The numbers provide a glimpse into the impact of the pandemic on one of the country’s key economic sectors, a key foreign currency earner, downstream value distributor and employer. While Statistics Botswana publishes annual tourism arrivals, the...
The global diamond industry meets in Kasane on June 20, a keenly awaited event as the world’s biggest producer of precious stones, Russia, continues its military invasion of Ukraine.The Kimberley Process (KP), consisting of 85 countries, diamond...
The book, which tells the story of Desert & Delta Safaris, aims to celebrate the people behind the organisation and was written by Mana Meadows.At an event held at Sedie Hotel in Maun, the marketing team led by James Wilson and Andrew Flatt took...
The Chobe riverfront along the Botswana and Namibian border in the Chobe National Park comprises some prime real estate in Botswana. Although it is adjacent to Kasane, the area has been left undeveloped for the wildlife to roam free. The location...
The war in Ukraine has forced European nations to move away from Russian coal, gas, and oil, raising the price of fossil fuels at a time when the region has been leveraging on these commodities to accelerate its green transition.Russia, the...
Far out on the western horizon, through the vast plains of the Kalahari shrub bush, a wintry morning mist fuses with the smoke from the veldt fires to produce a pinkish hue that skirts around the isolated hills in the middle of nowhere. That is the...
These human rights violations have short up and long-term physical, sexual, and mental consequences for women and girls that can be devastating including death. The violations also have the possibility of negatively affecting women’s general well...
In line with the rules of ‘commercial diplomacy’ De Beers has visibly been wary of commenting directly on the developments around its chief rival Alrosa, the part-Russian government-owned group hit by sanctions from the West due to the invasion...
Debswana’s targets for its Citizen Economic Empowerment Programme (CEEP) are bold. Having started CEEP in 2019, the country’s premier diamond producer plans to reach P20 billion in citizen spend value by 2024 and create 20,000 citizen jobs in the...
In 2006 the High Court ordered that the refusal by government to allow Basarwa to enter the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) unless they are issued with a permit was both unlawful and unconstitutional. This was a majority judgment in the Roy...
If a Jwaneng Mine-sized diamond deposit is hidden undiscovered anywhere in the world, De Beers is confident it will be the company to find it. And with good reason.Since its establishment 134 years ago, the global giant that almost single-handedly...
From its official discovery in 1998, the country’s sole gold mine has changed ownership three times. Each time, corporate executives in pressed suits have gathered with their legal armies and exchanged documents in air-conditioned offices in...
Whenever the issue of regional industrialisation is discussed at SACU level, the elephant in the room is the domination of Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini by South Africa.Critics of SACU, which is the world’s oldest customs union, say to...
Harvard law professor, Matthew Stephenson says where the criminals of yesteryear used to hide their loot in suitcases under mattresses, cryptocurrencies have removed the limits of both the suitcases and the mattresses.“If the suitcase full of cash...
When the world’s diamond producers, their biggest customers, civil society groups monitoring the industry and others, meet in Gaborone in June to discuss issues affecting the image of the precious stones, Russia will be the proverbial elephant in...
Monday morning inside Court Room 4 at the Broadhurst Magistrate's Court premises, a High Court session before Justice Itumeleng Segopolo is about to start. It is a matter between the Government of Botswana and the family of the late Pitseng...
Additionally, HATAB believes the developments will restrict animal movements and place increased pressure on already threatened species such as the Chobe Bushbuck.The 38-year-old industry body, which represents 50% of all licensed hospitality and...
Policymakers involved in sharpening the country’s competitiveness and ‘ease of doing business’ environment were left smarting last April when social media giant, Twitter, chose Ghana to be its African headquarters.While frontrunners for the...
One thing that makes matters worse for epileptic people is the difficulty of getting first aid treatment from the public when suffering seizures. People without this condition simply do not understand it or what to do when someone else suffers a...
When assuming the presidency on April 1, 2018, Masisi would never have imagined that his tenure would experience the sharpest economic drop the economy has suffered since Independence or the largest loss of jobs since that time.Economists have penned...
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