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“Construction is not specially endowed for males alone, and I am the exact proof that women can break ground in the built in industry,” she tells BusinessMonitor. Mophato is the brains behind construction outfit, Property Plug, which has been...

BERA, which calculates fuel prices and recommends adjustments to the Ministry of Minerals and Energy, began a series of retail pump price cuts last year, stretching into this year, which helped ease inflation off the 14-year highs seen last...

The loan will help the BDC support local investment in green technologies and industries as well as other funding needs in key sectors of the economy.BDC officials said the funding would enhance the organisation’s ability to stimulate local...

They say when America sneezes, the whole world catches a cold. Increasingly these days, there are efforts by many countries to ensure that the US’ cold remains within its borders. The stranglehold of the dollar on international trade is facing a...

Born with an ear for good music and a heart that leaps at the thought of attending an event, Chinhengo says his dream and passion was always to make other people happy through his love for music and sense of creativity.This flare would later lead him...

For many years, the state-owned national flag carrier has been doing business manually by carrying out its operations through a conventional call centre booking portal.Speaking at the launch, Air Botswana general manager, Magdeline Mookodi said the...

BTCL shares trade under an ownership restriction policy imposed by the government as a condition of the 2016 listing. The restriction means only Batswana can own the shares, an effort by government to empower citizens.Since listing in 2016 as part of...

Having started off as descendants of pastoral farmers in their infancy, Lydia Pansiri and Nkobi Pansiri are the masterminds behind the recently opened multi-purpose complex in the remote area of Xuxwakam. Their company, Xuxwakam Butchery and...

The central bank raised interest rates three times last year, by a collective 151 basis points as it fought soaring inflation which peaked at 14-year highs in August. However, since then, inflation has been falling – largely due to dissipating...

The advice to establish the authority came through a draft ownership policy that will be presented to Cabinet, after a series of stakeholder engagements between various government research arms.The new State Owned Entity’s ownership policy, which...

This was revealed at the Women in Built Environment conference held last week. The gathering brought together female titans of industry with expertise in finance, law and construction.The main goal of the conference was to infuse innovation and...

Data from Statistics Botswana’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) released last week, show that vegetables top the list of goods and services with the highest percentage change on a 12-month basis running from July last year to the same month this year....

Dipogiso is the curator and corporate leader of Labour Policy Experts Botswana, a company that offers specialised consultancy on labour policy matters and human resource policy development.Speaking to Monitor Business last week, Dipogiso said he has...

The reason for this ban, as communicated by government then, was to improve the local farming supply chains and to drive the country towards food self-reliance while protecting the embryonic agricultural sector from competition.The decision to...

The last time copper earnings got close to reaching the exports seen in the first three months of this year, was in the second quarter of 2015 when sales stood at P1.2 billion.That period marked the beginning of a global copper price meltdown that...