Botswana residential proxies from TrueProxies: 66 of 72 test requests exited in Botswana on October 1, 2026. GB-based plans, from $1.64 for 1 GB, target by country, city, region or ASN; Unlimited plans, from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps, by country and city.
Coverage verified
66/72
requests exited in country
2
cities seen
760 ms
median response
Market context
English is the working language of Botswana's online shops and search, while Setswana, the national language, is common in social posts. Prices are in pula (BWP). Retail is closely tied to South Africa: many of the same chains and brands trade on both sides of the border, so a like-for-like price check often sets pula shelf prices against rand prices in South African stores. Mobile wallets are widely used for everyday payments, led by Orange Money, Mascom's MyZaka and BTC's Smega, alongside bank cards.
Choppies, the Gaborone-based grocery chain, posts its store specials online and runs the eChoppies shopping portal in selected areas, which makes it a practical source for grocery price tracking. Mmegi and the Sunday Standard are the main independent news publishers, and Mmegi's classified section carries property and vehicle notices. Air Botswana fares and lodge rates in the Okavango Delta and Chobe are the other price set teams follow; most safari camps quote in US dollars rather than pula, so travel comparisons carry two currencies.
Google is the search engine that matters. English queries from Botswana return .co.bw and .bw sites mixed with South African pages, and the balance shifts with location, so rankings should be checked from Botswana connections rather than inferred from South African data. The Data Protection Act, 2024 (Act No. 18 of 2024) replaced the 2018 act and took effect in January 2025, with the Information and Data Protection Commission as regulator.
Botswana's tourism runs through two northern gateways rather than the capital. Maun is the country's tourism centre and the base for the air-charter companies that fly light aircraft into Okavango Delta camps, so a Delta trip is usually priced as lodge nights plus a charter seat from Maun. Kasane, beside Chobe National Park, sits near the Kazungula Bridge, which opened in May 2021 with one-stop border posts between Botswana and Zambia, and many Chobe itineraries now include a Zambian leg. Teams comparing safari prices should check Maun and Kasane packages separately, because the operators, transfer costs and bundled activities differ between the two.
Measured
Measured from our gateway in the Netherlands. Results describe the test, not a reserved exit, city or network. How we measure
In Botswana: Confirm display and classified placements on Mmegi and the Sunday Standard reach readers in Gaborone and Francistown as booked, and check that Choppies specials and other retail promotions show pula prices.
Ad verification proxies in BotswanaIn Botswana: Track Choppies specials and eChoppies prices, Air Botswana fares and US dollar lodge rates in the Okavango Delta and Chobe, and compare grocery prices with South African stores across the border.
Market research proxiesIn Botswana: Check English-language Google results from Botswana connections, where .co.bw businesses compete directly with South African sites that rank for the same product and service queries.
SEO monitoring proxiesFrom $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps
From $1.64 for 1 GB
Integration
Select Botswana with the country suffix -country-bw in your proxy username.
import requests
proxies = {
"http": "http://USER-country-bw:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT",
"https": "http://USER-country-bw:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT",
}
response = requests.get(
"https://httpbin.org/ip",
proxies=proxies,
timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())Yes. Both markets search in English on Google, but results from a Botswana connection favour .bw and .co.bw sites, Gaborone businesses and local publishers such as Mmegi, while still mixing in South African retailers. Rankings pulled from Johannesburg miss those local results and overstate South African competitors. Run Botswana checks from Botswana connections, and compare them with South African results only when you need to see the cross-border overlap.
Local checkouts combine bank cards with mobile wallets. The three telecom wallets are Orange Money, Mascom's MyZaka and BTC's Smega, used for bills, airtime and transfers as well as purchases. Grocery and retail promotions, such as Choppies specials, are priced in pula, while safari lodges usually quote US dollars and take card payment, so a single travel booking journey in Botswana can show both currencies.
Francistown is the main city of the north-east and a commercial hub near the Zimbabwe border. Maun and Kasane are the tourism gateways for the Okavango Delta and Chobe. Jwaneng and Orapa are diamond-mining towns with their own retail and rental demand. Gaborone still holds most online shops, publishers and advertisers, so use it as the baseline and add the other towns when a campaign or price check targets them.
Yes. 66 of 72 test requests exited in Botswana on October 1, 2026, from 12 IPs in Gaborone and Maitengwe on Orange Botswana (PTY), Botswana Telecommunications and STATURE (PTY). Both plans can also target a city there; GB-based plans add region and ASN targeting.
760 ms median response in our October 2026 test, timed from our gateway in the Netherlands.
Yes: 1 of 2 sticky sessions kept one IP for 30 minutes in our test.
