Business Interruption Cover After June 30
Business interruption cover was built around a simple trigger: physical damage. A fire, a flood, a broken machine stops the business, and the policy pays for the lost trading while the damage is repaired. The disruption now facing South African operators does not fit...
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...
Local Procurement Plans Need a Nationality-Risk Audit
Procurement teams audit for price, quality and delivery. They rarely audit for the one exposure that anti-migrant disruption makes material: how much of a supplier’s ability to deliver rests on migrant-owned subcontractors and migrant workers whose position has...
Why a narrow cleaning niche beats a broad one
In a crowded market, the cleaning business that tries to do everything for everyone competes only on price, and price is a race no small operator wins. The one that solves a single, recognisable problem better than anyone else can charge for expertise instead. That is...
Five waste-recovery services a cleaning company can add
Every cleaning contract already handles waste; the question is whether the business captures any value from it or simply carries it to a skip. Adding waste-recovery services is one of the few ways a cleaning company can grow revenue without chasing new clients,...
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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