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On-the-ground business intelligence in South Africa & Eswatini, since July 2019.
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A blue economy needs a built one underneath it: ports capable of handling both cargo and passenger tourism traffic, cold-chain and processing facilities near the water, power and digital connectivity reaching coastal communities, and roads or rail linking landing...
Decreto 39/2026, published in Boletim da República No. 134 on 16 July, extinguishes the Fundo de Estradas. Its assets pass to the Administração Nacional de Estradas as autonomous patrimony.
A China-funded broadcasting headquarters for Seychelles broke ground in 2019 and handed over in 2025. The long road from grant to keys is the real infrastructure story.
Botswana’s energy and mineral deals with Oman point to a market where power is precious – and where retail brands will favour the malls that can keep the lights on.
As Botswana pushes exploration beyond diamonds and into solar, it is also creating demand for somewhere to put the geologists, engineers and advisers who follow.
China has funded more than 170 schools across Africa. The visible buildings raise a quieter question of who pays the teachers and bills after handover.
World trade kept rising in April, a reminder that goods still move – and that the depots sitting on the right SADC routes are the ones that capture the flow.
A diamond-sector downgrade and a shift in how rough is sold are quietly rewriting Botswana’s logistics map – and the high-security property that serves it.
A fresh roster of Chinese-built hospitals and diagnostic centres reads as system-strengthening. Whether national budgets can run them is the unwritten clause.