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Palapye in the dark over glass project

In a strange twist, the leadership and residents of Palapye are in total darkness regarding the stalling of the Shanghai Fengyue Glass company project set up in their village to produce float glass sheets.Both tribal and political leadership told...

07 December 2012

BIUST has no campus Master plan

The Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), which was handed over to government in July this year has been constructed without a physical master plan and its design is said to be awkward. Chinese Civil Engineering...

07 December 2012

Retail portfolio drives NAP

New African Properties (NAP) said retail properties lifted profits for full maiden results to July 2012, a statement from the company has revealed. The company listed on the local bourse last year. Profit After Taxation (PAT) hit P149 million...

07 December 2012

Moody sees real growth breaching 7%

Moody Investor Service has projected that Botswana’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow by a bold 7 percent in 2012 and 2013. The prediction however contradicts views held by local economists who forecast a bleak economic picture for the...

07 December 2012

Why you cannot afford a house

Property ownership in Botswana is restricted only to a small portion of Botswana’s rich population, while the poor will pay rent to their graves, experts have revealed.The issue came to light last week Thursday at the second Botswana Guardian (BG)...

07 December 2012

Namibia and Botswana revise TKR time frame

Transport and Communications ministers for Botswana and Namibia are expected to meet in the coming weeks to deliberate over the revised timeframe  for the proposed Trans Kalahari Railway (TKR) project, sources close to the project have said. The...

07 December 2012

BITC struggling to secure CEO

The newly formed Botswana Investment Trade Centre (BITC) is still struggling to find a substantive Chief Executive Officer (CEO).Efforts to have the BITC CEO appointed by July as originally planned failed, as the best candidates recommended by the...

07 December 2012

Only five Batswana employed at Fengyue

The skeletal steel and concrete structure of what is supposed to be a job-spinning Shanghai Fengyue Glass company production plant in Palapye stands lonely and desolate with no visible activity in sight. It stretches out within a vast enclosure of...

07 December 2012

Northern netball teams are sloppy

NETBALLIt is the same old story for the northern netball clubs plying their trade with Botswana Netball Association (BONA) league currently in its last phase of a mouthwatering sponsorship deal with South African retail giant, Spar. Codenamed "Spar...

07 December 2012

What a weekend!

This has been one of the greatest sporting weekends for Botswana. The history making national Under-17 soccer team made it to the continental finals; two of the country’s most prominent boxers won gold medals in an European tournament and soccer...

07 December 2012

Go! affiliates tell BAA president

ATHLETICS Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) president Thari Mooketsi has not only failed to improve the association in his one and half years tenure, but also treats affiliates like students.This is the bitter complaint by chairman of Gaborone...

07 December 2012

When sale of shares is deemed as sale of property

In the last article we considered a scenario where an exempt person is entitled to income which would otherwise be subject to withholding taxes had it been paid to a chargeable person, and wondered if such payment should be subjected to withholding...

07 December 2012

BPC output seen rising

Despite persistent load shedding due to unreliable electricity supply, Botswana is set to increase its annual power generation by an average of 58 percent between 2012 and 2017, a UK-based research centre predicted this week. Business Monitor...

07 December 2012

Barclays judged Botswana’s best bank

Yet another highly rated international banking title has judged Barclays Bank to be Botswana’s best bank. The Banker magazine has announced that its panel of adjudicators has judged Barclays Bank to be the “Bank of the Year in Botswana...

07 December 2012

What is currency trading?

If money is a facilitator of trade, can money itself be traded as a commodity? That is what currency trading is all about.Now any currency trader will know right off the bat that I can’t do justice to the complexity of that subject in a 500-word...

07 December 2012

UDC launches Maboane candidate

The Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) launched its candidate for the Maboane ward bye- election, Mogomotsi Mokgolele, last week Saturday in Maboane. The ward became vacant following the death of Botswana National Front councillor, Bright Segwagwa...

07 December 2012

BIHL approves major transactions

Investors have given Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited (BIHL) a green light to proceed with its multi-million Pula deals, which will shake up its corporate structure once fully completed. An extra ordinary meeting held recently did not have any...

07 December 2012

Resigned or pushed out?

The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Water Utilities Corporation responsible for Technical Support Services, Judy Tsonope is resigning her position just within the first year of her three-year contract amidst allegations that she may have been...

07 December 2012

Venson-Moitoi - The ‘last woman standing’

Cabinet minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi stands a good chance of becoming the most powerful woman in Botswana politics. She has only one thing to do; win the Botswana Democratic Party chairmanship position. To achieve this Venson Moitoi has to clear...

07 December 2012

Unmasking pole dancing

The class is small and intimate. Only women attend this class and they are moving around the room, stretching and gearing up for their daily dose of one of the most misunderstood and misconstrued dance forms around. For a mere P210, one can have the...

07 December 2012

Christmas ‘lace affair’

What was once reserved for lingerie trim only is staging a massive comeback, showing up on everything from sleek day dresses to frilly weekend tops. It is not just lace dresses which are all the rage at the moment, but everyday items such as blouses...

07 December 2012

Death by homemade chocolate brownie

The monthly fund-raising cake sale has been a tradition at Broadhurst Primary School for as long as I can remember. It was the bane of my life when my own son schooled there years ago, as there was a moral end emotional requirement that parents...

07 December 2012

Nowhere for teams to run

FOOTBALLLocal Premier League clubs that are reluctant to embrace technology will have nowhere to run but join bandwagon in order to survive and maximise profits. Gaborone United (GU) and Extension Gunners are leading the way as a new wave of...

07 December 2012

Cabinet plots Nasha’s downfall

Cabinet is allegedly hatching a plot to oust the Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Margaret Nasha after the 2014 general elections, authoritative sources told Botswana Guardian this week.The highly clandestine plot is said to involve some senior...

07 December 2012