Gov’t warns of austerity measures
25 December 2024 The Ministry of Finance intends to implement austerity measures in the medium-term, including reducing the civil service…
Botswana issues 400 elephant hunting licenses, drawing fresh opposition
25 December 2024 Botswana has issued 400 elephant hunting licenses amid fresh opposition from conservationists. International hunters pay up to…
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)…
Mpho Sebina makes history as the first Botswana musician to join the Recording Academy
18 December 2024 It offers her a chance to serve the global music community and advocate for the rights of…
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 has not borrowed from Chinese policy banks for almost two decades
10 December 2024 Despite occasional efforts by the two sides to establish cooperation, the gap between Botswana’s expectations as a…
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…
Tebogo and Hassan named 2024 World Athletes of the Year
1 December 2024 Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo announced as the overall World Athlete, and Male track athlete of the…
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…