Seat Open: How the Reserve Bank Hunts a Shareholder-Elected Director
A central bank is the one institution most people assume is closed to ordinary shareholders. The South African Reserve Bank is the unusual exception — it is privately shareheld, and its shareholders elect a portion of its board. That structural quirk became live again...
Central Bank Sets 30 April for Next Rate Decision
A date on a calendar is not usually news. When it is the date the country's interest rate could change, it becomes a marker worth circling. The Bank of Botswana has confirmed that its Monetary Policy Committee will next meet on 30 April 2026 — the next scheduled point...
Maize Goes to Market: ZMX Opens 2026 Grain Season With 2,000-Tonne Listing in Zimbabwe
Every harvest, Zimbabwe's grain farmers run into the same wall. The crop comes in, prices are softest at the moment everyone is selling, and the smallholder — short of storage and short of cash — takes whatever the gate price offers. The Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange...
Zeine Zeidane
Profiles - Founders & Operators · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Distance is a poor defence against a global shock. As the IMF's Africa chief, Zeine Zeidane, framed disruption in the Middle East as a regional economic shock, the...
Lipalese Makepe
Profiles - Leadership & Governance · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A market under stress rewards certainty, and certainty is exactly what a contract is for. As Botswana's diamond sector absorbed global headwinds and a sovereign...
SADC eighth Industrialisation Week: built-market implications — for regional operators
Mineral beneficiation, agro-processing and pharmaceutical manufacturing all require the same unglamorous precondition before a single unit of output can move: a building, connected to power, water and a road or rail line capable of getting product to a border. None of...
SADC eighth Industrialisation Week — capital and bankability across SADC member states
A president can commit his country to "invest more on agricultural mechanisation, local valuation, and the energy transition," as Madagascar's Andry Rajoelina did on opening the eighth SADC Industrialisation Week in Antananarivo on 29 July 2025. What no...
SADC eighth Industrialisation Week — farm-to-market implications — and what comes next
Tripling a yield is an agronomic problem. Selling the extra harvest at a profit is a market problem, and the two rarely move at the same speed. When Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina opened the eighth SADC Industrialisation Week in Antananarivo on 29 July...
SADC eighth Industrialisation Week — regional framework to study — and what comes next
A strategy written to run from 2015 to 2063 is, by construction, a document its own authors will never see completed. That is the premise behind the SADC Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap, the framework President Andry Rajoelina invoked when he opened the eighth...
SADC regional leather value chain — institutional capability across SADC member states
Regional commitments are made by institutions, but they are converted into economic outcomes by specific organisations doing specific, unglamorous work over years: standards bodies drafting technical specifications, secretariats tracking which member states have...
SADC regional leather value chain — documents, data and chronology and what comes next
Every regional-bloc commitment eventually becomes a sentence in a communiqué, stripped of the process that produced it. On 24 July 2025, the SADC Secretariat confirmed that member states had committed to deeper regional collaboration on the leather value chain — a...
SADC regional leather value chain — built-market implications — for regional operators
A regional leather value chain is, underneath the policy language, a logistics and land-use problem: hides have to move from abattoir to tannery, tannery to finisher, and finisher to market, often crossing at least one border in the process, and each of those...
The SMMEs Incubator Effect: Why SMMEs and Startups Need More Than Just Ideas
South Africa's entrepreneurial landscape is bustling with ambition, talent, and urgency. Every month, thousands of new small businesses are registered, each with a dream to solve local problems, create jobs, and build generational wealth. But the harsh reality is that...
From Vision to Execution: The Compass Room 360 Launches with Intimate Power and Strategic Clarity
In an age of fast talk and fleeting trends, The Compass Room 360 made a bold and refreshing entrance into South Africa’s business leadership space with its inaugural Accountability Room event on 5 July 2025. Hosted at The Premier Hotel Quatermain in Morningside,...
The Power of Media-Activated Websites for African Businesses
In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, African businesses can no longer afford to treat websites as static assets. A website is no longer just an online brochure. It is the hub of your entire digital ecosystem-a living, breathing entity that drives engagement,...
Mbada Car Hire: Zimbabwe’s Leopard of the Road
Zimbabwe's vehicle rental market continues to evolve, quietly adapting to the needs of a diverse and mobile population. From shifting internal tourism patterns to the growing fluidity of business travel, demand for professional, reliable, and versatile car hire...
Mbada Car Hire: Zimbabwe’s Leopard of the Road
Zimbabwe's vehicle rental market continues to evolve, quietly adapting to the needs of a diverse and mobile population. From shifting internal tourism patterns to the growing fluidity of business travel, demand for professional, reliable, and versatile car hire...
From Power Broker to Nation Builder: The Evolution of Saviour Kasukuwere
In the political tapestry of post-independence Zimbabwe, few figures have navigated power, policy, controversy, and comeback quite like Saviour "Tyson" Kasukuwere. A former cabinet minister, party commissar, businessman, and farmer, his name evokes both spirited...
34th trade ministerial across SADC — regional demand and access for regional operators
A shopper in Lusaka comparing a locally made good against one trucked in from Durban rarely thinks about protocol ratification. Yet the price, the choice on the shelf and the wait for a cross-border online order all trace back to exactly the kind of decisions...
34th trade ministerial across SADC — institutional capability for regional operators
Regional integration is decided by ministers but delivered by institutions, and the gap between those two things is where SADC's actual track record lives. At the 34th Committee of Ministers of Trade, held in Harare on 5 June 2025, the chair's gavel belonged...
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