Government has engaged local and international mineral investors on whether the Mines and Minerals Act can be amended to allow the state to buy up to 26% equity in mining...
A Finance and Economic Development ministry committee is scheduled to soon decide whether the increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) from 12% to 14% will take place over one o...
The excitement over the forecast of abundant rains this season is giving way to anger and frustration amongst many farmers. The seasonal inputs programme, ISPAAD, has had...
The World Bank says technical discussions with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development are ongoing towards a loan to help government finance the P14.5 billion Ec...
Four parastatals have been selected to roll out government’s P1.3 billion business assistance plan, which will offer mainly interest-free loans and six-month grace ...
President Mokgweetsi Masisi yesterday afternoon called for calm on both sides as tensions simmered between Batswana and Namibians over the killing of four suspected poach...
The Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism says it is finalising a tender that will allow private investors to bid and take over management o...
Government has lined up six clean energy projects with the potential to produce 395 megawatts of electricity in the next seven years, as it pushes to diversify the countr...
Namibian leader, Hage Geingob this afternoon told media he had 'long discussions' with President Mokgweetsi Masisi following the Botswana Defence Force (BDF)’s shoo...
The Finance and Economic Development ministry expects the budget deficit for 2021 to drop to P12.6 billion, led by a recovery of the country’s key economic sector, ...
Directors of at least two Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) listed companies recently snapped up shares in their own entities, helping share prices up by 11% for one of the c...
The Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited’s (BTCL) share price dropped to an all-time low on Monday, souring the group’s 40th anniversary celebratio...
Businesses in the country are ‘less pessimistic’ about the economy and their own profitability, despite concerns about rising costs and tight credit in the sh...
The good news is that next year’s budget shortfall will be smaller than this year’s. The bad news is that you will have to foot more of the bill. Staff Writer...
The country’s merchandise trade deficit eased to P3 billion in August, from P3.5 billion in July, helped by lower fuel imports and a rebound in diamond exports, num...
The country’s most advanced Coal Bed Methane developer, Tlou Energy, is on the hunt for US$10 million (P110m) to advance its Lesedi project, near Lephephe.
Government, through the Bank of Botswana (BoB), will on Friday approach the market for P2.6 billion, in the first borrowings under the recently expanded domestic debt pro...
Letlole la Rona has emerged as the sole listed property group to register an uptick in profits this reporting season, despite spending the coronavirus (COVID-19) affected...
The prices of nearly all food items are approximately 4.2 percent higher now, than they were 12 months ago, weighing on consumers’ already weakened incomes in a yea...
At least 200 people previously classified as US dollar millionaires fell out of the ranks of the super-rich in the last two years, an authoritative survey indicates.
Botswana is months away from shaking off its three-year-old greylisting as a tax haven by the European Union (EU), after a deal signed recently with the Organisation for ...
The country’s sole gold producer, Mupane Gold, expects to produce about 30,000 ounces of the precious metal this year, down from an initial forecast of 35,000 ounce...
