Inside the blurry vision of local firms hangs a cloud of uncertainty, Covid-19 disruptions and an obstruction of view into any positive projection with regards to...
A graphical picture or statistical publication shows that since 2018, Botswana’s trade balance has been on the lows if not fluctuating on the negatives-a bad economic...
A lot of economic dynamics explain that Botswana households during lockdown had less choices and options and found comfort in food despite its costs going up....
There is currently an image of microeconomics heavily eclipsing macroeconomics as economies around the world including Botswana, are going through lockdowns leading to the closure of...
According to Moody’s growth forecasts for all African sovereigns’ downward in response to the coronavirus outbreak, Botswana whose real GDP was 10.9 percent in an adjustment...
Once a giant retailer in the non-food retailer industry, 91 year old Edcon lies helplessly on the auction block akin a half-dead dinosaur as its long...
When preparing the Bank of Botswana (BoB) Annual Report for the just ended financial period, the ‘new normal’ for Governor Moses Dinekere Pelaelo is not only...
One of the most powerful men in the diamond business, De Beers’ CEO Bruce Cleaver, last year in The Diamond Insight Report foresaw engagements and weddings...
Information gathered by this publication is that some local companies are now crying foul as the pressure that hit business activities around the world after the...
The once MVP of the local bourse, and the leader in the banking sector in terms of market performance First National Bank Botswana(FNBB) has been going...
Reports reaching this publication alleges that the De Beers’ recent sight viewings which was moved from Gaborone to Antwerp, Belgium, had low sales with diamond dealers...
What is it all about this 2020/21 – 2022/2023 Economic Recovery and Transformation Plan (ERTP) much talked about this week? Notably, the word Covid-19 has inevitably...
Botswana Development Corporation (BDC), a 100 percent government owned investment company, has recently made a proposal to buy all the shares Grit Real Estate Income Fund...
Bank of Botswana (BoB) Governor Moses Pelaelo said there is still a scope for shedding of the Bank Rate or tightening of it. He said this...
For years some businesses and retailers may have been benefiting from the loopholes which have been recently exposed in pricing and consumer protection laws.
For an agency representing a country that is almost disadvantaged by its landlocked status, Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC) is already lamenting as the downward...
Currently the private sector and government are literally migrating into the fascination of occupying downtown, being at the epicenter of a capital city economic traffic and...
Shockingly, COVID-19 became a blessing in disguise for Botswana as the European Union (EU) in its fresh dirty-money blacklisting of notorious countries took into consideration that...
Listed companies who are yet to release their financial results will wait a little longer as President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi further extended lockdown and according to...
Bank of Botswana(BoB)’s Monetary Policy Committee(MPC) decision to reduce the Bank Rate by 50 basis points (bps), from 4.75 percent to 4.25 percent was met with...
Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) listed property firm PrimeTime has finally given its tenants an ear amid cries that businesses have stopped operating or are running at...
The consequences of Botswana’s lockdown on the diamond industry can be traced currently to its recent fall on production which was responding to the shyness in...
Economists and think tanks do not expect Botswana’s GDP to remain immune to the damaging impacts of COVID-19 on the local economic, so far the country...
It will not be anything next to the usual when the multibillion mining company Anglo American takes on the chambers of The Queen Elizabeth II Conference...
A curious thought would visualize a lonely Presidential figure either frustratingly or patiently twiddling fingers waiting to be given feedback from a high level task force...
President Mokgweetsi Masisi has coined the De Beers 50/50 partnership with Botswana Government as a “marriage†and at the last Diamond Conference he spoke of “renewal...
Minister of Health and Wellness Lemogang Kwape this week took to mainstream media to announce Botswana’s preparedness against the rapidly spreading coronavirus with cases in South...
Banks are now offering Bank of Botswana (BoB) a knife to slice down interest rates during the end of April Monetary Policy Committee meeting, this comes...
Some observers have seen an even bigger picture for a local consumer in the current oil price warfare; when oil prices go down, transportation of any...
Shumba Energy’s dream of taking over as the answer to SADC chronic power shortages could be under threat as the company still needs to light up...
This week the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has forecasted that the impact of the coronavirus could result in passenger airlines losing up to P1.3 trillion...
Banks and micro-lenders like Letshego will be one of the big beneficiaries when government effects the second leg of the civil servants on April 1st, this...
Once one of the most prominent and respectable metropolitan towns in the colonial era, with architectural designs to ravel visitors, Lobatse was the hub of growth...
The world leader in the sale of precious stones that dominates most luxury industries, De Beers, is also affected by the current Corona Virus phobia. Currently,...
Lately there have been signs of trouble brewing that did not go unnoticed at Letshego, the micro-lender has been experiencing abrupt recurring change of faces in...
This week President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi admitted to job creation being one of his “greatest” struggle, saying the economy is failing to yield jobs as yet....
The recent Bank of Botswana Banking Supervision Annual Report shows that the banking fraternity is hampered by people who are failing to pay back the money...
While the nation stopped everything and sat down to listen to Dr Thapelo Matsheka’s much anticipated Budget Speech which opens the country’s financial year, a small...
Latest statistics show that Batswana are a Facebook people with almost 1 034 600 users and this number which represent 42.7 percent of this country’s population...
When many take their thoughts off this weekend, the next thing that should come in mind is an iconic black briefcase which is synonymous with the...
About 100 firms have revealed their shyness to take credit facilities from lenders mainly because they consider the domestic interest rates to be high and loans...
In the last two years markets regulator Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) CEO Thapelo Tsheole did not spare any rod for any child to rot and this...
The ever on and off Morupule B Power Station is, according to latest research and statistical reports, almost short circuiting this country’s economy as its operational...