by The Fikiria Desk | Aug 15, 2026 | Property
Botswana’s road map tells two stories at once. One is of a well-connected spine — the highways linking Gaborone, Francistown and the major centres are real and serviceable. The other is of the gravel and dirt that still separates many rural settlements from that...
by The Fikiria Desk | Aug 12, 2026 | Property
Cross-border infrastructure in Southern Africa rarely fails for want of steel. It fails for want of a clear answer to a duller question: once the bridge is built, who runs it, who bills for it, and who carries the legal authority to keep it open. The Kazungula Bridge...
by The Fikiria Desk | Aug 3, 2026 | Property
Botswana has some of the most generous sunlight on the planet and, for most of its history, almost no large-scale way to capture it. The country has burned coal and imported power across the regional grid while the Kalahari sun went largely unmonetised — a resource as...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 3, 2026 | Property
Property – Infrastructure & Megaprojects · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The pitch was that a Chinese-built industrial park on Egypt's Red Sea coast would seed a manufacturing base for the whole region. The...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 1, 2026 | Property
Property – Infrastructure & Megaprojects · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Industrial policy in Africa is usually written as a national plan, debated in capitals and measured in five-year targets. The Eastern Industrial Zone...