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Namibia beats Botswana in Global Entrepreneurship Index

The Ashish J Thakkar Global Entrepreneurship Index of 85 countries ranks Singapore as the best environment for entrepreneurs. Of the African nations, Namibia scores highest and comes 42nd overall – ahead of other…

Africa Finance & Investment Forum launches Entrepreneurship Award

Africa Finance & Investment Forum (AFIF) 2017’s focus is to promote access to finance and strengthen entrepreneurship in Africa. To achieve this, EMRC is launching the annual AFIF  Entrepreneurship Award, calling all African-based entrepreneurs…

ContinuitySA Botswana celebrates 10 years

ContinuitySA Botswana is celebrating 10 years of success in Botswana. “It’s a great source of pride to us that we created the market for business continuity management in Botswana, and continue to…

Choppies to launch clothing in six hyperstores

Botswana Stock Exchange listed Choppies Enterprises has started selling clothes in some of its stores and it will become even more visible in 2017. The retail giants said on its integrated annual…

Nampak to acquire Can Manufacturers’ assets

The Competition Authority said it has received a merger notification for the proposed disposal of all the manufacturing assets of Can Manufacturers (Pty) Ltd to Nampak Products Ltd and a yet to…

Embury Botswana to acquire Ba Isago University

The Competition Authority said it has received a merger notification for the proposed acquisition of 50% of the shares in Ba Isago University (Pty) Ltd by Wenge (Pty) Ltd, which is in…