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20/08/2026

20/08/2026

𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗞 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗠 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 ‘𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚’ 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗕𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗦

Botswana’s smallest coins are disappearing from tills and pockets, and the Bank of Botswana wants them back in business.
The central bank has moved to tackle growing concerns over shortages of 5-thebe and 10-thebe coins, insisting that the denominations remain legal tender and should not be treated as worthless change.

At the heart of the problem, the Bank says, is not necessarily a failure to mint or supply enough coins. Rather, large quantities have effectively dropped out of the monetary system as households accumulate them, consumers abandon them and some coins are simply discarded.

That behaviour is creating an unusual circulation problem at the bottom end of Botswana’s cash economy: coins exist, but too many are sitting idle instead of moving between consumers, retailers and banks.

The Bank is now urging households and businesses holding excess coins to deposit them with commercial banks, allowing the denominations to be sorted and fed back into circulation.
Consumers are also being encouraged to use 5t and 10t coins for small purchases rather than allowing them to accumulate indefinitely in homes, cars, drawers and containers.

SMALL COINS, BIG CASH PROBLEM
The intervention matters particularly for informal traders, small retailers and other cash-heavy businesses where low-value coins remain critical for settling transactions accurately.
The Bank stressed that businesses and vendors are expected to give customers the correct change. Consumers, equally, are entitled to receive the full amount owed to them rather than routinely surrendering a few thebe because change is unavailable.

That principle becomes increasingly important when small rounding losses are multiplied across thousands of transactions.
The central bank also pushed back against the perception that low-denomination coins have become economically meaningless. Every coin carries monetary value, and comes at a cost to manufacture, distribute and manage.

Discarding coins therefore does more than waste a few thebe. When enough currency disappears from circulation, it creates replacement and distribution pressures for the wider cash system.

DON’T THROW MONEY AWAY
The Bank has appealed to the public not to throw coins away, deliberately damage them or leave them abandoned simply because their individual purchasing power is small.
Damaged coins can instead be presented at commercial bank branches for assessment and, where applicable, exchange.

13/08/2026

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗢𝗧
𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗦 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗢 𝗔 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗛𝗬 𝗦𝗡𝗔𝗖𝗞

When Wababo Kedikilwe watched bumper tomato harvests collide with falling prices and produce going to waste, he refused to accept spoilage as the cost of farming. His answer was simple but ingenious: preserve the harvest, and turn surplus tomatoes into Pristine Tomato Snack.

A bumper harvest is supposed to be good news. For Wababo Kedikilwe, it became a race against time.
The 49year, old horticultural farmer started growing tomatoes in 2013, but soon encountered one of agriculture's oldest problems: when everybody harvested at the same time, the market became saturated.

Prices dropped. Buyers disappeared. Tomatoes began to spoil.
“Every year we would harvest and the market would be flooded. Prices would drop and tomatoes would rot before they could be sold,” Kedikilwe recalls.

Instead of watching his investment decompose, he searched for ways to preserve the surplus.

That search eventually produced Pristine Tomato Snack, dried tomatoes transformed from a highly perishable crop into a convenient, longer-lasting product that has found its way into pubs, kitchens and farmers’ markets around Serowe.

WHY DRY TOMATOES?
Removing moisture is one of the world's oldest food-preservation techniques. When carried out correctly and combined with safe handling and storage, drying can slow deterioration and extend shelf life.
For farmers, that extra time can mean the difference between throwing produce away and selling it.

For consumers, tomatoes naturally provide potassium, vitamin C and carotenoids such as lycopene. Drying changes their nutritional profile and can reduce some heat-sensitive nutrients, but it also concentrates tomato flavour and certain components as water is removed.
The overall health profile of any dried tomato snack depends heavily on processing, particularly how much salt, sugar or oil is added.

FROM FOOD WASTE TO FOOD VALUE
Kedikilwe's innovation carries a bigger message for Botswana agriculture. Surplus tomatoes do not necessarily have to end up rotting in fields, storerooms or market stalls. With appropriate food-safety controls, agricultural produce can be dried, pulped, bottled or transformed into other value-added foods.
That creates another potential market for farmers while helping reduce post-harvest losses.

For Kedikilwe, necessity became innovation.
A tomato he once had only days to sell became the raw material for an entirely different product.

