Where cleaning ends and waste recovery begins
The line between cleaning up a mess and recovering something valuable from it is thinner than it looks. A cleaning crew that empties bins, a waste collector who sorts them, and a recycler who turns the contents back into raw material are increasingly parts of one...
Satellite Dishes in the Bush: Where Rural Television Becomes Information Access
Consumers - Technology & AI · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 It is easy to read a satellite dish bolted to a village schoolhouse as a screen for football and soap operas. The framing offered by its backers is different: rural...
10,000 Villages: How a TV Pledge Became Africa’s Largest Media-Access Test
Consumers - Digital Marketing & Social · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 In December 2015, China promised to bring satellite television to 10,000 African villages - a pledge round enough to sound like a slogan. A decade on, the slogan...
Carry-Forward Capped: Zimbabwe Limits Miners to 30% of Assessed Losses
Zimbabwe's miners have long leaned on a simple cushion: a bad year could be carried into a good one, with assessed losses banked against future profit until the books balanced. The 2026 budget takes most of that cushion away. Mining firms may now carry forward only...
Net Tightens on Multinationals: Zimbabwe Adds 15% Minimum Tax, 90-Day PE Test and Digital Services Levy
For years the arithmetic of multinational tax in Zimbabwe favoured the multinational. A group could route profit through a low-tax jurisdiction, keep its physical footprint in Harare below the threshold that triggers a tax presence, and sell digital services into the...
Digital-payment builders
Research on African users’ trust concerns with digital payments offers hard leadership lessons for fintech founders building the rails of a cash-light Botswana.
Agribusiness operators
Botswana’s farmers and processors faced input-cost and food-security pressure as the global food price index stayed elevated, putting agribusiness leaders on the front line of affordability.
Mining explorers
Junior and state-linked explorers became front-line players in Botswana’s push to expand exploration beyond diamonds, turning a policy ambition into ground-level prospecting.
Energy dealmakers
Renewable energy between Oman and Botswana moved from talk to signed agreements, putting a new class of cross-border dealmakers at the centre of the diversification story.
Botswana entrepreneurs
Botswana’s entrepreneurs spent the year steering through slow growth, fuel swings and tighter fiscal conditions, the same headwinds the World Bank flagged when it cut its global outlook.
Bank of Botswana policymakers
A small open economy cannot vote its way out of imported inflation. Botswana’s monetary policymakers spent the year deciding how hard to lean against price and growth stress at once.
Central Bank Sets 30 April for Next Rate Decision
The Bank of Botswana confirmed its Monetary Policy Committee will next meet on 30 April 2026 to review the policy rate, held at 3.5%.
Maize Goes to Market: ZMX Opens 2026 Grain Season With 2,000-Tonne Listing in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange opened its 2026 grain season with over 2,000 tonnes of maize, a warehouse-receipt system and 50kg deposits for smallholders.
Zeine Zeidane
The IMF’s Africa chief framed Middle East disruption as a regional economic shock, a warning that reached as far as the World Bank’s cut to its global growth outlook and, through trade, to Botswana.
Lipalese Makepe
New ODC leadership has shifted Botswana’s diamond sales toward contracted buyers, a quiet structural change arriving just as a sovereign downgrade underlined the pressure on the sector.
Producer margins
Fuel, fertiliser and price swings are squeezing the space between what a farmer spends and what a farmer earns. For Botswana, the margin is where the sector’s viability is decided.
People-to-People: The Soft Layer Holding Up the Hardware Story
China and the AU launched a 2026 Year of People-to-People Exchanges in Addis Ababa. The summit was long on symbolism and short on the scholarship and training numbers that sustain it.
Local seed systems
When imported seed and inputs are disrupted, local systems look less like nostalgia and more like insurance. Botswana has reason to take its own seed systems seriously.
Agri-data registries
Relief and finance both depend on knowing who farms what, where. Without accurate farm data, Botswana’s farmers risk being invisible to the support meant to reach them.
Pipeline-Builders: China-Africa Youth Contests Bet on Founders, Not Factories
A China-Africa youth entrepreneurship competition now runs across continents on digital economy and AI. The harder question is what happens to the founders after the final in Wuhan.
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