Kgosi Sediegeng Kgamane, the Bangwato regent, is faced with a plethora of issues that pits him between a rock and a hard place. On the one...
Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Secretary General Mpho Balopi has bowed to pressure and is now expected to announce his departure from politics ahead of 2024 general...
News tumbling out from the notorious Directorate of Intelligence Service Sebele detention centre are that the Police Commissioner, Keabetswe Makgophe who was recently released from the...
Once again the Khama name is in the news. Tshekedi Khama and Anthony Khama were arrested and detained at Sebele yesterday (Friday) by Directorate of Intelligence...
Former President Ian Khama has rejected a meeting facilitated by his younger brother Tshekedi Khama with other opposition party leaders in Cape-Town, South Africa in which...
An unusually strange meeting between the officers of the Directorate of Intelligence Services (DIS) and their former director of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime...
A study that was commissioned by the Gambling Authority of Botswana (GAB) has revealed that Batswana shun and ‘generally hold a negative perception and opinion towards...
At least eight Botswana Congress Party (BCP) Members of Parliament (MPs) have broken ranks with their leader Dumelang Saleshando on whether to stay or leave the...
President Mokgweetsi Masisi is an intolerant leader as his successor former President Ian Khama. This is according to findings contained in the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI)...
Hardly three months since their exit from Cabinet, the ruling party’s high profile legislators Dr Thapelo Matsheka and the Secretary General, Mpho Balopi are yet to...
Dr Mogomotsi Matshaba has reportedly replaced Dr Kereng Masupu as the new scientific leader to fight COVID-19. The Presidential COVID-19 Task Team was appointed in April...
The Vice Chairperson of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Review of the Constitution of Botswana, Johnson Motshwarakgole, has warned the defiant Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela that boycotting...
A financial intelligence Agency (FIA) report has revealed that criminals appeared to have defrauded COVID-19 Relief Fund during the first few months of its launch. According...
Long time Botswana National Front (BNF) Presidential hopeful and Duma Boko’s nemesis Gabriel Kanjabanga has expressed happiness over Dr. Bucs Molatlhegi’s candidature to contest the party...
The Ombudsman, Augustine Makgonatsotlhe, has resigned from his position, reportedly to take up a diplomatic post as an Ambassador under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and...
Scores of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) members sympathetic to party secretary general, Mpho Balopi are mobilising other democrats to oppose the proposed reforms by the Central...
The Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF)’s internal fights over the hegemony of the party continues to deepen by day, judging by the latest mudslinging stunt in which...
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...
Former Botswana Movement of Democracy (BMD) Chairman Nehemiah Modubule has confirmed his intention to leave the BMD, but says he is yet to decide on his...
Expert prediction that the impending end to government moratoriums worldwide could set off a wave of evictions and foreclosures has come to pass. The Minister of...
A handful of members of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) have vetoed opposition Member of Parliament for Selebi Phikwe West, Dithapelo Keorapetse’s motion for enactment of...
The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) war room has devised an aggressive and brutal political strategy aimed at promoting and defending President Mokgweetsi Masisi while also eliminating...
Office of the President (OP) together with the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) have washed their hands on the remarks made by former cabinet minister Dr Unity...
Former Minister of Finance and Economic Development Thapelo Matsheka has punched holes in his predecessor Minister Peggy Serame’s budget speech. Matsheka who was dropped from Cabinet...
The Botswana Defence Force Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) have joined hands with the retired military veterans to pressure President Mokgweetsi Masisi and Minister of Defence, Justice and...
The basic education in Botswana is continuing on a downhill slope and snowballing evidenced by the recently released Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) 2021...
University of Botswana Academics and Senior Support Staff Union (UBASSSU) says it has noted that Vice Chancellor Professor David Norris is moving very fast with the...
The opposition parties will not participate in the ongoing Constitutional Review Process reasoning that the President, Mokgweetsi Masisi has ignored all their pleas for dialogue and...
Balete led by their Paramount Chief Kgosi Mosadi Seboko have made passionate expression towards the ongoing constitutional review process, expressing concern at the approach adopted to...
The former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ian Kirby, who is also the first lawyer to open a private practice in Botswana has warned...
As countries continue to wind up their COVID 19 fight and exit the battleground, pressure continues to mount on Botswana’s battle leaders, the COVID-19 Task Team,...
A spat has erupted between Minister of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services and the then Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Eric Molale over...
A number of Botswana Democratic Party’s (BDP) 2019 election funders and some of the former cabinet Ministers are said to be supporting the party Secretary General...
On Monday 7th February 2022 Minister of Finance & Economic Development will deliver the 2022/23 budget speech. It will be the first time ever in history...
President Mokgweetsi Masisi has bowed down to pressure from the civil society, after cabinet agreed to recall contentious provisions that give investigation authorities blank cheque to...
Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs and attorney Anna Mokgethi will spend 60 days in prison is she continues to fail to give proper accounting...
The Botswana Defence Force (BDF) is in the process of procuring data extraction and analytical tools to upgrade their cyber cyber force to boost cyberwarfare, cybersecurity,...
The latest addition of former cabinet ministers Mpho Balopi and Dr. Thapelo Matsheka to the BDP backbench has stirred up deep-seated fear on President Mokgweetsi Masisi...
Parliament on Monday this week voted in favour of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence (Controlled Investigations) Bill of 2022 to be debated on certificate of urgency. ...
Leader of Opposition (LOO) Dumelang Saleshando has pleaded with President Mokgweetsi Masisi to rescind his unilateral decision to appoint the Constitutional Review Commission and engage all...
Bangwato royals who are currently in talks with the government over their paramount chief, former president Ian Khama’s situation have expressed shock at the government’s decision...
A renowned South African author of ‘The rise of the Securocrats-the case of South Africa,’ ‘Stopping the Spies: Constructing and Resisting the Surveillance State in South...
The National Assembly recently passed the Financial Intelligence Bill, 2021 (Bill No. 34 of 2021) during an Emergency Parliament Meeting. The Bill was first published on...