Mbongeni Mguni

A combined industry-wide campaign for natural diamonds, involving producer countries, companies, associations, and trading centres, is turning the

Credit growth, or the amount of loans extended by banks, inched up marginally to 2.6 percent in February, from 2.5% in January, continuing a general a downtrend seen in recent months, central bank figures show.

Balancing production with pricing while coordinating a united global marketing and goodwill narrative for natural diamonds' rebound.

Local firms are increasingly pessimistic about business operating conditions in the country, largely as a result of restrained government spending

LEPORUNG: It had always been Thuso Bapalami's dream to one day build her own house using proceeds from her goats.

LEPORUNG: Several villagers in Leporung, a village in the Good Hope District along the border with South Africa, have seen their livestock killed for entering a red zone, amidst the Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in the area.

Zone 11, which is about the size of Portugal, is the country's second-largest disease containment zone and, for decades, an official FMD-free area.

PHITSHANE MOLOPO: With Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) currently threatening the beef industry in Botswana, authorities have lamented that large numbers

Botswana is cementing its central position in the global campaign to restore shine to natural diamonds, with the country's representatives at the

Homegrown, pan-African microlender Letshego Africa has called an AGM for the consideration of a $62.7 million (P840 million) deal to sell its East and West subsidiaries.