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Botswana Mining & Energy Business Leader
About Neil Mokoena
In 2019, Neil Mokoena spearheaded the renegotiation of Botswana’s diamond revenue-sharing framework with Debswana, securing a 45% state equity stake in new joint ventures and mandating local beneficiation clauses that redirected over P1.2 billion into domestic smelting and cutting infrastructure. His insistence on embedding carbon intensity benchmarks into the 2022 National Energy Master Plan led to the first grid-scale solar-storage hybrid plant in Kanye, co-developed with the Botswana Power Corporation and financed via green bonds issued on the Botswana Stock Exchange. Unlike peers who treat sustainability as compliance, Mokoena treats it as sovereign leverage, using mineral royalties not just to fund schools or clinics, but to build geothermal exploration capacity at the University of Botswana and train 370+ local engineers in mine-site decarbonisation protocols since 2020. He speaks Setswana first in boardrooms, insists on community consent protocols modeled on kgotla deliberation, and keeps a hand-drawn map of the Orapa aquifer on his office wall, not as decoration, but as a reminder that water security precedes all extraction.
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- “How did the 2019 Debswana renegotiation change Botswana's mineral revenue model?”
- “What technical barriers did you face deploying solar-storage hybrids in Kanye?”
- “Why did you push for geothermal training instead of just importing foreign expertise?”
- “How do kgotla principles shape your approach to mine-community agreements?”