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The Corporate Council on Africa made the announcement in a statement this evening.The upcoming Summit is also expected to attract more than 1,000 business leaders to Gaborone, providing a unique platform for the country to position itself for trade...

Statistics from Stockbrokers Botswana indicate that in the first five months of the year, the charge was led by Standard Chartered whose share price rose 41.1% during the period, followed by Chobe Holdings, Absa, and Cresta.Standard Chartered has...

A phishing attack occurs when cyber criminals send fraudulent, but genuine looking communications that appear to come from a reputable source. In many instances, the cyber criminals also set up a website that at first glance looks like the reputable...

“A comprehensive and global process will be conducted to seek a capable and responsible buyer for Khoemacau,” a company representative said in a statement. “If it transpires, this potential change of ownership, is expected to bring significant...

The Competition and Consumer Authority is assessing Tsetseng’s bid to purchase the shopping complex and as yet, no value for the proposed transaction has been publicly disclosed.According to the Authority, Tsetseng’s shareholders are Kevin Peter...

Sharing his list of priorities as the new CEO in his first meeting with local media recently, Al Cook spoke about a plan he said Batswana would “be hearing a lot more about”.“It is about how we expand along the value chain towards retail,...

Estimates provided last week by asset management consultancy, Kgori Capital, suggest a cooling of inflation from its previous highs in the coming months. Kgori Capital investment analyst, Kitso Mokhurutshe told Monitor Business that the expected...

While it has been around for a long while, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dominating public discourse in technology globally, as the roaring success of ChatGPT and its subsequent updates have shown the world-changing potential of the computer...

Speaking at the launch of HB’s local subsidiary in late March, President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced that government had decided to take up equity in HB Antwerp and provide the firm with a portion of the Okavango Diamond Company's (ODC) rough...

Motheo joins Khoemacau as the only operating mines on the Kalahari Copperbelt, the 1,000-kilometre swathe running southwest to northeast, which is known to contain millions of tonnes of copper and silver resources, but whose heavy sands and poor...

Sandra Modise* counts herself among the lucky ones, who smelt something fishy and dropped out of the latest “investment scheme” to leave many Batswana in tears. The Ecoplexus investment scheme, now widely acknowledged as a cleverly designed...

Released last week, the survey captures the views of 180 mining executives around the world who rank jurisdictions – including regions and countries – according to policy areas which collectively determine the attractiveness of setting up and...

The Authority’s spokesperson, Gladys Ramadi, told Mmegi that the latest developments followed a preliminary investigation into the collapsed investment scheme.“It should be noted that the Authority can only investigate the civil part of the...

Units at the 600MW Morupule B and the 120MW Morupule A tripped after midnight on Sunday and the Corporation is still investigating what it suspects to have been an issue on the Phokoje-Matimba transmission line. At the time of the fault, the two...

The country’s main economic actor sold P56.6 billion in 2022, an all-time high and a boost for budget revenues which have suffered deficits that pre-date the pandemic.Debswana sells 75% of its production through the De Beers’ ecosystem and the...