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Lewanika Timothy
  • GROUPTAG22 takes events management to next level

    Born with an ear for good music and a heart that leaps at the thought of attending an event, Chinhengo says his dream and passion was always to make other people happy through his love for music and sense of creativity.This flare would later lead him...

  • Air Botswana banks on artificial intelligence to boost sales

    For many years, the state-owned national flag carrier has been doing business manually by carrying out its operations through a conventional call centre booking portal.Speaking at the launch, Air Botswana general manager, Magdeline Mookodi said the...

  • BSE calls for opening up of BTCL shares

    BTCL shares trade under an ownership restriction policy imposed by the government as a condition of the 2016 listing. The restriction means only Batswana can own the shares, an effort by government to empower citizens.Since listing in 2016 as part of...

  • Xuxwakam swing from passion to revenue

    Having started off as descendants of pastoral farmers in their infancy, Lydia Pansiri and Nkobi Pansiri are the masterminds behind the recently opened multi-purpose complex in the remote area of Xuxwakam. Their company, Xuxwakam Butchery and...

  • Bank of Botswana keeps interest rate steady

    The central bank raised interest rates three times last year, by a collective 151 basis points as it fought soaring inflation which peaked at 14-year highs in August. However, since then, inflation has been falling – largely due to dissipating...

  • New SOE oversight authority proposed

    The advice to establish the authority came through a draft ownership policy that will be presented to Cabinet, after a series of stakeholder engagements between various government research arms.The new State Owned Entity’s ownership policy, which...

  • Women in construction ready to beat the odds

    This was revealed at the Women in Built Environment conference held last week. The gathering brought together female titans of industry with expertise in finance, law and construction.The main goal of the conference was to infuse innovation and...

  • Closed borders push up vegetable prices

    Data from Statistics Botswana’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) released last week, show that vegetables top the list of goods and services with the highest percentage change on a 12-month basis running from July last year to the same month this year....

  • Labour consultancy aims to help workplace relations

    Dipogiso is the curator and corporate leader of Labour Policy Experts Botswana, a company that offers specialised consultancy on labour policy matters and human resource policy development.Speaking to Monitor Business last week, Dipogiso said he has...

  • Emptying shelves put pressure on vegetables ban

    The reason for this ban, as communicated by government then, was to improve the local farming supply chains and to drive the country towards food self-reliance while protecting the embryonic agricultural sector from competition.The decision to...

  • Copper sales climb beyond BCL-era levels

    The last time copper earnings got close to reaching the exports seen in the first three months of this year, was in the second quarter of 2015 when sales stood at P1.2 billion.That period marked the beginning of a global copper price meltdown that...

  • Underprivileged youth urged to look beyond handicaps

    Dow's message was delivered at a career expo organised by Setlogelwa Tsatsing at Bontleng Recreational Park. She acknowledged that while the nation aspires for all children to have dignified upbringings, the persistence of poverty in many...

  • GC Metro Ring to cut data costs

    The Metro Ring project has been described as a great leap from the use of copper as a data transmission method to fibre optic technology.Liquid Intelligent last week launched the first phase of its Metro Ring, which is short for “metropolitan city...

  • LEA study pinpoints SMMEs greatest challenge

    According to an SMME handbook developed by LEA, the lack of finance options for the different stages of the organisations’ development in Botswana is widening the finance gap in the local market.The finance gap refers to the gulf between the...

  • Sofa Repairs spearheads 'convenience manufacturing' model

    Sofa Repairs is a manufacturing company with a niche expertise in the creation of family couches and repairs of a plethora of home and office chairs. Fixing and making sofas is not novel in its nature, but it is the manner in which Boitshwarelo...

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