Botswana’s labour market debates skills shortages while a large pool of capable workers stays unhired. An HR conference reframes neurodiversity as a productivity question.
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Neurodiversity as Innovation Driver: Businesses Urged to Adapt
Lyra Botswana’s MD told HR leaders in June 2026 that 15 to 20 percent of people are neurodivergent and that inclusive workplaces are two to three times more productive.
SADC fertiliser harmonisation — policy and strategy logic for SADC firms and investors
Southern Africa's regional agricultural policy architecture already contains at least four instruments that promised harmonisation before this one: the Regional Agricultural Policy of 2014, the Regional Crop Development Programme of 2019, the Harmonised Seed...
Remembering Mogae: Architect of Stability and Health Gains
Botswana observed three days of mourning in May 2026 for former president Festus Mogae, reopening debate about leadership legacies and policy continuity.
EU-SADC programme portfolio across SADC: policy and strategy logic and what comes next
Every regional bloc accumulates instruments faster than it retires them, and the Southern African Development Community is no exception. By the time the EU and SADC marked ten years of their Economic Partnership Agreement this week, the region already carried a 2006...
SADC Accelerated Regional Integration: Policy and Strategy Logic and What Comes Next
A regional bloc can hold a coherent long-term strategy and still struggle to make its annual machinery move at the same speed. That is the tension sitting inside the SADC Council of Ministers meeting held in Pretoria on 13 March 2026, where ministers approved the...
Botswana’s Digital Ambition: From Fibre to Cyber Security
Communications Minister David Tshere unveiled the ICT Roadmap 2030 in March 2026, targeting 100,000 ICT jobs, broadband expansion and new digital and cyber-security laws.
ATCMA programme launch across SADC — a regional framework to study
Regional trade blocs tend to solve their problems in a fixed order: agree the tariff schedule, then agree the rules of origin, then, much later and much more slowly, agree what "quality" and "standard" mean well enough that a buyer in one member...
45th SADC Summit across SADC — regional framework to study across SADC member states
Regional blocs tend to accumulate frameworks faster than they retire them, and SADC is no exception. The 45th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government, held on 17 August 2025 in Antananarivo, Republic of Madagascar, endorsed a new thematic framework —...