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...
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. Malawi’s agricultural risk is not only a weather story. It is an...
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Botswana's beef industry carries a quiet paradox. Its premium markets are not at home or even mostly in the region — they are in Europe, thousands of kilometres away, reachable only because the country has spent decades building a disease-control and traceability...
Producer margins
Farming - Agri-Finance · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A farmer can grow a fine crop and still go backwards if the cost of growing it outruns the price it fetches. That squeeze is tightening: fuel, fertiliser and price volatility are...
Local seed systems
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Self-reliance gets dismissed as romantic until the supply chain it was meant to replace breaks. Each disruption to imported inputs revives interest in local seed...
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.
Political friction is becoming a regional business risk
Nigeria’s suspension of parliamentary engagements with South Africa shows how political disputes can move quickly into the channels that support trade, investment and cross-border confidence.
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.
Zimbabwe’s platinum story has moved into the capital phase
Tharisa’s near-$300 million raise for the Karo project shows that the next mining constraint is no longer only geology; it is the ability to mobilise capital and convert licences into production.
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.
Mozambique’s LNG test is now local procurement
ExxonMobil’s selection of two Mozambican companies for the Rovuma LNG project shifts attention from the scale of gas investment to the share of capability that remains inside the domestic economy.
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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