"We don’t have the capabilities and capacity to do what the modern world requires. We don’t have the capacity to struc…"

"We need to build it. We need to retrain and revitalise the government civil service. We’ve never experienced the type…"

"The second priority is that we need to modernise, revitalise and restructure our state-owned enterprises. In a small …"

"If it’s not efficient, if its sub-optimised, if governance is not strong, if you don’t have enough competent CEOs, th…"

"All of these SOEs are very much scalable, they can become continental players… We have not really had a forecast on s…"

"We have us a good deal and we trust that it will carry us into the future. To the people of Botswana, this agreement …"

"With an eye to the future, Gaolathe says the success of the deal will be dependent on skills and technology transfer."

"The generation before had good relations with De Beers; the current generation believes maybe that the type of relati…"

"We believe there’s more that can be done. When you look at diamond production in Botswana, a lot of technology emanat…"

"You find we’re allowing politics to a large extent not to decide what makes sense in economics. We are galvanising ou…"