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Zebras to receive a share of P250, 000 COSAFA prize money

The Zebras are expected to receive bonuses this week following their 2016 COSAFA Castle cup exploits at Namibia. The Botswana Football Association (BFA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kitso Kemoeng made the announcement recently.

During   the...

04 July 2016

BDF holds graduation ceremony for 17 special entrant officer cadets

The Botswana Defence Force (BDF) will hold a commissioning parade for 17 special Entrant Officer Cadets this Friday at the Sir Seretse Khama Barracks in Mogoditshane. The Special Entrant Officers programme was recently introduced   in the BDF  ...

04 July 2016

BIUST LECTURE BY FORMER PRESIDENT MASIRE - "THE JOURNEY OF BOTSWANA, WHERE WE COME FROM; WHERE WE ARE, WHO WE ARE, AND WHERE ARE WE HEADING"

LECTURE BY H.E. FORMER PRESIDENT SIR KETUMILE MASIRE - "THE JOURNEY OF BOTSWANA, WHERE WE COME FROM; WHERE WE ARE, WHO WE ARE, AND WHERE ARE WE HEADING" - BOTSWANA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYLet me begin by thanking this...

04 July 2016

Tracing opposition footprints in Botswana’s political development

With the Botswana Democratic Party’s fondness of claiming credit for the country’s independence, the opposition political parties in Botswana are adamant that their role towards independence in 1966 and beyond has been of significant value. Of...

04 July 2016

Venson-Moitoi should up her AU campaign or quit

The epitome of patriotism is truth, unshakable truth. As such, it would be very unpatriotic of me to say anything other than the truth concerning Pelonomi Veson-Moitoi’s campaign for the AU Commission Chairpersonship. With her campaign being as...

04 July 2016

Kenya, Botswana strike deals ahead of TICAD VI

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s three-day state visit to Botswana this week couldn’t have come at a better time. His message- ‘let’s trade together as Africans’ – including the launch of the Kenya-Botswana Business Forum Tuesday at the GICC,...

04 July 2016

Khama and Kenyatta take jibes at Britain

On BrexitKhama: “Although recent events show that the United Kingdom is struggling a bit with that unity as a result of recent referendum, one thing I think we can learn in our Union- the African Union, is that the governments and parliaments on...

04 July 2016

Justice Leburu faults Judges Pensions Act

Lobatse High Court Judge Michael Leburu has critiqued some of the provisions of the Judges Pensions Act for not being favourable to all the judges. Justice Leburu made this observations in his ruling in which former High Court Judge Dr Onkemetse...

04 July 2016

Joe Motse tipped for AB top post

Following the call out for a replacement of the last substantive General Manager for Air Botswana, Ben Dhawa, words doing rounds suggest former Commercial Services Director, Joe Motse is a man wanted back as the first employee of the national...

04 July 2016

BREXIT: Of trade, economic growth and Botswana

The BREXIT paradox is now upon sub-Saharan Africa. That is, as it turns out, what is politically the right move for the UK may turn out to be economic suicide. Or what may be the economic move for prosperity may turn out to be a diplomatic...

04 July 2016

Dlamini-Zuma sabotaging Venson -Moitoi – claim

Diplomatic sources this week dropped a damning claim linking Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to a plot to ‘sabotage’ the candidacy of Botswana’s foreign minister, Pelonoimi Venson-Moitoi for the position of Chairperson of the African Union...

04 July 2016

Desert Race to remain in Jwaneng

The Toyota 1000 km Desert Race is expected to return to Jwaneng mining town next year for an unprecedented fourth year.  The off road-racing spectacle has the potential to do serious harm to the environment if it is run on one place for a long time....

04 July 2016

Botswana sends 34 athletes to University Games

The University of Botswana has sent 34 sport athletes to participate in the eighth Federation of Africa University Sports (FASU) games to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The games started on 26th June at the University of Johannesburg and...

04 July 2016

Companies must not ride on the backs of athletes

There cannot be a more noble gesture than the one promised to Team Botswana athletes than the P1 million guaranteed to gold medal winners by retail giant Choppies.  The six figure sum is enough to rev up and give each of the seven strong teams...

04 July 2016

Joel Mogorosi honoured for inspirational leadership

Zebras captain Joel Mogorosi was honoured for his selfless sportsmanship, an attribute BNSC chairman Solomon Reikeletseng says the nation requires from athletes beyond the next 50 years. Reikeletseng bestowed Mogorosi with the chairman’s award...

04 July 2016

COSAFA chief applauds Zebras

Council of Southern Africa Football Association (COSAFA) administration has applauded Botswana and other Southern African nations for fielding young and upcoming players to the regional showpiece. Botswana displayed one of the best performances at...

04 July 2016

Vultures elude terror attack

The Vultures national rugby team can be considered a lucky lot after passing through the airport in Istanbul, Turkey last weekend. Barely five days after the local rugby team passed through the airport enroute to an Africa 1B tournament in Tunisia,...

04 July 2016

The Zebras’ loss was inevitable

The Zebras’ loss to Uganda last weekend was a result of players’ low morale and administrative misfortunes that plundered any chance of the team proceeding beyond the group stages of the 2017 AFCON finals in Gabon. The nation’s hope that the...

04 July 2016

Little Marape’s nomination shakes BNSC Awards

As the Botswana National Sports Commission (BNSC) goes to the annual sport awards next week, an unusual battle is expected in the Junior Female Sportsperson of the Year award category. In the typical David versus Goliath scenario, the nine-year old...

04 July 2016

Letshwiti: Football’s ‘blesser’?

Botswana Football Association (BFA) presidential hopeful MacLean Letshwiti claims he already knows where he would get the money for the association, once elected. Letshwiti, who is by no means short of confidence and charisma said he will run the...

04 July 2016

Barclays spreads wings to Ghana

Barclays Africa group is planning to spread its wealth management and insurance services to Ghana, one of Africa’s leading economies, a development which will signify their commitment to offering non-bank financial services to the rest of the...

04 July 2016

De Beers’s total rough diamond sales dip in fifth cycle

De Beers reported a $73m reduction in revenue from its fifth sale of rough diamonds in 2016 because of “seasonal demand patterns”, bringing total sales so far in 2016 to $3bn. It sold $560m worth of diamonds to handpicked clients, called...

04 July 2016

PPC gets banks to back R4bn share sale to investors

PPC South Africa’s largest publicly traded cement maker, said it received R4bn of bank guarantees to underwrite the sale of shares to existing investors, adding to facilities it received last week to redeem bonds. A group of lenders including...

04 July 2016

Letshego aims to conquer Africa

Letshego Holdings, a micro-lending behemoth has reiterated its plans of becoming a truly inclusive financial services group within the continent, the head of its local subsidiary has disclosed. Speaking on Tuesday night at a function for...

04 July 2016