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.It has a reasonable high capacity but occupies a very small footprint compared to older, conventional mills. The raw mate-
rials are sourced from BAMB and delivered in bulk to Bokomo silos. From the silos it is drawn into the cleaning section were
the principle of size and air is used to ensure all impurities is removed from the Sorghum. From the cleaning section it goes
through the DE huller machines, which as the name imply, removes the skin from the kernel .The miller can increase or de-
crease the amount of Bran or hull left on the kernel.

From there it goes to the roller mills and the hammer mill as the rollers feed the sifters where the product is processed until
the final product is derived According to Jaco Venter , as far as he knows , this is the only setup with roller mills and hammer
mills Botswana. All product in the mill and finished product is moved by air making it a very clean and hygienic process .The
packing machines draw from the finished product bins and packed in 2.5 ,5 and 10kg sizes .From there it goes into the ware-
house and distributed across Botswana.

PPADB Update on challenges,

achievements and ACT

amendments

s.Tumelo Motsumi the PPADB other countries, such as Cote D’Ivoire,
Executive Director Services their High Authority for Good Gover-
Mwelcomed the media to their nance and a visit by our counterparts
annual media briefing. The media from Liberia. The Namibians visited us
briefing is a requirement in accordance for the second time, the first being at a
to Section 87 (b) of the PPAD Act that time when they setup the institutional
seeks to promote the principle of and legal framework for their procure-
transparency for the institution. It is ment system and this year they came
on that note she gave a breakdown of to benchmark on operations. All this is
what had happened from the last media testament of the amount of work put
briefing. in place by PPADB to improve the pro-
curement landscape in the country.” She
“A lot has happened since our last media said.
briefing. PPADB has since been award- PPADB continues to maintain a Price
ed and handed the Chartered Institute Guide which is regularly updated and
of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) Cor- maintained on an annual basis and
porate Excellence Certificate. Botswa- is published on the PPADB website -
na through PPADB was also one of the www.ppadb.co.bw. It was developed by
few countries chosen by the United PPADB in order to address the concerns
States Training and Development Agen- by the Board that Government is paying
cy (USTDA) to pilot the Life Cycle Cost relatively higher prices for goods and
Analysis training module. We also have services compared to the private sector
had benchmarking visits to PPADB from or the market.
Ms. Tumelo Motsumi In terms of registration, PPADB board as

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