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....
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....
Aterian Starts 90km² Copper Survey in the Kalahari Copperbelt
The Kalahari Copperbelt is one of the more talked-about exploration frontiers in southern Africa, yet most of its copper remains an inference rather than a deposit — a geological promise that has drawn explorers without yet yielding the scale of mines that would...
The 2026 Opportunity Atlas
Content - Voices & Podcasts · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A year of coverage can leave a reader informed and still adrift, knowing much and acting on little. With the WTO's leading indicator pointing to continued trade...
The Food Security Founder
Content - Magazine Editions · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Food security is usually told as a story of shortage; less often as a story of the operators quietly closing the gaps. With the FAO Food Price Index tracking the steady movement of...
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
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....
Aterian Starts 90km² Copper Survey in the Kalahari Copperbelt
UK-listed Aterian plc has begun a 90km2 soil geochemical survey for copper-silver in Botswana’s Kalahari Copperbelt, defining future drill targets. What it
The 2026 Opportunity Atlas
Global trade is holding up. The 2026 Opportunity Atlas is Moakanyi’s capstone, mapping all 270 issues by section, sector and business action for Botswana operators.
Economics
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....
Aterian Starts 90km² Copper Survey in the Kalahari Copperbelt
The Kalahari Copperbelt is one of the more talked-about exploration frontiers in southern Africa, yet most of its copper remains an inference rather than a deposit — a geological promise that has drawn explorers without yet yielding the scale of mines that would...
Transport and Food Push Inflation to 4.2% in March
Inflation figures are usually read for their headline. The more useful information often sits underneath it. In March 2026, Botswana's headline inflation rose to 4.2 percent, up from 4.0 percent — a small move that could be dismissed as noise. But the trimmed mean, a...
Money
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...
Bank of Botswana Holds Rate at 3.5% as Inflation Risks Loom
A central bank that does nothing is often doing the most deliberate thing it can. On 26 February 2026, the Bank of Botswana held its policy rate at 3.5 percent for the second meeting running — a decision that looks like inaction and reads, on closer inspection, as a...
Lifestyle
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...
Content-led tourism
Lifestyle - Culture & Leisure · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 By the time a traveller books, the decision is usually already made. It was made earlier, in an article, a guide or a podcast that lodged the destination in the mind. As the...
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....
Aterian Starts 90km² Copper Survey in the Kalahari Copperbelt
UK-listed Aterian plc has begun a 90km2 soil geochemical survey for copper-silver in Botswana’s Kalahari Copperbelt, defining future drill targets. What it
CIPA Grants Six-Month Grace on Constitutions and Beneficial Ownership
CIPA extends Botswana’s company-constitution filing deadline to 30 September 2026 and presses beneficial-ownership filing under AML law. What operators should
Central Bank Sets 30 April for Next Rate Decision
The Bank of Botswana confirmed its Monetary Policy Committee will next meet on 30 April 2026 to review the policy rate, held at 3.5%.
Transport and Food Push Inflation to 4.2% in March
Botswana’s headline inflation rose to 4.2% in March 2026 from 4.0%, with the trimmed mean at 4.8% signalling more durable underlying price pressure.
Bank of Botswana Holds Rate at 3.5% as Inflation Risks Loom
The Bank of Botswana held its policy rate at 3.5% on 26 Feb 2026 for a second meeting, flagging electricity-tariff and foot-and-mouth disease inflation risks.
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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.