SA major banks circle Standard Chartered Botswana sale
South Africa’s major banks are emerging as potential suitors for Standard Chartered Bank Botswana, as parent company Standard Chartered PLC...
Access to Municipal Bonds Hinges on Governance Reform, Says BSE CEO
Local authorities are being urged to reduce reliance on central government transfers and strengthen own-source revenues, with municipal bonds emerging...
Agriculture Begins to Move the Needle
When the 2025 Budget Speech was delivered, agriculture was cast as one of the sectors expected to help pull Botswana...
AGOA returns, but structural constraints still loom
AGOA, which grants duty-free access to more than 1,800 product lines from eligible sub-Saharan African countries, expired in September 2025...
Rail revenue reaches P60.5 million
Volume of railed goods up 12.7% in Q3 2025 The volume and value of goods transported by rail increased in...
Government taps P97 million fund for FMD emergency response
Botswana is drawing down from an existing P97 million emergency response fund to avert a potential outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease...
As households feel the squeeze, vehicle sales head for decline
Botswana’s vehicle market is expected to contract in 2026 as rising inflation, tighter monetary conditions, and unfavourable currency movements squeeze...
Botswana Diamonds looks to copper amid rough diamond market
Weakness in the global diamond market, coupled with rising demand for copper and other energy-transition metals, is prompting junior miner...
South Africa presses Botswana on long-running dairy protection
Botswana’s prolonged use of Infant Industry Protection (IIP) measures is limiting South Africa’s ability to expand dairy exports into the...
Big tenders are reserved for foreigners
Citizen-owned contractors are increasingly excluded from high-value public contracts that, according to Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) Chief Executive Officer...
