Lucara Diamond Corporation, 100% owners of Karowe Diamond mine, has released its results for the first quarter of 2021 ending March 31, 2021. Figures contained in...
Here is how one Permanent Secretary encapsulates the clear tension between democracy and bureaucracy in Botswana: “President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s Government is behaving like a state surrounded...
United States President, Joe Biden, is faced with a decision to make relating to the Covid-19 vaccine intellectual property after 175 former world leaders and Nobel...
Subsequent to the Ministry of Health and Wellness press release on having received reports of unfortunate events in which two elderly clients were reported to have...
The Minister of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services, Kefentse Mzwinila looked a politician set to shoot the moon as he laid bare his billions of...
Lawmakers subjected Minister of Finance & Economic Development, Dr Thapelo Matsheka to scrutiny on Tuesday as a plethora of changes take effect this April. The Lobatse...
President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi has renewed the contracts of the COVID-19 Task Team amid protests from some quarters complaining that the team has become irrelevant in...
Government through the Ministry of Health and Wellness embarked on the much anticipated COVID-19 vaccine rollout yesterday (Friday 26th March 2020). Earlier this month, Botswana received...
Plans are underway at the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security to build a solid fuel supply base for the landlocked and non-producing...
Vice President Slumber Tsogwane, who is also Boteti West Member of Parliament, told Parliament on Thursday that to date, over P5 million has been used to...
President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi’s 2019 decision to appease public servants by increasing salaries which were not budgeted for the 2019/20 financial year has come back to...
Choppies management has rubbished misleading statements alleging possible loss of jobs due to new technology being introduced by the retail giant. Choppies is currently engaged in...
The Secretary General of Footballers Union Botswana, Kgosana Masaseng, has accused Botswana Football Association (BFA) of failing Botswana Football by failing to convince government to allow...
First National Bank Botswana (FNBB), the country’s largest commercial bank by all measures has received significant blow from the COVID pandemic in the six months trading...
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Letshego demonstrated strong business resilience and effective risk management, resulting in robust financial performance for the financial year ended...
Leadership has always been and will always be about people. People will always remain at the centre of it all, especially in times like these. Leaders...
As many African countries continue to receive their first consignment of the COVID-19 vaccine from different manufacturers, President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his cabinet have set P164...
President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi’s Covid-19 Task Force has maintained its initial forecast of 50,000 Covid cases in Botswana, they shared this with Members of Parliament (MPs)...
When delivering the National Budget Speech on Monday (1st February 2020), Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Dr Thapelo Matsheka indicated that government has come up...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) quantified and reported in 2017 how much Botswana is losing annually to wasteful government spending; it took the COVID-19 pandemic for...
The Vitamin D supplementation debate is intensively back on – available literature suggests it has been raging since the 1920s. The coronavirus pandemic has heightened the...
In a response to combat and reduce the ravaging effects of Covid-19, which continues to claim lives and paralyse economic activities, government has moved to procure...
An outlook by local banks suggests that their loan books quality could deteriorate in 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic was expected to be the main excuse....
A host of premier league clubs are halting training and related football activities amid growing concerns that the elite league will take time to resume as...
On Monday Minister of Finance and Economic Development Thapelo Matsheka will open his full of anticipation briefcase, but with all the hallmarks of a government lacking...
Office of the President (OP) is forging ahead with refurbishment of its building at a cost P42 million, despite the country saddled with the Covid-19 pandemic...
A study conducted by scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London has established that talking for 30 seconds without a face mask in...
Botswana Football Association (BFA) President, Maclean Letshwiti. Botswana Football Association (BFA) is engaged in protracted talks to stage a mini-league as lee-way to ascend into a...
Just when the world was still trying to come to terms with the COVID-19 contagion, and scientists working to find the cure, a strain is on...
Disgruntled former Director of Health Services, Dr. Malaki Tshipayagae has finally dumped government after he was recently demoted. He was ejected from the directorship of Health...
It has always been a bitter relationship between COSBOTS and its clients being registered artists. If you are a local artist, then you know better than...
In the tough financial situation occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic across sectors, some individuals may have found clandestine means to keep their heads above water using public...
Global lockdown have been a thorn in diamonds having shiny sales, but a lot of optimism shows with the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, the precious stones...
Just like in politics, numbers matter in the church. As much as the COVID-19 pandemic has put so many commercial entities in the red, the church...
Botswana, Africa’s longest standing democracy, is losing its glorified spot as one of the continent’s poster boys, with latest Ibrahim Index of African Governance indicating that...
With Government tightening the noose around public areas through the State of Public Emergency tool, it is very unlikely that there could be celebrations this festive...
After approximately nine months since closing its borders as a precautionary measure to curb the spread of the Corona-virus, Botswana has moved to open its borders...
The Cabinet has directed that the 2020/2021 provision for vacancies be withdrawn from Ministries, Departments and Agencies recurrent budgets to cater for supplementary estimates. According to...
Botswana Sectors of Teachers Union (BOSETU) says COVID-19 as a pandemic has negatively affected the education sector by deeply disrupting the education system. The intermittent lockdowns...
Production at Morupule Coal Mine (MCM) has been significantly reduced following the outbreak of COVID-19 at the wholly government owned mine, WeekendPost has learnt. Responding to...
Businesses, banks and household on Thursday midday received the much anticipated announcement from Bank of Botswana Governor, Moses Pelaelo, who said the central bank has decided...
Last month the National Assembly in Botswana approved— through voting— for the extension of State of Emergency (SoE) by yet another six months in an attempt...
Last month President Mokgweetsi Masisi relieved the Deputy Secretary, Justice at the Ministry of Defence, Justice and Security Nchunga Nchunga of his duties with immediate effect. ...