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Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has begun exporting fuel across Africa after reaching full production bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890): Vaas met veldbloemen

#BusinessWeek: High pressure mounts on fuel prices

Europe’s major airlines warned they’ll have to pass on higher fuel costs to their passengers as the war in Iran escalates and oil tankers remain stranded in the Gulf bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Iran war may be about to escalate sharply after Israel bombed a giant gas field and Tehran vowed to retaliate against energy targets around the Middle East: Here's your Evening Briefing bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

AI is now coding apps, drafting contracts and organizing marketing campaigns. Yet it's still not clear how the technology will generate enough money to justify its enormous costs bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

South Africa’s automakers say they’re struggling to compete with Chinese and Indian companies, and are calling for urgent policy changes bloomberg.com/news/features/…

#DEBATE: Every debate about diamonds is met by analysis that the stones effectively dead and work should exclusively be on what comes next.Policymakers however say this is classic binary thinking and they prefer a “diamonds and” approach. @MboBW writes mmegi.bw/article/121531

Former president Festus Mogae’s famous phrase ‘straight talk breaks no friendships’ was in play recently when top current and former executives from the BoB, Fin Min and banks publicly shared frank views on the economy. @MboBW was in the audience mmegi.bw/article/121532

Right, he has to go! As lifelong supporters, we know suffering and we also know when someone’s time is up. And it’s quite OK to say ‘I tried and it didn’t work out. Let me step aside and let the club try find someone who can do better’.

Hasui Kawase, Moonlit Night (Daisensui Pond), 1920, Color woodblock print

@thapelomatlhaku Ever shortening; less quality time appointed to individual tasks. It’s the way of the endless scrolling world and it’s worth billions of dollars to some

50 days to go. #WorldRelays

Every trip to a retail store costs more than the previous one,with food prices rising steadily across supermarket shelves. But are the price increases purely market driven or are some retailers taking advantage of a strained market.TIMOTHY LEWANIKA writes mmegi.bw/article/121530

The Bank of Botswana will introduce a charge on commercial banks that maintain high concentrations of wholesale depositors, as it scrambles to restrain spiralling interest rates that are nearly four percentage points above the central bank’s benchmark rate mmegi.bw/business/bob-t…

On the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Michael Spence revisits why specialization, trade, and scale are inseparable from prosperity, in F&D magazine. imf.org/en/publication…

Heading into #FlashbackFriday if it's still called that, thought I'd share. In the spirit of informed debate 👍 linkedin.com/posts/mbongeni…

@HSwartland Top 4 is yours guys! Just make sure you either keep this coach or get a better one. The boys are motivated! Meanwhile, we have a problem with hot/cold/clueless Slot! 😡

@MboBW I don't want to dream but I'm tempted 😅

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@HSwartland I suspected the truth would come out about why you were unhappy! Quite a turnaround from your boys. Best of luck in the season ahead 🫡

@MboBW I'm smiling now