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Mbongeni Mguni
Financial Journalist

Twitter: @MboBW

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  • Spar purchases Kgale Shopping Centre from Kirbys

    The Competition and Consumer Authority is assessing Tsetseng’s bid to purchase the shopping complex and as yet, no value for the proposed transaction has been publicly disclosed.According to the Authority, Tsetseng’s shareholders are Kevin Peter...

  • New De Beers’ CEO plans downstream partnership with Botswana

    Sharing his list of priorities as the new CEO in his first meeting with local media recently, Al Cook spoke about a plan he said Batswana would “be hearing a lot more about”.“It is about how we expand along the value chain towards retail,...

  • Inflation seen slowing further

    Estimates provided last week by asset management consultancy, Kgori Capital, suggest a cooling of inflation from its previous highs in the coming months. Kgori Capital investment analyst, Kitso Mokhurutshe told Monitor Business that the expected...

  • Homegrown AI seeks solutions to local challenges

    While it has been around for a long while, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dominating public discourse in technology globally, as the roaring success of ChatGPT and its subsequent updates have shown the world-changing potential of the computer...

  • HB, gov’t equity deal signing ‘imminent’

    Speaking at the launch of HB’s local subsidiary in late March, President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced that government had decided to take up equity in HB Antwerp and provide the firm with a portion of the Okavango Diamond Company's (ODC) rough...

  • First production emerges from newest copper mine

    Motheo joins Khoemacau as the only operating mines on the Kalahari Copperbelt, the 1,000-kilometre swathe running southwest to northeast, which is known to contain millions of tonnes of copper and silver resources, but whose heavy sands and poor...

  • Escaping the collapse of a pyramid

    Sandra Modise* counts herself among the lucky ones, who smelt something fishy and dropped out of the latest “investment scheme” to leave many Batswana in tears. The Ecoplexus investment scheme, now widely acknowledged as a cleverly designed...

  • Botswana bounces back as Africa’s top mining address

    Released last week, the survey captures the views of 180 mining executives around the world who rank jurisdictions – including regions and countries – according to policy areas which collectively determine the attractiveness of setting up and...

  • Consumer Authority opens police case against Ecoplexus

    The Authority’s spokesperson, Gladys Ramadi, told Mmegi that the latest developments followed a preliminary investigation into the collapsed investment scheme.“It should be noted that the Authority can only investigate the civil part of the...

  • BPC sees power cuts easing by Thursday

    Units at the 600MW Morupule B and the 120MW Morupule A tripped after midnight on Sunday and the Corporation is still investigating what it suspects to have been an issue on the Phokoje-Matimba transmission line. At the time of the fault, the two...

  • Debswana revenues reach P14bn in Q1

    The country’s main economic actor sold P56.6 billion in 2022, an all-time high and a boost for budget revenues which have suffered deficits that pre-date the pandemic.Debswana sells 75% of its production through the De Beers’ ecosystem and the...

  • The ins and outs of Collective Investment Undertakings

    Mmegi: May you provide a brief overview of Collective Investment Undertakings (CIUs) Act and its purpose?White: The CIU Act dates back to an old piece of legislation that was promulgated in the early 1990s and subsequently repealed in 2012. However,...

  • Food prices remain stubborn while dreaded El Nino nears

    Since hitting a 14-year high last August, inflation has declined over the months, dropping back to single digits in January, the first time it had done so since April 2022.Many consumers, however, have argued that the drop in the inflation figures...

  • Optimism improves amongst local firms but concerns persist

    The views are contained in the latest edition of the Bank of Botswana’s (BoB) Business Expectations Survey (BES) released on Tuesday.The BES is conducted quarterly amongst a sample of firms representing most economic sectors and comprises...

  • De Beers rallies local banks to support the midstream

    De Beers’ executives recently held a diamond masterclass attended by high level officials from the country’s commercial banks, in an effort to sensitise them about the industry and the role played by financiers in better positioning Botswana...

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