Formalising the Informal Economy Without Destroying It
There is a familiar reflex in a crisis: bring the informal into the formal, license it, inspect it, tax it, control it. The reflex is not wrong. But applied to South Africa’s township distribution economy with the wrong speed and sequence, formalisation can...
The Importer’s Risk Guide
Content - Voices & Podcasts · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Most Botswana importers price a shipment at the supplier's quote and discover the real number months later, on the floor of the warehouse. The Importer's Risk Guide...
SADC ninth Industrialisation Week — consumer demand and adoption — and what comes next
An industrial strategy is meant to eventually reach a shelf, a price tag or a phone screen. As of 27 July 2026, when SADC opened its ninth annual Industrialisation Week at the Durban International Convention Centre, the region's own consumer goods sector remains...
SADC ninth Industrialisation Week — capital and bankability for businesses across SADC
A regional strategy can name every priority value chain it likes; none of them get built without a lender or investor willing to price the risk. That is the tension sitting underneath SADC's ninth Industrialisation Week, which opened on 27 July 2026 at the Durban...
SADC ninth Industrialisation Week — policy and strategy logic — for regional operators
SADC does not lack strategy documents. By the time its ninth annual Industrialisation Week opened at the Durban International Convention Centre on 27 July 2026, the bloc could point to at least four overlapping frameworks governing industrial policy: the...
Exploration Intensifies in the Kalahari Copperbelt
UK-listed Aterian plc began a 90 km2 soil geochemistry survey over its Namib licences in Botswana’s Kalahari Copperbelt in April 2026, ahead of larger-scale drilling.
Botswana’s Cement Gambit: Leveraging Fly-Ash for Industrialisation
Cheetah Cement announced a 19-hectare dry-process plant in April 2026, using fly-ash and nickel slag to make 800,000 tonnes a year, cutting imports and creating about 515 jobs.
Maun’s Auto Hub: Toyota Expansion Signals Tourism Confidence
Halfway Toyota expanded its Ngami dealership in Maun in April 2026 – a small signal of investor confidence in a region that runs on tourism and local enterprise.
Regulators Force Vivo to Relinquish Engen Botswana
Vivo Energy agreed to sell its 70% stake in Engen Botswana to the Fusion Spark consortium in April 2026, after competition concerns over the combined fuel business.
SADC Accelerated Regional Integration: Regional Economic Opportunity and What Comes Next
The numbers read like progress. Intra-SADC trade in manufactured goods has climbed from 19% to 22% of the regional total, according to figures presented to the SADC Council of Ministers meeting in Pretoria on 13 March 2026. Renewable energy's share of the...
SADC Accelerated Regional Integration: Institutional Capability and What Comes Next
The two officials who set the tone of the SADC Council of Ministers meeting in Pretoria on 13 March 2026 delivered, in effect, two different warnings about the same institution. Hon. Ronald Lamola, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and...
SADC Accelerated Regional Integration: The Evidence and Archive and What Comes Next
Official communiqués are written to be read as achievement. The SADC Council of Ministers meeting held in Pretoria on 13 March 2026 produced a record that mixes hard, checkable figures — intra-SADC trade in manufactured goods up from 19% to 22%, renewable...
SADC Accelerated Regional Integration: Farm-to-Market Implications and What Comes Next
A regional foot and mouth disease outbreak does not respect the border that a regional trade agreement is trying to open. That tension sat at the centre of the SADC Council of Ministers meeting in Pretoria on 13 March 2026, where ministers urged acceleration of a...
SADC Accelerated Regional Integration: The Lived Regional Economy and What Comes Next
Wildlife conservation across SADC has always been a cross-border business, whether policy admits it or not: elephants, tourists and vehicles move through Kavango-Zambezi, Greater Limpopo and half a dozen other transfrontier landscapes without checking which member...
SADC Accelerated Regional Integration: Regional Demand and Access, and What Comes Next
Internet penetration across SADC now stands at 54%, according to figures presented to the Council of Ministers meeting in Pretoria on 13 March 2026 — a majority of the region's population online, but still short of half remaining unconnected. In the same...
SADC Accelerated Regional Integration: Built-Market Implications and What Comes Next
More than 14,000 megawatts of new generation capacity have come onto the SADC grid, and renewable energy's share of the regional mix has risen from 25% to 38%, according to figures the Council of Ministers reviewed in Pretoria on 13 March 2026. That is a genuine...
SADC Accelerated Regional Integration: Capital and Bankability for Regional Operators
SADC has had a mechanism for financing its own regional infrastructure sitting half-built since 2016. The agreement to operationalise the Regional Development Fund was signed that year, and it is still not ratified by enough member states to take effect. At the...
SADC Accelerated Regional Integration: Policy and Strategy Logic and What Comes Next
A regional bloc can hold a coherent long-term strategy and still struggle to make its annual machinery move at the same speed. That is the tension sitting inside the SADC Council of Ministers meeting held in Pretoria on 13 March 2026, where ministers approved the...
Regional Energy Entrepreneur Joins Botswana Power Board
Nigerian energy executive Akinwole II Omoboriowo was named vice chair of the Botswana Power Corporation in March 2026, bringing infrastructure expertise as BPC implements its Maduo 26 strategy.
BoFiNet Taps Data-Network Scholar to Drive Fibre Expansion
BoFiNet appointed Dr Gaone Seleka in March 2026 to lead its next growth phase, with an emphasis on digital infrastructure and cross-border connectivity.
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