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Grit, a Mauritius-domiciled entity with roots in London, at one point was the second largest shareholder in LLR with 30% equity, second only to the founding shareholder, the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) with 40%. However, the real estate...

The decision announced on Tuesday evening came as the more than 300 workers employed by mining contractor, Jarcon Opencast Mining Botswana, downed tools at the mine ahead of a retrenchment planned to take effect on March 31."As with many businesses,...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the world’s leading anti-money laundering organisation, recently greylisted South Africa citing deficiencies in the country’s ability to prevent the flow of dirty money in its systems. The FATF greylisted...

According to figures released by the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA), Mascom’s share of mobile phone subscriptions in the country slid to 43% in the year to March 2022, compared to a five-year peak of 55% in the year to March...

CEO Morne du Plessis confirmed the latest developments in a statement released this evening. The move will affect more than 300 workers employed by mining contractor Jarcon Opencast Mining Botswana."As with many businesses, when structural changes...

Finance Ministry Peggy Serame wants to be clear that she is not “naming or shaming,” but “indicating performance,” as she shares a summary of how the various ministries have thus far spent their development budget allocations for the 2022/23...

Jarcon Opencast Mining Botswana, which has conducted mining operations for Minergy since 2019 when Masama Mine began operating, is reportedly owed tens of millions of pula by the Botswana Stock Exchange-listed company for its services.Jarcon has...

In a statement last Tuesday, bank officials said the innovation, known as Toro Loan, was a first for Botswana and part of moving towards a more digitised future as banking trends and customer needs demand greater agility and innovation.Digital...

Industry insiders who spoke to Mmegi this week said the mammoth expansion planned for Jwaneng would become the deciding factor in the final terms of the agreement the two partners are hammering out ahead of their agreed June deadline.Since 2018,...

Khoemacau, currently the country’s sole producer of copper, put out its first concentrate in June 2021 and has now ramped up to full processing capacity of 3.65 million tonnes per annum, which could yield output as high as 65,000 tonnes of copper...

Besides these products, the ministry plans to zero-rate VAT on cooking oil, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, white bread as well as ginger and leguminous vegetables. Under amendments to the VAT Act due in Parliament soon, a range of agricultural inputs that...

For De Beers, “megamines” are typically the size of Orapa and Jwaneng, the two local operations which together produce more than two thirds of the diamond group’s annual output which averages above 30 million carats. Known as Tier 1...

Earlier today, Finance Minister, Peggy Serame said as at January 31 this year, the four had spent less than 20 percent of their development budgets. The ministries of Minerals and Energy as well as Lands and Water Affairs had used more than 80...

Writing in her latest report, which was tabled before Parliament last week, Pulane Letebele found that rates arrears owed to councils had risen to P627.8 million in the 2021-22 financial year, from P548.1 million in 2020-21 and P495.2 million in...

Debswana is the producer at the heart of tensions between the state and the global group.Executive Vice-President Diamond Trading, Paul Rowley told Mmegi that the diamond group was not factoring in a possible interruption in supplies as part of risks...