Seven Safety Checks Before a Domestic Cleaning Job
Most injuries in domestic work are neither freak accidents nor mysteries; they are the wet floor, the wrong chemical mix, the chair used as a ladder and the locked gate in an emergency, and they are predictable enough to be caught before the work starts. A short check...
Blue Economy growth agenda — regional economic opportunity — across SADC member states
Southern Africa has no shortage of coastline, fish stocks or aquaculture potential. What it has lacked, until recently, is a shared regional signal that the blue economy is an investable growth sector rather than a conservation footnote. That signal arrived in Luanda...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC: institutional capability — and what comes next
Regional strategies live or die on the people mandated to execute them, and the 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week, held in Luanda from 22 to 25 July, put two of the most relevant institutional figures for SADC's blue economy agenda squarely in front of the region:...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC — capital and bankability — and what comes next
A regional bloc can declare a sector strategically important without a single lender changing a credit assessment. That is the gap the 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week, held in Luanda from 22 to 25 July, was designed to close — political endorsement on one side, bankable...
Angolan kwanza in RTGS across SADC — regional framework to study — and what comes next
SADC's regional integration architecture is full of instruments that exist on paper well before they operate in practice — protocols signed, strategies adopted, roadmaps published, with implementation trailing years behind ratification. The SADC Free Trade Area,...
Public Schools Stuck Waiting for Balls and Nets
Regional directors said public schools resumed sports but equipment requests remain pending, while private schools continue despite shortages.
Schools Keep Meals Flowing Amid Supply Chain Snags
Kanye District councillors said the school feeding programme runs fairly despite delays in beans and samp supplies, with P6.5 million budgeted.
Government Swings Back to Insourcing to Restore Service Quality
Minister Moeti Mohwasa explained an insourcing policy to improve public service, create secure jobs and reduce reliance on contractors.
Shanti Lo Celebrates Quarter-Century with Legacy Tour and Docu-Series
Gaborone singer Shanti Lo announced a 25-year Legacy Tour culminating in concerts and a documentary tracing Botswana’s evolving music industry.
Beauty Queen Bridges Cultures at Bushfire Festival
Miss World Botswana Ruth Thomas visited the Nama community in Lokgwabe in traditional attire, using her platform to promote cultural tourism off the usual map.
Inclusive Afro Tech Celebrates Diversity in Electronic Music
The GIMC Afro Tech festival foregrounds inclusivity, with wheelchair-using DJ Kabila and female DJs on the bill, testing whether electronic music can widen its circle.
Data-Driven Relief: Councils Build FMD Impact Database
The Ministry of Local Government instructed councils in June 2026 to register households affected by foot-and-mouth disease so relief measures can be properly targeted.
Public Works Meet Biosecurity: Ikageng Workers Reinforce FMD Fences
About 1,050 Ikageng workers were deployed to Ramotswa, Good Hope and Tsabong in June 2026 to erect fences and clear bush lines against foot-and-mouth disease.
Rural Council Bets on Solar and Agro-Clusters to Break Fiscal Dependence
Letlhakeng District Council plans to raise its own revenue through a solar farm, a commercialised agricultural cluster and a modern commercial centre.
Botswana Taxes Netflix and the Cloud: Digital VAT Arrives
From 1 June 2026, BURS requires foreign digital-services providers to register for VAT, with a four-month grace period and an expected P450 million in extra revenue.
Credit Tightening Reversed: Central Bank Forces Banks to Hold Rates
Policy held steady, yet prime lending rates climbed anyway. The Bank of Botswana’s answer was to lift its policy rate and tell commercial banks to stop.
SADC fertiliser harmonisation — consumer demand and adoption across SADC member states
The smallholder farmer buying a bag of fertiliser in rural Mozambique is, in every meaningful commercial sense, a consumer, choosing between products of uncertain quality, at prices shaped by fragmented import channels, with limited recourse if the blend on the label...
SADC fertiliser harmonisation — capital and bankability — for SADC firms and investors
A regional fertiliser reserve, a joint procurement mechanism and a livestock vaccine bank were all endorsed at a single ministerial meeting on 29 May 2026, yet none has a disclosed source of capital. That gap between institutional intent and financial commitment is...
SADC fertiliser harmonisation — the operators behind delivery — for regional operators
Regional policy frameworks are approved by committees, but they are implemented, or not, by named individuals sitting inside specific institutions with specific mandates. On 29 May 2026, in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, three such individuals sat at the centre of...
SADC fertiliser harmonisation — policy and strategy logic for SADC firms and investors
Southern Africa's regional agricultural policy architecture already contains at least four instruments that promised harmonisation before this one: the Regional Agricultural Policy of 2014, the Regional Crop Development Programme of 2019, the Harmonised Seed...
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