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Africa Thinks Here
On-the-ground business intelligence in South Africa & Eswatini, since July 2019.
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The theme SADC chose for its ninth annual Industrialisation Week names infrastructure development first, ahead of both agriculture and critical minerals, in a sentence that runs: "Resilient, Sustainable and Inclusive Industrialisation through Infrastructure...
A China-funded broadcasting headquarters for Seychelles broke ground in 2019 and handed over in 2025. The long road from grant to keys is the real infrastructure story.
Botswana’s energy and mineral deals with Oman point to a market where power is precious – and where retail brands will favour the malls that can keep the lights on.
As Botswana pushes exploration beyond diamonds and into solar, it is also creating demand for somewhere to put the geologists, engineers and advisers who follow.
China has funded more than 170 schools across Africa. The visible buildings raise a quieter question of who pays the teachers and bills after handover.
World trade kept rising in April, a reminder that goods still move – and that the depots sitting on the right SADC routes are the ones that capture the flow.
A diamond-sector downgrade and a shift in how rough is sold are quietly rewriting Botswana’s logistics map – and the high-security property that serves it.
A fresh roster of Chinese-built hospitals and diagnostic centres reads as system-strengthening. Whether national budgets can run them is the unwritten clause.
A global growth downgrade is also a warning about water and energy. For Botswana developers, the buildings that hold their value will be the ones that secure both.