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...
Bogolo Joy Kenewendo
Profiles - Leaders & Changemakers · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Every resource economy reaches the point where the thing that made it rich becomes the thing it cannot rely on. For Botswana that thing is the diamond, and the question...
Ndaba Gaolathe
Profiles - Founders & Operators · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A country can run on a single resource for a generation and still wake up exposed when that resource stumbles. Botswana built one of Africa's steadiest fiscal records...
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...
People-to-People: The Soft Layer Holding Up the Hardware Story
Intellectual - Behavioural Intelligence · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The ports and railways get the cameras; the relationships keep them running. On 8 January 2026, China and the African Union launched the 2026 China-Africa Year of...
Nation Pays Tribute to Festus Mogae, Champion of Good Governance
Botswana declared three days of national mourning for former president Festus Mogae, who died at 86 in May 2026, remembered for good governance and his HIV/AIDS response.
Fenced Frontier: How Botswana and South Africa Sync FMD Control to 2028
Botswana and South Africa adopted a 2026-2028 plan for cross-border vaccination, fence upkeep and a stock-theft task force to hold foot-and-mouth disease in check.
Botswana’s Skateboard Pioneer Rolls onto the World Stage
National skateboarder Theo Setsetse will carry Botswana into world qualifier events in Rome and later Russia, putting a niche discipline on an international stage.
Botswana Music Scene Booms as BOMU Awards Draw 2,000 Entries
Nearly 2,000 entries to the Botswana Musicians Union awards – and six nominations for hip-hop artist Han C – point to a music scene with more depth than its visibility suggests.
Rural Budgets Prioritise Public Works Over Services
Mabutsane District Council put 75% of its P34.6 million budget into the Ikageng public-works programme, with P5 million to a constituency community programme.
The Needle Eye Review: Retail Reality and Consumer Power in Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe
African consumer markets continue to be interpreted through lenses that are often disconnected from lived experience. Institutional reports, aggregated datasets, and external advisory perspectives provide high-level insight, but they frequently fail to capture the...
The Spark Plug Effect: How to Survive Market Pressure and Scale Across Borders
Growth is an unknown language in business because it has not happened until the entrepreneur makes it happen. It is not a passive guarantee—it is a deliberate mechanical action that requires constant translation into strategy and execution. Imagine a beautifully...
Africanessence: How Ubuntu Is Reshaping Corporate Culture Across Africa
African businesses are facing a dual challenge: global worker disengagement and a need for leadership models that resonate locally. In 2024 Gallup estimated that just 23 percent of employees worldwide are engaged at work, while 62 percent are not engaged and another...
Local Councils Juggle Social Protection with Infrastructure Plans
Kgatleng and other councils tied child-grant registration to revenue drives while weighing roads and sewage – the everyday arithmetic of local government.
Music Festival as Job Engine: Stanbic Doubles Down on Creative Economy
The second Stanbic Music and Lifestyle Festival will employ over 500 staff, turning a cultural event into a measurable job engine for Botswana’s creative economy.
Orange’s P1 Million Boost Puts Botswana on the Athletics Map
Orange Botswana’s P1 million commitment to the FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix is a bet that sport sponsorship can carry a brand and a country onto a bigger stage.
Fresh Faces at Trade Commission Aim to Spur Competitiveness
A new Botswana Trade Commission board, appointed in April 2026, takes on the country’s stubborn gap between trade ambition and export competitiveness.
Biosecurity Breaches Trigger FMD Crisis and Abattoir Shutdown
The April 2026 FMD outbreak at the Ramatlabama AI centre likely came from contaminated clothing or equipment; BMC abattoirs shut after slaughtering 12,291 cattle for the EU market.
From Subsistence to Enterprise: Agriculture Pushes for GDP Crown
At Masama Market in April 2026, Assistant Minister Baratiwa Mathoothe urged farmers to form cooperatives, lease unused land and embrace agro-processing to make agriculture the top GDP contributor.
Compliance Is Key: EU Beef Market Hinges on FMD Control
Acting agriculture minister Dr Edwin Dikoloti told farmers that strict foot-and-mouth compliance could restore green status in 3 to 6 months, protecting the EU premium beef market.
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