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Botswana’s Press freedom ranking drops

Botswana press freedom ranking continues to drop, this is according to the Paris-based press freedom- advocatcy organisation, Reporters Without Borders RSF. Published on April 26, the index, which ranks 180 countries according to indicators such as...

02 May 2017

Masimolole, Mabaila on a collision course

Masimolole allegedly complains to OP that Mabaila is campaigning inconspicuously in Mogoditshane‘If indeed I am campaigning why is Masimolole bothered? Why can’t he campaign himself?’- Mabaila President Ian Khama is said to have snubbed a...

02 May 2017

How Venson-Moitoi lost AU seat- Ambassadors speak out

Contrary to popular opinion, Botswana did not lose out in the contest for the African Union Commission’s top seat, but in fact, won big on principle, the country’s Ambassadors who ran the campaign, say All Botswana Ambassadors based around the...

02 May 2017

Expert slams Botswana’s social protection nets

Botswana needs a comprehensive social security policy and programmes for private sector workers, to reduce dependence on employer-based provision, says Business Botswana Chief Executive Officer, Dr Gracious Moatshe. Business Botswana (BB) and...

02 May 2017

BPC fires 5 executives

Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) this week fired five members of the executive management as part of its bid to get the ailing organisation back in shape. The axing of the executives forms spart of the implementation of the Masa 2020- Reshaping the...

02 May 2017

Letshego CEO earns whopping P7, 5m

Letshego’s Chief Executive, Christopher Low smiled all the way to the bank last year, as the micro-lending titan rewarded the Brit with a mouthwatering annual pay totalling P7, 5million.This is according to the group’s latest annual report, which...

02 May 2017

Diamond demand to normalise in 2017

Debswana Mining Company’s Managing Director, Balisi Bonyongo says although the diamond market seems to have stabilised, this does not call for any celebration yet. It emerged from the company’s stakeholder engagement this week Tuesday that the...

02 May 2017

Govt. drags feet on PPP implementation

Policy framework is still not implemented because the Attorney General Chambers is still proposing the amendment of the PPAD Act- PPP Coordinator, Orono OtweyoThe private sector has urged government to increase its pace on implementing the Public...

02 May 2017

March inflation up

The annual inflation rate in March 2017 was 3.5 percent, an increase of 0.1 of a percentage point on the February 2017 rate of 3.4 percent, Statistics Botswana has said. According to a statement from the Annah Majelantle organisation, inflation rates...

02 May 2017

BMD plunges into anarchy

Ndaba’s ‘bodyguards’ assault Mangole, Modubule‘I was very frightened I wouldn’t want to lie’- Mangole July elective congress may become the bloodiest in the history of the Orange Revolution   Botswana Movement for Democracy National...

02 May 2017

MatjiMenyenga are back!

Toropo ya muka as Tafic aka Matjimenyenga boys make an impressive comeback to top flight football Tafic Sporting club aka Matjimenyenga boys have returned to the elite BTC premiership. The legendary outfit made Francistown residents mightily ...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Car spinning a hit in Maun

Car spinning has become a big hit in Maun following an event that was held in the tourist town for the first time over the Easter holidays.  The organisers of the event, Emergency Assist motorsport club, said they will be going back to the northern...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Local chess protégé competes in Europe

Botswana’s Woman Fide Master (WFM) Besa Masaiti, 15, is in Lasi Romania to represent the country at the 2017 World Schools Chess Championships that began on 23rd April and will end 1st May 2017.  She is the only African participating in the Under...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

No offers from Kaizer Chiefs - Rollers

The reigning BTC premiership champions Township Rollers this week confirmed   that they hosted a Kaizer Chiefs entourage, which included headcoach Steve Komphela, football manager Bobby Motaung and General Manager Gerald Sibeko. Nevertheless,...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Opposition bashes BDP in Tlokweng

The latest entrant in the Tlokweng Constituency parliamentary by-election, former Specially-Elected Member of Parliament (MP) Shirley Segokgo, is a bosom friend of President Ian Khama, says former ruling party MPs Pono Moatlhodi and Wynter...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

13-year jail term for murderer

Francistown High Court, Judge, Phadi Solomon has sentenced Chebukani Chikunda to 13 years in prison for stabbing Coleman Nkomo to death in 2012 in Nswazwi Village following a drinking spree. Chikunda stabbed Nkomo with a knife at a depot in 2012....

