Farmers recently demonstrated why they are known as the country's "first-borns," when they stared down government into reversing its decision to limit support of maize pr...
Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited (BIHL), the single largest shareholder in Letshego Holdings, has upped its stake in the pan-African microlender in what is seen as a m...
Fast-growing microlender, GetBucks Limited posted a P2.3 million aftertax loss for the year ended June 30, 2019, as a write off of receivables from a sister company cance...
The Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE)’s main platform, the Domestic Companies Index, shed 4.69% in 2019, weighed down by massive losses in heavyweights such as Letshego...
Finance minister, Thapelo Matsheka is due to resubmit a P1.1 billion supplementary budget for parliamentary approval this morning, after he withdrew his original proposal...
Gaborone has received 244 millimetres of rainfall since November, the wettest in decades and an indicator that the dreaded El Nino forgot to look this way this year. Expe...
For more than two years, Kgori Capital’s name was high in the cast of characters suspected of involvement in the country’s biggest financial scandal. In a sen...
Finance Minister, Thapelo Matsheka on Wednesday afternoon submitted a P1.1 billion supplementary budget needed to cover public service and armed forces wage increases awa...
In a year in which inflation averaged 2.9 percent, representing very little pressure on prices, consumers are headed in 2020 with generally positive indicators.
The Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) plans to spend up to P750 million on various new projects this year, bolstered by resurgent finances and an P800 million loan f...
The Bank of Botswana (BoB), government’s chief policy adviser, says economic authorities and supporting international bodies are agreed that the country needs to br...
The failure by the country's financial institutions to share information means incomplete profiles of borrowers are being generated, leading to higher risks and costs for...
Choppies signalled the end of its 11-year presence in South Africa this week with a deal to sell its estimated 88 stores to Kind Investments for 74 thebe, a symbolic amou...
Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) acting commissioner general, Segolo Lekau says tighter collections and less evasion of payment would raise public revenues and red...
Local property group, PrimeTime’s confidence in the Zambian market is waning after economic troubles in that country weighed on the performance of its office and re...
Public finances continued to be weak in the first half of the 2019/20 fiscal year, recording a cumulative deficit of P2.4 billion as revenues fell and spending rose
The Finance Ministry is proposing some tough measures to get the country’s budget back on track, as the latest forecasts show that the last three years of NDP 11 wi...
KASANE: Botswana Stock Exchange Limited (BSEL) CEO, Thapelo Tsheole says a number of African stock exchanges have procured and are operating trading systems that do not p...
The Botswana Banking Ombudsman has noted an increase in the number of people filing official complaints about unfair blacklisting by commercial banks, finding in favour o...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says government should push to balance the budget next year through expenditure and revenue measures “beyond those considered ...
Local energy developer, Shumba Energy says recent feelers put out for funding in Asia for the P20 billion Coal to Liquids (CTL) plant were positive, adding confidence for...
