SIXTY YEARS ON, BOTSWANA GRAPPLES WITH THE QUESTION THAT HAS ALWAYS HAUNTED IT: WHAT COMES AFTER DIAMONDS? On 30th September, Botswana turns 60 – a diamond jubilee in more than name. For six decades, ...

For half a century, Botswana’s diamonds appeared to grant the country a quiet immunity from economic gravity. The stones vaulted a thinly populated republic into the front rank of Africa’s most ...

The conveyor belts are moving again. After a punishing slump that emptied government coffers, weakened trade and laid bare the peril of yoking a nation’s fortunes to a single glittering stone, ...

In a year when much of the region’s commercial property sector was still nursing the bruises of higher borrowing costs and cautious tenants, The Far Property Company Limited (FPC) has delivered the ...

Botswana has sharply reduced its projected budget deficit for the 2026-27 financial year, as stronger-than-expected revenue from the Bank of Botswana and efforts to curb government spending improve ...

The government is running out of patience with underperforming state-owned enterprises, signaling a tougher era of active ownership as poor returns, repeated bailouts and weak value creation continue ...

A confidential lifestyle audit by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime lays bare a portfolio of luxury cars, South African vineyard land, designer watches, and sprawling cattle empires – ...

Botswana has broken into the top 10 of the Fraser Institute’s Investment Attractiveness Index (IAI) after being ranked the seventh-best mining jurisdiction in the world for the first time, according ...

To receive, consider and adopt the Audited Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2026, together with the Report of the Auditors and Report of the Audit Committee as contained in the ...

The Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has rejected a bid by former president Lieutenant General Ian Khama to launch a private prosecution against Jako Hubona, an investigator at the centre of ...

Inside Botswana’s Tobacco Industry’s multi-million Pula legal battle next A law that makes you explain your wealth ...

In the arithmetic of statecraft, the airport is a strange and revealing place. It is where a small, land-locked republic decides how much of its treasury to convert into altitude, and where the ...