The perennial tussle between cattle producers and the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) revolves generally around the prices offered by the meat parastatal to farmers and the time the Commission takes to settle payments.However, farmers over the years...
Local asset management firm, African Alliance, believes interest rates could rise by as much as 100 basis points this year, the equivalent of one percentage point, a major jump particularly given that the central bank has been lowering interest rates...
Into the Okavango is a powerful documentary of a team of world-renowned researchers, scientists, photographers, filmmakers, and Bayei rivermen exploring the entire river basin of the Okavango on mekoro from source lakes in the Angolan highlands...
Thanks to the increases in various administered prices last April, inflation, or the rate of increase in the prices of goods and services, has been trending at nine-year highs, effectively slapping many commodities out of the hands of...
Letshego Holdings, the country’s largest microlender employing 148 people across 16 branches in Botswana, has become one of the first companies locally that have requested workers to get vaccinated or stay away from the office.“Letshego has made...
“Potential financial stability risks associated with cryptocurrencies are much higher for emerging markets, including in Russia,” the report said. “This is due to the traditionally higher propensity for saving in foreign currency and an...
Mmegi: How feasible is it that the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) would attempt to license companies offering virtual assets such as cryptocurrencies to Batswana, given that in most cases these products are not offered...
The World Inequality Lab’s database released this week features an interesting tool that allows users to gauge where their income lies in their country’s overall picture. According to the tool, to be in the top one percent of income earners in...
If one takes the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (KTP) map and points right at the middle of it, that is the general location of Matopi Campsites. It is one of the remotest campsites in the country. It is literally in the middle of nowhere.There is not...
Just after Malotwane before Mosaditshwene in the early hours of Sunday, Bakgatla are deep and lost in their tradition: the annual Christmas Dikhwaere, the choral festivals that go through the night and day. I make a mental note that one day I should...
Even though her case was better because when diagnosed with cancer she lived in Gaborone, Bontle Modige says she felt sorry for children who lived in remote rural areas, hundreds of kilometres away from the capital city. After receiving their...
The idea of writing a feature article about some snip tailed male lion came into my mind in December 2020. Although it was mainly an excuse for me to travel, I believed it was going to be an important story that should change the local tourists’...
The question of who discovered Omicron is one of high importance in scientific and academic circles. It demonstrates scientific prowess in a particular country, and in an age where countries’ competitiveness is being weighed by how they can monitor...
Rather than raw greed, local authorities believe the increase in victims of cryptocurrency and forex scams is being driven by poor financial literacy in the country.Scammers coast past the country’s existing laws and safeguards by using the...
A year before the now famous discovery of the ‘three shiny stones’ in Motloutse River that eventually led to the explosion of diamond mining activities in the 1970s, a less high profile mineral had been found in the country’s south...
Known as the BCL Sysmin Re-employment Account (REA), the fund was created by a partnership between government and the European Union in 1991. The REA received repayments of loans by BCL and Tati for preferential credit extended by the European Union....
It has been five years since the BCL Group was placed under provisional liquidation by the High Court due to its non-profitability, rendering thousands of workers jobless in the process.The BCL Group operated BCL Mine in Selebi-Phikwe and Tati Nickel...
SELEBI-PHIKWE: Businesses in the once high-flying town have learnt the humbling lesson of depending on a single economic actor for their livelihoods. BCL Mine, directly and indirectly, supported both large and small businesses, with one study from...
Karabo Gaborone, 26Gaborone is not so enthusiastic about the planned reopening of the BCL Mine. She argues that it will take a while before the mine re-opens. According to her, the focus should now be on how the government can help deal with the...
SELEBI-PHIKWE: As much as reports of the impending reopening of BCL Mine have lifted the mood in the town and ushered in much-needed hope for the thousands of former workers, the positive news has also triggered harsh memories of October 8, 2016,...
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