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“The BSE has granted the issuer a financial instrument listing and the notes will be listed on the BSE on the 28th June 2016,” it said. According to PrimeTime, offers were received for P196 million and the total issuance amounted to P105 million...

Speaking to Mmegi Business on Monday during a three-day Africa Media Training Workshop on Tax and Illicit Financial Flows here, he said any country could be a tax haven for another. A tax haven is a country that offers foreign individuals and...

TNMC has two main assets or resources, being Phoenix and Selkirk with the former having depleted its ore and has been mothballed. TNMC head of mining, Koketso Botepe told BusinessWeek that the EIA process started February this year. A notice...

Programme coordinator at the PARIS21 secretariat for the Africa region, Shelton Kanyanda said data dissemination in Botswana has not been very good, as most reports were made public in formats that were not friendly to the user. “For instance,...

Giving a presentation at the Franchise Expo Botswana held in Gaborone last week, Kurt Illetschko of the Franchise Association of South Africa (FASA), said although franchising is regarded as a safe and potentially profitable business, it also has its...

He said the maize prices have more than doubled from the previous year, which will ultimately lead to the rise in food prices. “Food prices will also rise as a result of these rising grain prices. The final consumer will find it more expensive at...

The EPA has been under negotiations since 2004, focusing on trade in goods and services.  The discussions for the goods chapter between the EU and the SADC EPA countries were concluded in July 2014. The trade agreement includes Botswana, Lesotho,...

“Statisticians are maligned because some people speak about them and their product in a spitefully, critical manner. In fact, some people will frankly admit they do not believe in statistics,” he said. He noted that the media has admitted that...

Phatsimo Mosimanegape said the university has established an entrepreneurship laboratory known as e-Lab, where students will be encouraged to develop and pursue entrepreneurial ventures in areas related to their academic pursuits. “The e-Lab is...

Speaking in Kasane at the signing of the EPA between the European Union (EU) and SADC, commissioner for trade, Cecilia Malmström, said there are some challenges in getting the most out of the agreement that include making legal changes to open...

Their survival through the past years has earned them a Ministry of Agriculture Excellence Award through their association called Mosisedi Commercial Farmers Association. The association’s chairman, Quett Rabai indicated that enhancement of crop...

According to the liquidator, Nigel Dixon-Warren the number of bidders, which is a mix of individuals and companies, might be reduced when the sale price of the franchise is revealed next week. “I’m getting many phone calls and emails from many...

“This ecosystem means every aspect that is required to deliver service must be interconnected,” he said. He explained that networks, services carried through the networks, the applications they deliver as well as the users must be interconnected,...

Briefing journalists at a field day in Mosi, Ramatlabama on Saturday, the association’s chairperson, Quett Rabai said government should pave way for adoption of the zero tillage farming system, as it has several economic and environmental...

The liquidator, Nigel Dixon-Warren, who is a partner with KPMG in Botswana said that they are going to make sure that the stores remain open with support from KFC Africa. He noted that VPB Propco, the company that owns the local KFC franchise, had...