13/08/2026

The biggest ideas often begin with believing that your perspective has something valuable to offer.

Mark Zuckerberg’s journey reflects the power of trusting your ideas, embracing what makes you different, and having the confidence to bring your perspective to the world. In a landscape shaped by constant change, staying true to your vision can be what sets you apart.

Because building something meaningful starts with believing you have something meaningful to contribute.

09/08/2026

09/08/2026

Jo'burg Was Born From Gold, But Refused to Die With Gold!

Everyone thought that when the gold ran out, Johannesburg would become a ghost town.

It didn't.

Let's tell you the fascinating story of Johannesburg.

Way back in the 1880s, someone found gold on a piece of land called the Witwatersrand. Suddenly old farms turned into a wild tent city packed with people hoping to get rich. That was the start of Johannesburg.

But here’s the crazy part, the gold didn’t last forever. It wouldn’t.

And yet, Joburg is still standing, bigger and busier than ever.

How did that happen?

That’s the story told in the paper: "The Power of Mining: the Fall of Gold and Rise of Johannesburg."

First, you need to know that this wasn’t an easy gold. It wasn’t lying around in rivers. It was buried deep, very deep underground. So, you couldn’t just dig with a shovel.

You needed huge machines, lots of money, and big companies to run the show. Within a decade, this place was the biggest gold producer in the entire world.

But here’s the interesting bit: to get all that gold out, the mines needed workers.

Lots of them.

So they brought in men from all over the place. Not just from South Africa, but from countries like Lesotho, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, and Malawi.

These guys left their families behind, worked hard for months, and sent money back home to their villages. This created a huge web of connections across Southern Africa. For over a hundred years, the economies of these neighbouring countries were tied to Jo'burg’s mines.

If Joburg sneezed, the whole region caught a cold!

Now, everyone thought that when the gold ran out, Jo'burg would become a ghost town. A dusty, empty place with nobody left. But the city had a secret weapon.

It learned to do other things.

You see...

Mining needed steel, so they built steel factories.

Mining needed electricity, so they built power stations.

Mining needed money and banking, so they set up banks and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Mining companies started investing in cement, paper, and chemicals. Before anyone knew it, the city had become a giant workshop.

By the time World War II ended, making things in factories was almost as important as digging up gold.

However, it was a matter of time.

By the 1970s, gold production had hit its peak and started sliding downhill. The mines got deeper, more expensive, and less profitable.

Eventually, the big mines right under Jo'burg closed down completely. But did the city panic?

Nope.

By then, it had already reinvented itself.

Manufacturing took the lead, and then, even bigger things came along: finance, banking, insurance, and business services.

The city’s shape changed too. Old mining land got turned into new homes, shops, and offices. People from all over Africa kept pouring in, making the city even more vibrant and mixed. The money that had once come from gold now came from banks and offices.

The city had completely changed its diet!
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Futher Reading

Harrison, P. and Zack, T., 2012. The power of mining: the fall of gold and rise of Johannesburg. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 30(4), pp.551–570.

12/04/2026

At the beginning, it always looks unrealistic.

People will call your goals “too big.”
They’ll tell you to be more “realistic.”
To slow down.
To aim for something safer.

What they’re really saying is:
“I don’t see it… so it must not be possible.”

But that’s the difference.

Average men need proof before they believe.
Winners believe first… then they build the proof.

Before the money shows up…
Before the results come in…
Before anyone claps for you…

There’s a phase where it’s just you, your vision, and your discipline.

No validation.
No guarantees.
No evidence.

Just belief.

And most people quit right there.

Not because they’re incapable—
But because they don’t trust themselves enough to keep going without immediate results.

They need to see it to commit.

But if you want to win in life, you need to flip that mindset.

You need to move like it’s already yours.
Work like it’s inevitable.
Think like failure isn’t even an option.

Because everything you see around you today—every successful man, every empire, every legacy—
started as something invisible.

An idea.
A vision.
A belief that didn’t make sense to anyone else.

So if people doubt you? Good.
If it sounds crazy? Even better.

That means you’re thinking beyond the level they’re stuck at.

Now the only question is:
Are you going to back it up with action?

Or are you going to fall back into the comfort of being “realistic”?

If you’re serious about building discipline, unstoppable belief, and a mindset that actually wins—

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