🇧🇼 Withdraw P125 in Botswana: fees by provider
To withdraw P125 in Botswana, fees range from P6.00 (Orange, the cheapest) to P6.11. Which provider you pick genuinely changes what you pay.
P125 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 4.8% on the cheapest option (Orange), the fixed part bites hardest here — batching small sends or keeping the balance on the wallet saves the most.
At P125, this amount falls in a pricing band where a flat P6 fee applies at the reference provider. The next band starts at P126, where pricing changes — worth knowing if your amount is near that threshold. At this size (P125), 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.
This size sits in the flat P6 P25–P125 band; the adjacent band is flat P8 P126–P250. Full table on the Botswana withdrawal charges page.
Compare all providers for P125
| Provider | Fee | Levy | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
ORGOrangeCheapest | P6.00 | None | P6.00 |
MYZMyZakaCheapest | P6.00 | None | P6.00 |
SMGSmega | P6.11 | None | P6.11 |
Indicative verified fees; any applicable government levy is included in the total.
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