Zutshwa is a small community in the Kgalagadi district, with a population of around 600 people.For the village chief, Abathene Kabatlhophane, the challenges facing Zutshwa extend beyond the absence of permanent jobs. They touch the social fabric of...
In just three months, the Botswana Stock Exchange’s years-long efforts to attract new listings and establish itself as a contender for capital-raising in Africa, received an unprecedented boost with the opening of four Initial Public Offers.That...
However, Botswana is also not alone in facing the challenges of being landlocked. Zambia and Zimbabwe face similar needs for reliable, diverse access to international routes. A shared constraint can therefore become a shared market.But data economics...
Mmegi: May we just start with the simplest definition that we can give our readers of what trade finance is?El Maayergi: Trade finance is quite simple. It's the money that moves goods from one step to the next until they reach the buyer. So, take...
The place from which Botswana would draw so much of her wealth had a single borehole when the prospectors arrived. Around Jwana Hill, in the shallow, grass-covered Naledi Valley, a rural community kept its cattle and went about its life. The men...
The Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) is pursuing an ambitious transformation that could reshape Gaborone’s position in Africa’s financial landscape. Through its 10X by 2030 strategy, the Exchange aims to grow its capital markets tenfold, attract...
Mmegi: Kindly introduce yourself and tell us a little about your role at Afreximbank.Diop: I am the Director of Compliance at Afreximbank. I joined the bank in June 2019 and I am responsible for the Compliance Division, which supports the bank’s...
Anyone who has tried to export from Francistown or bring machinery in through Tlokweng knows the routine: phone calls, queues, a good deal of guessing, and days gone before a single product has moved.The Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC)...
The poet reckons with its poetry, but leboko is poetry and more. The poet wrestles with its verse, rhythm, and line endings, but then without these, it couldn’t honestly be poetry as it is universally understood. Yet, the poet also brings to it a...
MAUN - Traditional medicine remains an important part of healthcare and cultural heritage in the country, with indigenous plants valued for their medicinal properties. However, the harvesting of these natural resources, particularly their roots, is...
A few years ago, Botswana used gruesome words to describe De Beers, the type of words partners don’t say to each other even in the heat of the moment. At the time, it seemed like the relationship between De Beers and the government had soured...
Mmegi: Take us through your career journey and how you eventually came to lead Listings and Trading at the BSE. Mmolai: My first job out of university was as an Investment Accountant at Botswana Insurance Fund Management (Bifm). I then took a detour...
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery.”Frantz Fanon’s famous quote from his 1961 masterpiece, Wretched of the Earth, are likely ringing true for many across the...
The International Trade Centre (ITC) is a joint agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization that supports trade-related technical cooperation for developing economies. The ITC EPM is a free online tool developed by the International...
Fiscal authorities and the nation at large received a surprise Independence Day gift on Tuesday, when Statistics Botswana revealed that the economy grew by 8.7% in the second quarter compared to a contraction of 5.2% over the same period last...
The recent establishment of a secretariat and offices for the Diamonds for Development Fund has sparked excitement of an additional supporting mechanism for the country’s economic diversification and transformation hopes.Powered by an initial...
Today, that order is changing. Batswana are still falling in love, living together and having children, but many are marrying much later, while others are not marrying at all.Statistics Botswana's latest figures show that just 4,517 marriages...
As at June 30, the country’s pension funds held more than P176 billion in assets, with about 44.6% of these held locally.A long-running challenge for holders of sizeable assets in the country has been finding investable opportunities in the local...
While holders of capital continue weighing the Botswana Economic Transformation Programme (BETP), the first review of the six-month-old initiative indicates that early wins are being scored, just six months into the initiative. Many of these are in...
30 September is Independence Day here, and 1 October is the public holiday that always follows. Paradoxically, this year, Botswana will be celebrating its diamond jubilee at a time when our diamonds, the mainstay of our country’s economy for too...
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