Five waste-recovery services a cleaning company can add
Every cleaning contract already handles waste; the question is whether the business captures any value from it or simply carries it to a skip. Adding waste-recovery services is one of the few ways a cleaning company can grow revenue without chasing new clients,...
Brussels Money: How the EU’s €12 Billion Roadshow Targets SA Energy and Ports
European capital has talked about Africa as a partner for years while behaving towards it as a quarry — somewhere to source minerals and sell finished goods. The European Union's first investment roadshow in South Africa is an attempt to be seen doing something...
Maun Solar Megaproject: 30-Year 500MW PPA Sealed with Oman
Botswana has some of the most generous sunlight on the planet and, for most of its history, almost no large-scale way to capture it. The country has burned coal and imported power across the regional grid while the Kalahari sun went largely unmonetised — a resource as...
The Productivity Loss Behind Voluntary Repatriation
A firm loses a skilled worker in an afternoon. It rebuilds that capability over months, sometimes years. Departure is fast; replacement is not, and the gap between them is where the real cost of voluntary repatriation sits. As anti-migrant pressure has risen, some...
Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
When Migrant Labour Leaves: The Hidden Supply Shock
When migrant workers leave South African sectors, vacancies become output gaps. How to map migrant-labour dependency by role, province and contractor first.
Trade-finance timing
World trade rose in April, a fresh sign of resilience – and the lesson for Botswana is that trade finance, the timing of when goods move and get paid for, is itself a competitive advantage.
Abuja-Kaduna Rail: The Safe Corridor a Single Attack Reframed
Nigeria’s first modern intercity railway became prized as the safe way to travel a kidnap-prone road. In 2022 an attack on a train tested that promise.
IMF shock facilities
The IMF has highlighted financing support for African countries hit by conflict-related shocks – a reminder that for Botswana, knowing the facilities exist before a crisis is preparedness.
Abuja Light Rail: A Capital’s Metro That Opened, Stalled, Then Reopened
Nigeria’s capital launched the country’s first urban rail in 2018. It then sat largely idle for years before service resumed in 2024.
Global growth risk budgeting
The World Bank’s downgraded global growth outlook describes a more fragile path – and for an open, commodity-linked economy like Botswana, a weaker world is a budgeting assumption to take seriously.
Namibia oil optionality
Namibia’s oil prospects could create a new regional magnet for capital – and Botswana, sharing a border and a region, has reason to plan for a neighbour that suddenly draws the money.
Addis Ababa Transit: A Metro Built for the Industrial City It Awaited
The light rail’s southern line was routed deliberately toward factory districts. The transit arrived; the industrial boom it anticipated arrived more slowly.
South African portfolio flows
Investors have returned to South African assets as inflation fears ease – and capital that warms to Botswana’s largest neighbour rarely leaves the rest of the region untouched.
Addis Ababa Light Rail: Africa’s First Metro and the Bill After the Ribbon
Sub-Saharan Africa’s first light rail opened in 2015 to genuine acclaim. Within a decade it needed rescuing from its own decline.
Fertiliser finance
Fertiliser supply risk has threatened African food systems – and for Botswana, a food importer with thin domestic production, the financing of fertiliser is a quiet line of food security.
Oil-price hedging
Oil prices swung sharply during Middle East supply disruptions – a reminder that for an oil-importing economy like Botswana, hedging is a budgeting discipline, not a speculative bet.
Djibouti-Ethiopia Rail: When Sea Access Runs Through a Neighbour’s Port
A railway can carry a landlocked country’s trade to the coast in hours. It cannot make that coast its own.
Renewable project finance
Large solar projects in Botswana have moved from concept to signed arrangements – the point at which renewable ambition starts to behave like real, financed infrastructure.
Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway: The Export Line That Trucks Keep Overtaking
A 753-kilometre electric railway was built to carry a landlocked nation’s trade to the sea. Eight years on, much of that trade still goes by road.
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