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...
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...
A Private Home Is Still a Workplace
The trouble with cleaning someone's home is that a home is not built for professional distance. It is where a family argues, sleeps, keeps its money and its medicine, and lets its guard down. A person working inside all of that, day after day, cannot help but see it -...
FMD Response Shifts from Culling to Vaccination in Zone 6b
Botswana's beef industry has long been protected by an instrument that quietly punishes the people it is meant to defend: the cull. For decades, the standard response to a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak has been depopulation — the slaughter of exposed herds to...
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...
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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