{"id":217859,"date":"2025-12-23T22:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-bnpc-and-seza-partner-to-address-productivity-challenges\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:25:32","slug":"botswana-bnpc-and-seza-partner-to-address-productivity-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-bnpc-and-seza-partner-to-address-productivity-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: BNPC and Seza Partner to Address Productivity Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Kanye \u2014 The Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) and the Special Economic Zones Authority (SEZA) have partnered to enhance productivity across SEZA-supported investor projects, starting with a diagnostic review at the Selebi Phikwe Citrus (SPC) project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The collaboration follows SEZA inspections that identified productivity gaps, particularly in skills among local workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Already, Selebi Phikwe Citrus project is bedeviled with a challenge of unskilled fruit pickers, which reportedly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512230348.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye \u2014 The Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) and the Special Economic Zones Authority (SEZA) have partnered to enhance productivity across SEZA-supported investor projects, starting with a diagnostic review at the Selebi Phikwe Citrus (SPC) project. The collaboration follows SEZA inspections that identified productivity gaps, particularly in skills among local workers. Already, Selebi Phikwe Citrus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[7325,258,256,29559,4718,2462,6977,257,6536,8110,53210,254],"class_list":["post-217859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bnpc","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-challenges","tag-news","tag-partner","tag-productivity","tag-seza","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}