Court Rejects Bid to Halt PSBC Secretary Appointment
Reform of a labour institution almost never arrives cleanly. The bodies meant to mediate between the state, employers and workers are themselves contested terrain, and the first move in any restructuring is often a fight over who gets to lead it. Botswana's Public...
Export champions
Profiles - Founders & Operators · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A landlocked economy of just over two million people cannot grow on its home market alone. That hard fact is why the news that world trade rose in April matters in Gaborone...
Policy analysts
Profiles - Women in Business & Rising Stars · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 There was a time when a Botswana business owner could leave fiscal policy to the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Botswana. That time is over. When the...
Construction executives
Profiles - Leadership & Governance · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A signed agreement is not a built road, a generating plant or a working mine. That gap between the contract and the concrete is where Botswana's construction...
Retail founders
Profiles - Leaders & Changemakers · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Retail is where macroeconomics meets a shopper deciding whether to put an item back on the shelf. That is the front line Botswana's retail founders worked this year,...
Reading the Flow Data: China Is a Quarter of Africa’s Infrastructure Plan
Official flow data shows China financing roughly a quarter of Africa’s priority infrastructure. The harder finding is that money is not the binding constraint – project structuring is.
Fertiliser transmission
Global conflict disruption has raised concern over fertiliser exports and the cost of African food production, a chain that ends in Botswana’s already import-heavy food basket.
From Projects to a Market: China’s Africa Pivot Meets AfCFTA’s Bigger Test
China spent two decades building bilateral projects in Africa. AfCFTA asks a harder question – whether they add up to a single continental market or stay a collection of bilateral deals.
Oil shock and recovery
Crude markets swung sharply as Middle East supply routes were disrupted and then partially reopened, a reminder that landlocked, fuel-importing Botswana sits at the end of every oil shock.
Solar-energy industrialisation
Botswana’s 500 MW solar deal with Oman has placed renewable energy at the centre of its diversification story, turning the country’s most abundant resource into industrial policy.
PIDA and the Belt and Road: China Funds the Corridors Africa Already Planned
Africa’s own infrastructure blueprint predates Chinese finance. The 2024 FOCAC summit promised 30 projects to advance it – the test is whether they follow the continent’s plan or Beijing’s map.
Oman minerals partnership
Botswana and Oman have signed mineral-exploration and energy agreements, pairing a landlocked diversifier with a Gulf economy that has walked the same road away from a single export.
China and the African Union: A Dialogue Channel That Outpaces Its Receipts
The China-AU strategic dialogue promises co-ordinated development governance. Yet its clearest output to date is a single building, not a shared decision-making system.
Critical-minerals exploration
Botswana has announced a push to explore the large portion of its territory that remains under-explored, looking beyond diamonds for its next mineral story.
De Beers ownership scramble
Angola has sought a stake in De Beers while Botswana remains strategically exposed to the company’s future. The contest over who owns De Beers is, for Gaborone, a question about its own leverage.
Africa CDC’s New Home: A US$80 Million Headquarters and a Lesson in Health Sovereignty
China built Africa’s disease-control headquarters in Addis Ababa after a US retreat. The pandemic-born institution now houses its laboratories in a donated building.
ODC contract-sales pivot
Okavango Diamond Company moved further into contract sales to reduce auction volatility. It is a quiet, technical pivot, and a sensible one for a producer in a turbulent market.
A Gift in Glass and Concrete: The AU Headquarters and the Politics of Being Built
China funded the African Union’s US$200 million home in Addis Ababa. Its 99.9-metre tower honours African unity – and raises a question about who builds the continent’s institutions.
Diamond market reset
Global natural-diamond demand stayed weak while lab-grown alternatives gained share. For Botswana the question is no longer just the cycle, but whether the product itself is being redefined.
Budget deficit pressure
Botswana’s 2026 budget projected recovery alongside a deficit near 9% of GDP and debt above the statutory ceiling. The rebound and the strain are the same story, told from two ends.
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