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...
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...
Confidence Dips: How FMD and Price Slumps Knocked SA Agribusiness Sentiment
Confidence is the cheapest input in agriculture and the hardest to rebuild. A farmer can absorb a bad price or a bad season as a one-off; what changes behaviour is the sense that the risks are stacking up faster than the returns. That is the signal in the second...
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...
Afrophobia Due Diligence for Foreign Investors
A due-diligence pack will tell an investor almost everything except the one thing that can undo the deal. It measures the balance sheet, the title deeds, the tax position and the regulatory approvals, and it treats the workforce as a line item and the surrounding...
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He Started by Washing His Neighbours’ Bins. Now He Employs Six
Bulelani Njobe founded Oracle Green by cleaning neighbours’ dustbins for a small fee in Langa. The path from one repeatable task to a business employing six is worth reading closely.
Confidence Dips: How FMD and Price Slumps Knocked SA Agribusiness Sentiment
The Agbiz/IDC Agribusiness Confidence Index fell to 45 in Q2 2026 as FMD, weak sugar and wheat prices and El Niño risk pushed capital investment to a 2006 low.
FMD Response Shifts from Culling to Vaccination in Zone 6b
Botswana’s early-2026 choice to vaccinate rather than cull Zone 6b cattle against FMD eases farmer losses while protecting premium beef export access.
Economics
Afrophobia Due Diligence for Foreign Investors
A due-diligence pack will tell an investor almost everything except the one thing that can undo the deal. It measures the balance sheet, the title deeds, the tax position and the regulatory approvals, and it treats the workforce as a line item and the surrounding...
African Capital May Quietly Choose Another Address
Capital does not usually announce its departure. It rarely holds a press conference or issues a statement; it simply registers the next company somewhere else, signs a lease in another city, and moves the working balance to a different account. That silence is what...
The N3, Beitbridge and the Social Risk in Regional Corridors
A landlocked economy has no coastline of its own, so it borrows someone else’s. For Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and the eastern reaches of the SADC region, that borrowed coastline runs through South Africa, up the N3 from the port of Durban and out across the...
Money
BDC to Inject P1.39bn Across Strategic Sectors
Development finance institutions are easy to misread. From the outside they look like deep pockets handing out cheap money; from the inside they are forced to make a harder choice — between spreading capital thinly across politically attractive causes, and...
Bank of Botswana Lifts Policy Rate to 3.5% to Calm Credit Markets
For most of the last decade, the complaint about money in Botswana was that it cost almost nothing — and that this was precisely the problem. A policy rate held near the floor signalled an economy being nursed, not one running hot. When the price of money sits that...
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...
Lifestyle
46th SADC Summit across SADC — destination and travel value for businesses across SADC
A summit dedicated to industrialisation, agriculture and critical minerals does not sound, on its face, like tourism news. Yet the same infrastructure and mobility questions that determine whether a mine's output reaches a port also determine whether a visitor...
P4m Investment Breathes Life into UB Hotel and Conference Centre
A capital city positioning itself as a regional conference and business hub had been letting one of its best-located venues stand empty. The University of Botswana Hotel — 80 rooms with conference capacity in the heart of Gaborone — sat dormant while the city it...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC: the lived regional economy and what comes next
Walk the beaches of Luanda's Ilha do Cabo or the coastal roads south toward Benguela and the blue economy is not a policy phrase, it is the boats coming in at dawn, the informal fish markets, the dive operators and lodges depending on marine conservation areas...
Afrophobia Due Diligence for Foreign Investors
In South Africa, worker nationality, community tension and diplomatic exposure are now material to deals. Add migration stakeholder mapping to due diligence.
African Capital May Quietly Choose Another Address
Anti-migrant hostility risks pushing African entrepreneurs to move headquarters, property and capital from South Africa. Monitor registrations and relocations.
The N3, Beitbridge and the Social Risk in Regional Corridors
Unrest and migration enforcement can disrupt the N3 and Beitbridge corridors serving landlocked SADC economies. Add social risk to continuity plans.
BDC to Inject P1.39bn Across Strategic Sectors
Botswana Development Corporation will deploy P1.39bn over two years across agriculture, health, manufacturing, energy, finance and tech. The strategy and the
Botswana Launches State-Owned Explorer to Unearth Critical Minerals
Botswana is creating a state explorer to probe the ~70% of its territory left untested, chasing critical minerals beyond diamonds. The strategy and the risks.
When Vigilantes Become Parallel Regulators
When South African civic groups inspect workers, homes and shops outside the law, they act as parallel regulators. Define escalation protocols now.
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Seven Things to Put in Writing Before She Starts
A verbal deal remembers nothing. Seven written terms – duties, hours, arrangement, access, pay, notice and conduct – settle in an afternoon the disputes households otherwise carry for years.
The Law Already Protects Her. Your Kitchen Probably Does Not
On paper a cleaner is entitled to minimum wage, a contract, UIF and injury cover. In the kitchen the arrangement is often an old verbal deal. That gap is where employers get it wrong.
46th SADC Summit across SADC — consumer demand and adoption for businesses across SADC
A summit theme built around industrialisation, agriculture and critical minerals reads, at first glance, like a producer's agenda — factories, farms and mines, not shopping baskets. Yet every one of those sectors eventually resolves into a consumer question: does...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC: regional demand and access and what comes next
Ask a household in Windhoek, Maputo or Dar es Salaam whether SADC's blue economy agenda has changed anything about the fish on their plate or the beach holiday they can afford, and the honest answer, as of this week, is not yet. The 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week,...
Angolan kwanza in RTGS across SADC — regional demand and access for regional operators
A payment-system announcement rarely reaches the person paying for goods. Central bank governors sign communiqués about settlement currencies; the shopper, the online buyer, and the small trader moving cash across a border see none of it directly. Yet this week's...
SADC ninth Industrialisation Week — consumer demand and adoption — and what comes next
An industrial strategy is meant to eventually reach a shelf, a price tag or a phone screen. As of 27 July 2026, when SADC opened its ninth annual Industrialisation Week at the Durban International Convention Centre, the region's own consumer goods sector remains...