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KHAMA SWEEPS SADC TROUBLES UNDER CARPET
SADC has given a nod to the regions’ peace security situation ignoring a volatile political climate brewing in Zimbabwe, and Zambia and unresolved political issues in Lesotho. This raises questions...
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CEDA SETS ASIDE P20 MILLION FOR MICRO BUSINESSES
Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA) said it has set aside about P20 million forlower-end businesses, under the newly designed loan initiative, ‘Mabogo-Dinku’, which targets micro...
View ArticleSTANBIC SETS NEW HEIGHTS UNDER AISAM
The newly appointed Head of Corporate and Investment Banking at Stanbic Bank moved to assure clients this week that his bank will take advantage of an explosion in the IT sector while helping the...
View ArticleINSIDE BIHL NEW STRATEGY
Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited (BIHL) says it is working on strategies to improve its footprints operations to enable the diversified insurance outfit to keep its market share in the SADC region....
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FOR LETSHEGO, THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OUTSIDE
There is nothing micro about the size of Letshego subsidiaries in Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania and many other areas the group has expanded to. The group financial results for the year ended 31 January...
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OUR FAILURE, BATSWANA’S AGONY
FROM HYUNDAI TO FENGYUE AND MAY OTHERS… • The nation is left helpless ‘in a land of plenty’ • Unemployment at unprecedented levels and no answer for it • Projects that were meant to feed Batswana goes...
View ArticleSTOCKBROKERS BOTSWANA – THE ART OF COLLAPSE
30th August 2016. Plot 74358, Prime Plaza, Morula Building, North Wing, New CBD Gaborone. Afternoon. Approximately 430pm. Just before the crowd of late afternoon to early evening drinkers alighted off...
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THE PERILS OF THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
GABORONE, August 15, Botswana Exporters and Manufactures Association (BEMA) organizes a open forum meeting for the textile sector of the country to discuss the challenges and future of the sector at...
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HOW TSHEKEDI RUNS THE TOURISM SHOW
At a recent Wilderness Holdings Limited board meeting in Cape Town, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Keith Vincent frantically read a letter from Botswana Minister of Environment Wildlife and Tourism...
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PARLIAMENT STOPS TSHEKEDI KHAMA ON HIS TRACKS
• Cancels P17 million Dubai contract • Instructs him to appoint board of directors • Stop micro-managing BTO- Tshekedi warned • TK instructed Dithebe to avail P17 million Efforts by Minister of...
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NDB QUIETLY GETS P400M
Government has agreed to inject P400 million into the ailing National Development Bank (NDB) to save it from insolvency, two sources closer to the deal revealed this week. While still out of public...
View ArticleVOLATILITY THREATENS BOTASH EXPORT
Volatility in neighbouring markets threaten Botash business of salt and soda, chief executive officer, Montwedi Mphathi has said. Botash exports majority of its products to South Africa and Zimbabwe...
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Tourism is just too foreign owned – HATAB
• Big League players crowding out locals • HATAB calls for review of tourism policy • Lets regulate filtration of income – economist The Hospitality and Tourism Association of Botswana (HATAB) has...
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“DON’T MESS WITH THE TIBONES, WE WILL DESTROY YOU”
Charles Tibone “Stop messing with Charles Tibone. He is very powerful and would destroy you to the extent that nobody in the industry would want to associate with you,” Titose Tibone, the blacklisted...
View ArticleSeretse fingered in BOTC mess
• The parastatals operates without a board • Its expenditure raises questions • Anonymous member of public drags BOTC before DCEC The Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry Vincent Seretse has been...
View ArticleHow Gaetsaloe escaped unscathed
As always Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises members had a few questions but the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC)’s Bashi Gaetsaloe impressed with his calm and...
View ArticleTHE TAKE-OVER
Cabinet, which has been slowly increasing to its weight with the proverbial straw at the expense of the backbench, will at the next cession of Parliament perform the final act and add the final straw;...
View ArticleMABEO, FITT IN FIRING LINE OVER P80M DEAL
Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Bodies and Enterprises, Guma Moyo this week came short of recommending the dismissal of Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Transport and...
View ArticleSub Saharan Africa’s economy to decline
After falling to 3 percent in 2015, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is set to slip further by 1.6 percent, the lowest level in over two decades, the World Bank has...
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ANOTHER TOURISM DEAL GOES SOUR
Chobe River (Pic: Tshireletso Motlogelwa) It never rains but pours at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism and Botswana Tourism Authority. This week it emerged...
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