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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...

Dow's message was delivered at a career expo organised by Setlogelwa Tsatsing at Bontleng Recreational Park. She acknowledged that while the nation aspires for all children to have dignified upbringings, the persistence of poverty in many...

The Metro Ring project has been described as a great leap from the use of copper as a data transmission method to fibre optic technology.Liquid Intelligent last week launched the first phase of its Metro Ring, which is short for “metropolitan city...

According to an SMME handbook developed by LEA, the lack of finance options for the different stages of the organisations’ development in Botswana is widening the finance gap in the local market.The finance gap refers to the gulf between the...

Sofa Repairs is a manufacturing company with a niche expertise in the creation of family couches and repairs of a plethora of home and office chairs. Fixing and making sofas is not novel in its nature, but it is the manner in which Boitshwarelo...

PAPSS functions as a financial framework that enables cross-border payments in African currencies, eliminating the necessity for intra-Africa trade to be contingent on US dollar foreign reserves.Presently, nine central banks have officially embraced...

The complaint was raised by several entrepreneurs at last week’s Local Manufacturing Summit held in Gaborone. The Summit provided a platform for entrepreneurs to air their grievances and to communicate their market handicaps to an array of...

It appears that light has returned to the horizons of copper markets after a bewildering price meltdown that swept many copper mines off their feet in the dusk of 2016.While it shines on the red metal, corporations have been lured into Botswana to...