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Ms. Sethebe Manake
Founder and CEO
Vintage Properties
Anthony Masunga
BTC Managing Director
Tuelo Botlhole
Head of PPC Botswana that burning desire for community
Business unit enterprises and to look into their
communities and inspire others. To
bring brother values to the corporate
the early eighties by the Botswana in the essence of the culture of
Development Corporation, Botswana. “Let’s buy products made
BOCEM, now known as PPC was
established to stimulate industrial in Botswana. If we don’t support our
own who is going to support them?”
PC was host to the inaugural development in Botswana through
edition of Buy Botswana the manufacturing and distribution PPC has a Local Enterprise
Pvirtual Conference. This of cement. The company has Development program which provides
event was a success considering the celebrated its 20 year anniversary support to smaller businesses and
viewership numbers which were this year in Botswana. community businesses.
over five thousand views on the PPC
Home Facebook page. In attendance “PPC operations have employed SMMEs that have been boosted by
notably was the Botswana 150 Batswana so when we talk PPC are Molepolole based community
Telecommunications Managing about the dependency ratio of dress makers called How To Us who
Director, Anthony Masunga, who 1: 5, you can see PPC is directly benefited a fully built warehouse
gave an encouraging presentation responsible for over 1500 and Kopong based hardware store
for entrepreneurs in Botswana. households. It’s a truly Botswana called Rapha Shamma has also been
company,” Tuelo explained.
receiving some operation aid from
Tuelo Botlhole, the Head of PPC the cement manufacturers which has
Botswana Business unit gave the In terms of empowering local boosted the establishment’s sales.
keynote address and welcomed companies and holding up their
the virtual attendees, presenters motto , ‘our people should He stated that this initiative has
and the media representatives experience a better life’ PPC from been undertaken with a deep
present at Travel Lodge hotel. The their operations in Gaborone uses understanding by the company that
theme for the event was, ‘building local trucks, locally registered the future of our economy is in the
together, unlocking community companies be it sand stone or hands of our people.
enterprises.’ He gave a brief other products. Post Lockdown early this year the
introduction of what PPC is and Tuelo urged other big corporates over-reliance on South Africa for raw
what they stand for. Founded in to play a key role in igniting materials put PPC under pressure
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