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Our June 2026 issue is out. How Duma Boko is re-architecting Botswana - from a diamond-dependent rentier state into a sovereign-equity economy built to rival the Gulf - and what that turn asks of everyone doing business here. Botswana is doing something most resource...
From the 2006 FOCAC to the 2024 Beijing plan, China keeps promising experts, demonstration centres and modernised farms. The repetition is the point – and the problem.
At a June 2026 bi-national commission, the Botswana Meat Commission and Botswana Vaccine Institute explored working with Lesotho on meat processing and vaccine production.
The school feeding scheme is holding up but short on suppliers, the council reports – and that gap is an open contract for local farms and logistics firms.
When BCL’s mine closed, Selebi Phikwe lost its economic spine. A citrus farm now employing over 300 workers is one attempt to put a different engine in its place.
Councils rolled out cooperative farming schemes and community gardens in June 2026 to soften drought and import dependence as food insecurity rose.
Kanye council moved to fix supply shortages in its school feeding programme, keeping beans, samp and the rest of the menu reaching learners despite delays.
Councils have begun registering households hit by foot-and-mouth disease, building the record that any credible relief or compensation must rest on.
Kanye District councillors said the school feeding programme runs fairly despite delays in beans and samp supplies, with P6.5 million budgeted.