Five Layers That Turn a Cleaner’s Claim Into a Checkable Record
A cleaner's profile does one job: it tells a stranger, before they have ever met, why they should trust her with their home. The trouble is that most profiles - a line in a WhatsApp status, a note pinned to a shop board, a name handed round a compound - blur two very...
Five Layers That Turn a Cleaner’s Claim Into a Checkable Record
A cleaner's profile does one job: it tells a stranger, before they have ever met, why they should trust her with their home. The trouble is that most profiles - a line in a WhatsApp status, a note pinned to a shop board, a name handed round a compound - blur two very...
Dr. John Alpha Arufandika: Why Africa Needs AI That Speaks Its Own Languages
Dr John Alpha Arufandika, founder of Aptiva AI and winner of the 2025 LIST Emerging Technologies Impact Award, is building secure, private AI in fourteen Southern African languages. African businesses are adopting artificial intelligence at speed, and most of it is...
Five steps to turn a cleaner contact book into an agency
Somewhere in Matero, Chelston or the townships around Kitwe there is a woman whose phone is, in effect, an unregistered business. She knows a dozen reliable cleaners and twice as many households that keep asking her whether she knows someone. She matches the two,...
BoFiNet Names Dr Gaone Seleka CEO to Drive Digital Infrastructure
Botswana has spent a decade talking about a digital economy while much of the heavy lifting still rests on a single state-owned wholesaler of fibre. That wholesaler, Botswana Fibre Networks, sits at the point where ambition meets cable: every bank app, every...
Five Layers That Turn a Cleaner’s Claim Into a Checkable Record
The strongest thing a domestic worker can carry is a record that separates her own say-so from what someone else can confirm. Five layers for building it.
Dr. John Alpha Arufandika: Why Africa Needs AI That Speaks Its Own Languages
Dr John Alpha Arufandika, founder of Aptiva AI and winner of the 2025 LIST Emerging Technologies Impact Award, is building secure, private AI in fourteen Southern African languages. African businesses are adopting artificial intelligence at speed, and most of it is...
Five steps to turn a cleaner contact book into an agency
In Zambia, the person who refers cleaners by word of mouth is already halfway to running an agency. Five steps to make it a proper, formalised placement business.
BoFiNet Names Dr Gaone Seleka CEO to Drive Digital Infrastructure
BoFiNet has appointed Dr Gaone Seleka as CEO to expand Botswana’s fibre backbone and cross-border connectivity. What it signals for operators and
Court Rejects Bid to Halt PSBC Secretary Appointment
The Lobatse High Court has dismissed a union bid to block Andrew Motsamai as PSBC Secretary, clearing the way for Botswana’s public-service bargaining-council
The Nine: Who Steers Zambia’s Monetary Policy Committee
Zambia’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee, chaired by Governor Denny Kalyalya with Deputy Governor Chipimo and external members, sets the Bank of Zambia
Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu | The Expansion Architect
In nine years Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu turned a single analysis platform into twelve magazine editions reaching business owners across twenty-four African countries. The method has not changed since the first article. One website and an argument Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu...
Scholarships and Skills: China’s Bet on African Human Capital
China is pledging tens of thousands of scholarships and training places. The dividend depends on whether those graduates come home and find work.
Hawassa’s women: The export line that runs on rural migrants
Industrial parks promise women formal jobs, and Ethiopia’s flagship park is staffed overwhelmingly by young rural migrants, yet the wages testing that promise sit near the poverty line.
The 10,000: Africa’s private Chinese firms outnumber the state giants
The image of Chinese investment in Africa is a state colossus building dams. The data says otherwise: most of the roughly 10,000 Chinese firms on the continent are small and privately owned.
Green Envoys: A Skills Programme Long on Mission, Short on Headcount
The China-Africa Green Envoys Program promises green skills and a homegrown workforce. Six years on, the published record still carries the mission – but not the number of Africans actually trained.
Centre Stage: How IZIC’s Women & Diaspora Forums Open New Capital Pools in Zambia
IZIC 2026 adds Women in Investment and Diaspora Investment forums in Zambia, opening under-tapped capital pools beyond the usual B2B circuit.
Talent Development: How Luban Workshops Became a Policy Pillar, Not a Footnote
Vocational schools and training pledges have moved from the margins of China-Africa policy to a named pillar – with real numbers attached and real questions about who they serve.
Insourcing Explained: Mohwasa Makes the Job-Security Case to Parliament
Minister Mohwasa told parliament that insourcing brings job security and better service quality, making the case for bringing outsourced work back in-house.
Credible by Design: Boko Stakes SADC Stability on Free and Fair Elections
President Boko told the Electoral Commissions Forum that democracy holds only when election management is credible and properly resourced – a stake in SADC stability.