The United States through its State Department’s annual report on global religious freedoms is keeping tabs on Botswana’s decision to arrest of controversial pastor Thuso Tiego...
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...
COVID-19 has affected children at an unprecedented scale, making it the worst crisis for children UNICEF has seen in its 75-year history, the United Nations Children’s...
The United Kingdom has justified why it took a decision to ban direct flights Botswana following reports that a deadly COVID-19 variant which scientists fear could...
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...
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...
The deadly COVID-19 contagion hit Botswana in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed that the virus is spread through contact with infected persons and...
Mpho Donald was undoubtedly the IT girl of the then tedious beauty industry. She loved looking pretty and smelling good. Of course, this is every girl’s...
In November 2020, President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi delivered to the first meeting of the Second Session of the Twelfth Parliament the 2020 State of the Nation...
World Health Organization (WHO), through its Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) initiative, has sent United Kingdom medical experts to fight COVID-19 in Botswana. EMTs are groups of...
The COVID-19 pandemic which weakened world economies had left a devastating impact on Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC) existence in 2020. According to the group’s...
The government has reportedly missed out on an opportunity to secure 2 million doses of AstraZeneca, following efforts made by Batswana living in the diaspora to...
Leader of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and Botswana National Front (BNF) Duma Boko has criticised President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s interventions put in place to curb...
After weeks of intensive physical fitness assessment embodied by 2.4km run, push-ups and sit- ups, and additional comprehensive medical examinations, aptitude tests and security vetting, some...
Botswana’s premier brewer and leading distributor of beer, Kgalagadi Breweries Limited (KBL) says the recent alcohol ban by the government is unjustifiable, irrational and overrides the...
Botswana’s efforts to accelerate key economic reforms got a boost following the approval of a $250 million loan by the World Bank today. The Programmatic Economic...
Botswana health officials have confirmed the new COVOD-19 variant, which was first found in India. The Ministry of Health and Wellness has through a press statement...
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...
Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) through its Corporate Social Investment initiative has donated over Five Thousand Eight Hundred (5800) washable, reversible 3-ply face masks and related...
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...