More cleaners is not the same as more company
The instinct, when a small cleaning company starts turning away work, is to hire more cleaners. It feels like growth, and for a week or two it looks like it. Then the complaints start, the supplies run short at the wrong site, and the founder discovers that a business...
When Vigilantes Become Parallel Regulators
The rule of law is meant to be a monopoly. When a group with no legal authority begins inspecting workers, checking homes and vetting shops, that monopoly has quietly cracked, and a business no longer answers to one set of rules but to two. South Africa’s...
Beyond the Gulf: How Sihlobo Urges SA Citrus to Find New Markets
Export concentration feels like loyalty until the day it becomes exposure. South African citrus has built durable relationships in the Middle East, but when conflict in that region put those shipments at risk in 2026, the lesson Agbiz chief economist Wandile Sihlobo...
Nigerian Energy Expert Joins BPC Board to Drive Maduo 26
Botswana exports diamonds and beef with discipline, but it still imports a large share of the electricity that keeps the lights on. For a country that mines coal and sits under abundant sun, that is the structural contradiction the power sector has been wrestling with...
Afrophobia Is Becoming a Municipal Election Variable
A campaign slogan is not a statute, but it can behave like one long before any ballot is counted. As South African municipalities move towards local elections, anti-migrant mobilisation is hardening from street protest into a variable that shapes how councils license,...
Cement and input costs
Cement and steel do not have local prices so much as global ones in local clothing. A note on why Botswana construction is exposed to energy and commodity shocks it cannot see coming.
Grow, process, sell: the business chain Africa keeps leaving incomplete
China’s pledges span planting, processing and trade. The middle link, turning crops into finished goods on African soil, is the one the continent most needs and most often misses.
Industrial land for minerals
Botswana’s push to explore beyond diamonds is a minerals story with a property tail: every new deposit eventually needs roads, depots and service yards before it needs a mine.
Trade fairs as pipelines: turning expo handshakes into SME orders
A four-day expo can announce billions in deals. The harder question is how many of those handshakes survive contact with shipping schedules, payment terms and a small firm’s first export.
Oil-storage infrastructure
The Botswana-Oman deals are remembered for solar and minerals. Tucked inside them is an infrastructure line – oil storage in Botswana and at Walvis Bay – that quietly reshapes the logistics map.
Solar megaproject sites
Botswana’s 500 MW solar deal is usually read as an energy story. For property and development, it is a land, grid and construction story – and the land is the part nobody is talking about yet.
Trade finance: the quiet plumbing behind Africa’s exports to China
Tariffs and protocols open the market, but a shipment only sails when someone finances it. The credit, insurance and bonds behind African exports rarely make headlines, yet they decide who can trade.
The Thinker’s Economy
The WTO’s leading indicator pointing to continued trade resilience is a fact. Turning that fact into a decision is the work of the thinker’s economy and the nine-section architecture built to do it.
Quarantine and paperwork: the unglamorous keys to Africa’s China market
Market access into China is won less by handshakes than by inspection protocols. Twenty-two export agreements have opened doors, but only for the producers who can meet the standards behind them.
The Entrepreneur’s War Room
The World Bank’s 2026 downgrade is less a forecast than a warning to founders: in a year of shocks, scenario planning stops being a luxury and becomes a discipline.
Made in Africa, sold to China: why zero tariffs are only the doorway
China has thrown the door open to African goods. Walking through it with finished products, rather than raw ore, is the harder task that no tariff schedule can do for the continent.
The National Brand Premium
When the World Bank cut its 2026 global growth outlook, it underlined a quieter truth for Botswana: the price a country pays to attract capital is set by its national brand.
The AI Supply Chain Lens
AI hardware trade is reshaping who imports, resells and trains. For Botswana, the supply-chain lens reveals where local value can actually be captured.
The 10,000: Africa’s private Chinese firms outnumber the state giants
The image of Chinese investment in Africa is a state colossus building dams. The data says otherwise: most of the roughly 10,000 Chinese firms on the continent are small and privately owned.
The Small-State Strategy
As South African assets draw fresh buyers, Botswana and Namibia show how small states use resources and policy to compete in a larger neighbour’s shadow.
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