🇧🇼 Send P50 in Botswana: fees by provider
To send P50 in Botswana, fees range from P5.00 (MyZaka, the cheapest) to P6.00. Which provider you pick genuinely changes what you pay.
P50 is one of the smallest amounts people move in Botswana — roughly a combi fare in Gaborone and airtime. Botswana has three mobile money operators — Orange Money, MyZaka (Mascom) and Smega (BTC) — in a pula that floats on a rand-heavy SDR basket.
At this size the fixed fee dominates — one consolidated send beats two split sends. At an effective 10.0% on the cheapest option (MyZaka), the fixed part bites hardest here — batching small sends or keeping the balance on the wallet saves the most.
At P50, this amount falls in a pricing band where a flat P6 fee applies at the reference provider. This is the top band: the tariff does not change above it. At this size (P50), the reflex is to pay a Gaborone merchant straight from the Orange wallet via the merchant code — a combi fare, airtime, a sandwich carry no operator fee on a direct debit instead of a withdraw-then-cash chain.
Compare all providers for P50
| Provider | Fee | Levy | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
MYZMyZakaCheapest | P5.00 | None | P5.00 |
SMGSmega | P5.09 | None | P5.09 |
ORGOrange | P6.00 | None | P6.00 |
Indicative verified fees; any applicable government levy is included in the total.
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