Market Movers: How MTN Reshuffled Its People Chief and Country CEOs
The hardest reshuffle to read is the quiet one. A dramatic chief-executive exit makes headlines and tells its own story; a coordinated set of senior moves across the people function and two country operations rarely does, yet it often says more about where a group...
He Started by Washing His Neighbours’ Bins. Now He Employs Six
The businesses that last rarely begin with a clever idea. They begin with a dull, repeated problem that somebody is willing to solve for money. In Langa, on the Cape Flats, Bulelani Njobe found his in the one job his neighbours least wanted to do themselves: cleaning...
Confidence Dips: How FMD and Price Slumps Knocked SA Agribusiness Sentiment
Confidence is the cheapest input in agriculture and the hardest to rebuild. A farmer can absorb a bad price or a bad season as a one-off; what changes behaviour is the sense that the risks are stacking up faster than the returns. That is the signal in the second...
FMD Response Shifts from Culling to Vaccination in Zone 6b
Botswana's beef industry has long been protected by an instrument that quietly punishes the people it is meant to defend: the cull. For decades, the standard response to a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak has been depopulation — the slaughter of exposed herds to...
Afrophobia Due Diligence for Foreign Investors
A due-diligence pack will tell an investor almost everything except the one thing that can undo the deal. It measures the balance sheet, the title deeds, the tax position and the regulatory approvals, and it treats the workforce as a line item and the surrounding...
Future of Africa Plan: China Sets a 20,000-Trainee Target for 2025
China has put a number on its African skills ambition: about 20,000 people trained in 2025. The plan is precise where it counts heads and vague where it counts money.
Agri-logistics
A beast that fattens in Ghanzi still has to reach a market in Lobatse, and every fuel shock taxes that journey. Agri-logistics is where global oil prices quietly become a Botswana farm cost.
Green Paper: How Treasury’s Bond Framework Opens a Climate-Finance Pipeline
Treasury’s Sovereign Use of Proceeds Framework (29 May 2026) sets the rules for green bonds, opening a credible climate-finance pipeline for South Africa.
Bank of Botswana Holds Rate at 3.5% as Inflation Risks Loom
The Bank of Botswana held its policy rate at 3.5% on 26 Feb 2026 for a second meeting, flagging electricity-tariff and foot-and-mouth disease inflation risks.
AfCFTA Abroad, Afrophobia at Home
South Africa champions AfCFTA abroad while African migrants face hostility at home. How that contradiction tests policy credibility and market access.
Djibouti’s Luban Workshop: Africa’s First, Built Beside a Railway
Africa’s first Luban Workshop opened in a country with almost no manufacturing base. Its classroom is a railway, and its first graduating class numbered 24.
Irrigation economics
Every litre of water a farm wastes is a litre bought twice in a drier, costlier world. As global growth forecasts soften, water-efficient farming stops being green and becomes plain economics.
Input financing
When fertiliser and fuel prices swing without warning, a Botswana farmer’s biggest enemy is the calendar. Input financing is about reaching capital before the planting window closes.
Durban’s Luban Workshop: A Single Campus Tests China’s Skills Diplomacy
The most visible symbol of China-South Africa skills cooperation is not a flagship factory or a port. It is two rooms on a Durban university campus, fitted out for 3D printing.
Beef export protection
Botswana’s beef trade is a national asset and a national exposure. Livestock disease and market access are the two risks that decide whether it keeps reaching the EU.
Trained to Hire: Luban Workshops and the Jobs Inside Chinese Firms
Luban Workshops teach skills and Mandarin together, feeding graduates into Chinese-invested enterprises. That pipeline is the model’s strength and its catch.
Food-price index watch
The FAO food-price index reads like distant data until you remember Botswana imports much of its food. For an import-dependent system, it is an early-warning instrument.
Fertiliser-cost exposure
Middle East disruption that threatened fertiliser exports is a Botswana story too – it lands on every input cost a farmer pays before a single crop is sold.
Luban Workshops: The Vocational-Education Story to Watch in Africa
China’s Luban Workshops trade lecture halls for lathes and robots. The model is spreading fast – and its scale claims deserve a closer count.
Green-retail positioning
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.
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