Zimbabwe Receives the Largest Share: What Happens if Senders Leave?
Zimbabwe is the largest single destination for money sent home from South Africa — a fact of geography, history and labour that has quietly underwritten a slice of the region’s payments economy. That concentration was always a strength of the corridor. Under an...
The Africa Thinks Here Index
Content - Voices & Podcasts · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A magazine can publish hundreds of stories and still leave a reader asking the only question that matters: where is the opportunity. As the WTO's leading indicator pointed...
The Pula Planning Notebook
Content - Magazine Editions · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A national rebound is announced in aggregate; it is survived one balance sheet at a time. When Botswana's budget projected an economic rebound this year, the forecast set a...
The Startup Compliance Guide
Content - Reports & Special Editions · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Most startups do not fail their first audit because they cheated; they fail because no one ever explained the rules. As digital VAT regimes and payment-trust...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC: regional demand and access and what comes next
Ask a household in Windhoek, Maputo or Dar es Salaam whether SADC's blue economy agenda has changed anything about the fish on their plate or the beach holiday they can afford, and the honest answer, as of this week, is not yet. The 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week,...
Sovereign downgrade
S&P has downgraded Botswana as diamond-sector weakness stressed the fiscal accounts. A rating cut is less a verdict on the country than a signal about its single point of dependence.
AI-driven trade
WTO-linked indicators show AI-related electronics demand supporting global trade momentum. The boom is real, but Botswana sits well outside the value chain driving it.
Joint Modernization: The Idea China Is Using to Reframe Its Africa Role
Beijing now describes its African partnership through six characteristics of modernization, positioning itself as a fellow traveller rather than a creditor.
World trade resilience
Global trade volumes rebounded in April after a March fall, a fresh sign of resilience despite geopolitical tension. For a trade-dependent Botswana, that resilience is quietly reassuring.
Beijing 2024: China Reframes Africa Ties as a Shared Modernization Project
A summit that once led with infrastructure now leads with a word: modernization. The pledge is RMB 360 billion – about US$50 billion – and a smaller-is-better posture.
Middle East shock
The IMF has warned that Middle East disruption would reach sub-Saharan Africa through fuel, fertiliser and food. For landlocked, import-reliant Botswana, those three channels are the whole story.
Global growth downgrade
The World Bank has cut its 2026 global growth outlook and warned of a steeper drop if conflict spillovers spread. For a small, open Botswana, the slower world is the operating environment.
FOCAC at 25: The Quiet Machinery Behind China-Africa’s Headline Pledges
Summits make the headlines, but the triennial forum that turns them into roads, clinics and credit lines is the part that rarely gets named.
35th trade ministerial across SADC — the lived regional economy for regional operators
A tourist can already cross between several SADC member states on a single regional visa in parts of the Kavango-Zambezi conservation area, yet a business traveller moving between most other pairs of SADC capitals still needs a separate visa, a separate currency and...
Local Government Bets on Renewable Power and Agribusiness
Letlhakeng District Council plans solar farms, a commercial farming cluster and a modern bus-rank centre – a bid to build its own revenue base rather than wait on transfers.
Homegrown Couture: Pop-Up Markets Lift Botswana’s Fashion Scene
A June 2026 pop-up put Maru, Tru’D and Diary 34 in front of buyers, testing whether Botswana’s design talent can convert a showroom moment into export orders.
Teen Sprinter Books Ticket to World Stage
Wazha Matakule’s 21.24 over 200 m has booked a place at the World U20 championships – and put a spotlight on the thin training and sponsorship behind Botswana’s young sprinters.
Sports Revival Faces Gear Shortages
Schools have restarted sports but are short of equipment pending ministry approval – a small bottleneck that retailers and grant programmes are placed to clear.
Keeping Kids Fed: Schools Navigate Food Supply Disruptions
The school feeding scheme is holding up but short on suppliers, the council reports – and that gap is an open contract for local farms and logistics firms.
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.
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