The Executive Botswana Magazine

23/09/2026

The Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC) is moving beyond conversations around sustainability by encouraging businesses to demonstrate measurable environmental performance through the launch of the Green Mark, an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)-focused extension of the nationally recognised Pride Mark.

Read more on: https://theexecutivebw.com/the-green-standard-bitc-puts-esg-into-practice/

31/08/2026

OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED | INVESTMENT BOTSWANA 2026

The Executive Botswana Magazine is proud to officially launch Investment Botswana - a strategic publication produced in conjunction with the Ministry of Trade and Entrepreneurship Botswana to tell Botswana’s evolving investment story.

The publication seeks to outline, simplify and demystify Botswana’s investment narrative, showcasing the opportunities, institutions and sectors driving the country’s ambition to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and accelerate economic transformation.

As Botswana advances the Botswana Economic Transformation Programme, Investment Botswana provides a platform through which the country’s investment potential, reform agenda and emerging opportunities can be communicated to investors at home, across the region and globally.

Investment Botswana - showcasing opportunity. Inspiring investment. Advancing transformation.

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National BoFiNet ranks among best-performing SOEs by August 18, 2026 0 Tsaone Segaetsho Botswana Fibre Networks (BoFiNet) has emerged as one of only five state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Botswana to record... Read more

18/08/2026

Mukuru now has debit card

Fintech and remittance platform operating across Africa, Europe, and Asia has brought Mukuru Wallet and Card to Botswana.

Customers can use the debit card in stores and pay for services and products by Mukuru Wallet. The Wallet can also be used to do transactions with the unbanked and those without Mukuru accounts, and even send money internationally.

18/08/2026

Botswana Fibre Networks (BoFiNet) has emerged as one of only five state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Botswana to record consistent profits over three consecutive financial years.

The achievement was highlighted at the organisation’s recent Annual General Meeting (AGM), held in Gaborone. BoFiNet reported revenue of P376 million and service availability of 99.7% across its national fibre backbone, demonstrating its financial sustainability and operational resilience.

For the past three financial years, BoFiNet made a loss of P7.19 million in year 2022/23. The state owned company then offset the previous performance by registering a profit of P12.16 million in 2023/24 before doubling that with P26 million profit of 2024/25.

More on: https://theexecutivebw.com/bofinet-ranks-among-best-performing-soes/

15/07/2026

The Milk Valley Farm which just recieved 200 dairy milk from Brazil is said to come with expectations of creation of employment opportunities, stimulate growth across the dairy value chain and contribute meaningfully to Botswana’s economic transformation.

"Our target is that over the next 24 months we reduce importation from 90 per cent to 50 per cent. Once the project reaches full operation, we intend to replicate the same model across Botswana,” Botswana Development Corporation Limited MD Oteng Keabetswe said.

More at: https://theexecutivebw.com/bdc-accelerates-drive-to-cut-botswanas-dairy-import-bill/

03/07/2026

Adelaide Primary School in Serowe was founded by the late Keabetswe Tshemedi following his retirement. Guided by Christian principles, he sought to create a project that would positively impact people’s lives, identifying education as the ideal vehicle for achieving that goal.

More on: https://theexecutivebw.com/banking-on-education-adelaide-primary-schools-transformation/

02/07/2026

Botswana must accelerate its mining diversification agenda to ensure that the country’s emerging critical minerals industry delivers far greater value than the export of raw resources, according to Absa Bank Botswana Managing Director Keabetswe Pheko-Moshagane.

More on: https://theexecutivebw.com/mining-must-catalyse-economic-diversification-pheko-moshagane/

24/06/2026

Vice President and Ministry of Finance, Ndaba Gaolathe, has called on multilateral organisations and development finance institutions that fund sovereign nations to move beyond traditional lending models and instead partner with countries to build capacity at scale.

Speaking in Vienna, Austria, OPEC Fund’s 50th Anniversary and Development Forum 2026, Gaolathe emphasised the importance of sustainable development partnerships that prioritise implementation, institutional capacity and long-term economic transformation over debt accumulation.

More on: https://theexecutivebw.com/building-capacity-at-scale-is-vital-ndaba/

23/06/2026

Debswana IT Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning, Sekgabo Moloi, during the SAP Connect Day Botswana, held at Hotel 430 in Gaborone,
reflected on what distinguishes organisations that successfully monetise data from those that do not.

More on: https://theexecutivebw.com/debswana-embraces-digital-transformation/

10/06/2026

In Botswana’s evolving business landscape, the conversation around enterprise growth has increasingly shifted beyond conventional access to capital. For ambitious companies operating in the infrastructure, construction and supply-chain industries, scalability today depends on a broader ecosystem of support, one that combines financing, digital capability, operational flexibility, strategic advisory services and entrepreneurial empowerment.

This is precisely where Absa Bank Botswana is positioning itself. Not merely as a provider of banking services, but as a long-term growth partner helping local enterprises unlock operational efficiency, pursue larger opportunities and build sustainable businesses.

For the Francistown-based Lereka Engineering, the bank’s role has proven catalytic in transforming the company from a modest operation into a growing enterprise with strengthened project ex*****on capacity and a clearer long-term expansion strategy.