Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Botswana's beef industry carries a quiet paradox. Its premium markets are not at home or even mostly in the region — they are in Europe, thousands of kilometres away, reachable only because the country has spent decades building a disease-control and traceability...
Class 42: How SA’s Trademark Update Makes Room for AI-as-a-Service
A trademark system is supposed to describe the economy as it actually trades, yet for years South African filings have squeezed twenty-first-century products into categories drawn for an older market. From 1 January 2026, that lag narrowed: South Africa adopted the...
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Botswana's beef industry carries a quiet paradox. Its premium markets are not at home or even mostly in the region — they are in Europe, thousands of kilometres away, reachable only because the country has spent decades building a disease-control and traceability...
The Next African Boycott Could Start Online
South Africa has long sold itself to the rest of the continent as more than a market: a symbol, a destination, a proof that African modernity could be built and branded. That positioning is an asset, and assets can be impaired. As violence against African nationals...
Sealed Digitally: How the CIPC Put QR Codes on Every South African Patent
A patent is one of the most valuable documents a South African inventor can hold, yet for years its proof of existence was a sheet of paper that could be lost, forged or left to fade in a filing cabinet. From 2 February 2026, the Companies and Intellectual Property...
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- 01 Africa Thinks Here – Can South Africa Still Say It?
- 02 Investor Guide: Operating Through Afrophobia Risk
- 03 The Spaza Economy Field Guide
Class 42: How SA’s Trademark Update Makes Room for AI-as-a-Service
SA adopted the 13th edition Nice Classification on 1 Jan 2026, adding AI-as-a-Service to Class 42 and reclassifying goods — a prompt to re-audit marks.
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Acting Minister Dikoloti has told Digawana farmers that strict FMD protocols are essential to regain Zone 11’s green status within 3–6 months and protect
The Next African Boycott Could Start Online
Violence against African nationals can trigger consumer boycotts of South African brands abroad. Why firms should watch sentiment and distributor risk.
Economics
The Next African Boycott Could Start Online
South Africa has long sold itself to the rest of the continent as more than a market: a symbol, a destination, a proof that African modernity could be built and branded. That positioning is an asset, and assets can be impaired. As violence against African nationals...
Deportation Is Also a Fiscal Policy
Deportation is usually argued as a matter of law and order, as though its only ledger were political. It is also a spending programme, and an expensive one. Every removal has to be found, detained, processed, transported and administered, and the state that promises...
Minerals and Megawatts: How EU Finance Targets SA’s Critical-Mineral Supply Chain
Europe wants what is in South African ground and South Africa wants the industry that turns it into something valuable — and for years those two desires have pulled against each other. The continent's critical minerals have flowed out as raw inputs while the...
Money
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...
CIPA Grants Six-Month Grace on Constitutions and Beneficial Ownership
Every formal company in Botswana carries a paper obligation that, for years, sat low on the priority list: keeping its founding documents and its true owners on record with the state. The Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA) has now made that...
Central Bank Sets 30 April for Next Rate Decision
A date on a calendar is not usually news. When it is the date the country's interest rate could change, it becomes a marker worth circling. The Bank of Botswana has confirmed that its Monetary Policy Committee will next meet on 30 April 2026 — the next scheduled point...
Lifestyle
46th SADC Summit across SADC — destination and travel value for businesses across SADC
A summit dedicated to industrialisation, agriculture and critical minerals does not sound, on its face, like tourism news. Yet the same infrastructure and mobility questions that determine whether a mine's output reaches a port also determine whether a visitor...
P4m Investment Breathes Life into UB Hotel and Conference Centre
A capital city positioning itself as a regional conference and business hub had been letting one of its best-located venues stand empty. The University of Botswana Hotel — 80 rooms with conference capacity in the heart of Gaborone — sat dormant while the city it...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC: the lived regional economy and what comes next
Walk the beaches of Luanda's Ilha do Cabo or the coastal roads south toward Benguela and the blue economy is not a policy phrase, it is the boats coming in at dawn, the informal fish markets, the dive operators and lodges depending on marine conservation areas...
The Next African Boycott Could Start Online
Violence against African nationals can trigger consumer boycotts of South African brands abroad. Why firms should watch sentiment and distributor risk.
Bank of Botswana Lifts Policy Rate to 3.5% to Calm Credit Markets
The Bank of Botswana’s policy rate rose from 1.9% to 3.5% in 2025, with prime at 7.19%, amid diamond-driven liquidity strain. What the move means for borrowers
Deportation Is Also a Fiscal Policy
Mass deportation is a spending programme, not just a policy. Costing removal against formalisation, work permits and employer enforcement in South Africa.
Minerals and Megawatts: How EU Finance Targets SA’s Critical-Mineral Supply Chain
EU finance — €600m for 1,200 MW and €1.48bn for Transnet — targets South Africa’s critical-mineral supply chain, with beneficiation the real prize at stake.
Migrants Are Fewer Than the Political Imagination Suggests
Migrants are a smaller share of South Africa’s population than the debate implies. Why demand and labour models should use verified figures, not perceptions.
46th SADC Summit across SADC — market impact and regional growth — and what comes next
Southern Africa's heads of state have gathered under an industrialisation banner before, and the region's intra-bloc trade share has still hovered stubbornly below what a genuine single market would produce. That contradiction sits at the centre of the 46th...
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46th SADC Summit across SADC — consumer demand and adoption for businesses across SADC
A summit theme built around industrialisation, agriculture and critical minerals reads, at first glance, like a producer's agenda — factories, farms and mines, not shopping baskets. Yet every one of those sectors eventually resolves into a consumer question: does...
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC: regional demand and access and what comes next
Ask a household in Windhoek, Maputo or Dar es Salaam whether SADC's blue economy agenda has changed anything about the fish on their plate or the beach holiday they can afford, and the honest answer, as of this week, is not yet. The 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week,...
Angolan kwanza in RTGS across SADC — regional demand and access for regional operators
A payment-system announcement rarely reaches the person paying for goods. Central bank governors sign communiqués about settlement currencies; the shopper, the online buyer, and the small trader moving cash across a border see none of it directly. Yet this week's...
SADC ninth Industrialisation Week — consumer demand and adoption — and what comes next
An industrial strategy is meant to eventually reach a shelf, a price tag or a phone screen. As of 27 July 2026, when SADC opened its ninth annual Industrialisation Week at the Durban International Convention Centre, the region's own consumer goods sector remains...
Orange Botswana Pledges P1m to the Golden Grand Prix
Orange Botswana has pledged P1m to sponsor the FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour meeting set for 26 April 2026.
Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.