Botswana’s energy and mineral exploration deals with Oman put a new class of construction executive in the spotlight – the people who turn signed agreements into delivered infrastructure.
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Profiles
Retail founders
Inflation and consumer pressure forced Botswana’s retail founders into a new pricing discipline, even as the national budget projected an economic rebound to come.
Tourism operators
As stagflation fears faded and fresh buyers returned to South African assets, Botswana’s tourism operators read the regional shift for what it means to hotel and lodge demand.
Women in energy and mining
As Botswana opens new mineral and energy sectors beyond diamonds, the question is whether their leadership pipelines will include women from the start or repeat old exclusions.
Digital-payment builders
Research on African users’ trust concerns with digital payments offers hard leadership lessons for fintech founders building the rails of a cash-light Botswana.
Agribusiness operators
Botswana’s farmers and processors faced input-cost and food-security pressure as the global food price index stayed elevated, putting agribusiness leaders on the front line of affordability.
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.