Arrears owed by individual customers to local commercial banks rose by 11% to P3.1 billion last year, with nearly P1 billion classified in the worst category of indebtedn...
Local commercial banks' collective net incomes dropped to P1.57 billion in 2020, from P1.78 billion in 2019, in a display of resilience despite the effects of COVID-19.
The Bank of Botswana is preparing a formal policy submission to the government on protecting the P46bn Pula Fund, the sovereign wealth fund housing the country’s sa...
The Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) is expected to collect P44.1 billion in various taxes in 2021-2022, up from P37.9 billion in the current financial year ending...
Sechaba Holdings, a 49.9% shareholder in Kgalagadi Breweries Limited (KBL), saw its value on the local bourse drop by P264 million between Monday and Tuesday this week.
Recently public health authorities vaccinated 220,000 children against measles within 10 days, through 700 vaccine sites including health posts and mobile stops. With the...
Premium Nickel Resource Corporation, the Canadian company recently named as the frontrunner to take over BCL Ltd, has pledged to spend US$400 million in various operation...
Botswana Stock Exchange Limited CEO, Thapelo Tsheole says the local bourse has listings that are considered 'ripe' and it is expected that a good number will be seen this...
Consumers will soon find out whether the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) will be granted the five percent tariff increase it has requested for the 2021-2022 financial ye...
The country’s largest producer of sugary drinks, Coca-Cola Beverages Botswana (CCBB), says the upcoming sugar tax is punitive and places a ‘disproportionate a...
The prices of ginger and garlic have escalated so rapidly in local supermarkets that the Competition and Consumer Authority (CCA) has launched a probe to ensure there are...
Premium Nickel Resource Corporation, a Canadian minerals investor, has reportedly been appointed the preferred bidder for BCL Ltd, the copper and nickel group that closed...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines could land in the country by the end of March at the latest, according to an estimate this week by the World Health Organisation (WHO) fac...
The scale of the diamond crash in 2020 became clear this week, with various entities releasing figures showing that the economy’s key commodity suffered one of its ...
Finance and Economic Development minister, Thapelo Matsheka says the 'shocks' contained in his budget speech on Monday were the necessary culmination of long delayed inte...
Finance and Economic Development minister, Thapelo Matsheka this afternoon confirmed that Value Added Tax would rise to 14% from April, while a new sugar tax would be int...
The World Bank says it has set aside $12 billion (P131 billion) to support African countries’ coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programmes through grants or &lsquo...
The World Bank says it expects discussions with government to conclude 'soon' on a loan that will help the country urgently purchase Covid-19 vaccines for Batswana, Mmegi...
The Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security is still studying recommendations on whether to take up shares in Lucara Diamond Corp, the high fl...
The Competition and Consumer Authority (CCA) has blocked New African Properties (NAP) from finalising a P20 million deal to purchase a retail centre in Maun, BusinessWeek...
Experts believe the economy is in desperate need of hope, a critical commodity to re-energise local companies, foreign investors as well as the innovative sector towards ...
Cabinet is reportedly at pains over whether to impose a fresh nationwide lockdown, because while cases and deaths are rising rapidly from COVID-19, government does not ha...
