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On paper, the equation appears simple. Pension funds as at October 2025 held more than P166 billion in funds while government has, since 2017-18, been running multi-billion Pula budget deficits.One side is looking at stable returns for members and...

Movement of all cloven-hoofed animals is prohibited except within Ngamiland, Okavango and Chobe and all permits revoked with immediate effect.Movement of fresh products from cloven-hoofed animals is suspended with immediate effect and exports of such...

Preliminary Bank of Botswana (BoB) figures released recently show that between January and June 2025, non-interest income earned by the country’s commercial banks averaged P352.8, before rising to an average of P548.1 million between July and...

Without meaningful restrictions on spending, government faces an elevated risk of a debt trap over the short to medium term, said technocrats writing in the Budget Strategy Paper released last week.The officials noted that the country’s fiscal...

The insights are contained in the Budget Strategy Paper released this week. The annual research and estimates document is usually released in September and is a blueprint of the policies, numbers, and priorities underpinning the next budget.This...

Prior to the January 30 auction the highest amount ever sought by the central bank in its monthly forays into the capital market was P4.6 billion in January 2025.Under government’s P55 billion domestic note issuance programme, the BoB floats bonds...

Preliminary Bank of Botswana (BoB) figures released recently show that between January and June 2025, non-interest income earned by the country’s commercial banks averaged P352.8 million, before rising to an average of P548.1 million between July...

The latest data from Statistics Botswana indicates that in the 12 months to December 2025, the average prices of milk and related products such as cheese were up 8.8 percent, meat 8.5 percent, fish 9.3 percent and hot beverages such as coffee, tea...

The meeting is part of a consultative process initiated after the BPC requested an average 46% increase in tariffs from April 2026, with the adjustment for households proposed for 68%.The BPC’s reasons for the request include recurring financial...

Standard Chartered, the country’s oldest bank, expects to exit the country in the next 12 to 15 months. As Mmegi reported earlier this week, while the bank initially sought bidders for its Wealth and Retail Business unit, suitors said they...

Pula Steel has emerged from an extensive legal wrangle after the Court of Appeal approved the P18.3 million sale of the pioneering steel plant to Sherashiya Pty Ltd last March. Prior to that, operations at the Selebi Phikwe-based plant had been...

The DCI rose by 12.2% in 2024, putting on more than P6 billion and again swimming against the three percent contraction in the economy that year.Available figures show that in 2025, the DCI began the year in fits and starts, before picking up from...

The budget has incurred rolling deficits since the 2017-2018 financial year, largely as a result of declining mineral revenues and stubbornly high spending. The COVID-19 pandemic worsened the situation, forcing government to dig deep into its...

In the midst of the global turmoil around the economy, politics and powerplays, it’s almost easy to forget the optimism with which countries around the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in 2015, under the banner of the United...

Tsodilo wholly owns the Gcwihaba Metals Project in the north-west of the country where the discoveries were made.In a statement to the Toronto Stock Exchange where Tsodilo is listed, the company said recent results from a drilling programme had...