About TAJI Learning

TAJI Learning is an independent editorial publication about careers, skills and work in Botswana and Southern Africa. It is not a course platform, not a job board and not a careers noticeboard. It publishes career guides, reported articles, long-form research and a reference layer of labour-market figures, all of it free to read and none of it behind a sign-up.

The job it does is narrower than “career advice” and, we think, more useful. Most of what is published about work in Botswana repeats figures that have lost their source on the way: a salary number from an aggregator that will not say how many people it surveyed, an unemployment rate quoted years after its reference period, a statistic about graduates that traces back to a study nobody can obtain. TAJI exists to put those numbers back beside the documents that produced them, and to say plainly when a document does not exist.

Taji is Swahili for crown. The name is about what a career becomes when it is built deliberately rather than accepted by default.

What makes it different

Three rules, and they cost us things other publications keep.

• Every figure names its instrument. Not just a source — the survey, the population it covered and the period it refers to. Botswana currently has two official unemployment rates six and a half points apart, so a number without an instrument is a choice presented as a fact. The figures section exists for exactly this.
• No salary tables. Statistics Botswana publishes no occupation-level pay data at all, so every role-level salary figure available for this country comes from somewhere other than official statistics. Our career guides therefore carry none, and the structured data omits them rather than inventing a range.
• We publish the absence. Where a widely repeated claim cannot be traced, that is the finding. Two of our pieces end without a replacement number because no obtainable study supports one.

Who publishes it

TAJI Learning was founded by Oratile Mogotsi, who edits the publication from Gaborone.

What we cover

The publication is organised into seven areas of professional life rather than a list of tags. Each one is a standing question about work:

• Careers — understanding professions and career paths.
• Skills — understanding what is worth learning.
• Work — understanding how work itself is changing.
• Technology — understanding technological disruption and opportunity.
• Education — understanding degrees, institutions and credentials.
• Money — understanding the economics of a career.
• Leadership — understanding how responsibility changes as you progress.

How we work

Career guides are the reference layer and are kept current rather than published and forgotten. Articles are the editorial layer. The Journal carries longer research and reports. Every salary figure names its source and the date it was gathered, because Botswana pay data is thin enough that an unsourced number is worse than none.

Our full sourcing and corrections policy is on the editorial standards page.