Month: August 2019

BoB slashes Bank Rate to 4.75 percent

The country’s central bank has announced it slashed the Bank Rate in many years citing positive inflation outlook. In a statement, the apex bank pointed out that the current state of the…

Money Management Tips Every Young Professional Must Know

The transition from student life into corporate or entrepreneurial life is quite a momentous time in any young professional’s life. One of the first major changes for most is the responsibility to…

Moody’s affirms Letshego’s credit rating

Letshego Holdings Limited said its credit rating by Moody’s Investor Service (Moody’s) has been maintained adding that the outlook was stable. The ratings agency stated that the ratings assigned to Letshego capture…

SADC, EU sign three new €47 million programmes 

The Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in conjunction with the European Union signed has signed three Development Cooperation Programmes amounting to a total of €47 Million for a period…

Choppies to move of South Africa and Mogae to step down

Botswana’s largest grocer Choppies says its chairman and former president of the country Festus Mogae will leave the group while the company also revealed its plants to move out of South Africa.…

Stanbic Bank Botswana Takes Lionesses of Africa to Maun!

The Lionesses Lean In Breakfast series has been taken to Maun, as Stanbic Bank Botswana works to include as many women across Botswana for a wholly inclusive approach. The Maun event, held…

Bryte Risk Services Botswana strengthens its operations

Bryte Risk Services Botswana (“Bryte”), the proactive personal and business risk specialist, has entered into a partnership that will result in its enhanced presence in the short term insurance space. This follows…

Africa’s youth see a future for Bitcoin beyond speculation

Seeing a significant growth in digital currency transactions on the African continent in recent years, driven largely by users under the age of 35, leading global peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, Paxful, is on…