Business

Stanbic holds profit steady 

Stanbic Bank Botswana kept earnings largely unchanged in 2025, as strong growth in trading and fee income offset a sharp squeeze on lending margins...
Read more

Ramatlabama FMD outbreak raises risks for Botswana’s beef strategy

Botswana’s beef sector is facing renewed pressure after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at the Ramatlabama Artificial Insemination and Training Centre, a key...
Read more

BDC swings to deeper interim loss as impairments and funding costs bite

Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) reported a sharply wider half-year loss, as rising impairments, falling loan income and higher funding costs exposed growing strain in...
Read more

Kenewendo flags cost constraints in rural electrification push

Energy minister, Bogolo Kenewendo this week told parliament that high connection costs are limiting the pace of rural electrification, even as government maintains a...
Read more

Gov’t flirts with 24-hour drinking again — in the name of economic growth

Government is considering reintroducing 24-hour liquor trading over the Easter holidays, because nothing says economic stimulus quite like a nation that never closes the...
Read more

Far from the Gulf, UN economist says Botswana is feeling the heat

Far from the battlefields of the Middle East, Botswana is already counting the cost. “The conflict’s ripple effects - energy, freight and fertiliser are already...
Read more

Botswana digs in over US diamond tariffs as pressure mounts on exports

Botswana is stepping up efforts to secure duty-free access for its rough diamonds into the United States, signalling it will not retreat from its...
Read more

WTO warns of “irreversible” shift in global trade order at MC14

The head of the World Trade Organisation opened its 14th Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon, with a stark message: the global trading system, as...
Read more

Letshego cleans up its loan book and accidentally cleans out its profit

Letshego Africa has delivered a set of results that require two pairs of glasses: one for what actually happened, and another for what management...
Read more

Sechaba finds growth in a downturn as elbowbenders keep glasses full

Sechaba Brewery Holdings Limited has delivered what may be the closest thing to good news in Botswana’s current economic mood: people are still drinking. Through...
Read more
1...151617...803Page 16 of 803