Base metal exports soar
9 January 2025 The country’s base metal exports reached P7.63 billion between January and September 2024, beating the P6.96 billion…
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Bank of Botswana poised for key rate decision
8 January 2025 The Bank of Botswana’s (BoB) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is set to convene on Thursday to review…
Batswana recruited to launder money offshore
8 January 2025 Scores of Batswana are recruited into passive money laundering schemes, as international criminals exploit their bank accounts…
Scatec reaches financial close in Botswana and prepares for construction start
21 December 2024 Scatec ASA, a leading renewable energy provider, has reached financial close for the second 60 megawatt (MW)…
The second-largest diamond ever found now has a name
19 December 2024 The 2,488-carat diamond recovered from a mine in Botswana has been dubbed “Motswedi” while its 1,094-carat sibling…
Botswana and Bangladesh conclude MoUs on Contract Farming
18 December 2024 Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary Ambassador Md. Jashim Uddin yesterday confirmed the conclusion of the signing of the Memorandum…
First university innovation pod launched in Botswana
18 December 2024 Botswana launched its first University Innovation Pod (UniPod) Monday, with the goal of empowering young people, encouraging…
Southern African countries build $45M military depot in Botswana
15 December 2024 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is building a military logistics hub in Botswana to ensure the…
Sightholders Dither on De Beers Rough Despite Price Cut
12 December 2024 Customers faced a dilemma: Buy unprofitable goods or lose future allocations. When shoppers choose to buy diamonds…
Liquid completes 730km fibre link to Botswana
12 December 2024 Liquid Intelligent Technologies has completed its 730km fibre network expansion from South Africa to Botswana in a…
Debswana: Leading Botswana’s Diamond Story at FACETS Conference
12 December 2024 Recently, the Antwerp World Diamond Centre invited experts, retailers, traders, and other stakeholders to gather in the…
LEA eyes hemp production incubator
11 December 2024 The Local Enterprise Authority (LEA) has announced plans to establish a hemp production incubator, marking a shift…
Gov’t to stop revenue repatriation from tourism
11 December 2024 With foreign-owned entities dominating Botswana’s tourism sector and leading the repatriation of revenue, government has revealed that…
Botswana’s economy is in bad shape, says new administration as it eyes electricity exports to SA
10 December 2024 Botswana’s economy is in bad shape, deputy president and finance minister Ndaba Gaolathe has told its parliament…
Botswana to suspend 70 projects under development manager model
8 December 2024 Botswana’s new government will suspend 70 projects under the development manager (DM) model out of 148, for…
Government to establish mega enterprises as large as Debswana or bigger
8 December 2024 The Projects | Economic Transformation As part of its transformative agenda to place Botswana’s economy on a…
Botswana economy could shrink 1.7% this year, finance minister says
7 December 2024 Botswana’s economy could shrink 1.7% this year, the first contraction since the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly because of…
Cobre hits new copper mineralisation 7.5 kilometres along strike from Comet Prospect at Ngami in Botswana
6 December 2024 Cobre Ltd (ASX:CBE) has intersected a broad, 21-metre wide zone of chalcocite-dominant (copper sulphide) mineralisation in drill…
The vegetable ban is bad economics, very bad economics – Ndaba Gaolathe
6 December 2024 Vice President and Minister of Finance, Ndaba Gaolathe, has dismissed the vegetable ban as a flawed policy…
Paratus Botswana announces new Botswana to Zambia fibre route
4 December 2024 Paratus Botswana, a leading telecommunications and network services provider, has commenced work on lighting a new fibre…
Air Botswana launches delayed Durban route
4 December 2024 Air Botswana officially kicked off its Durban to Gaborone route on 1 December, after it was delayed…
Feature: Chinese medical team offers free healthcare, training to Botswana police officers
3 December 2024 The 17th Chinese medical team has recently arrived in Francistown, Botswana’s second-largest city, marking a new chapter…
Science Park to open in January, once the s*** is sorted
3 December 2024 After several false starts and years of slow progress, Maun Education Park’s transformation into Maun Science Park…
Botswana’s solar dream
29 November 2024 Botswana eyes 8,000 MW renewable energy boom – Botswana is positioning itself to become Africa’s solar energy…
Botswana joins Belgium as centre for diamond certification
29 November 2024 Botswana has been added as a second centre, in addition to Belgium, to verify the origin of…
Boko and Cook: Botswana-De Beers deal is close
28 November 2024 The long-awaited deal between De Beers and the Botswana is close to completion, both sides told the…