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BusinessWeek is informed that the authority expects to present a draft licence to its board soon, a key step in kicking off the lottery eagerly awaited by Batswana.Ithuba Botswana, a subsidiary of a well-known pan-African group Ithuba Holdings, was...

The Finance ministry this week tabled legislative changes that will allow deferred pensioners to cash in their benefits to pay for loan and mortgage defaults as well as medical bills associated with terminal illnesses.The changes to the Retirement...

The facility will enable BVI to diversify its product offering from Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccines to other animal solutions, penetrate new markets and improve its production, warehousing and distribution capacities.The blending and filling...

Briefing Parliament recently, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Peggy Serame said the last inspection was done at the beginning of August before the statutory instrument came into effect. “CCA carries out price surveys and inspections...

Existing self-financed youth businesses with evidence of proper financial records and attractive prospects for expansion and job creation will also be prioritised. When opening calls for funding youth initiatives, the ministry has said the threshold...

Known as Ikaegeng XTL, the ambitious project aims to tap into billions of tonnes of coal lying untapped in the country, with technology applied to produce various petroleum products for domestic use. Previous estimates indicated that the project...

Different speakers at the just-ended Botswana-South Africa Business Forum expressed the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN) graduates are not utilised enough to improve the agricultural sector.Woolworths country manager,...

The leather park has been in the pipeline since 2014 with little progress, a fact that has frustrated Lobatse authorities and residents. In 2020, the Local Enterprise Authority (LEA) had said it completed the evaluation of the project and was...

Speaking at the Botswana-SA two-day business forum on Wednesday, Pandor said SA remains Botswana’s number one source of imports as South African exports to Botswana reached R64.4 billion (P48.6bn) last year."Our trade relations in recent years have...

Several industries also use portable cabins to cater to their commercial expansion requirements without daily interruptions. The porta cabins can be customised according to the needs, size, colour, and designs of the customer.Entrepreneur, Phillip...

Following the COVID-19 slump and restrictions that nearly collapsed the tourism sector, group chair, Kabelo Binns said not only had OWS been able to return nearly all workers to full pay but had awarded them a small raise to help cushion them against...

Speaking during training aimed at advancing knowledge and understanding of the SDGs amongst the media recently, Ministry of Finance Chief Economist Patrick Seitiso said the outbreak of COVID-19 affected their performance."We started well but the...

The trust has so far successfully sponsored about seven students to further their students, built houses for the less privileged, augmented the elderly's old-age pension, connected taps for homes within the village, and created employment.The...

Serial entrepreneur, Dorah Olatoyinbo is one of the hardworking women making strides in the demanding industry that requires passion and motivation.Starting her journey in 2009 together with her husband, Olatoyinbo wanted to be one of the major...

The trial used excess field camp electricity to run crypto mining units to produce Bitcoin. Officials said this had established proof of concept and built in-house technical expertise.Commenting on the company’s operations for the quarter ended...