Bank of Botswana Lifts Policy Rate to 3.5% to Calm Credit Markets
For most of the last decade, the complaint about money in Botswana was that it cost almost nothing — and that this was precisely the problem. A policy rate held near the floor signalled an economy being nursed, not one running hot. When the price of money sits that...
Financial strategists
Profiles - Founders & Operators · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Profit is an opinion; cash is a fact. Botswana's operators are relearning that distinction in a harder fiscal climate. As the budget projected a rebound against rating...
Climate entrepreneurs
Profiles - Women in Business & Rising Stars · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Climate change in Botswana is not a distant scenario; it is a supply problem with a calendar. Heat, drought and water stress press on food and energy at the...
Tech educators
Profiles - Leadership & Governance · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A country can buy technology, but it cannot buy a workforce that knows how to use it. That distinction is why the rise of AI-led demand for skills, documented in recent...
Logistics entrepreneurs
Profiles - Leaders & Changemakers · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A logistics business lives and dies on two numbers it does not control: the price of fuel and the reliability of the corridor. Both are moving. As global physical crude...
Talent Development: How Luban Workshops Became a Policy Pillar, Not a Footnote
Vocational schools and training pledges have moved from the margins of China-Africa policy to a named pillar – with real numbers attached and real questions about who they serve.
Non-mining growth urgency
Budget and rating commentary kept returning to one demand: grow the economy outside mining. For Botswana the urgency is no longer theoretical – it is the difference between a rebound and a relapse.
South-South Exchange: China-Africa Ties as Knowledge, Not Only Capital
The roads and ports dominate the headlines, but the more durable transfer between China and Africa may be training, research centres and technical know-how.
Debt-ceiling credibility
Botswana’s fiscal plan contemplated breaching its own debt ceiling rather than cutting harder. That choice is a test of the credibility a country spends years building and minutes losing.
Africa as next growth engine
The IMF’s Africa chief sketched the continent’s long-run promise while warning of near-term shocks. For Botswana, both halves of that sentence are the planning brief.
China-Africa Expos: When Headline Deal Values Outrun Signed Contracts
The Changsha expo closed with US$11.4 billion in signed projects and a further US$43 billion merely announced. The gap between the two numbers is the story.
Global tariff uncertainty
World trade kept rising even as policy stayed unpredictable. For a small open economy like Botswana, that resilience is reassuring – and a reminder that the rules can still move under its feet.
Zero-Tariff Access: Why Open Gates Do Not Yet Mean Full Shelves
China has dropped tariffs to zero on 100 percent of tariff lines for least-developed African states. The harder work – meeting export protocols – is only beginning.
Commodity-supercycle caution
Copper and energy demand firmed while diamonds softened. For Botswana, a country built on one stone, the lesson is to read the supercycle with caution, not celebration.
Trade stockpiling
Global firms have stockpiled goods to manage tariff and shipping risk, helping world trade rise in April and exposing how exposed a landlocked Botswana is to the cost of holding inventory.
Beyond Aid: China-Africa Trade Reads as Expansion, With a Balance Question
China-Africa trade hit a record US$295.6 billion in 2024 – a business story, not an aid story. The unresolved question is whether the expansion runs both ways.
Regional mining competition
Neighbouring diamond and mineral producers have accelerated reforms and capital plans, raising the competitive stakes for a Botswana that long set the regional standard.
Roads, Rails and Wires: China’s African Build-Out and the Bill That Follows
China reports nearly 100,000 km of roads and over 10,000 km of railways built across Africa. Kenya’s flagship line shows why the build matters – and why the repayment terms matter as much.
Namibia oil horizon
Namibia’s budget pointed to crude output by 2030 and growth ambitions despite diamond weakness, sharpening the question of where that leaves a Botswana still anchored to the stone.
South African asset revival
Investors have increased exposure to South African assets as inflation fears eased, a regional re-rating that reaches Botswana through the Pula’s currency basket and shared trade plumbing.
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