The University of Botswana (UB) has pinpointed poor coordination among institutions as the chief barrier blocking local innovations from reaching the market. Professor Doreen Ramogola-Masire, UB’s Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Enterprise, emphasized the need to dismantle institutional silos and create a streamlined pipeline that connects research, infrastructure, funding, and commercialization. She highlighted ongoing efforts at UB to help innovators transition from prototypes to investment-ready products. Speaking to the WeekendPost, Ramogola-Masire said coordination outweighs...

Farmers in Botswana’s Okavango region are sounding the alarm over the limited and poorly structured markets that are stifling their ability to expand horticultural production, despite having ample land, water, and capacity to grow a wider variety of crops. Their concerns point to a broader weakness in the country’s horticulture strategy, where efforts to boost local output have not been matched by equally robust market systems. The Okavango Horticulture Farmers Association, representing more than 60...

The Botswana Association of Family Physicians (BAOFP) is calling for enhanced collaboration among African nations to build resilient primary healthcare systems amid escalating climate and health challenges. In response to a query from the Weekend Post, BAOFP Chairperson Dr. Claire Brockbank and Vice Chair Dr. Yaone Bogatsu, both members of the 9th WONCA Africa Region Conference 2026 organizing committee, emphasized the conference’s goal to shift discussions on planetary health and primary care toward actionable, Africa-centered...

When a billionaire walks through the door, a country has two choices: roll out the red carpet, or roll up its sleeves. For Botswana, the visitor was Mohammed Dewji, Tanzania’s richest man and one of Africa’s most relentless empire builders. The opportunity he dangling – manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, energy – reads like a wish list for a nation hungry to diversify beyond diamonds. The catch? Botswana’s own government concedes it can be its own worst...

In a ruling certain to reverberate across Botswana’s legal and political topography for years to come, the High Court has delivered a sweeping and unambiguous judgment in favour of the estate of the late Isaac Seabelo Kgosi – a verdict that not only dismantles the restraining order that had frozen his properties since 2019 but also delivers a stinging rebuke to the state’s investigative apparatus and reasserts the primacy of procedural fairness in ex parte...

Botswana’s electricity grid is under increasing strain as cable theft and vandalism surge, with the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) reporting more than 1,800 new theft incidents this year alone and losses surpassing P100 million over the past five years. These figures were shared by BPC’s Marketing and Communications Manager, Kefilwe Batsalelwang, in response to inquiries from the Weekend Post News Desk about the scale of the problem and its impact on power supply nationwide. “Vandalism...

Botswana’s drive to diversify its economy is being stymied by entrenched divisions among research, policy, capital, and industry, experts warned at the Falling Walls Lab Gaborone. The country struggles to translate innovation and research into viable commercial products and businesses, panelists said, calling for improved coordination, sustained investment in research, intellectual property development, and closer collaboration between universities, government, and the private sector. The panel, titled “Which Walls Must Fall First?”, assembled policymakers, academics, investors,...