Nkate defends Brand Botswana logo

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

The Chief Executive Officer of the Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority (BEDIA), Jacob Nkate, has dismissed claims that the new Brand Botswana logo might have been plagiarised from South Africa's Mpumalanga Province.

Both logos feature the rays of the sun. Dismissing the innuendo, Nkate intimated that no one had exclusive use of the sun.

Speaking at the handing over ceremony of the Botswana Brand Trademark Certificate by the Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property in Gaborone yesterday, Nkate said the fact of the matter was that "the sun is the sun".

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Nkate defends Brand Botswana logo

The Chief Executive Officer of the Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority (BEDIA), Jacob Nkate, has dismissed claims that the new Brand Botswana logo might have been plagiarised from South Africa's Mpumalanga Province.

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