Biosecurity Lapses Trigger FMD Outbreak at AI Centre
Biosecurity is one of those disciplines that costs money continuously and proves its worth only in the disaster it prevents. The temptation, in calm periods, is to treat the protocols as bureaucracy. Botswana's beef sector has just been reminded what the protocols are...
What a R2 billion cleaning contract really buys
When the City of Cape Town put an eight-year contract for cleaning and related services out to tender, the projected value ran past R2.6 billion. That single figure explains more about the South African cleaning economy than any brochure: at this scale, cleaning is...
Top of the Exchange: How Valdene Reddy Took the Helm at the JSE
A stock exchange is judged by the companies it can attract, not the ones it already holds. For years the worry around the JSE was the wrong direction of travel: delistings outpacing new arrivals, and a bourse working to prove it could still draw issuers in a...
Malaria Cases Surge as Residents Shun Indoor Spraying in the North West
Public health usually fails on supply — too few clinics, too little medicine, too thin a budget. In Botswana's North West District over the rainy season, it failed on a quieter front: consent. Between November 2025 and January 2026, the district recorded 38 malaria...
The African Union Test South Africa Did Not Want
South Africa spent three decades accumulating an asset that never appeared on any ledger: the standing to convene, to mediate, and to speak for the continent in rooms where Africa’s weight is decided. That asset is now being tested by events at home. When Ghana...
Bogolo Joy Kenewendo
Botswana’s mines minister has fronted the country’s push beyond diamonds into critical minerals, framing exploration as the next chapter rather than a replacement for the stone that built the state.
Ndaba Gaolathe
Botswana’s finance minister has become the central figure in a debate over debt, deficits and the long-promised move beyond diamonds, with the 2026 budget projecting a rebound.
Producer margins
Fuel, fertiliser and price swings are squeezing the space between what a farmer spends and what a farmer earns. For Botswana, the margin is where the sector’s viability is decided.
People-to-People: The Soft Layer Holding Up the Hardware Story
China and the AU launched a 2026 Year of People-to-People Exchanges in Addis Ababa. The summit was long on symbolism and short on the scholarship and training numbers that sustain it.
Local seed systems
When imported seed and inputs are disrupted, local systems look less like nostalgia and more like insurance. Botswana has reason to take its own seed systems seriously.
Agri-data registries
Relief and finance both depend on knowing who farms what, where. Without accurate farm data, Botswana’s farmers risk being invisible to the support meant to reach them.
Pipeline-Builders: China-Africa Youth Contests Bet on Founders, Not Factories
A China-Africa youth entrepreneurship competition now runs across continents on digital economy and AI. The harder question is what happens to the founders after the final in Wuhan.
The Executive Who Screams at the Bartender
Cabanga Africa Group releases a new manifesto for leaders who depend on digital infrastructure they have never bothered to understand. An executive walks into a bar and orders premium tequila. Not because they want it, but because it looks like something a serious...
Livestock movement compliance
Disease-control protocols decide whether Botswana’s beef reaches a premium market or stays home. For a country built on cattle, livestock compliance is market access by another name.
Joint Labs: The Quiet Infrastructure China Is Building Without Concrete
Three new China-Africa joint laboratories in soil, crop pests and animal disease are infrastructure you cannot photograph – the kind that decides whether knowledge stays on the continent.
Farming as industry
Food shocks keep proving the same point: agriculture is not a soft social sector but a strategic industry. The Botswana that treats farming as infrastructure weathers the next shock better.
Climate-smart funding
Global lenders are steering capital toward climate-resilience projects that are bankable. For Botswana the lesson is sharp: a good idea is not enough – the project has to be ready to finance.
Flora of Kenya: How an Orchid Atlas Became a Knowledge-Economy Test
A volume cataloguing Kenya’s orchids, co-edited by Chinese and Kenyan scientists, is a real research output. Whether it builds Kenyan capacity or just Chinese citations is the deeper question.
Smallholder aggregation
Buyers want reliable volumes, not scattered surpluses. That preference is quietly pushing Botswana’s smallholders toward cooperatives – and toward tables they could never reach alone.
Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
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