02 May 2018

DTC Botswana strives to produce the highest possible best with what they have in their teams.

Speaking during the 2017 DTCB learnership graduation ceremony recently, the company’s  senior operations manager, Mr Joseph Itlhobogeng  said  part of what they believed to be the successful delivery of the organisation’s journey was having a capable and motivated workforce.

“What we get no matter small it is, we will mould it and make it to be a world class article,” he said.

Mr Itlhobogeng said DTCB introduced the learnership programme in order to develop skills for the market for the benefit of the organisation.

He further said a lot of people they started with were catching up in terms of age and there was need to get new people into the working stream especially the sorting and valuing.

“There is need for us to inject new thinking as most of these graduates went to school through the new era of technology,” he said.

For his part, DTCB Diamond Academy principal, Mr Manewe Moses said as DTCB they were always striving to improve and be the best in what they did, hence the introduction of the Diamond Academy.

Mr Manewe further said the graduates were recruited using an external agency and went through all recruitment processes before being inducted into the organisation.

“We then took them through some intensive industry based training from rock to ring. I think they are now well trained and are going to do a great job going forward,” he said.

DTCB managing director Mr Tabake Kobedi encouraged graduates to focus on their dreams and to keep on asking themselves their childhood question of what they wanted to be when they grow up.

“In whatever you do, understand that you have a dream and you can make it come true, never stop asking yourself this, ‘what do I want to be when I grow up’,” he said.

He said the question would guide one in terms of career and doing something they liked as they would not regret anything and would push one to achieving it.

Talking about their learning experiences, one of the graduates ,Mr Goabaone Matlhware said the six months which was later shortened to four months course was a bumpy and exciting road but they finally made it.

“Some of us were doubting we were going to manage to compress the six month work load to four months, but here we are, we have managed,” he said.

He continued to say the diamond industry was about doing things faster ,better and cheaper, adding that DTCB provided one with that mind that looked for continuous development.

“My time and stay in the academy is a testimony that we are not in this by favor but by merit,” he said. ENDS