A Cabanga Africa Publication
Africa Thinks Here
On-the-ground business intelligence in Botswana and Lesotho, since July 2019.
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Cabanga Platforms has opened magraft.com, a creative services platform on which businesses in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe brief and pay the platform rather than the individual creative doing the work. The platform holds the client's funds against the job,...
Cabanga Platforms has opened Setsebi.Africa, a regional register of corporate training practitioners and team-building providers. The platform addresses a problem that is well known inside companies and almost never written about: the training a business needs usually...
Cabanga Platforms has opened Chinyama.com, a livestock marketplace for the cattle trade of southern Africa. Whoever holds the animals posts what they have and where it is standing. Whoever wants animals posts what they need and in what condition. Both sides sit on one...
Botswana and Oman have signed agreements on joint mineral exploration, oil storage and renewable power. Why the breadth of the package is the real story.
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....
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
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.
Chinese industrial zones are cast as engines of Africa’s export ambitions, but the recorded jobs and investment are modest, and the zones matter more as a template than a triumph.
Industrial parks are sold as value-chain infrastructure, but a fenced plot with power and a road is only real estate until firms cluster and a supply chain forms inside it.