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Botswana’s central bank has said that the local economy will will operate below full capacity in the short to medium term and, therefore, not creating any

Morupule B troubles lead to an increase in power importation The latest data from Statistics Botswana (SB) indicates that during the second quarter of the year, the physical volume of imported electricity increased by 31.1 percent. Imported electricity during the second quarter of 2021 shows an increase of 31.1 percent or 109,923 MegaWatt Hour (MWH), […]

While in 2020 mining production in Botswana recorded its worst contraction in more than a decade - another sign of the havoc caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,

National vehicle stock in Botswana decreased by 3.6 percent in 2020 when compared to 2019, from 601,190 vehicles to 579,789, said Statistician General for Statistics Botswana Burton Mguni, adding that most of the vehicles were passenger cars and vans. Despite the drop in vehicle stock last year, Statistics Botswana has…

Founders from twenty companies have been accepted into the program from Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa The 4th Cohort of the Stanford Seed Transformation Program – Southern Africa (STP), a collaboration between Stanford Graduate School of Business and De Beers Group commenced classes on 20 September 2021. According to Otsile Mabeo, Vice President Corporate Affairs, […]

Botswana has recorded its first trade surplus for 2021 since the only one for the year in January.

Botswana – a tiny nation in southern African as some western media would label, will once again have to look to diamonds – its all-time gold boy to keep a

Domestic economy remains subdued by Covid-19 Most Botswana imports come from SACU region Economist urges Govt to support local production

* ‘P1.4 billion spent on PEP but poverty is on the rise!’ maintains Saleshando Although they did not have the numbers to prove it, government are adamant poverty levels in the country have gone done since the Poverty Eradication Programme was launched ten years ago. Defending the programme in parliament on Wednesday, Assistant Minister of Presidential Affairs, Governance and Public Administration, Dumezweni Mthimkhulu, revealed govt’ have pumped P1.4 billion into the initiative, establish...

2021-07-16 01:56:04 GMT2021-07-16 09:56:04(Beijing Time) Xinhua English GABORONE, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Botswanas annual inflation rate remains above the central banks short to medium term target of 3 to 6 percent, parastatal statistical organization Statistics Botswana said on Thursday. The annual inflation rate rose to 8.2 percent in June 2021, an increase of 2.0 percentage points on the May rate of 6.2 percent, it said. "The main drivers to the June 2021 annual inflation rate were trans...