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  • Bray border post to get electricity 25 Nov 2009 06:56 GMT
    ... and development planning assistant minister has said electricity connection at the Bray border post will ... Mr Charles Tibone told Parliament Monday that Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS), which is responsible for ... quotation for the work from the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC). However, the actual implementation of the ...

  • Aviva abandons Mid West power project 24 Nov 2009 00:17 GMT
    ... walked away from its $1 billion Coolimba coal-to-power project in the Mid-West. Aviva said it was ... to place its Mmamantswe coal-to-power project in Botswana on care and maintenance, flagged it would write ... Synergy overlooked the project as a future electricity supplier. Aviva's last-ditch appeal to the region's ...

  • BPC Starts Installing Smart Meters 24 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) has begun installing smart meters ... the latest initiative to steady the country's energy supply-demand imbalance. The gadgets are capable of remotely ...

  • Sarpcco get morale booster 24 Nov 2009 22:45 GMT
    ... of fellow Southern African countries — Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, ... Supermarkets, Kingdom Bank and Prime and Standby Power Supplies. These companies were joined in supporting the ... and toiletries worth US$1 500. A local electrical engineering company, Prime and Standby Power Supplies, ...

  • World Bank scolds Botswana's less robust investment in electricity 22 Nov 2009 20:13 GMT
    ... World Bank scolds Botswana’s less robust investment in electricity Botswana government ... peers when it comes to investment in power. A recent report on Africa’s infrastructure by ... leave Botswana under an electricity deficit. CIC Energy, the developers of Mmamabula project, is currently waiting ...

  • Zim, Botswana power deal to ease electricity shortages 22 Nov 2009 20:13 GMT
    ... Zim, Botswana power deal to ease electricity shortages A power ... meeting last month between Zimbabwe and Botswana’s energy ministers resolved that the revival of the Bulawayo ...

  • Botswana Gets P1.2 Billion World Bank Loan 19 Nov 2009 10:13 GMT
    ... The World Bank has loaned Government of Botswana US$186 million (P1.2 billion) for its Integrated Transport ... links of Mmamabula-Ellisras for the transportation of coal from the proposed Mmamabula Power project to South Africa; Mosetse-Kazungula, which links the ...

  • Homeland Energy raises money for South Africa coal development 19 Nov 2009 19:17 GMT
    ... , which has coal operations in South Africa, announced Nov. 18 ... Under the terms of this agreement, Homeland Energy will be required to invest a further 70 ... of Mpumalanga and Kwa-Zulu Natal, and in Botswana." As of Nov. 18, 1 South African ...

  • Rendered powerless by Eskom 19 Nov 2009 06:15 GMT
    ... benefit of hindsight, the introduction of independent power producers (IPPs) in SA should not have ... to put IPPs on the back burner. Energy group CIC Energy, developers of a coal-fired station ... developers of a coal-fired station in Mmamabula, Botswana, has been pursuing Eskom for a power ...

  • Africa contributes less to global warming official 19 Nov 2009 06:41 GMT
    ... for complacency. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) statistics report of 2006, Botswana emits 0.5 per cent of the 854 ... emitting GHG. He said Botswana has one power station, and for commodities such as petrol ...

  • Julius Malema replies to Jeremy Cronin 19 Nov 2009 20:56 GMT
    ... disapprove him. Indeed COAL is used for electricity generation; SASOL uses certain Minerals to produce ... approach to Nationalisation of Mines is the Botswana model where De Beers is a 50% partnership ... violate the Constitution. We have sufficient political power and the question is whether we have the ...

  • Uranium and Gold Exploration Spending Both Down in Last Year 20 Nov 2009 06:13 GMT
    ... billion project (nearly 40% of the total). Energy projects make up 38 of the 74 ... it's found a large new uranium province Botswana. In a possible case of "nearology," Impact ... That, plus the removal of Russian-supplied recycled nuclear warheads. And that's just on the supply ...

  • Gold Exploration Spending 20 Nov 2009 11:10 GMT
    ... billion project (nearly 40% of the total). Energy projects make up 38 of the 74 ... it's found a large new uranium province Botswana. In a possible case of "nearology", Impact ... That, plus the removal of Russian-supplied recycled nuclear warheads. And that's just on the supply ...

  • State of the Nation - A Response [opinion] 20 Nov 2009 23:50 GMT
    ... unknown phenomenon. Such people will always give Botswana's general elections a free and fair verdict. ... our communities there are unemployed bricklayers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters who can benefit from occasional small ... Public utilities like Telecomms, Water Utilities, Botswana Power Cooperation, BHC and others were formed to provide ...

  • China promises concessional loans to African countries 19 Nov 2009 10:34 GMT
    ... US$825 million (about P5.5 billion) loan for 20 years to finance the Morupule B Power Station in Botswana, to be built by the China National Electric Equipment Corporation. This transaction is the largest commercial loan by a Chinese bank in ...


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