investing in science, tech and entrepreneurship to lessen a dependency on diamond mining.

Botswana plans to diversify its economy, investing in science, tech and entrepreneurship to lessen a dependency on diamond mining.

Botswana bets on tech.

Instead, it is banking on the minds of its citizens who have benefited from a free education, say government officials. "We need to diversify our economy...the fourth industrial revolution needs people in the digital world and our natural resources are finite," said Douglas Letsholathebe, minister of tertiary education, research, science and technology.

Botswana has begun investing in the idea of a

Botswana to diversify from mining to tech as its people invest in innovations, but funding for projects remains a challenge.