Mercedes gives BMW’s 100 anniversary a cheeky nod
Anyone who has watched the animation movie Megamind will know about the rivalry between the villain and the protector. There is a particular part in the movie where the good guy actually tires of...
View ArticleScramble for corporate banking
• Stanbic still strong in corporate banking • Barclays on a quest to take lead • Banks take advantage of companies’ expansion plans • Stanchart on a slide but remains optimistic With too much...
View ArticleTafa and Kgosi – How the twin towers of the Khama presidency collapsed
The High Court has cast a shadow over a law firm whose name once had the hallowed ring of being beyond the realm of fallibility. On the other hand, the name of the powerful spy chief Isaac Kgosi has...
View ArticleHarsh climate to curtail development
• La Nina to wreck havock The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which works in nearly 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty and the reduction of...
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As Outsa Mokone and Sonny Serite arrest show, the hunt for sources is on in this country. In the week in which investigative journalists released stories from the biggest leak of the century, Panama...
View ArticleBancABC impairments down 95 percent
• Profit lifts to 68 percent BancABC Botswana, a unit of the Atlas Mara Group, has seen its impairments decrease 95 percent for the full year ending December 31, 2015 from the prior corresponding...
View ArticlePanama Papers & the case for tax avoidance
The release of the so called Panama papers this past week has once again shown how society always seeks to demonise the wealthy and in so doing overlook the teething problem. The fact that Panama is a...
View ArticleA tax haven, a judge and the image of the judiciary
Our Judiciary is going to need the stoutest antibiotic on earth, and to those who obtain comfort from invisible but supposedly invisible authorities, a praise song and little prayer. The cumulative...
View ArticleHow to evade the start-up failure trap
It is never easy to get a business off the ground. In fact most businesses die in their infancy, the mortality rate for businesses is quiet high. Chances are high that as much as eighty five percent of...
View ArticleInnovation is lacking
Botswana business is suffering, foreign companies are coming and getting large share of our business space because we lack innovation. Local companies and individual entrepreneurs have turned into copy...
View ArticleShore Break
Ditshwanelo Human Rights Film festival commenced on March 30th, with its annual showcase of films that provide a glimpse into the different facets of human rights issues. Opening this year’s festival...
View ArticleKBL safe as SABMILLER gives into AB InBev
The proposed takeover of SABMiller by Belgian brewer, AB InBEv will not affect business in the local brewery, a top corporate lawyer closer to the deal assured regulators this week. Appearing before...
View ArticleIPO ‘stampede’ forces BTCL to turn back 314 million applications
In the first ever successful privatization of a government institution, Botswana Telecommunication Corporation Limited (BTCL), 314.3 million share offer applications were turned down at the just ended...
View ArticleWilderness targets European tourists with new acquisition
With its latest acquisitions, top-notch tourism outfit, Wilderness Safaris will now start operating in Kenya and Rwanda, exposing its portfolio to European currency, thus diversifying their currency...
View ArticleLetshego leads BSE liquidity in 2016 q1
The diversified micro-finance company, Letshego Holdings Limited traded the highest value of shares on Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) during the 2016 first quarter (q1) annihilating other blue-chip...
View ArticleYouth facilities turning into white elephant
Given the rate at which most of our projects fail to attain efficiency in as far as the universal objectives of any undertaking are concerned, it is amazing how government allows most the completed...
View ArticleBR, NDB are tax ‘dodgers’
• For some time now companies have not submitted Two notorious quasi-government institutions, Botswana Railways (BR) and the National Development Bank (NDB) have for the second year running failed...
View ArticleFight the good fight with resilience
Around this time last year I met a client I had not seen in a while, in fact it had been three to four years since I last saw him. When I last saw Skuta (not his real name) he was excited about a...
View ArticleWe should have heard it from the Chief Justice, me thinks
Despite Judge President Kirby’s explanation on Gabz FM (going out of tradition), one still struggles to dispel the notion that investigations must be conducted. Kirby’s explanation, voluntarily...
View ArticleDon’t let BIDPA’s efforts go to zilch!
Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) has been turned into a research arm, but its findings, which are very meaningful to the economy of the country, are being ignored by those who...
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