Botswana’s Diamond Stockpile Doubles as Prices Slump
An economy that depends on a single commodity learns the hard way that demand, not production, sets the terms. Botswana can mine diamonds efficiently; what it cannot do is force the world to buy them at the price it needs. That asymmetry is now visible in a single...
Headwinds and Bright Spots: How AgriTrends Reads SA Agriculture’s 2026
South African agriculture spent 2026 being told two stories at once: that the global trading system underpinning its exports is fracturing, and that some of its most valuable crops have rarely had better prospects. Absa's AgriTrends Autumn 2026 report holds both at...
BoFiNet Names Dr Gaone Seleka CEO to Drive Digital Infrastructure
Botswana has spent a decade talking about a digital economy while much of the heavy lifting still rests on a single state-owned wholesaler of fibre. That wholesaler, Botswana Fibre Networks, sits at the point where ambition meets cable: every bank app, every...
Security Externalities: The Cost Paid by Businesses That Were Never Targeted
A firm that never displayed a poster, never took a side and never appeared on anyone’s list can still find its month written by other people’s politics. When cities across Gauteng shuttered ahead of anti-migrant protests, the cost did not fall only on the...
Banjul Reboot: How ARIPO’s Overhaul Doubles Fees and Digitises Trademark Filing
A regional patent and trademark system only works if it is cheaper and simpler than filing country by country, yet ARIPO's trademark route has long carried a reputation for being clunky and uneven. From 1 March 2026, the organisation that administers...
The Contract Sales Lesson
Moving diamond sales from the auction floor to fixed contracts is a quiet decision with a loud lesson about where revenue stability comes from.
Industrial Parks as Gateways: Ethiopia’s FDI Bet, Measured at the Exit
Ethiopia’s parks pulled in record FDI and tens of thousands of jobs. The IFC’s diagnostic is admiring and wary in the same breath: the gateway works, but the road past it is congested.
The Public Works Economy
When debt tightens and revenue softens, public spending stops being a budget line and becomes a question about the shape of the economy.
Huajian in Ethiopia: A Shoemaker as the Test Case for Industrial Linkage
A Chinese shoe firm exporting Ethiopian-made footwear to the US and Europe is the model linkage story – and the clearest evidence of how hard local sourcing actually is.
The Fertiliser Multiplier
A change in the price of fertiliser does not stay in the field. It travels into food, into wages and onto the shelf.
The Inventory Shock Doctrine
Global stockpiling looks like panic from the outside. Read closely, it is a masterclass in buying before the disruption arrives.
Private Chinese Parks: Ethiopia’s Export Bet, Built Largely by Outsiders
Ethiopia’s drive to become Africa’s top manufacturer leans on private, often Chinese-owned zones. They have delivered factories and exports – and a dependence on foreign developers to build them.
The Regional Beta
Botswana does not trade on the same exchanges as South Africa, yet South African sentiment moves through its trade and its psychology all the same.
Learning Zones: Chinese Parks Transfer Plenty of Jobs, Less of the Knowledge
Chinese zones in Ethiopia are pitched as classrooms for industrialisation. The evidence shows they teach hands well and managers rarely, leaving the deeper learning largely unrealised.
The Resource-to-Services Bridge
Mining demand is usually counted from the day production starts. The economic activity around exploration begins years earlier.
The Formalisation Flywheel
Formalisation usually arrives as a stick. Digital VAT, payments and compliance hint at a version that arrives as plumbing instead.
China’s Zone Playbook: An Export, but One That Resists Copy-Paste
China turned four coastal experiments into a growth engine and now markets the recipe to Africa. The World Bank’s own verdict is that the method travels far better than the results.
The Middle-Market Resilience Test
A global growth downgrade reads as a headline for conglomerates and a survival test for the small firms that employ most of Botswana.
Eastern Industrial Zone: A Chinese Park Counted in Jobs, Not Just Square Metres
A Chinese-built park 35km from Addis Ababa was meant to seed 20,000 local jobs. By late 2017 it had created roughly 10,000 – a real number, and a measure of the distance left to travel.
The African Diamond Boardroom
When African states start eyeing equity in De Beers, the question stops being about price and starts being about who sits in the room.
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