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? Botswana’s latest sovereign rating does not introduce a new economic problem. It...
Magraft.com: One Digital Board for Businesses, Buyers and Creatives across Southern Africa
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,...
Setsebi.Africa: One Register for the Companies That Buy Training and Providers across Southern Africa
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...
Chinyama.com: Botswana Builds a Digital Cattle Board That Unites Farmers, Buyers and Transporters
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...
P4m Investment Breathes Life into UB Hotel and Conference Centre
A capital city positioning itself as a regional conference and business hub had been letting one of its best-located venues stand empty. The University of Botswana Hotel — 80 rooms with conference capacity in the heart of Gaborone — sat dormant while the city it...
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.
Central Bank Sets 30 April for Next Rate Decision
The Bank of Botswana confirmed its Monetary Policy Committee will next meet on 30 April 2026 to review the policy rate, held at 3.5%.
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.
De Beers boardroom
De Beers’ ownership future has become a continental strategic issue, with the question of who controls the company carrying direct consequences for Botswana, its closest partner and co-owner.
Zeine Zeidane
The IMF’s Africa chief framed Middle East disruption as a regional economic shock, a warning that reached as far as the World Bank’s cut to its global growth outlook and, through trade, to Botswana.
Duma Boko
President Duma Boko’s visit to Oman produced energy and mineral exploration agreements, signalling a search for partners and capital beyond Botswana’s traditional Western and regional markets.
Lipalese Makepe
New ODC leadership has shifted Botswana’s diamond sales toward contracted buyers, a quiet structural change arriving just as a sovereign downgrade underlined the pressure on the sector.
Bogolo Joy Kenewendo
Botswana’s mines minister has fronted the country’s push beyond diamonds into critical minerals, framing exploration as the next chapter rather than a replacement for the stone that built the state.
Ndaba Gaolathe
Botswana’s finance minister has become the central figure in a debate over debt, deficits and the long-promised move beyond diamonds, with the 2026 budget projecting a rebound.
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