The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised red flagged on Botswana‘s target to reach high income status saying the country is not on the right track....
Parliament has revealed that it plans to rollout a Community Score Card (CSC) exercise as part of sweeping reforms to its role and mandate among others....
The government has failed to implement some commitments and agreements that it had entered into with unions to improve conditions of public servants. Three years after...
A public health expert, Dr Edward Maganu who is also the former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health has said that unlike many who are...
New projections of households poverty in Botswana by the World Bank shows that more Batswana have been pushed further into extreme poverty. According to the international...
The infamous National Petroleum Fund (NPF) case has come to a close, with the biggest loser being the state against the so called former president Ian...
A new study has pointed out that Botswana youth have themselves to blame for failure in being successful entrepreneurs. Also contributing to the failures of youth related...
Before stripping senior public servants of their dignity by parading them at the courts of law as criminals, the state authorities must first retire the affected...
The US State Department this week released a strong and critical report on human rights in Botswana in 2021. The department said in its 2021 Country...
Since relocating to South Africa in 2012, Bakgatla paramount Chief, Kgafela Kgafela II who moved to Moruleng to protect his tribe’s wealth against his jilted uncle,...
The case in which former Zimbabwean Vice President, Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela and Choppies are fighting over the value of the shares owned by...
More than 218 employees in the Ministry of Infrastructure Science and Technology may soon be smiling all the way to the bank to collect back pays...
In an unlikely and stimulating turn of events, the former President Ian Khama, who is also the paramount Chief of Bangwato last week met with the...
Botswana leads the pack in the world as it has been placed at the top for the highest concentration of women businesses owners. According to the...
Botswana’s taxpayers will foot the bill in the fresh legal battle between the government and some residents of Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). The matter which...
Following the cascading developments that led to the arrest of Botswana Police Service (BPS) Commissioner, Keabetswe Makgophe, over alleged license firearms issued to former president Dr...
News tumbling out from the notorious Directorate of Intelligence Service Sebele detention centre are that the Police Commissioner, Keabetswe Makgophe who was recently released from the...
The Botswana Energy Regulatory Authority (BERA) find itself at war with its clientele, fuel stations operators following an aggressive “audit” exercise that seeks to ensure compliance...
An unusually strange meeting between the officers of the Directorate of Intelligence Services (DIS) and their former director of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime...
Hardly three months since their exit from Cabinet, the ruling party’s high profile legislators Dr Thapelo Matsheka and the Secretary General, Mpho Balopi are yet to...
The Chief executive Officer of Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) Gaselemogwe Senai has weighed in on the debate around the water supply situation in the country, the...
A financial intelligence Agency (FIA) report has revealed that criminals appeared to have defrauded COVID-19 Relief Fund during the first few months of its launch. According...
The Ombudsman, Augustine Makgonatsotlhe, has resigned from his position, reportedly to take up a diplomatic post as an Ambassador under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and...
The Central Transport Organisation has given government ministries and departments across the country up to March to have paid their outstanding fuel bills or be denied...
Despite Botswana’s much celebrated success of COVID-19 vaccination rate against her counterparts, and emerging conversations around herd immunity, the Ministry of Health and Wellness as well...
Hundreds of nurses across the country are practicing illegally because their practice certificates have not been renewed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Botswana (NMCB),...
President Mokgweetsi Masisi ignored the troubled Bakgatla leader, Kgafela Kgafela II’s appeal letter to him in which Kgafela had raised a string of issues pertaining to...
The former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ian Kirby, who is also the first lawyer to open a private practice in Botswana has warned...
As countries continue to wind up their COVID 19 fight and exit the battleground, pressure continues to mount on Botswana’s battle leaders, the COVID-19 Task Team,...
A spat has erupted between Minister of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services and the then Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Eric Molale over...
The tenure of office for the Attorney General (AG), Advocate Abraham Keetshabe will expire around July this year and the subject has hinted that his contract...
The Botswana Defence Force (BDF) is in the process of procuring data extraction and analytical tools to upgrade their cyber cyber force to boost cyberwarfare, cybersecurity,...
In what is seen as the Government of Namibia’s disappointment at the inquest ruling into the killing of its citizens by the Botswana Defence Force (BDF),...
A renowned South African author of ‘The rise of the Securocrats-the case of South Africa,’ ‘Stopping the Spies: Constructing and Resisting the Surveillance State in South...
Public Servants should brace themselves for some changes as the government is in an overdrive mode to overhaul the public sector. The government has also set...
The Kasane Regional Magistrate Court refused this week to rule on whether three Namibians and their Zambian cousin shot dead by members of the Botswana Defence...
The Acting Secretary of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has reportedly snubbed the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over a draft bill that is aimed at making...
A savingram the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development sent to Town Clerks and Council Secretaries explaining why councilors across the country should not have...
A surge in consumer spending is expected to be a key driver of Botswana’s economic recovery, according to recent projections by Fitch Solutions. Fitch Solutions said...
The state has informed the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary Arbitrary Executions that the police have concluded a case in which businessman and...
The Botswana Association of Local Authorities (BALA) is at loggerheads with the government following a request by BALA that its membership to be allowed to access...
Some minority tribes have dragged the government before the High Court seeking an order interdicting it from an ongoing appointment of some dikgosana in their tribal...
Botswana has been ranked top of all countries on the rape statistics in the world at 92.93 per 100,000 people. This is according to a survey...