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RDC Properties revenue up by 4 percent

RDC Properties has this week posted positive half-year results for the period ended 30th June 2015, which showed a 4 percent hike in revenue from the prior year. According to the company’s statement, revenue increased to P39.6million in 2015 from...

18 August 2015

Liberty launch hospital cash back plan with BOMaid

Liberty has partnered with BOMaid to launch an innovative health product- Hospital Cash Back Plan- whilst building on its plans to grow penetration in the Botswana insurance market. The Hospital Cash Back Plan is a new product underwritten by Liberty...

18 August 2015

Postal sector urged to engage ICT graduates

Work opportunities for the thousands of jobless ICT graduates abound in the postal services sector, which risks being rendered irrelevant by the sweeping changes brought by technology and competition from alternative modern media communication...

18 August 2015

Letshego drives expansion through brownfield model

Letshego Holdings Limited will continue to push more deals through brownfield model, as it works well for the company at the moment, its Chief Executive Chris Low has said. The micro-lending titan is currently chasing two deals in the continent,...

18 August 2015

Bank rate reaches two-decade-low

A  decision by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to slash key lending rate is a blessing for customers while commercial banks are already experiencing profitability challenges - will take a further knock. This is the general view from analysts who...

18 August 2015

BNYC boss Raletsatsi suspended

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, Lewis Malikongwa has suspended the beleaguered Executive Director of the dissolved Botswana National Youth Council (BNYC), Benjamin Raletsatsi. This comes hardly a month after the...

18 August 2015

Goodhope-Mabule’s soaring unemployment and poverty rates

For the over 16 000 voters expected to make long queues at this weekend’s Goodhope-Mabule by-election, the reality is, a good number of them are struggling with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on government handouts. This is a sign of a...

18 August 2015

‘We were not informed about strike’- Rari

The Secretary General of Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU), Tobokani Rari has said that their affiliate member- BOPEU- did not inform them about the ongoing strike at the tax agency. This comes after salary negotiations between...

18 August 2015

Ngamiland celebrates listing of the Okavango Delta

Two major festivities have been organised to celebrate the listing of the Okavango Delta as a World Heritage Site. The first event takes place this Saturday in Shakawe main kgotla where Assistant Minister of Local Governent, Botlogile Tshireletso is...

18 August 2015

GaTsh Fros catwalks into CNN’s African Voices

Botswana’s ambassadors and the trendiest duo when it comes to fashion in the African continent continue to create a buzz when it comes to their work. Gaone Mothibi and Tsholo Dikobe trading under the GaTsh Fros label, appear to be doing something...

18 August 2015

Lesego Kwambala- a community mobiliser of note

President Ian Khama has famously likened Botswana politicians to frogs which hibernate at the end of the rainy season only to resurface at the onset of the next rainy season. The politicians had attracted Khama’s uncomplimentary review on account...

18 August 2015

Domboshaba festival stirs cultural renaissance

This year’s Domboshaba Festival of Culture and History (DFCH), scheduled for October 1st to 4th provides stakeholders with an opportunity to review the history of the annual event which started 15 years ago.  Started by the Mukani Action Campaign...

18 August 2015

Mothibi hangs his handcuffs

After 30 years of service in the Botswana Police Service, the affable and good-humoured Motsholathebe Mothibi retired in May this year a contented man. In the three decades that he served, he rapidly rose through the ranks to become Station...

18 August 2015

BNOC to take over elite sports

The Botswana sports landscape is about to undergo a seismic shift when the Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) will entirely take over the major international competition and elite athletes, leaving the Botswana National Sports Commission...

18 August 2015

Nkabiti loss profound for Botswana

A week ago at the Turffontein Race Course in Johannesburg, South Africa, it was not only local pugilist Herbert Nkabiti who was lying on his back in the boxing ring canvas, but the whole nation was beaten as well. Before tasting the bitter agony of...

18 August 2015