The outgoing President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ian Kirby, shares his thoughts with us as he leaves the Bench at the end of this...
Botswana’s civil society is one of the non-state actors that could save the country’s democracy from sliding into regression, a Germany based think tank has revealed. ...
A proposal by the private security companies operating in the cash business for firearm licensing, sent to government for consideration, has called on government to speedily...
The Auditor General’s report for 2019/2020 shows how hundreds of orphans could not benefit from an account holding billions of Pula because officials at the Department...
South Africa’s decision not to allow foreign nationals to drive a South African registered truck using a foreign professional driving permit has further put into question...
Shareholders at Botswana and Johannesburg listed supermarket giant Choppies Enterprise Limited, have won a major court victory in their battle to recover damages of more than...
Botswana’s failure to diversify the economy away from mineral revenue could be coming back to haunt the southern African nation as there are strong signs that...
The Botswana Defence Force (BDF)-Namibians fatal shooting tragedy Inquest has revealed through autopsy report that the BDF carried over 800 bullets for the mission, 32 of...
The former Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi’s decision to apply for the positions of United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG)...
The former principals of the judiciary, former Chief Justice, Maruping Dibotelo and outgoing Court of Appeal president, Ian Kirby, are said to be leading the pack...
The Ministry of Transport and Communications has notified government ministries and departments that it will shut off fuel supply soon if bills running into millions of...
Chief Justice Terence Rannowane’s practice directive to rationalise the procedure and management of bail petitions at the High Court and Magistrates’ Courts has been dismissed by...
Why now? Some have asked on Dr Unity Dow’s latest intervention in Parliament regarding the Directorate on Intelligence and Security Services (DIS). She responds, “that is...
The Minister of Immigration and Gender Affairs, Anna Mokgethi, has seen her final report to comply with court orders rejected amid her reports maintaining that she...
President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi has moved to tighten his grip on external travel as his office recently informed government ministries and departments that public servants who...
The wine world is full of inspirational stories, this week I heard one more uplifting story belonging to Ntsiki Biyela, a South African wine maker determined...
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is expected to blow the kickoff whistle for the resumption of council bye-elections which were suspended at the height of the...
The former Permanent Secretary to the President, Carter Morupisi, who delivered a dismissal letter to the troubled former Director-General of intelligence services, Isaac Kgosi in 2018,...
The chairman of the embattled Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), Nehemiah Modubule, has hinted that his party’s critical but stable state of affairs may hinder it...
Fresh information from the government enclave highlights how the job situation for fresh graduates is worsening. The data also shows that Botswana’s graduate unemployment is at...
President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi and the Directorate of Intelligence (DIS) came under the lens of the United Nations Human Rights Committee during the just ended dialogue...
The United Nations Committee on Human Rights has taken Botswana to task over what it considers to be discrimination laws against lesbians and gays and delay...
Botswana Qualifications Authority (BQA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Botsalano Mosimakoko, has declared her organisation ‘ready’ to “provide for and maintain the National Credit and Qualifications...
Amidst pandemic, rule of law deteriorates in over half the world. 84.7% of the world’s population (6.5 billion people) live in a country where rule of...
…as court rejects her filed report The Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs Annah Mokgethi is racing against time to avert sanctions that include imprisonment...
Botswana and the European Union (EU) appear to have been at each other’s throats behind the scenes since last year, with the EU saying it held...
As calls for jobs gain momentum in the country, the Special Economic Zones Authority (ZEZA) could be the ace up President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi’s sleeve –...
This week, the Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs, Anna Mokgethi, made her first attempt to comply, out of time, with the court order to...
China is a force to reckon with in the world’s economic space, with most narrations painting a cold war with the United States of America. Being...
Botswana gays, lesbians more suicidal than any other – this is according to a study conducted by a Professor Alexandra Muller who is based at the...
The government is racing against time to complete a perception survey on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the public service as it picks up...
This discussion presents a retrospective interpretation of the evolving gestalt of the China Medical Teams (CMTs) initiative by addressing the intersection between practising medicine and knowledge...
The ongoing fight against the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a blow to the economic stimulus package and national development projects – it has forced the Government...
This week, an appeal by the Bakgatla royal family urged Bakgatla to celebrate this year’s heritage under the Dikgafela theme by extending appreciation to the paramount...
A legal battle has ensued between Basarwa and Batawana Kgosikgolo, Tawana Moremi following the Tawana Landboard to allocate the latter a piece of land in Moremi...
The Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs, Annah Mokgethi, has failed to honour a recent High Court order. This follows the findings that she violated...
Mesh Moeti this week learnt the true definition of the phrase, ‘toothless bulldog’ after he was summoned to the office of the Ombudsman and told categorically...
You may, by now, have heard about the dark side of the high profile P100 billion case, but wait, there is also the brighter side. Staff...
The Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) finds itself in a messy financial scandal following a misappropriated and misused P8 million payment relating to the construction of their...
Botswana may find herself in an undesirable state of ‘so near yet so far’ should she fail to speed up the rollout for her vaccination programme...
The South African businesswoman, Bridgette Motsepe-Radebe, whom prosecutors fingered as a co-signatory to at least two bank accounts holding some of the P100 billion allegedly stolen...
After a long struggle to intervene on the controversial P100 billion case, the Law Society of Botswana (LSB), with a backing of an authoritative and instructive...
The office of the President (OP) Ministerial Tender Committee has accused the Directorate of Intelligence Services (DIS) of violating the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board...