KYC Under Pressure: When Documentation Delays Become Customer Flight
Know-your-customer rules were written to keep bad money out of the financial system. They were not written for a customer whose documents are correct today and unrecoverable next week. That is the pressure now bearing on South African banks and fintechs: returnees and...
Botswana draws a fiscal line around a bigger De Beers stake
Botswana wants more influence over De Beers, but the government is signalling that diamond strategy will not be allowed to destabilise the national balance sheet. Botswana’s interest in increasing its stake in De Beers is moving from a strategic aspiration into a...
He Started by Washing His Neighbours’ Bins. Now He Employs Six
The businesses that last rarely begin with a clever idea. They begin with a dull, repeated problem that somebody is willing to solve for money. In Langa, on the Cape Flats, Bulelani Njobe found his in the one job his neighbours least wanted to do themselves: cleaning...
FMD Response Shifts from Culling to Vaccination in Zone 6b
Botswana's beef industry has long been protected by an instrument that quietly punishes the people it is meant to defend: the cull. For decades, the standard response to a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak has been depopulation — the slaughter of exposed herds to...
Strings Attached: IMF Programme Spotlights Procurement Transparency and SOE Reform in Zimbabwe
Confidence in a currency is not declared; it is earned line by line, ledger by ledger. The ZiG, Zimbabwe's gold-backed unit, has spent its short life carrying the memory of currencies that came before it — and the scepticism that memory breeds. Into that gap steps the...
The Desert Miracle: Moakanyi Magazine | Vol 06 Issue 01 | June 2026
Our June 2026 issue is out. How Duma Boko is re-architecting Botswana - from a diamond-dependent rentier state into a sovereign-equity economy built to rival the Gulf - and what that turn asks of everyone doing business here. Botswana is doing something most resource...
The Local-Content Turn
The push beyond diamonds into critical minerals is also a chance to settle an old question: who owns the value, and who has the skills to keep it onshore.
Generate, Carry, Build: Reading Africa’s Power Sector as One Chain
Generation, transmission and industry are usually budgeted in separate columns. The output of each is the input of the next – which is why the weakest link sets the pace.
The Sovereign Balance Sheet
Public debt and deficit pressure are usually read as a government story. They are also a map of where private opportunity moves when the state pulls back.
The Wires Between: Why Transmission Earns Its Own Story, Not a Footnote
New power plants get the headlines. The lines that carry their output get a clause at the end. That ordering hides where Africa’s electricity is actually lost.
The AI Access Divide
AI is starting to drive trade growth, but the gains flow to markets with power, devices, skills and connectivity. For Botswana the divide is a checklist, not a verdict.
The Energy Pass-Through Map
An oil shock rarely stays at the pump. It passes through freight, food and retail until it reaches the household budget – a map worth tracing before the next move.
Power as Productivity: Why Africa’s Energy Gap Is a Jobs Problem First
Energy access is usually counted in households connected. The sharper measure is what unreliable power does to the firms and workers who already have a line.
Green Triad: How Hydropower, Wind and Solar Anchor a New China-Africa Bargain
Beijing frames its African energy work as a single green transition. The record shows three very different technologies, doing very different jobs, in very different places.
The Diamond Vulnerability Model
An S&P downgrade, a tighter budget and a recast ODC sales contract are not three separate stories. Together they sketch a model of how diamond dependency works.
Brand safety
With the World Bank trimming global growth and warning of worse if conflict spreads, Botswana brands face a simple discipline: say less, and say it carefully.
Green Envoys: A Skills Programme Long on Mission, Short on Headcount
The China-Africa Green Envoys Program promises green skills and a homegrown workforce. Six years on, the published record still carries the mission – but not the number of Africans actually trained.
Botswana digital consumer
A new digital tax and shifting payment habits are doing something policy alone could not: pulling Botswana’s online market out of the informal shadows.
Early-Warning Systems: Two Islands, One Test of Resilience Infrastructure
Climate early-warning systems for Seychelles and Madagascar are the quiet end of the green portfolio. Modest in scale, they may be the most directly protective of lives – if they reach beyond two
Trust as conversion
On Botswana’s digital platforms, trust has stopped being a soft value and become a hard one – it now decides whether the customer actually completes the payment.
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