JAKALAS NO. 1: The economy here is already feeling the effects of the government's implementation of FMD control measures, such as monitoring and quarantine procedures, to contain the disease.In addition, butchery business owners and employees...
For farmers in Zone 6B, the ongoing Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak is not just veterinary crises. It is an economic and emotional blow that continues to shape their daily reality.With cattle movement still tightly regulated and grazing space...
JACKALAS NO. 1: When the Mmegi team descended at the border village this week to hear from the farmers and butchery owners themselves, they had a mouthful to say.The area has become the epicentre of the country’s latest Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)...
In the last nine financial years, the budget has run consecutive deficits amounting to hundreds of billions of Pula, each one contributing to the draining of government’s savings and necessitating increasing levels of public debt.The upcoming...
With a projected real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contraction of nearly 1% in 2025 and a fiscal deficit widening to over 7.5%, the message is clear: the era of resource-dependency has reached its natural limit.Amidst these challenges, the government...
Beneath all the economic jargon on cash crunches, soft GDP figures and liquidity crunches are consumers bearing the brunt at the margins of society as disposable incomes continue to shrink leaving families struggling to make ends meet.On one...
Thus far, Ndaba Gaolathe has spent much of his tenure thus far as the Finance Minister fighting to steer the country away from a fiscal cliff, which is defined as the point where government finds itself unable to pay its debts.Since assuming the...
The news of my death are greatly exaggerated, legendary American writer, Mark Twain famously wrote.Diamonds are probably saying the same thing, after a bleak report emerged from the Finance Ministry, warning of a possible “non-recovery” for the...
Millions of people across the world watched Botswana in real time. They saw our roads, our people, our towns, our villages, our wildlife, our laughter, our confusion, our warmth and our confidence. This did not happen because of a carefully planned...
As export revenues weaken, the pula softens and economic growth stalls, diamonds are routinely identified as the faltering pillar dragging the economy toward the abyss. Yet this diagnosis confuses cyclical shocks with deeper structural failures....
On paper, the equation appears simple. Pension funds as at October 2025 held more than P166 billion in funds while government has, since 2017-18, been running multi-billion Pula budget deficits.One side is looking at stable returns for members and...
In line with progressive calls from different Bretton Woods institutions to slow spending and consolidate the fiscus, government has cut headline expenditure but the forgone opportunity appears to be investment in the country’s future.The cuts...
With food prices soaring and unemployment rampant, Olerato Montsho’s story is a stark reminder of Botswana's crippling food insecurity crisis."I'm forced to buy whatever is cheapest," says Montsho* her eyes welling up with tears. "My son is...
The Botswana government has in mind a consortium with partners such as the Oman Investment Authority and/or Angola's Endiama to spread the risk of any acquisition. Even so, taking control of a loss-making business would still require significant...
On Tuesday morning, I stood at Ben Thema Primary School and watched you arrive, small bodies wrapped in oversized uniforms, some clutching lunch tins tightly, others holding onto their teachers as if the world might shift beneath their feet. It was...
By the end of it, the video will have crossed over millions of views and by our local standards that is truly platinum viewership. The exchanges are brutal and the insults fly freely, at times the arguments unfold with a child visible in the...
Standard Chartered, the country’s oldest bank, expects to exit the country in the next 12 to 15 months. As Mmegi reported earlier this week, while the bank initially sought bidders for its Wealth and Retail Business unit, suitors said they...
KANAKU - In the sun-kissed plains of Mopako Ranch, a majestic Tswana horse named Never Satane has been stealing the show, leaving a trail of awe and adoration in its wake. This breathtaking stallion has become the darling of Kanaku, captivating...
In the midst of the global turmoil around the economy, politics and powerplays, it’s almost easy to forget the optimism with which countries around the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in 2015, under the banner of the United...
And maybe, just maybe, it's not so difficult after all. Maybe, and please hear me out, maybe we should be proactive agents of self-preservation and crack open the proverbial window lest we suffocate.Maybe, just maybe, it's high time we let in...
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