Maun Solar Megaproject: 30-Year 500MW PPA Sealed with Oman
Botswana has some of the most generous sunlight on the planet and, for most of its history, almost no large-scale way to capture it. The country has burned coal and imported power across the regional grid while the Kalahari sun went largely unmonetised — a resource as...
Brussels Money: How the EU’s €12 Billion Roadshow Targets SA Energy and Ports
European capital has talked about Africa as a partner for years while behaving towards it as a quarry — somewhere to source minerals and sell finished goods. The European Union's first investment roadshow in South Africa is an attempt to be seen doing something...
Maun Solar Megaproject: 30-Year 500MW PPA Sealed with Oman
Botswana has some of the most generous sunlight on the planet and, for most of its history, almost no large-scale way to capture it. The country has burned coal and imported power across the regional grid while the Kalahari sun went largely unmonetised — a resource as...
The Productivity Loss Behind Voluntary Repatriation
A firm loses a skilled worker in an afternoon. It rebuilds that capability over months, sometimes years. Departure is fast; replacement is not, and the gap between them is where the real cost of voluntary repatriation sits. As anti-migrant pressure has risen, some...
Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
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South Africa built its economy on being the continent’s front door – this issue prices what happens when the door starts deciding who may come through.
- 01 Africa Thinks Here – Can South Africa Still Say It?
- 02 Investor Guide: Operating Through Afrophobia Risk
- 03 The Spaza Economy Field Guide
Brussels Money: How the EU’s €12 Billion Roadshow Targets SA Energy and Ports
The EU’s €12bn Clean Trade and Investment Partnership launched at the JSE, targeting South Africa’s energy and Transnet port bottlenecks — and its minerals.
Maun Solar Megaproject: 30-Year 500MW PPA Sealed with Oman
Botswana has signed a 30-year PPA for a 500MW solar plant with 500MWh storage in Maun, partnering with Oman, toward 50% renewables by 2030. Inside the deal.
The Productivity Loss Behind Voluntary Repatriation
Voluntary repatriation removes trained workers and migrant entrepreneurs faster than replacements arrive. Costing replacement time, onboarding, customer loss.
Economics
Brussels Money: How the EU’s €12 Billion Roadshow Targets SA Energy and Ports
European capital has talked about Africa as a partner for years while behaving towards it as a quarry — somewhere to source minerals and sell finished goods. The European Union's first investment roadshow in South Africa is an attempt to be seen doing something...
The Productivity Loss Behind Voluntary Repatriation
A firm loses a skilled worker in an afternoon. It rebuilds that capability over months, sometimes years. Departure is fast; replacement is not, and the gap between them is where the real cost of voluntary repatriation sits. As anti-migrant pressure has risen, some...
Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
Money
CIPA Grants Six-Month Grace on Constitutions and Beneficial Ownership
Every formal company in Botswana carries a paper obligation that, for years, sat low on the priority list: keeping its founding documents and its true owners on record with the state. The Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA) has now made that...
Central Bank Sets 30 April for Next Rate Decision
A date on a calendar is not usually news. When it is the date the country's interest rate could change, it becomes a marker worth circling. The Bank of Botswana has confirmed that its Monetary Policy Committee will next meet on 30 April 2026 — the next scheduled point...
Bank of Botswana Holds Rate at 3.5% as Inflation Risks Loom
A central bank that does nothing is often doing the most deliberate thing it can. On 26 February 2026, the Bank of Botswana held its policy rate at 3.5 percent for the second meeting running — a decision that looks like inaction and reads, on closer inspection, as a...
Lifestyle
The reward economy
Lifestyle - Hospitality & Tourism · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 An expected rebound is not the same as a free-spending one. Botswana's budget projects an economic rebound this year, but recovery after a hard stretch tends to...
Health security travel
Lifestyle - Travel & Destinations · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Crises fade from the headlines long before their lessons should fade from practice. The World Bank has cut its global growth outlook and warned the drop could deepen if...
Content-led tourism
Lifestyle - Culture & Leisure · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 By the time a traveller books, the decision is usually already made. It was made earlier, in an article, a guide or a podcast that lodged the destination in the mind. As the...
Brussels Money: How the EU’s €12 Billion Roadshow Targets SA Energy and Ports
The EU’s €12bn Clean Trade and Investment Partnership launched at the JSE, targeting South Africa’s energy and Transnet port bottlenecks — and its minerals.
The Productivity Loss Behind Voluntary Repatriation
Voluntary repatriation removes trained workers and migrant entrepreneurs faster than replacements arrive. Costing replacement time, onboarding, customer loss.
Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
Zero Tariff: How China’s Duty-Free Window Opens for South African Exporters
China’s duty-free window opens to South African exporters from 1 May 2026 — but SARS Rules of Origin certificates are the real test of who can claim it.
Business Closures Are the First GDP Estimate of Unrest
Shutdowns and absenteeism in South African unrest are lost output no one counts in time. How to build a rapid local-output tracker for protest days.
Aterian Starts 90km² Copper Survey in the Kalahari Copperbelt
UK-listed Aterian plc has begun a 90km2 soil geochemical survey for copper-silver in Botswana’s Kalahari Copperbelt, defining future drill targets. What it
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Orange Botswana Pledges P1m to the Golden Grand Prix
Orange Botswana has pledged P1m to sponsor the FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour meeting set for 26 April 2026.
Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
BeiDou in Africa: A Navigation System Looking for Its Ground Game
China lists at least ten African uses for its BeiDou satellites, from precision farming to wildlife tracking. What the record does not yet list is the named centres to run them.
Twenty Digital Projects, RMB 360 Billion: FOCAC’s Next Frontier Pitch
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.
200,000 Kilometres of Fibre: The Backbone Beneath the Africa-China Story
The headline China-Africa numbers are loans and ports. The quieter figure: 200,000km of optical fibre and broadband for six million households – infrastructure hard to see and hard to remove.
Press Centres and Production Links: China’s Quieter Media Play in Africa
The visible China-Africa media story is towers and dishes. The quieter one is people and programming – journalist exchanges, training cohorts and co-production deals that shape how stories get told.