Six Things a Useful Cleaner Profile Should Actually Tell You
A cleaner's profile has one job: to help you decide whether she can do the work you need done. It is not a portrait and it is not a popularity contest. Yet most of the ways households in Botswana find a cleaner - a Facebook post, a forwarded number, a photograph...
Six Things a Useful Cleaner Profile Should Actually Tell You
A cleaner's profile has one job: to help you decide whether she can do the work you need done. It is not a portrait and it is not a popularity contest. Yet most of the ways households in Botswana find a cleaner - a Facebook post, a forwarded number, a photograph...
Live-In and Live-Out Cleaning Are Two Different Jobs
A live-in cleaner and a live-out cleaner may do the same tasks in the same house, yet they are not doing the same job. One goes home at the end of the day to a life the household never sees; the other lives inside the household's life, and the arrangement has to carry...
Seven Things to Settle Before a Cleaner’s First Morning
Most trouble between a household and the person who cleans it does not begin with a broken vase or a missed morning. It begins weeks earlier, in everything that was assumed rather than said. From 1 September 2026 that habit carries a legal cost: under Botswana's...
Real Estate Tagged a Money-Laundering Hotspot, P1.1bn in Dirty Money
Rising property prices are usually read as a sign of confidence — a market voting for a city's future. In Botswana, a mid-April 2026 national risk assessment has supplied the uncomfortable counter-reading: some of that rise is not confidence at all, but laundered...
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
Six Things a Useful Cleaner Profile Should Actually Tell You
Profiles should help clients assess ability rather than appearance. The six fields that turn a cleaner’s listing into something you can actually shortlist from.
Live-In and Live-Out Cleaning Are Two Different Jobs
Similar work does not mean identical employment. A look at what actually separates live-in from live-out cleaning in Botswana, and why the choice comes first.
Seven Things to Settle Before a Cleaner’s First Morning
Under Botswana’s new labour law a household that hires a cleaner is an employer. Here are the seven things worth agreeing before the first morning.
Economics
Chad’s stable rating rests on a narrow growth engine
S&P’s B-/B affirmation points to higher hydrocarbon and mining production, infrastructure investment and services—but the same concentration that supports growth also defines the frontier-market risk. Chad’s stable sovereign rating is supported by a growth engine...
Political friction is becoming a regional business risk
Nigeria’s suspension of parliamentary engagements with South Africa shows how political disputes can move quickly into the channels that support trade, investment and cross-border confidence. Nigeria’s decision to suspend official parliamentary engagements with South...
Botswana’s rating problem is still a diamond problem
S&P’s decision to keep Botswana at BBB- with a negative outlook puts the same structural question back on the table: how quickly can the economy reduce its dependence on diamonds? Botswana’s latest sovereign rating does not introduce a new economic problem. It...
Money
Six Things a Useful Cleaner Profile Should Actually Tell You
A cleaner's profile has one job: to help you decide whether she can do the work you need done. It is not a portrait and it is not a popularity contest. Yet most of the ways households in Botswana find a cleaner - a Facebook post, a forwarded number, a photograph...
Live-In and Live-Out Cleaning Are Two Different Jobs
A live-in cleaner and a live-out cleaner may do the same tasks in the same house, yet they are not doing the same job. One goes home at the end of the day to a life the household never sees; the other lives inside the household's life, and the arrangement has to carry...
Seven Things to Settle Before a Cleaner’s First Morning
Most trouble between a household and the person who cleans it does not begin with a broken vase or a missed morning. It begins weeks earlier, in everything that was assumed rather than said. From 1 September 2026 that habit carries a legal cost: under Botswana's...
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...
Chad’s stable rating rests on a narrow growth engine
S&P’s B-/B affirmation points to higher hydrocarbon and mining production, infrastructure investment and services—but the same concentration that supports growth also defines the frontier-market risk.
Political friction is becoming a regional business risk
Nigeria’s suspension of parliamentary engagements with South Africa shows how political disputes can move quickly into the channels that support trade, investment and cross-border confidence.
Botswana’s rating problem is still a diamond problem
S&P’s decision to keep Botswana at BBB- with a negative outlook puts the same structural question back on the table: how quickly can the economy reduce its dependence on diamonds?
Namibia is treating the energy transition as an addition
The country’s energy debate is increasingly about how petroleum and green power coexist, not about choosing one and abandoning the other.
Mozambique’s LNG test is now local procurement
ExxonMobil’s selection of two Mozambican companies for the Rovuma LNG project shifts attention from the scale of gas investment to the share of capability that remains inside the domestic economy.
The Lobito Corridor is becoming a capacity business
A proposed $300 million boost and an 800,000-tonne cargo target show that the corridor’s value will be measured by throughput, reliability and the industries that organise around it.
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Six Things a Useful Cleaner Profile Should Actually Tell You
Profiles should help clients assess ability rather than appearance. The six fields that turn a cleaner’s listing into something you can actually shortlist from.
Live-In and Live-Out Cleaning Are Two Different Jobs
Similar work does not mean identical employment. A look at what actually separates live-in from live-out cleaning in Botswana, and why the choice comes first.
Seven Things to Settle Before a Cleaner’s First Morning
Under Botswana’s new labour law a household that hires a cleaner is an employer. Here are the seven things worth agreeing before the first morning.
What Botswana households check before they hand over a key
From September, hiring a cleaner in Botswana is a legal relationship, not a favour. A practical routine – sight the Omang, call a former employer, write the terms down – turns trust into a record.
Tanzania’s digital constraint is becoming infrastructure
Calls for greater investment in digital infrastructure show that East Africa’s next technology gains depend increasingly on the physical and financial rails underneath applications.
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.