Becoming a Data Analyst
What data analysts do between the spreadsheet and the decision, which skills matter most, and how to enter the field in Botswana.
Founder · TAJI Learning
Oratile Mogotsi
Founder & Editor, TAJI Learning
Oratile Mogotsi is the founder and editor of TAJI Learning, writing about careers, skills and the changing shape of work in Botswana and across Southern Africa.
Background
- Founder and editor of TAJI Learning
- Writes on careers, skills and the Botswana labour market
Career guides
Becoming a Digital Marketer
What digital marketing work involves once the platforms change, which skills survive, and how to build a career in it from Botswana.
Becoming a Product Designer
What product designers really do beyond the interface, how portfolios are actually judged, and the routes into design work in Botswana.
Becoming a Software Engineer
What software engineers actually do, which skills get people hired in Botswana, and the routes in that work without a computer science degree.
Writing
The Economics of Becoming a Software Engineer in Botswana
What it costs to enter software engineering in Botswana, how long it takes, and why no honest figure for the return can be produced.
What Happens to Graduate Employment When AI Automates Entry-Level Knowledge Work?
Entry-level knowledge work is where careers are learned, not merely where they start. Automating it removes a training system nobody has replaced.
AI Won’t Replace Junior Developers. It Will Change What “Junior” Means.
The automation argument gets the mechanism wrong. Code generation does not remove the junior role, it removes the tasks juniors used to learn on.
What AI Actually Did to Offshore Support Work
The most cited study of AI at work followed 5,172 agents who were mostly offshore. It found the opposite of displacement, and nobody mentions where they were.
The Bootcamp Question: Who It Works For and Who It Doesn’t
Bootcamps are neither a scam nor a shortcut. They sell structure and a deadline, which is worth a lot to some people and nothing to others.
Botswana Produced 14,733 Graduates in a Year
Tertiary institutions turned out 14,733 graduates in 2024. Unemployed graduates reached 70,512, up 46.7% on the end of 2019.
The Botswana Graduate’s Guide to Getting a Remote Job
Remote employers are not buying cheaper labour. They are buying autonomy they cannot supervise, and that changes what a graduate here needs to prove.
The “4.6 Months” Every Article Quotes Is From 2008
The figure comes from one faculty at one university, surveying people who graduated as early as 1986, and only those who found work.
Botswana’s ICT Sector Employs About 6,000 People
Information and communication accounted for 6,043 jobs, 0.8% of employment and 2.8% of GDP. The sector is real, and it is small.
Informal Work in Botswana Has Two Official Sizes
One measure counts unregistered businesses and finds 23%. The other counts jobs without protection and finds 34%. They answer different questions.
Every Jobs Number Botswana Has Been Promised, Checked
96,864 created. 100,000 in twelve months. 512,000 over ten years. Only one of those is in a published document, and none has an audited count behind it.
Botswana Got Online. Computer Use Went Down.
Household internet access reached 68.9% in 2024 while computer use fell from 41.4% to 32.2%. That changes how you can learn to code.
Botswana Has Four Mobile Wallets. None Is M-Pesa.
Writing about African technology assumes M-Pesa. In Botswana the rails are Smega, Orange Money, MyZaka and Poso Money.
Botswana’s Labour Law Changed in September
The Employment Act that governed work here since 1984 was repealed on 1 September 2026. Probation, contracts and dismissal all changed.
Botswana Has Two Unemployment Rates. They Disagree.
The newest survey puts unemployment at 21.0%. The newest quarterly series puts it at 27.6%. Neither one supersedes the other.
What Botswana’s Youth Schemes Have Actually Delivered
The internship programme pays about P2,000 a month. Its best-known success rate is from 2014, and the youth fund is owed P400 million.
Contractor or Employee? Botswana Now Presumes
A new statutory presumption treats you as a worker once certain facts are present, whatever the contract calls you. Tax follows separately.
The Degree Is Losing Its Power. What Replaces It?
A degree here still opens doors, but fewer of them, and more slowly. What is replacing it is not a certificate. It is evidence.
Does AI Actually Make Developers Faster? The Evidence Splits
Four serious studies measured it and they disagree. The disagreement is the finding: what AI does to your speed depends almost entirely on the codebase.
Does Management Actually Matter? One Trial Says Yes.
A randomised trial in Indian textile mills cut quality defects 43% and inventory 22%. The productivity result everyone quotes is the weakest one.