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Homegrown funeral services giant, FSG Limited, is aiming to expand further beyond the country’s borders in search of growth.FSG Group Managing Director, Fergus Ferguson, says Zambia is one destination the group wants to achieve success in. This...

With diamonds, the mainstay sector of Botswana’s economy, remaining protracted with no clear recovery in sight, government faces dwindling revenues that is burning up savings held by the Bank of Botswana (BoB) known as the GIA.Government has been...

The forecasts add more fret to existing market worries on prospects for the country’s economy. Econsult, headed by former Bank of Botswana Deputy Governor, Dr Keith Jefferis, extrapolates that the economic output will remain as the economies main...

Economic researchers at local economic consultancy firm, Econsult, conclude that diamond market prices are set to rise under the Trump administration mainly driven by proposed reciprocatory tariff plans. Currently, Botswana’s diamond exports to the...

According to Bank of Botswana (BoB) data, average liquidity in March increased from a shortfall of P305 million to an excess of P764 million, providing a temporary respite to the tight liquidity conditions that have plagued the banking sector for...

South Africa is Botswana’s largest trading partner, accounting for over 50% of Botswana’s imports. Despite this heavy reliance on South Africa, Botswana’s former president Mokgweetsi Masisi took endless jabs at South Africa, rattling the...

ERETSHA: In this little village nestled between Seronga and Gudigwa, students walk to school every day in an effort to use education as a key out of the dire poverty that has troubled the people of Okavango for many years.But to learn here is a...

Most of the targeted embassies for shutdown are in war-torn African countries which may threaten to plunge these countries into political unrest. According to memos leaked to international media outlets, Donald Trump’s administration plans to shut...

Government has chosen to put skin in the troubled game, opting to convert its debt to Minergy into an equity stake that would make government a shareholder through its mining investment agency, the Minerals Development Company Botswana...

The decision follows the recovery of some units at the Morupule B Power Station, which has helped to stabilise grid supply.In a memo issued by the corporation, BPC executives communicated that power generation had normalised thanks to improvement in...

The initiated would know of the political manuscripts of Alan Paton famous for penning “Cry The Beloved Country,” which starts off with the narration of a road running from Ixopo into the hills etc etc etc. But Paton is also the author of a book...

The availability of free-floating stocks, or the shares available for trade in the exchange, result in higher liquidity in the market because players can actually have options to buy and sell. The local exchange has a requirement for all listed...

Botswana can become a sundry number of things. Some mutter that the country can become a logistics hub whilst some posit it can become a financial transactions hub shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of Switzerland. The list goes on and on. This...

The exchange says the current bond market is primarily accessible to institutional investors such as pension funds and large commercial entities.Retail bonds are an ‘IOU’ in which an investor agrees to loan money to an individual, company, or...

The company reported that revenues of P571.8 million were recorded during the period, which was better than the P561 million in 2023 rounding up with a profit before tax (PBT) of P174.5 million. RDC’s total asset value is now at P5.92 billion,...