Cash Leaves With the Corner Shop
In much of township and rural South Africa, the spaza shop is not only a shop. It is the cash machine, the informal lender, the place a grant is broken into change and a phone is topped up, the counter where a neighbour runs a tab until month-end. A great many of...
Moswaane Calls for Unity over the Proposed Constitutional Court
A court is meant to settle disputes, but the proposal to create one has become a dispute of its own. Botswana's debate over a dedicated Constitutional Court pits an argument about strengthening the rule of law against an argument about the price of running it. On 10...
Credit Where Due: ZMF’s Jessica Mazivazvose Ties Gold Surge to Support for Women Miners in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's gold story is usually told through tonnage and price, rarely through the people doing the digging. A large share of the country's output comes from small-scale and artisanal operations, and within that workforce a sizeable cohort of women miners has long...
Dr. Isheunesu Amon Chaka: Why Africa’s Institutions Must Be Built from Community Outward
Dr Isheunesu Amon Chaka, appointed to the Cabanga Africa Group board on 28 September 2026, has spent nearly two decades proving that institutions grow stronger when communities own them. Most institutions in Southern Africa were designed to stand apart from the...
Government Orders Safer Learner Transport, Phasing Out Donkey Carts
The journey to school is one of the few public services a child uses every single day, and in parts of Botswana it has long run on donkey carts — slow, exposed and unsafe alongside motorised traffic. In February 2026, the Ministry of Local Government moved to change...
Livestock vaccine market
As global food prices move and disease risk persists, demand for veterinary products strengthens. For a beef economy like Botswana’s, animal health is not a cost line – it is the market.
200,000 Kilometres of Fibre: The Backbone Beneath the Africa-China Story
The headline China-Africa numbers are loans and ports. The quieter figure: 200,000km of optical fibre and broadband for six million households – infrastructure hard to see and hard to remove.
Agro-processing finance
Botswana’s 2026 budget projects an economic rebound this year. Diversification beyond diamonds runs through value addition – and agro-processing finance is where that ambition meets the farm.
SBC House at Union Vale: A Broadcasting Grant That Took Six Years
A China-funded broadcasting headquarters for Seychelles broke ground in 2019 and handed over in 2025. The long road from grant to keys is the real infrastructure story.
Drought-ready production
The World Bank has cut its global growth outlook and warned of a deeper drop if war fallout spreads. For Botswana farming, the lesson points one way: production built to withstand drought.
Food retail contracts
Schools, hotels and retailers all need reliable local suppliers. As food prices move worldwide, Botswana’s institutional buyers are a steady market hiding in plain sight for producers who deliver.
Press Centres and Production Links: China’s Quieter Media Play in Africa
The visible China-Africa media story is towers and dishes. The quieter one is people and programming – journalist exchanges, training cohorts and co-production deals that shape how stories get told.
Fertiliser procurement pools
Global food and input prices keep moving. Botswana farmers buying fertiliser one bag at a time pay the shock in full – which is why cooperative purchasing and storage reward those who pool.
Uganda by the Numbers: One Country Inside a 10,000-Village Promise
Continental pledges are hard to test. Uganda’s share of the satellite-TV rollout – 900 villages, 18,000 households – is small enough to count and large enough to judge the wider claim.
Renewable energy on farms
Botswana has signed energy and mineral exploration deals with Oman. The same logic that pulls national energy abroad is reaching the farm gate, where solar makes independence practical.
Satellite Dishes in the Bush: Where Rural Television Becomes Information Access
A solar-powered dish on a village clinic looks like entertainment. The pitch behind it is something else – basic access to news, weather and public information for places the grid never reached.
Agri-digital payments
A cattle sale agreed by handshake still has to be paid, and cash on a remote road is its own risk. Trusted digital payment rails let Botswana’s farmers and traders settle deals they can verify.
10,000 Villages: How a TV Pledge Became Africa’s Largest Media-Access Test
A decade after Xi Jinping pledged satellite TV for 10,000 African villages, nearly all are connected. The screens arrived; the harder questions are about who controls what they show.
Beef traceability
Botswana’s beef earns its premium on trust as much as on taste. As export markets demand verifiable, disease-free supply chains, traceability becomes the country’s licence to keep selling.
Cold-chain investment
A harvest with nowhere to be stored is a harvest sold at the buyer’s price. Cold-chain investment lets Botswana farmers hold their produce until the market, not the spoilage clock, decides.
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