Botswana: Newly Sparked Interest in Mining Sector

press release

Botswana's mining industry has begun its long recovery process after the recession.

The global economic crisis lead to a number of mine closures and production slowdown; now with production resuming and new projects in the pipeline, a new interest is being sparked in the industry. T

he AK6 Mine has been flagged as Botswana's next new significant diamond mine. The Mining in Botswana Conference due to start on 18 October this year will attract top level executives from Southern Africa, they will be meeting to discuss opportunities in Botswana as well as explore best mining practices within the Southern African region.

It attendance Kgomotso Abi (Director of Mines) of the Department of Mines Botswana will welcome attendees to the conference and touch on pertinent topics such as mining laws and regulations governing mining in Botswana. Along side Abi, James Brook from African Diamonds – England and Botswana will showcase the AK6 Diamond mine and its phased development.

Mining in Botswana is scheduled to take place on 18 – 20 October in Gaborone and will attract delegates from in and around Botswana. For more information visit www.iir.co.za/mininginbotswana.


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  • Professor Alain Dipoko, Washington DC, USA.
    Aug 31 2010, 13:21

    A sparked interest in mining at the expense of the Barsawa. A bunch of rustic and self centerded leaders who have burried their heads in the sand and forgotten the social contract that exits between them and the ruled.

    Of what use is it for leaders to suffer the disadvantged in society? Acess to water is a fundamental human right that is non-negotiable. That a country's leaders rule with absolute disdain with regards to human dignity while preoccupying themselves in endemic corruption and graft defies common sense.

    The previous leaders of Botswana have ruled with common sense and compassion but this group of goons from the country's armed forces have a completely different idea of what governance is all about. Full of college drop outs , sociaetal misfits and bachelors with strange sexual orientations, the country is truly a banana republic. Idi amin was not that cruel compared to Khama who thinks as a village chief he is above all esle in that HIv/Aids infested country.

    Khama must allow the Barsawa get water in the Game Reserve. He is not and should not play the role of God. These are some of the reasons God has punished Botswana with the highest incidence of HIv/Aids in the world.

  • motswanatswana
    Sep 1 2010, 02:23

    you are the only misfit in africa. intellectuals like you (if indeed you are a professor) are never in touch with the ordinary people. The president was democratically elected against your kind unless you advocate for any other system to choose a president say it. Your original country of birth (if you are in DC)invested money educating you only for you to come back and spit on them. all of a sudden you are better. indeed i qoute Mr Skelemani we they are accomulate these degrees to become stupid again. the culture of Basarwa is to be normards and follow the migration of wild animals, do the research mr professor. They dont dig wells, we are preserving a culture arent we Mr professor. for any commercial benefit they will follow laws of Botswana just like any Motswana. Your hate for Botswana clouds your thinking you must have been a refugee here, what happened? you need help. which country are you from. Dont be embarrased and since god punished us with AIDS, i will tell you what god punished your original country with.

  • Professor Alain Dipoko, Washington DC, USA.
    Sep 2 2010, 13:02

    THE CULTURE OF THE BARSAWA IS NOT NORMADIC. LEARN YOUR HISTORY.

    An apologist for the Khama debauchery is trying to twist facts by emphatically sounding a moron on the lifestyle of the Barsawa. Barsawa have been around the confines of the Kalahari Desert for thousands of years. Your kind and Khama met them there. Normads would normally follow the animals to the Seregenti as the normal animal migration annually goes. But those gentle people do not go beyond their ancestral land which is teeming with Diamonds.

    The government of Botswana is exploiting the diamonds of the Kalahari Game Reserve to buy anti-retroviral drugs to stabilize a gay run government at the expense of the Barsawa.This can and will never work. Botswana should host a Pride event for the good of the leaders.

    Khama is from that backward village called Serowe. He is currently based in Gaborone like the rest of Batswana yet all of you have the right to water from where you come from and where you currently live. Are you normads? The Barsawa like the rest of Batswana have the right to move anywhere in the Kalahari Game Reserve and yet be able to tap water for their daaily use.

    You sound as an idiot. I suspect you are a homosexual like most memebrs of Khama's government. Leaders who refuse to marry and indulge in sodomy are upto no good.

    The Barsawa must have access to water.

  • motswanatswana
    Sep 3 2010, 03:35

    stupid professor you have never been to southern Africa. where are you from dont be embarrased. Me a homo, you gotta be kidding not evena chance, now dont twist and turn and accuse me of being things i am not. now let me teach you a little bit of history for you are fighting for something that surely you dont know anything about. Basarwa are traditionally hunters and gatherers ask anyone of them thats a fact. they are indiginous to southern africa not the kalahari desert. Infact they were pushed to the desert areas when the bantu groups (Zulus,tswana sotho,shonas etc) migrated south form central africa thousands of years ago. there are rock paintings and their remains all over southern africa ask anyone who has visited this side of the continent. there is not even one well that can be traced to them. Now you dont know Batswana and i will tell you something about us we are a proud conservative society that if indeed our pres is gay and asks for our help we will help heal him. sorry sir no wells nor mining in the desert for basarwa unless they form a company and compete with the rest of Batswana. The gov tried to create settlements where they can have schools and clinics they are refusing because they are a NORMADIC people SIR. as anyone who is not a professor can imagine its difficult to help such people. even more difficult when they listen to your kind and all other people who against success of black african countries. not only are you stupid to fight for a cause you dont know anything about you are in DC and you cant google a history of people you are trying to protect. Another waste of our resources in Africa we educate you only for you to become what you are a worse fool. Thats if you are african, if not its understandable we have come to expect that.

  • motswanatswana
    Sep 3 2010, 04:55

    Khama yes is from Serowe and lives in the capital which is Gaborone. I dont know if Obama is from Washington DC another foolish comment from you. Serowe a backward village I dont what you use to measure that Backwardness maybe you are comparing it to washington DC, or are you comparing it to your home village in africa?