Botswana: Botswana Investment and Trade Center (BITC) CEO Keletsositse Olebile continues with his whirlwind tour of Botswana Investment and Trade Center facilitated companies around the country.
The visits are part of the Botswana Investment and Trade Center after-care programme aimed at engaging with Botswana Investment and Trade Center assistance on their operations, their challenges, future plans and how they can be further assisted.
Yesterday, Olebile visited Makoro Group in Palapye, where he reiterated Botswana Investment and Trade Center’s commitment to continue to facilitate and assist companies that have set up in Botswana. “We are currently checking on our clients to get the much needed feedback and also to note any issues and challenges you might need us to assist with’, said Olebile.
Makoro Group MD Rudy Schuhardt thanked the Botswana Investment and Trade Center team for the visit and appreciated that they have always been assisted as best they could by Botswana Investment and Trade Center .
He noted a few challenges that they face, amongst them the slow turnaround for issuing of permits that happens sometimes as well as the shortage of highly skilled technical people for their various operations.
He added that as they expand operations, they require a highly skilled technical workforce, which is in short supply in the country, noting that they are then forced to look elsewhere outside of the country while they develop local skills.
Makoro Group, Dorcus Maoeng added that they have, however aligned with the likes of BIUST and the Palapye Technical College to address the challenge and develop technical skills locally. Makoro Group has been in operation for many years and runs the Makoro Brick and Makoro Tank brands.
The company currently employs just over 350 people and continues to expand, creating prospects for more employment.