Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is visiting Nigeria this week on his first trip to Africa, using his time in the country to visit the Yaba technology hub in Lagos, meet with developers…
Month: August 2016
Stanbic Bank Botswana has announced that it has appointed Sheperd Aisam as head of its Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) division. He takes over from Tasha Ferreira who has since moved to…
African Leadership Academy in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation is proud to announce Africa’s top youth entrepreneur finalists for the sixth annual Anzisha Prize. This year, the Prize celebrates increased presence in…
RMB Botswana, a division of FNB Botswana, affirms that listing on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) is a viable and established platform for companies across local industries to facilitate their operational growth.…
Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) listed Afinitas Limited said it will make an investment in Adventis Limited, an Africa focused Financial Services Business. The investment is valued at $2.5m or P26 million in…
Apps (the shortened name for Applications – or programmes that we download to our cellphones, tablets and laps) are pretty much a personal affair, you download them to your private device and…
Anti-apartheid leader, prominent business leader and philanthropist Dr Mathews Phosa has scooped another top African accolade, just a month after he received the prestigious Excellence in Leadership award in Abuja, Nigeria. Dr Phosa made…
The Competition Authority has conditionally authorised the acquisition of the entire issued shareholding of Warbler Holdings (Pty) Ltd in IT4Africa Botswana (Pty) Ltd; Goldtech (Pty) Ltd; Healthwest Africa (Pty) Ltd; and Solid…
The Bank of Botswana (BoB) has reduced the Bank Rate from 6% to 5.5%. The last interest rate cut was made almost a year ago on the 6th of August 2015 by…
Bank of Botswana (BoB), the country’s central bank has lowered the cost of borrowing arguing that fundamentals point to a need to easy the monetary policy and support economic activity. The bank’s…