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By Linda Manda Sector Head Agribusiness, Client Coverage, CIB at Standard Bank Group The agricultural sector across sub-Saharan Africa is critical to local and regional economies as a developmental base for food security and employment. Within it, there remains an invisible force driving productivity in the region and across the world. It is one that is too easily overlooked and underappreciated for the scale of its contribution, often shunned for growth opportunities, ignored within the transformative discourse, and largely untapped in plans to develop the sector. This invisible force is the African women who are the backbone of our agricultural economy, representing…

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Stanbic Bank Botswana confirms yet another incredible talent from Botswana takes on a new role at Standard Bank Group, a demonstration of the depth of skill Batswana have to offer the wider financial services world. Sheperd Aisam, who has served as Head of Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) at Stanbic Bank Botswana for 6 years has been appointed Head of Public Sector, Business & Commercial Clients at Standard Bank Group. Said Stanbic Bank Botswana Chief Executive, Chose Modise, “We are excited to see Sheperd now take on the challenge of a Group role, excited for the next chapter ahead in his career.…

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Miam, a newly established pharmacy is on course to offer quality and affordable health care services while bridging the health care gap that exists within the country. The pharmacy prides itself with being a female owned pharmaceutical company that has an array of innovative services as well as being customer oriented. “We are innovative, and we follow the trends in the market, we offer delivery services, we offer discount to students, telephonic pharmaceutical care, medication consultancy over the phone for patients who need information and we have extended operating hours to meet our market demands. We strive to avail as…

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Green Revolution, AI leader and the world’s first black owned electric vehicle manufacturer, Agilitee has finally started to roll out in a large scale its full electric delivery scooters in South Africa. The company has been drip feeding the market with its product since last year and has today decided to launch the bikes in an industrial scale. The scooter is one of the products showcased at the prestigious company launch held in Johannesburg last May. The EV giant is set to increase its deliveries in Zimbabwe on the 1st of September 2022 after a test run was done in…

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On Thursday 18th and Wednesday 24th August 2022, Botswana Fibre Networks (BoFiNet) will hold stakeholder engagement seminars with local authorities, government departments, parastatals and private businesses in Jwaneng and Letlhakane respectively, on a new infrastructure, Fibre To The X (FTTX) that BoFiNet has just completed installing. The project to install FTTx in Jwaneng and Letlhakane has been ongoing since 2021 and has connected more than 200 premises to high-speed fibre infrastructure that will improve connectivity in government offices and business premises in the areas. The infrastructure will be rolled out to more areas around Botswana in the near future. BoFiNet,…

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The Botswana Insurance Holding Limited (BIHL) Group strengthens its partnership with its key clients as it hosted the Sanlam Emerging Markets (SEM) CEO Mr. Heinie Werth at the recently held Shareholder Cocktail Engagement at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC). Said BIHL Group Acting Board Chairman, Mr. Mahube Mpungwa, “Sanlam is the majority shareholder of the BIHL Group with a 58% stake and while Batswana hold 42% shares. Sanlam has therefore been a key partner in working to help capacitate and support us in the deliverance of our purpose of improving livelihoods. At the BIHL Group, we oftentimes speak of…

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Eighty young learners from four schools in Rwanda’s Kinigi area were hosted on two tremendously successful Conservation Camps last week. From Monday 25 through Saturday 30 July 2022, Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Rwanda, in partnership with Conservation Heritage-Turambe, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and Muhisimbi Youth in Conservation, ran the workshops. The students were divided into two groups of 40, each participating in a three-day programme. Early each morning the children were collected by bus from their respective schools and transferred to the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, where a number of the workshops…

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16 August 2022 – In line with Letshego’s purpose to improve lives, the pan-African inclusive finance Group is now launching its latest flagship product, Affordable Housing. The product is available to customers in Namibia and Botswana, with rollout plans to the Group’s remaining pan-African countries. Citizens across Africa, and many global emerging markets, struggle to access housing for several reasons, including lack of affordability, stringent qualifying credit criteria, restrictions in the location of houses available for financing, as well as rapidly escalating house prices spurred by rising inflation as well as the lack available land allocated to small to medium…

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The University of Botswana Foundation (UBF) will on September 9, 2022, host its Annual Fundraising Gala Dinner which will be held at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC). The gala dinner is an annual event which is now on its 20th year and remains a tool through which the UB Foundation raises funds to sponsor graduate students who enrol for Master’s degree programs thereby contributing to the overall mission of the University to be a research-intensive institution. This year, the gala dinner coincides with the UB 40th anniversary where the institution celebrates academic excellence and imparting knowledge to the society…

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The Dr Thulani Ngwenya Foundation (DTNF), which is set to be officially unveiled next month (10 September 2022) at the eMnotweni Arena in the Mbombela Municipality, Mpumalanga and brings a series of events to celebrate the icon that is Thulani Ngwenya. The DTNF is Dr Ngwenya’s new mission in life and will be using the vehicle to give back to the community – and in the process, emphasize and elevate the importance and culture of Medicine and Sports. “The aim of the DTNF is to become the vessel of change in transforming ordinary lives of young African children into becoming…

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