The local tourism sector is at the tail-end of its traditional peak season, a high-traffic window running roughly between April and October.This period is preferred by tourists as the dry winter conditions provide for better viewing of various...
KASANE – A philosophy developed and promoted by the leadership of Chobe Holdings in the last decade has paved the way for women breaking the ceiling in tourism, moving beyond the laundry room, restaurants and housekeeping, to being guides in the...
MAUN – The airport here, while smaller than Sir Seretse Khama International, is by far the country’s busiest, with dozens of small planes landing and departing every day to and from the tourist camps.Last year, Maun International Airport...
The competition, now in its fourth edition, was established by the Jack Ma Foundation and is aimed at aims at supporting entrepreneurs who are not only building successful businesses, but who are also running mission driven organisations that...
One of the world’s leading publications, The New York Times, this week ran an article on Russia’s efforts to prevent the Kimberley Process or any other organisation from labelling its diamonds as “conflict or blood”. Part of the article...
The matter of South Africa’s economic dominance of Botswana and other Southern African Customs Union (SACU) member states has boiled under the surface of various meetings between the regional neighbours over the decades.COVID-19 sharply brought the...
To use American slang, the economy, which includes business activity, employment creation and the collective aspirations of Batswana, cannot seem to “catch a break”.The boom economy which stretched from the late 1990s to the late 2000s with...
What do Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift have to do with the debate around conservation and trophy hunting in Southern Africa?From the early 1970s to the 1990s, Mark and Delia Owens, an American couple, travelled to and lived alone in the...
In its economic briefing on Wednesday, Mmegi was able to put several questions to Bank of Botswana (BoB)’s senior management on the impact of the sweeping amendments to the Bank of Botswana Act made by Parliament earlier in the week.The amendments...
At the recent funders’ conference called by government to test the private sector’s appetite to invest in public infrastructure, Finance Minister Peggy Serame painted a bleak picture of the country’s fiscal future.According to Serame, between...
FRANCISTOWN: Minors aged 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in court Tuesday on a certificate of urgency asking to be granted bail following a spate of shop breaking, theft and armed robbery cases that rocked Kasane and Kazungula...
The first time I came across the Makgadikgadi YCare Walk was last week when I saw their invitation which had been idling for quite some time in the office with no one showing interest in the event.The low interest was perhaps because the walk is...
Mmegi: Has Russia had any engagement with the Government of Botswana since the operation in Ukraine began, and what has been the response of Government?Kemarskiy: Russia has enjoyed excellent relations with Botswana since the establishment of...
With tensions rising in the tourist town, Alrosa head of International Relations, Petr Karakchiev, apparently delivered a hard-hitting speech riddled with words such as “idiots”, “nonsense” and sarcastic jabs at “profound experts” and...
For the first three and half months of this year, Letshego Holdings was the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE)’s biggest gainer, its share price putting on an incredible 40 thebe, or about 29%. Besides rosy earnings in recent financial periods, the...
Experts in the Ministry of Health believe the country has seen the worst of the fifth wave of COVID-19, which manifested in late May causing cases to exponentially rise in recent weeks.In the week from 19 to June 25, the country recorded 2,351 cases,...
Experts at the Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) believe that if every taxpayer in the country paid their dues, there would either have been no need for the shock tax increases last year or at least the levels of the increments would have been...
The Kimberley Process, a United Nations’ backed supranational group that has fought conflict diamonds for nearly two decades, is stuck in a consensus paralysis that has led observers to question its relevance in keeping the global diamond industry...
Everybody was alive to the fact that he was a sickly man who was in and out of hospital throughout his 59-year life yet many hoped that providence would continue to spare him.With the benefit of hindsight, following a London diagnosis of no hope,...
How high will inflation rise?The answer depends on who you ask. At Kgori Capital, analysts expect that inflation will average 11.3% this year, a figure which if realised would be the highest average since 2008.Researchers at First National Bank...