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Gaborone teenagers group sex – continued

Having the ‘birds and bees’ talk with your children may be uncomfortable and embarrassing, but it is possibly one of the most life affirming tasks for parents in the modern world. Traditionally, sex talk, particularly among children and adults,...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

XanGO is just juice, not medicine

The ministry of health and wellness is of late having sleepless nights over  XanGO Juice (Mangosteen), the ‘miracle’ beverage Batswana have been taking for over a decade with the conviction that it will wipe away all their health demons. As...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

HIV/NCDs pose major threat for Botswana

Chief Executive Officer of the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP), Dr Jerome Mafeni has warned against ignoring the link between HIV/AIDS and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) as the country faces the double burden of the killer...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Healthy lifestyle helps avoid Non-Communicable Diseases

Health and Wellness Minister, Dorcus Makgato says the prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases has been the greatest public health threat to the country’s development in the last few decades. Makgato was giving a public lecture titled, ‘Social...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

BMD decides fate of estranged youth congress

Botswana Movement for Democratic Change (BMD) National Executive Committee is expected to decide on its postponed youth league elective congress either today or tomorrow. The elective congress was scheduled to be held this weekend in Ramotswa. The...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Thutlwe retains seat as Gabs Mayor

Gaborone City Council Mayor Kagiso Thutlwe yesterday retained his seat against challenger and comrade Rodah Sekgororoane. The elections were held at the council chamber as Thutlwe’s two and half term had come to an end. His deputy Kagiso Tshekega...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Sekgororoane defies UDC

Councillor for Tlogatloga Ward in Gaborone Bonnington North, Rhoda Sekgororoane is soon expected to face the music for defying the party caucus resolution, The Midweek Sun has learnt. Sekgororoane challenged current Gaborone City Council Mayor...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Molokomme appointed Botswana's Ambassador to Brussels

Nkoloi, Palai redeployed President Lt. Gen. Dr Ian Khama has appointed former Attorney General, Dr Athalia Molokomme as Botswana’s ambassador to Brussels and redeployed other two, The Midweek Sun has reliably learnt. Molokomme’s appointment to...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

"Khama's absence at UN not a big deal"

Botswana’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Charles Ntwaagae says it does not make any difference whether President Lt. Gen. Dr Ian Khama attends the United Nations general assembly or doesn’t. Speaking to The Midweek Sun on the sidelines of...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Villagers outraged

Matshelagabedi village was hit by a great shock this past weekend when two brothers, Meshack James (32), Kabelo James (29) and their special constable sister, Happy James (27) allegedly killed their father, Thomas James, 70. A reliable source said...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Husband kills twin sister thinking it is his wife

BY YVONNE MOOKATshwaane woman whom The Midweek Sun reported had escaped murder by a whisker two years ago, is no more, this publication has learned. Mpipi Motshwakgo had been in an abusive relationship with the father of her son for three years. Last...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Tlokweng residents already decided

The gloves are off in Tlokweng, and the parliamentary by-election race to replace fallen giant Same Bathobakae has just got nastier. There was shock last week when former Specially Elected MP Shirley Segokgo announced her candidacy as an Independent...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017

Kuke village joins the worldwide web

Kuke-based Mascom Kitsong Centre Award winner, Badiredi Mokwena is working around the clock to change the area’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) landscape by targeting the youth. He is a living example that the yellow wireless...

Sun Reporter | 02 May 2017