Our Services
SPEDU is a Government agency in Botswana established to drive sustainable economic development in the Selebi-Phikwe region. It focuses on attracting investment, supporting businesses, and creating employment opportunities.
Our Focal Areas
From vision to reality discover how SPEDU has helped investors turn bold ideas into thriving businesses. These stories showcase the impact of strategic support, fiscal incentives, and a resilient local ecosystem.
Infrastructure Development
SPEDU offers significant opportunities in infrastructure development and real estate, driven by its strategic position as a catalyst for economic growth in the Selebi-Phikwe region. The organisation’s mandate to stimulate investment provides a strong foundation for developing modern industrial parks, commercial properties, and mixed-use facilities that attract both local and international investors.
With increasing demand for high-quality infrastructure to support manufacturing, logistics, and service-oriented industries, SPEDU is well-positioned to facilitate large-scale property development initiatives. These opportunities extend to the expansion of essential services—such as transportation networks, utilities, and digital infrastructure—which further enhance the region’s appeal as an emerging hub for sustainable urban and industrial growth.
Agribusiness
The SPEDU region is traversed by the Motloutse, Lotsane, Thune, Limpopo and Shashe Rivers and is home to Dikgatlhong, Letsibogo, Lotsane and Thune Dams which have potential for irrigating designated land for agricultural use. Additionally the region has very great potential underground water aquifers which can be exploited.
SPEDU Subsectors in Agriculture:
- Horticulture (Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers, Ornamentals and Landscaping)
- Cereal, legumes and Oils Crops under Irrigation (Maize, Beans, Groundnuts, Jugo Beans)
- Small stock production (Goats and Sheep)
- Poultry Production (Broiler, Layers, Guinea fowls and other domesticated birds)
- Piggery Production
- Dairy Production
- Aquaculture
- Rabbit Production and,
- Beef Production.
Manufacturing
Investors are invited to explore the following high-potential manufacturing sub-sectors:
- Agro-Chemicals: Leverage agricultural activity in the region to produce fertilizers and pesticides locally.
- Pharmaceuticals: Address regional demand for affordable and accessible medical products.
- Metal Beneficiation: Add value to locally available metals through refining and fabrication.
- Food Processing: Capitalize on agro-production to process and package food products.
- Plastic Beneficiation: Convert raw plastics into finished or semi-finished products.
- Packaging Industries: Meet the increasing need for modern and eco-friendly packaging solutions.
- ICT and Electronics Manufacturing: Tap into digital transformation by assembling or manufacturing ICT hardware.
Tourism and Services
With an envisioned growth to the economy by both the manufacturing industry, agriculture sector as well as infrastructure development in the region, there is a need for services to be provided as key elements that contributes to a unique destination. The Tourism and Services function is therefore necessary to improve quality of life. SPEDU region is endowed with unique man-made and natural features that allows for non-traditional tourism and services development that will yield return on investment with gains from the economy as the sector strengthens linkages and promote value chains. Opportunities include some of the following:
- Accommodation/ Hospitality in the entire region
- MICE initiatives in Selebi Phikwe,
- Adventure Tourism around dams, Tswapong hills, Lepokole and Mapanda Heritage sites;
- Tour Operators,
- Cultural and Heritage Tourism,
- Dam Tourism (Letsibogo, Dikgatlhong,Lotsane, Thune Dams)
- Agro-Tourism,
- Training Institutions (Available land for civic land),
- Transport and Logistics sector,
- Banking sector,
- Hospitals (Land bank),
- Events management,
- Aviation (Underutilization of Selebi Phikwe Airport).