The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) President, Lt Gen Ian Khama has suspended nine members of the party’s National Youth Executive Committee following the unsuccessful attempt to...
The number of working women has been on the rise for many years. In most member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),...
A Special Audit on the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) Lease Office Block at the Central Business District (CBD) has revealed that the Ministry...
Alindo Engineering and General Maintenance (Pty) Ltd is a very lucky company indeed. The company keeps on getting jobs with the Department of Technical Services (DTS)...
In two weeks’ time Nonofo Molefhi will know his fate. He is wrestling against the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP)’s centre of power as races to...
The Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) is failing to service two loans drawn from the Public Debt Service Fund. “While it is common cause that the Botswana...
The Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture Development opened applications for the Youth Development Fund on 3rd July 2017 and the move is certainly going to...
There is no doubt that Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) is going for its elective congress in Bobonong next week. What remains uncertain is the events...
There is a purpose as to why government had to change management at Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) to the extent of sacrificing the indigenization approach for...
Botswana has domesticated the Rome Statute following an overwhelming support to a Bill presented by the Minister Defence Justice and Security, Shaw Kgathi. Through this law,...
The latest Labour Statistics Report 2013 published by Statistics Botswana in June 2017 has revealed that trend shows that employment for both males and females increased...
The Fengyue Glass project shenanigans are refusing to go away, especially after Specially Elected Member of Parliament, Mephato Reatile took aim at the imbalance demonstrable in...
The Minister of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services Prince Maele is at the centre of a controversial installation of a Headman of Arbitration in his...
The Tourism Development Levy is destined to be the cash cow of the Ministry Of Environment, Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism. After years of complaining about...
This week the Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Advocate Sadique Kebonang briefed Members of Parliament on the latest regarding the status of...
Botswana has not fared well in the latest Africa Visa Openness report 2017. According to the report Botswana is ranked 28th out of total of 42...
Subscriptions for fixed telephone are on the decline; posted parcels are also decreasing; and newspaper sales are also on a downward spiral. On the other hand,...
The Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) meeting held this week has resolved that all Members of Parliament and Councilors of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) cross...
A-Cap has said during the June 2017 quarter it continued to progress staged project optimization activities for the Letlhakane Uranium Project aimed to improve recovered uranium...
Despite an improved banking sector profitability in the first quarter of 2017 for the reporting season ending 31 March 2017, with the key driver being growth...
Anglo American’s De Beers, the world's No.1 diamond producer by value, this week reported a 5.7% rise in rough diamond sales during the sixth cycle of...
Motswedi Securities analysts have said the performance of the Botswana economy will largely continue to be affected by exogenous factors such as the performance of the...
Total revenue for De Beers decreased by 4% to $3.1 billion (H1 2016: $3.3 billion), driven by lower rough diamond revenue – as expected, given the...
A Transport and Infrastructure brief for first quarter of 2017 has noted that motor vehicle registrations have increased significantly during the past 10 years. From 2007...
The Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) collected P35.335 billion during the 2015/16 financial year. The collection exceed the tax revenue target of P34,694 set by government...
Anglo American plc Production Report for the second quarter ended 30 June 2017. Anglo American reports an 8% increase in copper equivalent production compared to the...
The United Kingdom (UK) and members of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) have agreed to continue discussions to explore ways to ensure that the existing...
First it was the South-China Sea controversy and now it is the impending visit by the Dalai Lama to Botswana, and China is not amused. The...
The Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) has announced that Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) has in June 2017, assigned first-time Baa2/Prime-2 Issuer ratings to the Corporation, with a...
The Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security has introduced a security of supply margin of 17.5 thebe per litre on the sale of...
The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty, refers to the paradox that countries with an abundance of natural resources – like minerals, tend...
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) was the major source of imports into Botswana during March 2017, accounting for 44.7 percent (P1, 919.6 million) of total...
The informal economy is a key component of most economies in sub-Saharan Africa, contributing between 25 and 65 percent of GDP and accounting for between 30...
The poor performance of commodities in the market, especially minerals has seen the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) move up at a snail’s pace during the...
The Ministry of Transport and Communications, through Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA), has started implementing a Pricing Framework which seeks to align to cost, the retail...
Banks thrive when the market is liquid, Stanbic Bank Botswana romped to a profit after tax of P195 million representing a year-on-year growth of 48 percent,...
The Managing Director of Turnstar holdings Gulaam Husain Abdoola has said trading licence issue for foreign retailers caused loss of revenue as the stores allocated could...
The incomplete Board of the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) forced the organization into an unusual method of operation that ultimately renewed Bashi Gaetsaloe’s contract as Managing...
The original intention was never to sell off Air Botswana, fresh information has revealed. Paper trail seen by this publication points to a Presidential Directive that...
The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) is at loggerheads with its employees and former employees over the ongoing retrenchment exercise which is intended to achieve a streamlined...
The ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is going for its elective congress in a few weeks and party members are aligning themselves with individuals and lobby...
The new entrants into the hotel tourism sector in Botswana and especially in Gaborone has put unrelenting pressure on the Cresta Group’s market share. The Acting...
The BIHL Group has not escaped the repercussions of subdued economies and regional distress compounded by the recent Credit Rating downgrade of South Africa’s sovereign rating...