BoFiNet Names Dr Gaone Seleka CEO to Drive Digital Infrastructure
Botswana has spent a decade talking about a digital economy while much of the heavy lifting still rests on a single state-owned wholesaler of fibre. That wholesaler, Botswana Fibre Networks, sits at the point where ambition meets cable: every bank app, every...
Luxury consumption
Lifestyle - Travel & Destinations · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Botswana sells the world a story about diamonds, and the story is only worth as much as the buyer's confidence on the day they hear it. The stone in a Gaborone...
Regional weekend economy
Lifestyle - Culture & Leisure · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Gaborone is a tank of petrol and a border post from Johannesburg, which makes South Africa the default destination for a Batswana weekend away and the default origin for the...
Lodge supply chains
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A safari lodge sells stillness and space, but its margins are written on the back of a fuel receipt and a grocery invoice. The room rate at a camp in the Okavango or near...
Cultural tourism
Lifestyle - Hospitality & Tourism · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Heritage is usually filed under identity, rarely under strategy. That filing is becoming a mistake. As world trade rose in April in a fresh sign of resilience, the wider...
AI investment finance
AI demand kept global electronics trade moving through a volatile year. The financing question for Botswana is whether it funds the chips or the things they make possible.
Food-price working capital
Food and fertiliser prices keep moving, and every swing forces firms to finance inventory they did not budget for. For Botswana’s food chain, working capital is the quiet cost of volatility.
Corridors over showpieces: why the link between projects matters most
A single railway is a ribbon-cutting. A working corridor is an economy. The gap between the two is where most African trade still loses money.
Cost of capital in construction
Botswana signed energy and mineral exploration deals with Oman just as financing costs climbed worldwide. The ambition is real; the cost of capital decides which projects survive it.
Ports as gateways: where China’s African infrastructure meets the trade test
Beijing’s white paper counts almost 100 ports built across Africa. Whether those quays move African goods, or mostly imports, is the harder question.
Banking for exporters
World trade rose in April even as tariff threats multiplied. For Botswana exporters, the lesson is less about the rebound than about the banking that survives the next shock.
Diamond-sector receivables
Rough-diamond price swings ripple through cash conversion for cutters, traders and suppliers – and after an S&P downgrade, Botswana’s receivables sit in the path of global headwinds.
Bridges as Multipliers: Mozambique’s 3km Span and Its 4% Debt
Africa’s longest suspension bridge cut a six-hour journey to 90 minutes across Maputo Bay. It also left Mozambique repaying a US$785m loan at 4% – a multiplier of commerce, and of debt.
Ratings and tender pricing
A credit downgrade does not stay on paper – it raises the price of government-backed projects, and Botswana’s tender costs move with its rating.
Roads First: How 100,000km of Chinese-Built Tarmac Reshaped Africa
China’s foreign ministry counts nearly 100,000km of highways built across Africa. The headline rail projects get the attention – but roads, quieter and more numerous, did the heavier lifting.
Capital follows energy
Renewable, oil-storage and grid projects are pulling strategic capital, and Botswana’s energy and mineral deals with Oman show how investment now follows the power supply.
Insurance against shocks
Conflict, disease and commodity swings hit fuel, food and mining at once – a reminder that for Botswana, insurance against shocks is now a core part of doing business.
TAZARA’s Real Cargo: Copper to the Sea Through Dar es Salaam
Rehabilitating TAZARA is sold as a rail story. Its point is the sea – a mineral corridor delivering Zambian copper to Dar es Salaam, racing US- and Japan-backed routes for the same ore.
Working-capital buffers
Global supply disruptions taught firms to stockpile inventory – a defensive habit that ties up cash and tests the working-capital buffers of Botswana importers.
TAZARA Reborn: A US$1.4bn Bet on Reviving Africa’s Mao-Era Railway
China built TAZARA in the 1970s as a gift of solidarity, then watched it decay. A US$1.4bn deal now revives the line – this time as a 30-year commercial concession, not a present.
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