by The Kanisa Desk | Aug 21, 2026 | Money
For most of the last decade, the complaint about money in Botswana was that it cost almost nothing — and that this was precisely the problem. A policy rate held near the floor signalled an economy being nursed, not one running hot. When the price of money sits that...
by The Kanisa Desk | Jul 5, 2026 | Money
Money – Banking · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Trade policy gets the speeches; trade finance gets the cargo onto the ship. An African exporter can hold a cleared protocol and a willing Chinese buyer and still be unable to move a...
by The Kanisa Desk | Jun 1, 2024 | Money
Money – Banking · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 Botswana built one of Africa's steadiest macro records on a single asset, and that same concentration is now the risk. In June 2024 a senior central-bank official warned that the country could...
by The Kanisa Desk | Apr 1, 2023 | Money
Money – Banking · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 A central bank facing inflation near double digits is expected to do one thing: raise rates. In April 2023 the Bank of Botswana did the opposite of that reflex. With inflation running close to 9.9...