Business Botswana and Grant Thornton join forces to recognize business
Business Botswana, formerly BOCCIM, has partnered with Grant Thornton to recognize private citizen owned businesses that fall in the SME group, but do not mark their status as household names due to...
View ArticleBarclays cautions customers on credit fraud
Barclays has reignited the call for extra caution on the part of banking clients to avoid falling victim to instances of credit fraud. Head of Compliance for Barclays Africa, Lee Holmes addressed...
View ArticleLesotho General accuses Phumaphi of impartiality
A High Court in Lesotho has granted an interim order for a military general not to appear before a SADC commission after he accused a Botswana Judge investigating the political crisis in that country...
View ArticlePula Steel touted to feed steel market
Pula Steel Casting and Manufacturers, a subsidiary of BCL Limited is expected to reduce importation of steel into the country. For years the local demand has been met primarily by South Africa and...
View ArticleCollins Newman & Co. accept forgery allegations
• Corporate law firm concedes allegations against it • Partner Rizwan Desai writes confessional affidavit • Judge Kebonang delivers a damaging order • Law firm attempts to dump implicated lawyer...
View ArticleWhat of the new Ranger on Hilux?
Hilux has been sleeping on the job. So then, while Toyota is busy prepping a replacement for its dictator, that Ranger has gone ahead and given its quite popular Ranger a facelift, and not just a nip...
View ArticleDecline in Debswana production to suppress GDP growth
• Government revenue under pressure • Reserves to stagnate • Diamond production expected to fall again Debswana production took a 31 percent knock during the third quarter of 2015. This,...
View ArticlePBGA awards should play a more empowering role – Kedikilwe
Former Vice President Dr. Ponatshego Kedikilwe has urged Grant Thornton and Business Botswana, the organizers of Private Business Growth Awards (PBGA), to add to their selection some awards that will...
View ArticleThe fight for the fighter jet
The stimulus package has put the multi-billion Pula fighter jet project back on track and the Korean Aerospace Industries want a piece of the pie. The KAI, with its T-50 and the lighter version the...
View ArticleBIHL won’t monopolise insurance industry – CEO
• BIHL expands to general insurance • Targets banking as an indirect investment • BIHL to intensify African expansion Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Gaffar Hassam of the Botswana Insurance Holdings...
View ArticleThe economic stimulus
News of the imminent economic stimulus is now old news. It is said, to stimulate the economy, the Government intends to draw from foreign reserves. The nut and bolts of the stimulus are yet to be...
View ArticleFDI inflows on a 50 percent plunge
Botswana’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a percentage of the national output has declined by 50 percent since 2011, frustrating efforts of economic diversification, a 2015 third quarter (q3)...
View ArticleLearn to embrace failure
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the king of Persia, decided to conquer all of Greece. He marched on Sparta with as many as a million men. When he reached Sparta he sent a messenger to King Leonidas of Sparta to...
View ArticleOnly a very ambitious stimulus will be worth it
In one of the installments of this column I decried a lack of ambitious and visionary leadership in the country. The country’s dramatic rise from being among five of the world’s poorest countries to a...
View ArticleSeretse formed BDF under pressure from Ruth, Ian – Declassified documents
• Ruth Khama wanted BDF founded for Ian – Archival records • Masire, Mogae, Gaolathe opposed to excessive BDF • Defence spending spiralled out of control under Merafhe-Khama…Pgs 11-14 According...
View ArticleSanlam here to stay – CEO
Sanlam Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ian Kirk has reassured the Botswana market that his company is here to stay. Speaking at the Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited (BIHL) 40th anniversary...
View ArticleDespite the slowdown, China still has it
Forget French, learn Mandarin Chinese. Formal French language learning has consistently been making in-roads into our education system with a sizeable number of public schools offering French language...
View ArticleThe Khamas – The making of military millionaires
The formation of the BDF was a contested issue, but in the end the hawks led by Seretse Khama’s family members, wife Ruth and son Ian Khama, won the day. Whether Khama’s decision to form a defence...
View ArticleLetshego eyes Botswana for housing microfinance
Letshego Holdings, Botswana’s largest home-grown BSE-listed company by market capitalisation and profit, is working on tailoring a version of its highly successful housing microfinance product for the...
View ArticleYou only live once
I am sure you’ve wondered sometimes if you’ve got what it takes to be that which you aspire to be, to do the things you want to do and to go to the places you want to go. It is natural to doubt if...
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