De Beers and Botswana are often lauded “Siamese twins”, double bodies that have mirrored each other from the yesteryears of their matrimony in 1969. Along the path like any marriage, the duo has had spats of their own, with Botswana consistently...
MATSILOJE: In 2016, a pall of devastation, sorrow and despair fell over the entire North East as a global meltdown in prices sank operations at Tati Nickel and BCL Mine.For decades, as early as 1959 in the case of BCL, the base metal mines had...
Over the years, a number of aggrieved members of Botswana’s society have approached the courts to challenge certain clauses of the Constitution, deeming it archaic in its definitions and world view. Who can forget the famous Motshidiemang v State...
It is a symptom of an industry that has spent decades avoiding hard truths. The diamond trade has clung to outdated models, papered over volatility with wishful thinking and treated inefficiency as a permanent feature rather than a fixable flaw. Now...
It is early September and only the beginning of summer in Botswana. However, places like Maun have already recorded heights of 36 degrees Celsius. Heatwaves are occurrences that places like Maun have become synonymous with. Maun, the gateway to the...
For years, the promise of agricultural tourism and game farming as an alternative to the country’s overreliance on safari tourism has been a topic of discussion. Yet, we have waited to see a tangible model that delivers on this vision. Shumbalala...
Tuberculous Meningitis (TBM) is a severe, life-threatening inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord, caused by the same bacteria that cause tuberculosis. The infection typically begins in the lungs and spreads to the brain,...
Imagine interviewing a man who interrupts every word you say, not out of disrespect but out of the sheer love of rough debate, or even worse who laughs at your age when he walks into the room, before even greeting you.At this point it sounds like the...
The price of money in the country has become a highly changeable, moving target that has pinched the pockets of ordinary households.Prime lending rates, the interest rates banks charge their best customers, uncoupled from the Bank of Botswana anchor...
When finance technocrats and audacious entrepreneurs met in Gaborone this week with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), everybody was out guns blazing, pitching hard. Their message was consistent; pitching a politically stable democracy,...
India, which accounts for 90% of cutting and polishing activities in the industry, presently has one of the highest tariffs for entry to the US at 50%, while another major centre China, has equally been hit at about 30%.Other diamond centres such as...
Under the Luanda Accord signed by Botswana, De Beers, other African diamond producers and the Natural Diamond Council recently, all members will contribute one percent of their revenues to an industry-wide, global marketing campaign.That campaign is...
According to data released last week by Henley & Partners in partnership with wealth intelligence firm, New World Wealth, the numbers of the super-rich are growing in the country.The Africa Wealth Report is the continent’s most comprehensive...
The establishment of a P5 billion fund and emergency mechanisms to resolve the long-boiling crisis in the country’s public health sector, could not have come sooner.The majority of the country’s population depends on the public healthcare system...
Local banks have demonstrated their traditional resilience to shocks in the past years, maintaining a strong balance sheet of P145 billion as at May this year. The strong books were achieved through shrewd liquidity and risk management, something...
Masama Coal Mine, the country’s smaller colliery after Morupule Coal Mine, is yet another cautionary tale about how the cyclical nature of mining and logistics can wreak havoc on operations and workers’ lives.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in...
In development finance, CDD has emerged as a foundational tool for making informed and responsible investment decisions. It is a systematic investigative and analytical process designed to assess the commercial viability of a proposed investment by...
A two-year-old old baby named Edward in D’kar was last year enrolled into a feeding scheme programme supported by UNICEF Botswana after health officers realised he was grossly underweight. This was caused by the fact that his now deceased mother...
On August 26, bidders lock horns on whose offer is the best to take over Mupane Gold Mine, the country’s sole gold operation where operations have been suspended since March 2024.According to documents circulating recently, of the ten companies...
The rot in parastatals keeps worsening the more revelations of their state of affairs is made.Nearly each week in recent months, top government officials have lifted the lid on the state of State-Owned Entities (SOEs) disclosing previously unknown,...
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