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How the nine tourists perished

      A report by the Ministry of Transport and Communications’ Directorate of Accident investigations on the crash of the light aircraft CESSNA 208B/A2-AKD in 20011 offers a graphic picture into the death of nine tourists.  According to...

21 June 2013

BNF at war with itself

The Botswana National Front (BNF) is still a party at war with itself. And if the situation continues that way, it is likely to affect the performance of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) come 2014, says observers. The UDC is composed of...

21 June 2013

Advocate Gordon Bennett: Basarwa’ ‘white Saviour’

      In a land where Basarwa are treated like second hand citizens, tossed and ordered about, Advocate Gordon Bennet is seen as something of a “Saviour.” In 2006 he successfully defended Basarwa against government forced relocation from...

21 June 2013

Ten-day wonder through the Great Wall, meeting Mao and eating snail

      It was easy to understand Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) research fellow (and part time vegetarian) Dr. Molefe Phirinyane when he exclaimed on several occasions that the Chinese have been able to do the...

21 June 2013

BIFM tackles NBFRIA over levies

The supervisory and licensing fees charged by Non Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) are posing challenges to the asset management industry. Botswana Investment Fund Management (BIFM) Chief Executive Tiny Kgatlwane made the...

21 June 2013

Justice's private thoughts

The inception of the book was five years ago when he became the first contestant to be evicted. However, his was not anything close to humiliation but rather an opportunity to expand. His critics mock him for being fame hungry, which he brushes off...

21 June 2013

The popular Desert Race is here

Botswana’s biggest and popular sporting spectacle, the annual Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000km Desert Race, begins and ends this weekend in Kumakwane, some 25 kilometres to the southwest of Gaborone. The motor show’s qualifying race to determine...

21 June 2013

No need for ministers to appear before PAC - Modubule

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) does not see the need to summon cabinet ministers as accounting officers instead of using Permanent Secretaries, as is the current practice, committee chairperson Nehemiah Modubule has said. Addressing a press...

21 June 2013