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Issue 27
Year 5
2020 : A year that May/June

2020
could have been

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Botswana was recently under lockdown from the 2nd of April 2020 to Mid-
May when business started to jumpstart towards the new normal.Most Pubishing Company : Info Age Holdings
businesses succumbed to this trying time and many are still clinging on Editorial : Zeph Kajevhu
for their existence. It is on that note we have featured topics around the : Reason Itumetse
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of medicine. Marketing & Advertising : Gerald Mazikana An eye opening tour of what goes
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This year could have been so much more. A lot of events got cancelled such
as the beloved Botswana Resource sector Conference and the 2nd edition
of the Engineers Forum which had been billed for later this month.So much Contributors
into making cement at Botswana’s
has been put to a halt .To those who can adjust and adapt digitalisation is
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