Bank of Botswana Lifts Policy Rate to 3.5% to Calm Credit Markets
For most of the last decade, the complaint about money in Botswana was that it cost almost nothing — and that this was precisely the problem. A policy rate held near the floor signalled an economy being nursed, not one running hot. When the price of money sits that...
More cleaners is not the same as more company
The instinct, when a small cleaning company starts turning away work, is to hire more cleaners. It feels like growth, and for a week or two it looks like it. Then the complaints start, the supplies run short at the wrong site, and the founder discovers that a business...
The Investor’s Three Scenarios: Containment, Recurrence or Escalation
Every investor exposed to South Africa is being asked, implicitly, to price a question no model was built for: whether the current wave of weekly anti-migrant protests will be contained, will recur in cycles, or will escalate. The instinct is to wait for clarity. The...
Botswana’s Diamond Stockpile Doubles as Prices Slump
An economy that depends on a single commodity learns the hard way that demand, not production, sets the terms. Botswana can mine diamonds efficiently; what it cannot do is force the world to buy them at the price it needs. That asymmetry is now visible in a single...
Seven cleaning niches worth testing before you scale
A new cleaning company can offer to clean almost anything, and many do, chasing every enquiry that comes through the door. The wiser move, before a founder spends money on machines, chemicals and a second pair of hands, is to treat the market as a set of separate...
Diamond cash-flow volatility
ODC’s shift toward contract sales was designed to reduce price and auction volatility – trading the spikes of the open market for a steadier diamond cash flow.
Interest-rate discipline
As inflation and liquidity pressures moved, Bank of Botswana policy signals stayed essential reading – the interest-rate discipline that prices every loan in the economy.
Inflation dashboard
With Statistics Botswana’s CPI and global oil and food shocks in play, price monitoring stayed central to planning – an inflation dashboard the prudent operator now reads weekly.
Bankability under fiscal stress
A budget deficit and a debt-ceiling breach raised questions about public-sector payment reliability – the quiet foundation that every supplier and payroll depends on.
Debt-cost repricing
Botswana’s rating downgrade signalled rising sovereign-risk sensitivity – and a budget projecting an economic rebound now has to be financed at a higher price for risk.
Insourcing the State: Government Reclaims Services from Contractors
The minister says pulling outsourced services back into government will improve job security and accountability – at the cost of a heavier payroll. It is a deliberate trade, not a free one.
Multilateral Loans Plug Budget Gaps in Hard Times
Botswana turned to World Bank and AfDB loans to finance health, water and energy projects, cushioning the budget through the downturn under reform conditions.
Credit Tightening Reversed: Central Bank Forces Banks to Hold Rates
Policy held steady, yet prime lending rates climbed anyway. The Bank of Botswana’s answer was to lift its policy rate and tell commercial banks to stop.
Child Support Grant Goes Live While Councils Seek New Revenue
Kgatleng District Council registered 349 beneficiaries for a new child-support grant in April 2026, even as it hunts for revenue of its own.
Dirty Money in Clean Houses: Real Estate Under Scrutiny
A regulator’s risk assessment estimates about P1.1 billion in illicit funds moved through Botswana’s property market, pointing to high valuations and weak regulation.
State Investor Bets P1.39bn on Non-Traditional Sectors
The Botswana Development Corporation plans to deploy P1.39 billion into agriculture, health, manufacturing, renewable energy and the creative industries over two years.
Regulators Force Vivo to Relinquish Engen Botswana
Vivo Energy agreed to sell its 70% stake in Engen Botswana to the Fusion Spark consortium in April 2026, after competition concerns over the combined fuel business.
Steady Rate, Unsteady Future: BoB Holds at 3.5%
Botswana’s Monetary Policy Committee held the policy rate at 3.5% in February 2026, with inflation inside the 3 to 6% target and growth forecast at 3.1%, led by non-mining sectors.
Unwanted Treasure: Diamond Stockpile Swells to 12 Million Carats
By January 2026 weak prices had left Botswana sitting on 12 million carats it could not profitably sell, turning a national asset into tied-up capital and deferred revenue.
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.
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