Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
Public housing schemes tend to fail at the same join: they build the houses but withhold the ownership. A tenant who can occupy a state-built home but never own it is a tenant forever, with no stake to maintain and no asset to build on. The reform of Botswana's...
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
Public housing schemes tend to fail at the same join: they build the houses but withhold the ownership. A tenant who can occupy a state-built home but never own it is a tenant forever, with no stake to maintain and no asset to build on. The reform of Botswana's...
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Botswana's beef industry carries a quiet paradox. Its premium markets are not at home or even mostly in the region — they are in Europe, thousands of kilometres away, reachable only because the country has spent decades building a disease-control and traceability...
Bank of Botswana Lifts Policy Rate to 3.5% to Calm Credit Markets
For most of the last decade, the complaint about money in Botswana was that it cost almost nothing — and that this was precisely the problem. A policy rate held near the floor signalled an economy being nursed, not one running hot. When the price of money sits that...
Court Rejects Bid to Halt PSBC Secretary Appointment
Reform of a labour institution almost never arrives cleanly. The bodies meant to mediate between the state, employers and workers are themselves contested terrain, and the first move in any restructuring is often a fight over who gets to lead it. Botswana's Public...
This Month’s Issue
The Desert Miracle
How Duma Boko is re-architecting Botswana – from a diamond-dependent rentier state into a sovereign-equity economy built to rival the Gulf.
- 01 The Boko Doctrine: The Desert Miracle
- 02 Why the Bank Held at 3.5% — and Named Its Worry List
- 03 Maun: What an Expanded Dealership Really Signals
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
On 5 March 2026 Minister Ramogapi added a tenant-purchase option and dropped plot-size and eligibility limits to Botswana’s pool-house scheme; 277 sold, 248 in
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Acting Minister Dikoloti has told Digawana farmers that strict FMD protocols are essential to regain Zone 11’s green status within 3–6 months and protect
Bank of Botswana Lifts Policy Rate to 3.5% to Calm Credit Markets
The Bank of Botswana’s policy rate rose from 1.9% to 3.5% in 2025, with prime at 7.19%, amid diamond-driven liquidity strain. What the move means for borrowers
Economics
Magraft.com: One Digital Board for Businesses, Buyers and Creatives across Southern Africa
Cabanga Platforms has opened magraft.com, a creative services platform on which businesses in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe brief and pay the platform rather than the individual creative doing the work. The platform holds the client's funds against the job,...
Setsebi.Africa: One Register for the Companies That Buy Training and Providers across Southern Africa
Cabanga Platforms has opened Setsebi.Africa, a regional register of corporate training practitioners and team-building providers. The platform addresses a problem that is well known inside companies and almost never written about: the training a business needs usually...
Chinyama.com: Botswana Builds a Digital Cattle Board That Unites Farmers, Buyers and Transporters
Cabanga Platforms has opened Chinyama.com, a livestock marketplace for the cattle trade of southern Africa. Whoever holds the animals posts what they have and where it is standing. Whoever wants animals posts what they need and in what condition. Both sides sit on one...
Money
Bank of Botswana Lifts Policy Rate to 3.5% to Calm Credit Markets
For most of the last decade, the complaint about money in Botswana was that it cost almost nothing — and that this was precisely the problem. A policy rate held near the floor signalled an economy being nursed, not one running hot. When the price of money sits that...
CIPA Grants Six-Month Grace on Constitutions and Beneficial Ownership
Every formal company in Botswana carries a paper obligation that, for years, sat low on the priority list: keeping its founding documents and its true owners on record with the state. The Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA) has now made that...
Central Bank Sets 30 April for Next Rate Decision
A date on a calendar is not usually news. When it is the date the country's interest rate could change, it becomes a marker worth circling. The Bank of Botswana has confirmed that its Monetary Policy Committee will next meet on 30 April 2026 — the next scheduled point...
Lifestyle
P4m Investment Breathes Life into UB Hotel and Conference Centre
A capital city positioning itself as a regional conference and business hub had been letting one of its best-located venues stand empty. The University of Botswana Hotel — 80 rooms with conference capacity in the heart of Gaborone — sat dormant while the city it...
The reward economy
Lifestyle - Hospitality & Tourism · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 An expected rebound is not the same as a free-spending one. Botswana's budget projects an economic rebound this year, but recovery after a hard stretch tends to...
Health security travel
Lifestyle - Travel & Destinations · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Crises fade from the headlines long before their lessons should fade from practice. The World Bank has cut its global growth outlook and warned the drop could deepen if...
Bank of Botswana Lifts Policy Rate to 3.5% to Calm Credit Markets
The Bank of Botswana’s policy rate rose from 1.9% to 3.5% in 2025, with prime at 7.19%, amid diamond-driven liquidity strain. What the move means for borrowers
Magraft.com: One Digital Board for Businesses, Buyers and Creatives across Southern Africa
Cabanga Platforms has opened magraft.com, a creative services platform on which businesses in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe brief and pay the platform rather than the individual creative doing the work. The platform holds the client's funds against the job,...
Setsebi.Africa: One Register for the Companies That Buy Training and Providers across Southern Africa
Cabanga Platforms has opened Setsebi.Africa, a regional register of corporate training practitioners and team-building providers. The platform addresses a problem that is well known inside companies and almost never written about: the training a business needs usually...
Chinyama.com: Botswana Builds a Digital Cattle Board That Unites Farmers, Buyers and Transporters
Cabanga Platforms has opened Chinyama.com, a livestock marketplace for the cattle trade of southern Africa. Whoever holds the animals posts what they have and where it is standing. Whoever wants animals posts what they need and in what condition. Both sides sit on one...
Botswana–Oman Deals Span Minerals, Oil Storage and Solar
Botswana and Oman have signed agreements on joint mineral exploration, oil storage and renewable power. Why the breadth of the package is the real story.
Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
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Orange Botswana Pledges P1m to the Golden Grand Prix
Orange Botswana has pledged P1m to sponsor the FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour meeting set for 26 April 2026.
Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
BeiDou in Africa: A Navigation System Looking for Its Ground Game
China lists at least ten African uses for its BeiDou satellites, from precision farming to wildlife tracking. What the record does not yet list is the named centres to run them.
Twenty Digital Projects, RMB 360 Billion: FOCAC’s Next Frontier Pitch
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.
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.
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.