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Botswana arrived in Beijing with a proposition larger than a trade mission and more urgent than a ceremonial embrace: a country long identified with diamonds wants to sell China more than diamonds, and it wants Chinese companies to help build what comes next. That proposition took shape at the Botswana–China Business Forum, where 30 Botswana companies met with Chinese businesses in an effort to convert a deepening political relationship into contracts, partnerships and investment. Organizers...
For generations, banking in Botswana meant a journey. It meant the queue that snaked toward the teller’s window, the paper slip filled out in careful hand, the lost morning spent waiting for a transaction that, in truth, took only minutes. Now, Absa Bank Botswana is betting that the branch of the future fits inside a trouser pocket.
The nation’s top prosecutor arrived at a trade union gathering last week not to make peace, but to serve notice. He left having drawn a line across the whole of Botswana’s public life — and, within days, found a man standing on the other side of it, daring him to cross.
Aging may not be only a story of cells wearing out. It may also be a story of cells learning how to hide. Researchers have identified an immune-checkpoint protein that helps senescent cells – damaged, aging cells sometimes called “zombie cells” – evade the body’s defenses and remain lodged in tissues. In experiments involving mice, blocking that protein allowed the immune system to remove more of these cells and improved measures of metabolic health and...
For much of the past three years, the story of artificial intelligence has been told in superlatives. Trillions of parameters. Billions of dollars in compute. Data centers rising like cathedrals across the deserts of the American Southwest and the fjords of Northern Europe, each one a monument to the belief that intelligence scales with size. But a quieter, and in some ways more subversive, argument is now gathering force – and it is coming from...
She walked into the ring at Phala Phala with the unhurried bearing of an animal that did not yet know she was about to make history. By the time the gavel fell, Queen Arusha – ear tag NANK23 001, an in-calf Ankole heifer offered as Lot 20 – had sold for R6,4 million to an anonymous buyer, the highest price ever paid in South Africa for a female animal, across every cattle breed in the...
For six years, Khaby Lame conquered the internet without uttering a word. A shrug. A deadpan stare. Two upturned palms and that now-iconic gesture – this is the simple way. It was a language without translation, humor without captions, fame without borders. And it carried a laid-off factory worker from the outskirts of Turin to the summit of the world’s largest social platform. Now, in one of the most consequential transactions ever struck in the...
For years, the governing assumption in Africa’s fast-growing gaming industry has been that regulators face a trade-off: tighten the rules and risk strangling a lucrative market, or let the market run and risk leaving players exposed. At the 17th Annual GRAF Compliance Conference here, Evidentia AI set out to dismantle that assumption. Safer play and a thriving gaming economy, the company argued, are not opposing forces. Both rest on the same foundation – regulation that...
For most of human history, the arrival of grey hair has been read as a single, unambiguous message: time is winning. The silver at the temple, the salt threading through the pepper – these have been treated as the quiet arithmetic of ageing, cosmetic losses to be dyed away or worn, if one is lucky, as a crown of dignity. But a provocative new study is rewriting that story from the inside out, suggesting that...
In a year when the shine came off Botswana’s diamonds and consumers across Southern Africa pulled back, Choppies Enterprises Limited did something that might seem counterintuitive: it kept opening doors. Twenty-seven of them, to be precise. The dual-listed grocer, a fixture of urban high streets and rural trading posts alike, reported that group retail sales climbed 7.9 percent to BWP9.82 billion in the year ended June 30, 2026, up from BWP9.11 billion a year earlier....
