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Masisi tries out agricultural protectionism at risk of irking Pretoria

Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi will introduce a moratorium on vegetable imports (photo August 2020). © Mokgweetsi Masisi/Facebook

In order to keep his election promises to help rural communities to develop the Botswanan agricultural sector, President Masisi is introducing a moratorium on vegetable imports. A measure that is likely to displease his South African neighbour, which supplies most of the country's agricultural needs. [...] (235 words)

Issue dated 10/12/2021

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Diplomacy

Banker Petrus Sabina opens way for South African Lekoa Technologies into Botswana's mines

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SADC vies with Rwanda for Cabo Delgado spotlight

Mpho Molomo, head of the SADC mission in Mozambique and ex-adviser to President Mokgweetsi Masisi, is working to make the organisation's intervention and Botswana's role in the situation in Cabo Delgado known. [...]

The head of the SADC Mission in Mozambique (Samim) Mpho Molomo. © SADC Secretariat/Twitter

BOTSWANA Politics 27/04/2021

The woman at the helm of powerful finance ministry, Peggy Serame

New minister Peggy Serame is the first woman to take over the reins of the almighty finance ministry, amidst growing tensions in Masisi's government. [...]

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BOTSWANA Business 24/12/2020

Affluent longtime Masisi supporter Abdul Satar Dada still in the game

Now in his 80s, the multimillionaire Abdul Satar Dada remains a pivotal figure of Botswana's political and business spheres and continues to support the Masisi clan in more ways than one. [...]

Inner circles

BOTSWANA Business 18/09/2020

Farouk Ismail, Choppies founder and political philanthropist

One of Botswana's wealthiest tycoons, Farouk Ismail, frequently donates to the country's most high-profile charities. Founder of country's supermarket leader Choppies, which has stores across southern Africa, this charitable strategy is a way of making friends with Botswana's heads of state. [...]

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