KAGO Scholarship Funds Construction Training for Unemployed Workers
Botswana does not lack construction sites; it lacks enough hands trained to work them. Buildings rise across Gaborone, Francistown and the regional centres, yet the supply of certified tradespeople — bricklayers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters — runs persistently...
Six Records That Make a Business Cleaning Programme Auditable
For a labour inspector, a corporate client's auditor or an insurer after an incident, cleaning that you cannot show you did is cleaning that did not happen. This is the uncomfortable truth behind the shift, described in an IOL Business Report analysis of the SME...
He Started by Washing His Neighbours’ Bins. Now He Employs Six
The businesses that last rarely begin with a clever idea. They begin with a dull, repeated problem that somebody is willing to solve for money. In Langa, on the Cape Flats, Bulelani Njobe found his in the one job his neighbours least wanted to do themselves: cleaning...
FMD Response Shifts from Culling to Vaccination in Zone 6b
Botswana's beef industry has long been protected by an instrument that quietly punishes the people it is meant to defend: the cull. For decades, the standard response to a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak has been depopulation — the slaughter of exposed herds to...
Real Estate Tagged a Money-Laundering Hotspot, P1.1bn in Dirty Money
Rising property prices are usually read as a sign of confidence — a market voting for a city's future. In Botswana, a mid-April 2026 national risk assessment has supplied the uncomfortable counter-reading: some of that rise is not confidence at all, but laundered...
Mining explorers
Junior and state-linked explorers became front-line players in Botswana’s push to expand exploration beyond diamonds, turning a policy ambition into ground-level prospecting.
Energy dealmakers
Renewable energy between Oman and Botswana moved from talk to signed agreements, putting a new class of cross-border dealmakers at the centre of the diversification story.
Botswana entrepreneurs
Botswana’s entrepreneurs spent the year steering through slow growth, fuel swings and tighter fiscal conditions, the same headwinds the World Bank flagged when it cut its global outlook.
Bank of Botswana policymakers
A small open economy cannot vote its way out of imported inflation. Botswana’s monetary policymakers spent the year deciding how hard to lean against price and growth stress at once.
Central Bank Sets 30 April for Next Rate Decision
The Bank of Botswana confirmed its Monetary Policy Committee will next meet on 30 April 2026 to review the policy rate, held at 3.5%.
Decreto 39/2026 closes the Fundo de Estradas: road money now sits inside ANE
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.
Decree 38/2026 gives Mozambique’s farm sector a statutory coordination committee
Boletim da República No. 134 published Decree 38/2026, creating the Agricultural Sector Coordination Committee. What it is meant to do, and what farm businesses should watch.
Decree 36/2026: Mozambique swaps one telecom licence regime for unified and class tiers
Decree 36/2026 replaces Decree 26/2017 with unified and class licences, a 15-day target for class applications and a first dedicated satellite regime. What it changes for operators and new entrants.
Zeine Zeidane
The IMF’s Africa chief framed Middle East disruption as a regional economic shock, a warning that reached as far as the World Bank’s cut to its global growth outlook and, through trade, to Botswana.
Lipalese Makepe
New ODC leadership has shifted Botswana’s diamond sales toward contracted buyers, a quiet structural change arriving just as a sovereign downgrade underlined the pressure on the sector.
Producer margins
Fuel, fertiliser and price swings are squeezing the space between what a farmer spends and what a farmer earns. For Botswana, the margin is where the sector’s viability is decided.
Local seed systems
When imported seed and inputs are disrupted, local systems look less like nostalgia and more like insurance. Botswana has reason to take its own seed systems seriously.
Agri-data registries
Relief and finance both depend on knowing who farms what, where. Without accurate farm data, Botswana’s farmers risk being invisible to the support meant to reach them.
The Executive Who Screams at the Bartender
Cabanga Africa Group releases a new manifesto for leaders who depend on digital infrastructure they have never bothered to understand. An executive walks into a bar and orders premium tequila. Not because they want it, but because it looks like something a serious...
Livestock movement compliance
Disease-control protocols decide whether Botswana’s beef reaches a premium market or stays home. For a country built on cattle, livestock compliance is market access by another name.
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