Botswana’s President, Duma Gideon Boko, has declined an invitation from United States President Trump to visit the White House.
According to the words of Botswana President Boko:
“If there is any business or official engagement to discuss, it should take place in Botswana, not abroad.
Botswana is tired of traveling abroad for deals that concern its own resources.
If there is genuine interest in our resources, come to Botswana so we can talk business.
Let us respect the basic principle of commerce: buyers should go to the sellers. If the situation is reversed, then the buyer’s interest is not truly valuable.”
Shame on you BBC.
This decision was not by the government but a corporate entity.
It was a business decision on their part.
This is why legacy media is losing credibility.
Eff leader Julius Malema says Elon Musk’s push to bring Starlink to South Africa is not about connectivity but about foreign control and destabilisation.
He warns it could be used to monitor South Africans and undermine the government, insists Starlink must comply with local laws, including BEE, and says no special treatment should be given to Musk.
I’m so proud to have beat the Evil System of Apartheid at their own game.
By the time I reached 30, I owned my factory in the heart of a township called Mabopane, built with my own resources, by my own construction company, employing roughly 200 local people.
5 years earlier, this story began in January 1985, with a R30k loan by 2 black businessmen, Walter Dude and Mr Moja, commonly known as Uncle Nats in Ga-Rankuwa, in a 200sq rented factory in Ga-Rankuwa owned by the SBDC, today known as Business Partners.
I conceived the idea of Black Like Me in 1984, invited two other partners to join, Joseph Molwantwa, a brilliant salesman and Johan Kriel, a white production manager/chemist. We recruited my wife to join in January 1985 as a bookkeeper.
Today, 2026, 41 years later, I am proud that my wife and daughter have taken over the reins, working with my new partners, working to take the business to the next level.
B-BBEE helped produce black CAs, engineers and lawyers who would’ve never entered elite professions under apartheid legacies. From 2002 to 2022 black chartered accountants increased from just 388 to over 13k. That didn’t happen by magic.