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President Duma Boko has allayed fears of state capture under the new Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and its coalition government.Boko made the remarks during the launch of the country’s first modular school financed through international...

Deputy Chairperson of Molepolole Council, Kenna Odirile has bemoaned the tobacco industry’s continued profiteering, putting people’s lives at risk. Odirile made the remarks following the recent countrywide Anti-Tobacco Network (ATN) campaign...

Bolux Group, one of the country’s large maize and wheat milling company has expanded its confectionery and maize and sorghum instant porridge lines ahead of export plans. With an investment of P58 million, the company has established a new instant...

The Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC) has extended an invite to local investors to consider investing in Lesotho’s poultry industry. Speaking at the Botswana, Lesotho Business Forum held this week, LNDC Chief Executive Officer, Thabo...

Finance minister, Ndaba Gaolathe has defended intentions to evolve fiscal landscape, as a necessary and forward-looking initiative. Commenting on the 2nd reading of the stock, bonds and treasury bills, the minister said evolving is necessary to...

Citizen Entrepreneurship Development Agency (CEDA) is working on reengineering the country’s horticulture industry, a development expected to support the sector’s growth. With secured finance, obtained from the Ministry of Trade and...

Natural diamonds are far from losing their glitter, Botswana’s Minister of Minerals and Energy, Bogolo Kenewendo, told world leaders at the Mining Indaba, Africa’s largest mining industry gathering.Her remarks come at a time when the diamond...

Tough economic environment, attributed mostly to the performance decline in the diamond industry are likely to persist, as the country’s diamond inventory doubles, due to low sales.According to authorities at the Ministry of Finance, the pace of...

Deposits held at the Bank of Botswana (BoB) are at historically low levels, due to the current fiscal landscape, the Ministry of Finance has revealed.The development is posing risk to the economy, as government may not honour its obligations, due to...

Foreign manufactured uniforms are flooding the northern part of the country - Francistown and Mahalapye, despite efforts to localise uniform tailoring business and grow startups.Investigations by Botswana Export Manufacturing Association (BEMA) have...

The exchange rate framework for 2026 is expected to support manufacturers to grow their businesses, but uncertainties remain on the electricity tariff rates front, a nag bothering the Botswana Export Manufacturers Association (BEMA).As the year...

Customers and investors will no longer suffer online downtime challenge currently experienced in most government institutions, derailing e-commerce and digitalisation efforts anticipated to improve ease of doing business.According to the...

Jindal Energy Botswana project has achieved financial closure for its two ongoing 300MW energy projects being implemented in partnership with Botswana Power Corporation (BPC).Through Indian multinational banking and financial services company, Axis...

Business Botswana (BB) has warned that the comfort zone of securing government procurement contracts, to prop up business enterprise is over. Speaking recently at a fundraising for C-Suite Fellowship Programme, an initiative expected to nurture...

Government’s determination to acquire a sizeable stake in De Beers has been reiterated by President Gideon Duma Boko. In an interview on the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, this week, Boko has...