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BotswanaPost’s Revenues Fall:  Private Couriers and E-mails Make Inroads

BotswanaPost’s Revenues Fall:  Private Couriers and E-mails Make Inroads

(3 Minutes Read) Directors writing in the recently released annual report said the revenue figure for 2023–24 falls four percent short of the initial target....
Botswana Still Uses Mostly  Cash for Local Transactions

Botswana Still Uses Mostly  Cash for Local Transactions

(3 Minutes Read) Financial data extrapolated from 2011 as a base year shows that Batswana prefers to use cash as a means of transacting goods...
WFP Shuts Office in South Africa: To Continue Existing Programs from Nairobi Office

WFP Shuts Office in South Africa: To Continue Existing Programs from Nairobi Office

(3 Minutes Read) Typically, the U.S. contributes nearly half of WFP's annual donations.  But it is currently reducing foreign aid contracts globally as part of...
SA’s Transnet Can Be A Game Changer

SA’s Transnet Can Be A Game Changer

(3 Minutes Read) The Network Statement, if implemented properly, presents a means to reduce Transnet’s debt, which reported a loss of R7.3 billion in its...
Tension Builds Up Between SA’s Finance Minister and Revenue Department About Imposition of Additional VAT

Tension Builds Up Between SA’s Finance Minister and Revenue Department About Imposition of Additional...

(3 Minutes Read) Kieswetter’s utterances were made exactly a week after Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s controversial budget proposal, in which he proposed raising VAT by...
World Bank Project to Provide Safe Water Supply to Mozambique’s Nametil Town

World Bank Project to Provide Safe Water Supply to Mozambique’s Nametil Town

(3 Minutes Read) The new facility, which is budgeted at USD 50 million, is part of the Safe Water Project for towns and rural areas,...
Botswana and China reinforced their bilateral relationship with the signing of an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement. The agreement was signed by Botswana's Vice President and Minister of Finance, Ndaba Nkosinathi Gaolathe, and Chinese Ambassador to Botswana, His Excellency Fan Yong.

Botswana and China Forge New Economic Partnership

(3 Minutes Read) Botswana and China reinforced their bilateral relationship with the signing of an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement. The agreement was signed by...
President of Botswana Briefs Citizens on New Diamond Deal, Chema Chema Loans, and Hemp Policy

President of Botswana Briefs Citizens on New Diamond Deal, Chema Chema Loans, and Hemp...

(3 Minutes Read) Botswana President Duma Boko held a press conference to share important updates on key national issues, including a new Diamond Sales Agreement...
Cashew Processors of Mozambique Urge Streamlining Sector Plagued by Excessive Taxes and Red Tape

Cashew Processors of Mozambique Urge Streamlining Sector Plagued by Excessive Taxes and Red Tape

(3 Minutes Read) One of the main points of criticism raised by small-scale processors during a provincial meeting of the sector was the requirement to...
Mozambique Exports Vegetable Oil for First Time

Mozambique Exports Vegetable Oil for First Time

(3 Minutes Read) According to the data, these exports (vegetable oil) to the end of September totalled USD 130 million (€124 million), compared to USD 90.2...

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