Seat Open: How the Reserve Bank Hunts a Shareholder-Elected Director
A central bank is the one institution most people assume is closed to ordinary shareholders. The South African Reserve Bank is the unusual exception — it is privately shareheld, and its shareholders elect a portion of its board. That structural quirk became live again...
46th SADC Summit across SADC: built-market implications — for SADC firms and investors
A map of Southern Africa's transport corridors, power interconnectors and border posts looks, on paper, like an integrated system. In practice, freight still slows at borders, power pools still trade unevenly, and rail lines built decades apart under different...
46th SADC Summit across SADC — destination and travel value for businesses across SADC
A summit dedicated to industrialisation, agriculture and critical minerals does not sound, on its face, like tourism news. Yet the same infrastructure and mobility questions that determine whether a mine's output reaches a port also determine whether a visitor...
46th SADC Summit across SADC — regional framework to study — across SADC member states
Regional blocs accumulate strategy documents faster than they accumulate implementation. The Southern African Development Community now carries a Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan running to 2030, a Vision extending to 2050, and a fresh summit theme...
46th SADC Summit across SADC — consumer demand and adoption for businesses across SADC
A summit theme built around industrialisation, agriculture and critical minerals reads, at first glance, like a producer's agenda — factories, farms and mines, not shopping baskets. Yet every one of those sectors eventually resolves into a consumer question: does...
SADC transport and ICT integration: built-market implications — for regional operators
A transport corridor is, among other things, a real estate instrument. The road, rail line or border post itself is only the visible spine; the commercial value it creates accrues to the warehouses, logistics parks, fuel depots and border-adjacent commercial land that...
Mobile payments
New research on digital payment sentiment in Africa points to a simple operational truth: accept payment on every platform the customer already uses, or lose the sale at the last step.
Bui Dam: How Ghana Bought 400 MW on Commercial Terms From China
Ghana built the Bui hydropower dam to escape blackouts. Its US$292 million Chinese loan carried a 6.1 per cent rate and no grant element – a power-capacity story priced like a mortgage.
SADC transport and ICT integration — the lived regional economy for regional operators
A tourist planning a multi-country SADC itinerary — Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, then a transfrontier park spanning two or three borders, then a coastal stretch in another member state entirely — experiences regional integration as a series of very concrete questions:...
SADC transport and ICT integration — regional economic opportunity and what comes next
The Southern African Development Community has never lacked ambition on paper. Protocols on trade, transport and communications have existed for decades, and intra-regional trade figures have moved only slowly against them. The persistent explanation is not the...
Budget-conscious branding
Botswana’s budget projects a rebound even as inflation pressures push shoppers toward value. For brands, the gap between the macro forecast and the household receipt is the whole story.
The Hall as Hard Asset: China’s Conference Centres and the Business Climate
A refurbished hall in Yaounde looks like a gift. Read as infrastructure, China’s conference-centre diplomacy is a quieter bet on Africa’s business environment.
E-commerce imports
World trade proved resilient, but the data warns digital sellers: a click is easy, the cross-border logistics behind it are not. For Botswana e-commerce, the parcel is the weak link.
SADC transport and ICT integration — institutional capability — for regional operators
Regional integration is often described as if it happens to a bloc rather than through specific people occupying specific chairs at specific meetings. On 26 June 2026, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the chair of SADC's Cluster of Ministers responsible for Transport, ICT,...
SADC transport and ICT integration — farm-to-market implications — and what comes next
A smallholder farmer in one SADC member state deciding whether to plant for the domestic market or for regional export is, in effect, pricing three separate risks at once: the weather, the road, and the border. Meteorological forecasting tells her whether the rains...
SADC transport and ICT integration — regional demand and access for regional operators
A traveller crossing from Zimbabwe into a neighbouring SADC state still typically buys a new SIM card, negotiates a new roaming charge, and loses signal somewhere in the space between two networks. A small trader moving goods across the same border still often carries...
Retail stockpiling
Resilient world trade carried a quieter signal: traders are stockpiling against tariff and shipping risk. For a landlocked importer, the warehouse has become a hedge.
A Roof Counted Twice: China’s Africa Housing, Seen From the Household
Social housing rarely makes the China-Africa ledger. In Djibouti two parallel schemes show what the household-facing side of infrastructure actually delivers – and what it leaves uncounted.
Liberalised skies and AI infrastructure: policy and strategy logic and what comes next
SADC has committed, on paper, to open regional skies before. The Yamoussoukro Decision on liberalising African air transport dates back decades at continental level, and the Single African Air Transport Market has been a stated African Union project since 2018. That a...
Food-basket pressure
The world’s food bill is set in places Botswana cannot influence, yet it is paid in Gaborone kitchens. When global food and fertiliser costs climb, the household basket is the first casualty.
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