Masunga Sports Complex Opens; Council Eyes Solar and Fee Review
A new sports complex is easy to open and hard to sustain. The ribbon-cutting draws a crowd; the running costs arrive quietly every month thereafter. At end-March 2026 Masunga, in the north-east, faced exactly that test as its sports complex opened for public use — and...
Real Estate Tagged a Money-Laundering Hotspot, P1.1bn in Dirty Money
Rising property prices are usually read as a sign of confidence — a market voting for a city's future. In Botswana, a mid-April 2026 national risk assessment has supplied the uncomfortable counter-reading: some of that rise is not confidence at all, but laundered...
Water, Seed and Disease: SADC Ministers Prioritise Irrigation, Seed Research and FMD Control
Southern Africa's farms are exposed on three fronts at once — too little water when the rains fail, too few improved seeds when planting season comes, and disease that can shut an export market overnight. Each threatens output on its own; together they decide whether...
BDC to Inject P1.39bn Across Strategic Sectors
Development finance institutions are easy to misread. From the outside they look like deep pockets handing out cheap money; from the inside they are forced to make a harder choice — between spreading capital thinly across politically attractive causes, and...
By the Numbers: SADC Reports 54% Internet Reach and 14 GW of New Power
Regional progress is easiest to argue about and hardest to measure, which is why the headline figures from the SADC Council deserve a closer look than a summit communiqué usually gets. Three numbers, reported at the same Pretoria session, sketch where the bloc...
B2B marketplaces
Resilient world trade is opening a quieter opportunity for Botswana: moving wholesale procurement online, where small firms can source like big ones.
Green Industrial Chains: A US$700 Million Fund Bets on Africa Keeping the Value
A China-Africa Green Industrial Chain fund of about RMB 5 billion, with seven early projects approved, signals a next-phase pitch: not just power, but the supply chains around it – and the value they
Food-service menus
When global food prices move, the change reaches a Gaborone menu before it reaches the headlines – reshaping what restaurants, caterers and hotels can profitably serve.
Clean-Energy Contracting: RMB 21 Billion in Revenue, and a Question of Whose
China reports RMB 21.18 billion in contracted clean-energy project revenue since the Beijing Summit. The figure is real – the open question is how much of that contracting value lands in African
Retail resilience
Botswana’s 2026 budget projects an economic rebound, yet households still face price pressure from fuel, food and public debt – testing how resilient local retail really is.
Imported goods pricing
World trade rose again in April, but for Botswana importers the bigger story is what happens between the factory gate and the Gaborone shelf.
Forbes Border Lockdown: Zimbabwe Halts Raw Lithium and Chrome Trucks to Force Beneficiation
Zimbabwe halts raw lithium and chrome trucks at Forbes Border Post, forcing beneficiation. What the export ban means for miners and operators.
Solar for the Off-Grid: 50,000 Households Against a Continental Dark Map
A US$14 million fund targets at least 50,000 families beyond the main grid. Set against more than 600 million Africans without power, the cooperation is precise, modest and worth measuring honestly.
Payment interoperability
African shoppers now move across several payment platforms in a single week, and merchants who accept only one channel are quietly losing the sale.
Africa Solar Belt: A Demonstration Pledge Meets a 600-Million Access Gap
China frames the Africa Solar Belt as a clean-energy access story. Yet the materials it lists – streetlights, kits, one power station – sit against a shortfall of more than 600 million people.
Online education
As global capital pours into artificial intelligence, the most durable Botswana market may not be the tools themselves but the courses that teach people to use them.
Digital ads ROI
AI and platform shifts are forcing marketers to prove what they once assumed. In Botswana, the new test for digital ads is measurable return, not reach.
De Aar’s Turbines: A Chinese Wind Flagship in South Africa’s Dry Heart
Longyuan’s De Aar wind farm, 244.5 MW across 163 turbines in the Northern Cape, became the first wind project financed, built and run by a Chinese firm in Africa.
Consumer confidence
A downgrade to global growth reaches Botswana households through jobs and prices, not headlines. Consumer confidence is the channel that carries it home.
Cheap and Clean: Can Low-Cost Renewables Make African Factories Competitive
Chinese-built solar and hydro promise the low tariffs manufacturers need, but cheap clean power only sharpens competitiveness when the rest of the industrial base is ready.
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