Research on African users’ trust concerns with digital payments offers hard leadership lessons for fintech founders building the rails of a cash-light Botswana.
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Profiles
Agribusiness operators
Botswana’s farmers and processors faced input-cost and food-security pressure as the global food price index stayed elevated, putting agribusiness leaders on the front line of affordability.
Mining explorers
Junior and state-linked explorers became front-line players in Botswana’s push to expand exploration beyond diamonds, turning a policy ambition into ground-level prospecting.
Energy dealmakers
Renewable energy between Oman and Botswana moved from talk to signed agreements, putting a new class of cross-border dealmakers at the centre of the diversification story.
Botswana entrepreneurs
Botswana’s entrepreneurs spent the year steering through slow growth, fuel swings and tighter fiscal conditions, the same headwinds the World Bank flagged when it cut its global outlook.
Bank of Botswana policymakers
A small open economy cannot vote its way out of imported inflation. Botswana’s monetary policymakers spent the year deciding how hard to lean against price and growth stress at once.
Namibian finance leadership
Namibia’s budget has positioned oil as a future growth engine, a neighbour’s bet on a new resource that offers Botswana both a lesson and a live comparison in the regional contest for capital.
South African fund managers
Asset managers have turned more positive on South African assets as stagflation fears fade, a shift in regional sentiment that reaches Botswana through its largest trading partner.
Angola’s mining officials
Angola’s pursuit of a strategic De Beers stake has raised the prospect of sharper regional competition over the company’s future, with direct implications for Botswana’s place in the diamond order.