The past week or two has been a mixed grill of briefs in so far as the national employment picture is concerned. BDC just injected a...
There is a saying in South Africa which avers that, the White man has no kin: his kin is money. The saying rings very true considering...
At an economically tumultuous juncture of our countrys history as we presently are, where unemployment has become something of a Gordian Knot conundrum, a promisingly ameliorational...
On Friday October 9, 2020, President Masisi officiated at a function that most appositely spoke to his passion and desire to kick-start the crystallisation of the...
If there is one boast of which our government repeatedly touts itself, it is that it has the gift of prudential management of national resources, as...
In 2005, the Business & Economic Advisory Council (BEAC) pitched the idea of the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to the Mogae Administration. It took...
The world in which we live is a criminally unequal one. In his iconic 1945 allegorical novella, Animal Farm, a satire on the facetiousness of the...
The Central Bank has by way of its Monetary Policy Statement informed us that the Botswana economy is likely to contract by 8.9 percent over the...
If there is one aspect about Kamala Harris the mainstream Western media have under-emphasised, it is that she enjoys a comradery with Barack Obama that dates...
In Africa, the continent I happen to know best, the choosing of a VP by a sitting President or a running mate by an aspiring President...
Ask anybody who the greatest scientist who ever lived is, and the answer is almost certainly bound to be Albert Einstein nearly hundred percent of the...
The great Thomas Edison, who logged a total of 1093 patents singly or jointly in his 84-year lifespan and who was the driving force behind a...
The announcement by President Mokgweetsi Masisi that CEDA now was in position to loan sizeable and therefore worthwhile sums the nation as a matter of course...
What a piteous picture the rate of electricity penetration is on this hopeless continent, to quote the highly respected Economist weekly newspaper. Whilst ferreting around for...
Over the last few weeks, the one name that has been trending on social media in our neck of the woods is that of Atlasaone Molemogi,...
The announcement on June 5 that Botswana finally had a national lottery was received with a fair amount of fanfare. There was no frenzied fist pumping...
In last weeks edition of this magnificent paper, my attention was particularly drawn to a piece done by one Augustine Makgonatshotlhe, who happens to be the...
Whilst the idea of economically empowering the citizenry is a noble one, it has to be approached with tact and a bit of circumspection. It has...
Years back, I had occasion to dialogue with a phenomenally successful Motswana of south Asian extraction. As I lamented the mountain of obstacles I kept encountering...
As the national legislative assembly primes to enact a citizen empowerment law, the first question we should ask ourselves is, why now, when we have had...
The great Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and satirist Seneca once said, Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to our own fortune. Are individuals...
If theres one sobering lesson Africa can draw from the Covid-19-engendered, multifaceted rough patch we are currently treading, it is that it is time we became...
Talk about baptism of fire! And guess who I have in mind? It is President Masisi all right.
April 22 2020 was World Earth Day. That evening, I watched an interview of the veteran broadcaster and naturalist, David Frederick Attenborough, on Christian Amanpours prime...
For the umpteenth time, Botswana was ranked Africa’s least corrupt country by London-based watchdog Transparency International (TI) for the year 2015. The announcement as is the...
In the earlier volume, I somewhat rapped manufacturing on the knuckles. Does it follow that it is now a futile proposition as a basis for future...