The Bank Account That Cannot Protect Its Owner
A bank account is supposed to be a form of protection. It holds a person’s money out of harm’s way, records their identity, and gives them standing in a formal economy that a cash-only life denies. For migrants in South Africa, financial inclusion...
Moswaane Calls for Unity over the Proposed Constitutional Court
A court is meant to settle disputes, but the proposal to create one has become a dispute of its own. Botswana's debate over a dedicated Constitutional Court pits an argument about strengthening the rule of law against an argument about the price of running it. On 10...
Formalising the Informal Economy Without Destroying It
There is a familiar reflex in a crisis: bring the informal into the formal, license it, inspect it, tax it, control it. The reflex is not wrong. But applied to South Africa’s township distribution economy with the wrong speed and sequence, formalisation can...
Six Steps to Build a Post-Construction Cleaning Service
A post-construction cleaning service either runs on a system or it runs on luck, and luck fails on the first job where the plaster dust turns out to be everywhere and the occupation date is tomorrow. The builder's clean is skilled, hazardous, deadline-driven work, so...
Starbucks vs. Vida Caffe: Distribution, not Prestige, is shaping Africa’s Coffee Expansion
New Africa-focused analysis of Starbucks South Africa and vida e caffè examines accessibility, affordability, availability and route-to-market as the real mechanics of continental expansion. GABORONE, Botswana - 27 September 2026 - A new comparative analysis by...
Blue Economy growth agenda — regional economic opportunity — across SADC member states
Southern Africa has no shortage of coastline, fish stocks or aquaculture potential. What it has lacked, until recently, is a shared regional signal that the blue economy is an investable growth sector rather than a conservation footnote. That signal arrived in Luanda...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC: institutional capability — and what comes next
Regional strategies live or die on the people mandated to execute them, and the 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week, held in Luanda from 22 to 25 July, put two of the most relevant institutional figures for SADC's blue economy agenda squarely in front of the region:...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC — capital and bankability — and what comes next
A regional bloc can declare a sector strategically important without a single lender changing a credit assessment. That is the gap the 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week, held in Luanda from 22 to 25 July, was designed to close — political endorsement on one side, bankable...
Angolan kwanza in RTGS across SADC — regional framework to study — and what comes next
SADC's regional integration architecture is full of instruments that exist on paper well before they operate in practice — protocols signed, strategies adopted, roadmaps published, with implementation trailing years behind ratification. The SADC Free Trade Area,...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC — built-market implications and what comes next
A blue economy needs a built one underneath it: ports capable of handling both cargo and passenger tourism traffic, cold-chain and processing facilities near the water, power and digital connectivity reaching coastal communities, and roads or rail linking landing...
Angolan kwanza in RTGS across SADC — regional economic opportunity and what comes next
For thirteen years, SADC's Real Time Gross Settlement system has run on a single currency. Every cross-border transaction among the bloc's fifteen participating states — Zambian copper sold to South Africa, Malawian tobacco financed through Johannesburg,...
The Construction Cost Barometer
The Construction Cost Barometer tracks cement, steel, fuel and finance costs, framed by Botswana’s energy and mineral exploration deals with Oman.
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...
The Botswana Ratings File
The Botswana Ratings File is a Voices special report explaining what a sovereign downgrade means for SMEs, set against a budget projecting an economic rebound.
The Payments Trust Report
The Payments Trust Report is a magazine guide showing Botswana merchants how consumers choose payment channels and what builds trust at the point of sale.
SADC ninth Industrialisation Week: regional economic opportunity — and what comes next
SADC's own statistics describe the problem its member states convened to solve this week. Intra-regional trade across the bloc's sixteen economies sits at around 20 percent of total trade — a share the region wants to exceed, against roughly 30 percent among...
The Small Business Shock Index
The Small Business Shock Index is a recurring dashboard that turns global shocks into local signals, built as the World Bank cuts its 2026 growth outlook.
SADC ninth Industrialisation Week — built-market implications — for regional operators
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...
The Agri-Input Tracker
The Agri-Input Tracker is a data-led guide that monitors fertiliser, feed, fuel and crop prices so Botswana farmers and food sellers can plan against global swings.
SADC ninth Industrialisation Week — institutional capability across SADC member states
Two names anchor the ninth annual SADC Industrialisation Week: President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, delivering the keynote, and Elias Magosi, SADC's Executive Secretary, presiding over the institutional programme. Between a head of state's keynote and...
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