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The corporate social responsibility arm of the famous jewellery manufacturer, Tiffany, has given a $2 million grant (P15 million) for the construction of a new four storey building at the Princess Marina Hospital.
President Ian Khama on Friday announced numerous deliberate strategies targeted at reviving the agricultural sector.
The Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM) Northern annual dinner will this year be held on November 28 at Tati River Lodge.
A security man at the Office of the President (OP) has lost his job after he was spotted chewing something during a recent meeting addressed by permanent secretary to the President (PSP), Eric Molale at Botswana Television. The officer (name withheld) was sent packing on the orders of the PSP.
It is a fact that in modern ways of doing business, money is an important tool. As a medium of exchange it makes it easier for people to transact their business.
Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited (BIHL) has been handed a slap on the wrist by only being charged P25, 000 by the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) after it was found guilty of contravening listings requirements when its executive managers and directors sold themselves P300 million worth of shares in the group's subsidiary, Botswana Insurance Fund Management (Bifm).
Godfrey Tamirepi has landed a coaching job at be MOBILE Premier League debutants, Killer Giants.
Botswana's electricity supply is to remain under stress until the completion of the fist leg of the Morupule Power Station due in 2012.
As the global recession begins to subside, local commercial banks are attempting to outclass one another as they launch VVIP (very very important people) services targeted at the most affluent, high income earners and crème del crème of Botswana.
Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency chief executive officer Dr Thapelo Matsheka has said he has approached government to support Batswana-owned businesses. He explained that he approached government for support because locals need help.
Soon after the National Assembly confirmed him as the new Nigerian High Commissioner to the republic of South Africa, I asked the retired Brigadier-General Mohamed Buba Marwa about what he thought the main challenges would be at his new duty post. I posed the question with the firm belief that that the volume of trade was tilted hopelessly in favour of the former apartheid enclave. The retired ...
Taqwa, a Tanzanian bus operating company has opened new routes, the longest of which being from Kigali to the Zimbabwean capital of Harare.
Former Eskom board chairman Bobby Godsell has reconfirmed his resignation.
FOR sub-Saharan Africa, building a knowledge economy "is no longer an option, it is a necessity", World Bank Institute economic adviser Shahid Yusuf said last week at a University of the Witwatersrand symposium on research and training for sustainable development in Africa.
THE African National Congress (ANC) and its alliance partners yesterday signalled possible far-reaching changes to monetary policy under President Jacob Zuma.
GovernmenT has established a farming inputs subsidy scheme that will see a 50kg bag of fertilizer selling for US$7 while maize and sorghum seed will both be available at less than US$1 per kg.
Zimbabwe's decision to start subsidising limited sales of seed and fertilizer for communal and small-scale grain farmers is a good route to follow, if the success of similar schemes in Malawi, Zambia and Botswana is anything to go by.
AFRICA needs continuous flows of foreign direct investment to stimulate economic growth and reduce poverty levels on the continent, economists say.
President Mugabe yesterday said the Government will not nationalise foreign-owned companies, but will insist on the 51 percent local ownership on all companies according to the country's indegenisation laws.
The African Development Bank has reiterated its commitment to support Zimbabwe's economic recovery saying there is a strong basis for a quick turnaround given the country's highly-trained manpower, functional financial system and industrial base.
THREE people were killed when a South African-registered aircraft which had taken off from Windhoek's Eros Airport on a flight to southern Angola crashed in the city early yesterday.
HE SURE took his time about it, but finally on Friday President Jacob Zuma made up his mind about the governance of state-owned enterprises -- and made it clear they were not to be toyed with. But it was not before he'd allowed plenty of damage to be done, not only to Eskom and other state-owned enterprises, but also to Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan. Zuma's challenge now, if he wants ...
THIS week in SA produced one of the most profound but yet unacknowledged ironies: the gold price reached (yet another) record, settling above 1122 for the first time, and Stats SA announced gold output for the first nine months had fallen 9,3%.
WITH more than eight months still to go before the kickoff of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, many long-haul airlines are booked to capacity on South African flights.
MEMBERS of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have tentatively approved new proposals to give special treatment to developing countries to help them meet trade standards on food safety and animal health, the WTO said on Friday.
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