10 Feb 2021

Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, Ms Philda Kereng says her ministry, in collaboration with the Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services, have identified three sites in the Moremi Game Reserve and two concessions in the Okavango Delta for allocation to citizens and citizen owned companies and consortia. She said Tawana Land Board was still in the process of verification of the sites to confirm their readiness for allocation.

She said the concessions and identified sites would be advertised through an open tender targeting citizens and 100 per cent citizen owned companies and consortia.

Ms Kereng said the Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services was in the process of completing management and operational guidelines for the identified sites which would depict the criteria or formula to be followed in allocating the concessions following a public tender.

Member of Parliament for Ngami, Mr Caterpillar Hikuama had asked the minister to give an update about the five reserved concessions in the Okavango Delta to be allocated to 100 per cent citizen owned companies, consortia and joint venture partnerships as stated in the 2020 State-of-the-Nation Address. He also wanted the minister to explain and state the five concessions and the criteria or formula that would be followed in allocating the concessions. ends