Eight Questions That Turn a Reference Call Into Evidence
A reference proves nothing on its own. A name and a number handed over with a warm word can mean the person really is who she says she is and worked where she says she worked - or it can mean a friend has agreed to say kind things down the phone. What decides which is...
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...
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
Public housing schemes tend to fail at the same join: they build the houses but withhold the ownership. A tenant who can occupy a state-built home but never own it is a tenant forever, with no stake to maintain and no asset to build on. The reform of Botswana's...
P558m Road Contract to Spur Rural Mobility
Botswana's road map tells two stories at once. One is of a well-connected spine — the highways linking Gaborone, Francistown and the major centres are real and serviceable. The other is of the gravel and dirt that still separates many rural settlements from that...
Kazungula Bridge Authority Formalised, Strengthening Botswana–Zambia Ties
Cross-border infrastructure in Southern Africa rarely fails for want of steel. It fails for want of a clear answer to a duller question: once the bridge is built, who runs it, who bills for it, and who carries the legal authority to keep it open. The Kazungula Bridge...
Eight Questions That Turn a Reference Call Into Evidence
Reference checking needs substance, not ceremonial phone calls. Eight questions that turn a former employer’s goodwill into evidence you can actually use.
A Private Home Is Still a Workplace
A home does not stop being a workplace because it is intimate. Why professional boundaries protect both household and cleaner – and where they most often blur.
FMD Response Shifts from Culling to Vaccination in Zone 6b
Botswana’s early-2026 choice to vaccinate rather than cull Zone 6b cattle against FMD eases farmer losses while protecting premium beef export access.
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.
Real Estate Tagged a Money-Laundering Hotspot, P1.1bn in Dirty Money
A Botswana risk assessment estimates ~P1.1bn laundered through real estate amid surging valuations and weak oversight. Why property, the cost, the response.
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.
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.
Malawi’s next food shock may begin with input costs
El Niño risk and expensive fertiliser expose the mechanism that makes Malawi vulnerable: weather pressure becomes an economic problem when farmers cannot afford the inputs needed to protect yields.
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.
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.
Critical minerals have turned the Lobito power gap into a strategic asset
The United States’ focus on energy constraints along the Lobito Corridor shows that copper and cobalt logistics cannot scale without equally serious investment in power.
Egypt is selling resilience, but investors need the mechanism
Claims of economic resilience become useful to business only when they can be traced to sectors, foreign-exchange capacity, investment flows and the ability to absorb external shocks.
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