Religious societies earned P216 million in 2018, while paying no taxes and being one of the sectors in the country with the highest risks for money laundering and financi...
Finance and Economic Development minister, Thapelo Matsheka has officially requested Parliament to lift the domestic borrowing limit from P15 billion to P30 billion, a mo...
The Auditor General is finalising an audit into the efficiency of minerals revenue collection, noting that a risk assessment had revealed potential areas of concern in th...
Between 2010 and 2019, a technical officer at Central District Council earned a salary overpayment of P643,000, thanks to double payments from his former department and h...
Government has dropped a proposed loan for China to fund rehabilitation of the 300-kilometre Nata-Maun road, after the two sides deadlocked over the terms of the agreemen...
Homegrown pan-African microlender, Letshego Holdings is working on a solution that will enable it to tap into local deposit funds without necessarily becoming a full scal...
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has given ministries until the end of this month to justify the existence of Special Funds under their control, amidst re...
The World Bank has suspended its globally renowned Doing Business Report, amidst an investigation into errors that include how countries have been ranked for the past fiv...
The Finance and Economic Development ministry is expecting officials from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to conduct a review this month of the country’s sta...
The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) is set to receive P1 billion in tariff subsidies over the next two financial years, before a possible government support cut off , Bu...
The Auditor GeneraI (AG) has blasted government for dragging its feet in collecting more than P419 million owed in arrears by civil servants and members of the public, as...
For years, the humble local bakery has fought for survival against the rising, suffocating dominance of its in-store rival while wrestling with mounting wheat flour price...
The country’s largest business lobby, Business Botswana, has proposed that government investigate the introduction of the cannabis family of crops, as a cash boost ...
Botswana and Namibia are preparing to sign a deal with a US energy firm which will see the development of up to 5,000 megawatts of solar power across installations in bot...
Government has to pay out a P2.2 billion bond to local investors which matures early next month, further worsening its fiscal position at a time when COVID-19 has dried u...
The Auditor General has blasted government for dragging its feet in collecting more than P419 million owed in debt arrears by civil servants and members of the public, as...
The collective profits of local commercial banks dropped about eight percent in the first five months of the year, compared to the corresponding period last year, numbers...
Diamond giant, De Beers is banking on its deep pockets to power its way out of the COVID-19 knock on its operations, with executives expecting a rebound in revenues in th...
Local businesses are not taking up commercial bank loans, despite the record low interest rates available, with annual credit growth for May falling to about two percent ...
Most local firms expect to recover from the impact of COVID-19 by June next year, supported by lower costs, stable availability of utilities such as water and sustained g...
