Specialised Exhibitions, a division of Montgomery Group, and TRM Group, organisers of Botswana’s leading Mining, Industrial and Occupational Health and Safety Expo, Electra Mining Botswana, has announced that the 2021 show, due to take place from 14-16 September at Fairground Holdings, Gaborone, Botswana, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next edition of the show will be held in September 2023 at the same venue. “Given the Botswana COVID-19 restrictions, which includes the continued temporary prohibition of large gatherings and restrictions on local and international travel, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s Electra Mining…
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Morupule Coal Mine (MCM) has awarded a 5-year mining services contract to a joint venture between Bothakga Burrow, a local citizen owned company, and Basil Read Mining, a South African based company, for the development of an open cast coal mining operation at the MCM, Motheo project. The BR-BB (JV) mining contract was signed off in April 2021. Motheo is an expansion project established by Morupule Coal Mine to develop an open cast mine, a coal washing plant and associated infrastructure. The ultimate aim of the project is to facilitate MCM’s contribution to Botswana’s economic growth and transformation of coal…
Home of Table Mountain and Robben Island now has one more four-star national wonder on their list, Cresta Grande Cape Town. Cresta Marakanelo Limited was proud to support and celebrate its sister company Cresta Hotels, as they opened their doors to the scenic Cape Town hotel, the first time the hotel chain has operated in South Africa’s internationally renowned global tourism ‘capital’. Cresta Marakanelo Limited operates 11 hotels in Botswana and 1 hotel in Lusaka, Zambia. Sister Company Cresta Hotels, operates 5 hotels in Zimbabwe; making the Cape Town property the 6th Hotel in the Cresta Hotels portfolio. The name…
The 2021 Earth Day theme of “Restore Our Earth” examines natural processes, emerging green technologies and innovative thinking that can restore the world’s ecosystems. As the leading ecotourism company, Wilderness Safaris takes a look at our “Foodprint” and feeding people sustainably. Restoring our Earth is bigger than one solution or one country’s efforts. We must come together as a global collective to make changes, and more importantly make them quickly – from tackling single-use plastic pollution and deforestation, to extinction of species, climate change and poor air quality. Our food consumption is also taking a huge toll on our planet, and to…
Tlou Energy says it has awarded Lesedi Power Project’s Overhead Transmission Line tender to Botswana-based Zismo Engineering (Pty) Ltd. According to Tlou, tenders have been awarded to Zismo for the construction of the overhead lines and to OptiPower for construction of substations at Lesedi and Serowe. The Company added it looked forward to finalising the contracts with both groups and subsequent commencement of construction. The Lesedi project is located approximately 100 Km from the existing electricity grid in Botswana. The first stage of development will be the erection of wooden poles fitted with an overhead 66kV transmission line. Substations will be installed at…
Metso Outotec has signed a contract to deliver all of the main process technologies for Sandfire Resources’ flagship Motheo copper-silver concentrator in Botswana. The order value of approximately EUR 17 million was booked in the Minerals segment’s Q1/2021 orders received. “We are pleased to continue our strategic partnership with Sandfire Resources. We have worked with Sandfire in the past and are very grateful to be selected again for their flagship Motheo project,” said Kai Rönnberg, Vice President, Minerals Sales, Asia Pacific at Metso Outotec. “Our proven proprietary and sustainable technologies will support Sandfire with achieving their international growth and diversification strategy.” The…
Government has reached an agreement with the Liquidator to allow former employees of BCL Mine to continue occupying houses owned by the mothballed mine. Addressing Parliament recently, Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Lefoko Moagi said the employees have been given an additional one year to stay in the properties. He said government engaged the Liquidator to explore possible options to avert unintended consequences and they both agreed on a new arrangement which will allow the former employees to continue staying in the houses for a further 12 months, without imposing significant burden on government budget. “During…
After a year of disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 36 000 people infected, over 500 lives lost, and thousands of families affected in countless ways, the path to recovery for Botswana can now begin with the arrival of a vaccine for COVID-19. The delivery of the first 33 600 doses of the AstraZeneca South Korea COVID-19 Vaccine licensed to SKBioscience in Korea, is part of the largest, most complex global roll-out of vaccines in history through the COVAX Facility which plans to deliver at least 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of this…
Air Botswana’s General Manager- Agnes Khunwana has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA). The appointment was made during the ongoing AASA Business Meeting held on the 17th March 2021. “I am honoured to have been appointed to this role. It re-emphasises the recognised and critical role that Air Botswana plays in the regional airline industry, and we continue to be identified as visionaries and can add value to the strategic management of the industry. This is also a growth opportunity as it expands my focus to issues pertinent to Africa and especially the Southern…
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced the arrival at London’s Heathrow Airport of the first traveler using the IATA Travel Pass app to manage their travel health credentials. “The successful implementation of IATA Travel Pass in this trial with Singapore Airlines passengers demonstrates that technology can securely, conveniently and efficiently help travelers and governments to manage travel health credentials. The significance of this to re-starting international aviation cannot be overstated,” said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO. de Juniac. added today’s success is a big win for many parties. It gives travelers a one-stop-shop to help…