Hub Builder: WAU Founder Olga Nhari Scales a Women’s Agribusiness Farm Hub in Zimbabwe
Women do most of the farming in Zimbabwe and own little of the value that farming creates. They plant, weed, harvest, and carry, yet land titles, finance, equipment, and the higher rungs of the value chain — processing, aggregation, export — sit disproportionately...
Producer margins
Farming - Agri-Finance · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A farmer can grow a fine crop and still go backwards if the cost of growing it outruns the price it fetches. That squeeze is tightening: fuel, fertiliser and price volatility are...
People-to-People: The Soft Layer Holding Up the Hardware Story
Intellectual - Behavioural Intelligence · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The ports and railways get the cameras; the relationships keep them running. On 8 January 2026, China and the African Union launched the 2026 China-Africa Year of...
Local seed systems
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Self-reliance gets dismissed as romantic until the supply chain it was meant to replace breaks. Each disruption to imported inputs revives interest in local seed...
Agri-data registries
Farming - Agritech & Innovation · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 When a drought relief package or a credit line is designed, the first question is also the hardest: who exactly are the farmers, and what do they grow? Relief and finance...
34th trade ministerial across SADC — the lived regional economy for regional operators
Most people who cross a SADC border in a given week are not economists tracking a ministerial communique. They are traders with a bag of goods, a family visiting relatives in a neighbouring country, or a small operator running a stall that depends on stock bought...
34th trade ministerial across SADC — capital and bankability across SADC member states
Every trade facilitation announcement eventually meets the same question: who pays for it. SADC's 34th Committee of Ministers of Trade, meeting in Harare on 5 June 2025, adopted a new SADC Investment Climate Scorecard developed jointly with the European Union,...
34th trade ministerial across SADC — regional framework to study and what comes next
SADC's institutional architecture has a peculiar habit: it keeps building new structures beside old ones rather than finishing the old ones first. At the 34th Committee of Ministers of Trade, held in Harare on 5 June 2025, ministers urged member states to ratify...
34th trade ministerial across SADC — farm-to-market implications and what comes next
Agriculture rarely gets its own line item in a SADC trade communique, and the 34th Committee of Ministers of Trade, meeting in Harare on 5 June 2025, was no exception. Yet almost every decision the ministers took bears directly on whether a farmer or agro-processor in...
Finance Without Strategy is Just Bookkeeping: Inside the FinAscend Method
In the quiet chaos of many SMEs, there's a common scene playing out: invoices filed, receipts boxed, and spreadsheets buried deep in email threads. The "books" are up to date - or so it seems. But when it's time to make a decision, the numbers say little. They weren't...
Genesis Pharmaceuticals: A Trusted Force in Southern African Healthcare
Across clinics, pharmacies, hospitals, and retail chains in Southern Africa, one name echoes with quiet consistency: Genesis Pharmaceuticals. Founded in 2011; built on principles of quality, accessibility, and regional reliability, Genesis has grown into one of the...
Of Tweets and Thrones: When King Julien Fires Mort
A Kingdom Built on Algorithms and Egos Once upon a time in the jungle of America’s digital kingdom, two mighty rulers reigned supreme: King Julien of MAGAstan, and his tiny, techie admirer Mort from Teslaland. Their alliance? Unholy, unlikely, and undeniably viral....
Factory Access, Not Guesswork: A New Way to Source from Johannesburg
For many African entrepreneurs, sourcing materials, packaging, or equipment from South Africa is a smart move - until they try doing it from afar. What begins with ambition quickly turns into inbox clutter, language gaps, and a chain of middlemen who never quite...
Diamond Crash Forces Botswana to Pare Back 2025 Growth Plans
In June 2025 Botswana cut its 2025 growth forecast to near zero. A prolonged diamond downturn did not just dent revenue; it exposed how much the budget still rests on one stone.
Credit Rating Cut Highlights Fiscal Stress from Diamond Downturn
S&P reportedly cut Botswana’s outlook in June 2025, citing low diamond prices and a deficit projected near 11% of GDP – putting fiscal stress from the downturn on the record.
From Shine to Slump: Botswana’s Diamond Downturn Puts Growth on Ice
In June 2025, permanent secretary Tshokologo Alex Kganetsano warned the economy could register almost no growth this year as diamond revenue plunged and the deficit widened.
From French Press to Plunge: The Macron Moment
A Caffeinated Couple on the Tarmac They had landed. The wheels were down. The engines had cooled. But just as French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte descended the stairs in Hanoi, Asia got its first double shot of French drama - and it came...
The Smart CFO: Why Financial Clarity is a Advantage for SMBs in the US
In a business world obsessed with growth, the back-office is often the last place people look. Strategy gets the headlines, marketing gets the budgets, and operations get the fires to put out. But somewhere between the invoices not sent, the forecasts not updated, and...
When Diplomacy Went Espresso at the White House
Diplomacy often comes dressed in ceremony, fluffed up with photo ops, padded talking points, and carefully brewed optimism. During the recent state visit between South Africa and the United States, Washington brought its usual latte diplomacy to the table - warm,...
Trump Ordered a Latte but Got an Espresso
In the theatre of geopolitics, some leaders sip power gently - and some gulp it down. Donald Trump, now back in the Oval Office and still a perennial disruptor, prefers to gulp. His diplomatic style, if it could be called that, is more deal table than tea table, more...
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