Local Procurement Plans Need a Nationality-Risk Audit
Procurement teams audit for price, quality and delivery. They rarely audit for the one exposure that anti-migrant disruption makes material: how much of a supplier’s ability to deliver rests on migrant-owned subcontractors and migrant workers whose position has...
Kazungula Bridge Authority Formalised, Strengthening Botswana–Zambia Ties
Cross-border infrastructure in Southern Africa rarely fails for want of steel. It fails for want of a clear answer to a duller question: once the bridge is built, who runs it, who bills for it, and who carries the legal authority to keep it open. The Kazungula Bridge...
Legal Status Is No Longer a Complete Risk Control
Risk officers have long treated immigration paperwork as the master control: a valid permit means a compliant employee, tenant or supplier, and the matter is closed. The reports of documented residents and permit holders being intimidated in South Africa dismantle...
Tariff Reprieve: How the Rand Firmed as Pretoria Defused a US Trade Probe
Currency markets price politics faster than politicians can give speeches, and for weeks the rand had been pricing in a bad outcome — a 30% American tariff hanging over South African exports while a US trade probe ran its course. Then, on 4 June 2026, the currency...
P4m Investment Breathes Life into UB Hotel and Conference Centre
A capital city positioning itself as a regional conference and business hub had been letting one of its best-located venues stand empty. The University of Botswana Hotel — 80 rooms with conference capacity in the heart of Gaborone — sat dormant while the city it...
Transport as integration: China’s footprint and the regional-knitting test
Beijing frames its railways and ports as a contribution to African integration. The continent’s own plans, PIDA and Agenda 2063, are the yardstick.
Digital VAT
Botswana moved to tax foreign digital services, raising the cost base of streaming, SaaS and online subscriptions. For consumers and firms alike, the digital bill is about to change.
Liberalised skies and AI infrastructure — institutional capability and what comes next
Regional integration decisions are made by ministers in a conference room; they are converted into runways, border systems and functioning early-warning networks by named institutions and operators who show up long after the communiqué is filed. The gap between the...
Board-level treasury
The World Bank cut its global growth outlook and warned of a sharper drop if conflict spreads. In that volatility, treasury management has moved from back office to boardroom.
From port to inland market: the Northern Corridor’s longer arithmetic
Mombasa to the interior is the showcase corridor. The harder economics sit in the dry-season roads of Kenya’s north, where a day’s trip should take hours.
Household affordability
Botswana’s budget projects an economic rebound this year. Inflation risk is the variable that decides whether households actually feel it in their discretionary spending.
Small towns on the line: corridor infrastructure as a growth enabler
Flagship corridors are sold by capital-city endpoints. The quieter story is what happens to the towns the road passes through on the way.
AI investment finance
AI demand kept global electronics trade moving through a volatile year. The financing question for Botswana is whether it funds the chips or the things they make possible.
Food-price working capital
Food and fertiliser prices keep moving, and every swing forces firms to finance inventory they did not budget for. For Botswana’s food chain, working capital is the quiet cost of volatility.
Corridors over showpieces: why the link between projects matters most
A single railway is a ribbon-cutting. A working corridor is an economy. The gap between the two is where most African trade still loses money.
Cost of capital in construction
Botswana signed energy and mineral exploration deals with Oman just as financing costs climbed worldwide. The ambition is real; the cost of capital decides which projects survive it.
Ports as gateways: where China’s African infrastructure meets the trade test
Beijing’s white paper counts almost 100 ports built across Africa. Whether those quays move African goods, or mostly imports, is the harder question.
Banking for exporters
World trade rose in April even as tariff threats multiplied. For Botswana exporters, the lesson is less about the rebound than about the banking that survives the next shock.
Diamond-sector receivables
Rough-diamond price swings ripple through cash conversion for cutters, traders and suppliers – and after an S&P downgrade, Botswana’s receivables sit in the path of global headwinds.
Bridges as Multipliers: Mozambique’s 3km Span and Its 4% Debt
Africa’s longest suspension bridge cut a six-hour journey to 90 minutes across Maputo Bay. It also left Mozambique repaying a US$785m loan at 4% – a multiplier of commerce, and of debt.
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