‘Car ownership is linked to upwardly-mobile aspiration, career path and wealth acquisition’  Discuss. Certainly that statement would make for an interesting debate.  For instance, it may...
DR KESITEGILE GOBOTSWANG This week parliament entered the Committee of Supply stage where Ministers present their Ministerial Budget Proposals “for approval” by the National Assembly. It’s...
The quality of education is important for the country to continue its transformation into a modern market economy, according to the World Bank report titled “Public...
Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) and The African Development Bank (AfDB), on the 21st of February 2020, signed a thematic Line of Credit (LoC) of P900 Million...
Over the last five years, the case for diversity and inclusion has looked good for Africa. In 2020, 38% of senior management positions in African businesses...
COMRADE MARUPING Bofepusu played a huge role in influencing dwindling of the results for the Umbrella Democratic Change (UDC) for 2019 National Polls. The two were...
President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi is embroiled in an undesirable situation relating to giving his presidency direction. The President appears to be a man who relies heavily...
Do we really understand the powers that parliamentarians have in our lives? A re a thaloganya gore thopho ga se thopho hela, at time it is...
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has been synonymous with one thing — factionalism. The unrelenting factions have seen the party...
STUART WHITE THE WORLD IN BLACK-N-WHITE On the news this week was a report that sales of Jaguar cars in the UK had been halted due...
JEFF RAMSAY BUILDERS OF BOTSWANA Oratile Ratshosa (1890-1965) was the daughter and eldest child of the Bangwato Kgosi Sekgoma II aKhama III, thus being an elder...
TUMELO RANNAU The Minister of Finance and Economic Development (the Minister) Honourable Thapelo Matsheka has finally signed the Transfer Duty Amendment Act after it was passed...
IQBAL EBRAHIM UNDERSTANDING ISLAM Last week this column covered the topic of whether we are receiving the warning signs that may be signalling the approach of...
Parliament is charged with the mandate of making laws and providing oversight, but for them to continuously change laws in order to offset their obligations is...
Benson C Saili THIS EARTH, MY BROTHER … but with pre-conditional strings attached Shortly after Anu’s departure back to Nibiru, General Atiku, Enki moved to the...
Botswana was recently ranked among the best tourist destinations around the world which is one of the important factors that travelers look at when they are...
Benson C Saili THIS EARTH, MY BROTHER Enki is tactfully demoted as Enlil is elevated by “Our Father Who Art In Heaven” When the information Alalu...
PUSETSO MORAPEDI Oversight is important in a democracy, in organisations, in companies and especially in government. The biggest body/institution to exercise this role in a democracy...
The increment of Cabinet size over the years have dealt a heavy blow to Parliament efforts to play its role of watchdog. The problems also arose...
JEFF RAMSAY BUILDERS OF BOTSWANA Baboni Morwe was the second born daughter of Kgosi Khama III. After the death of her elder sister Bessie Ratshosa in...
Ndulamo Anthony Morima Eagle WATCH This is the last article in this three-part series. In the first article, we made an exposition of the circumstances leading...
IQBAL EBRAHIM UNDERSTANDING ISLAM Despite many Quranic and Biblical verses pointing to the end times, the world seems to be in a ‘relaxed’ or shall we...
STUART WHITE THE WORLD IN BLACK-N-WHITE “We need an education system that produces experts and to do that we need an education system that is focused...
Career development is a necessity for every professional. Each year we set ourselves performance targets, and for us to achieve those targets we are required to...
Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Dr Thapelo Matsheka announced his maiden Budget Speech on Monday, the speech was also the first for the 12 Parliament....
Life is very unpredictable and it has its ups and downs. We all belong to the wheel of life as such our lives can be compared...
Benson C Saili THIS EARTH, MY BROTHER Alalu Vs House of An It is said, General Atiku, that life on Earth began 4.1 billion years ago....
STUART WHITE THE WORLD IN BLACK-N-WHITE Richard Branson At the beginning of this week, I felt under a lot of pressure with far more items on...
JEFF RAMSAY BUILDERS OF BOTSWANA We previously left off in September-November 1895, when the three-cornered negotiations were underway in London between the Her Majesty’s Colonial Office,...
TUMELO RANNAU Tax; the most basic source of revenue for government and often the first to be adjusted whenever there is pressure on government revenue due...
STUART WHITE THE WORLD IN BLACK-N-WHITE In 1918 what was known as the Great War, now World War I, ended, with around 10 million military casualties,...
IQBAL EBRAHIM UNDERSTANDING ISLAM There is a general perception that Islam oppresses, disrespects women and relegates them to a second class status. Many people may have...
Benson C Saili THIS EARTH, MY BROTHER As Negroid Africans known as Bantu’s, we were likely christened by the Grail Queen On the SSS World, as...
Ndulamo Anthony Morima Eagle WATCH Last week, we made an exposition of the circumstances leading to the Balopi Commission (“the Commission”)’s establishment and its terms of...
TUMELO RANNAU Death and Taxes; the 2 certainties in life they say. Certain that the other twin (tax) will even follow a person unto death, inseparable...
Ndulamo Anthony Morima Eagle WATCH It is almost twenty years since two historical events took place in as far as Botswana’s tribal equality is concerned. These...
TUMELO RANNAU The Income Tax Act defines farming as carrying on of farming operations and goes on to state that farming operations include livestock, agricultural and...
Benson C Saili THIS EARTH, MY BROTHER The Orion Queen as the first to go by the titles Yahweh, Allah! Just to recap, General Atiku, the...
STUART WHITE THE WORLD IN BLACK-N-WHITE A new law comes into effect in the United Kingdom shortly allowing doctors to harvest organs and other body parts...
STUART WHITE THE WORLD IN BLACK-N-WHITE Halfway through a month sometimes referred to ‘Vegan-uary’, let’s start this week with a joke. Q.How do you know if...
Benson C Saili THIS EARTH, MY BROTHER It all began in Orion on a planet of the Suriya star If we depose that Princes Diana was...