Select Year:

• 2024 |
• 2023 |
• 2022 |
• 2021 |
• 2020 |
• 2019 |
• 2018 |
• 2017 |
• 2016 |
• 2015 |
• 2014 |
• 2013 |
• 2012 |
• 2011 |
• 2010 |
• 2009 |
• 2008 |
• 2007 |
• 2006 |
• 2005 |
• 2004 |
• 2003 |

Select Month:

• January |
• February |
• March |
• April |
• May |
• June |
• July |
• August |
• September |
• October |
• November |
• December |

Archives:

• Tuesday May 02
• Thursday May 04
• Friday May 05
• Tuesday May 09
• Wednesday May 10
• Friday May 12
• Tuesday May 16
• Friday May 19
• Tuesday May 23

Orange launches the 2016 Orange Social Venture competition

Orange Botswana has launched the 2016 edition of the annual Orange Social Venture Prize. The annual competition is in its 5th edition with this year’s competition running from 18 May 2016 until 21 September 2016. The Orange Social Venture Prize is...

23 May 2016

Ghaghoo mine scales down production

Gaghoo mine, a local mine owned by Gem Diamonds will this year reduce its production plan to approximately 300 000 tonnes. Output from the company’s Ghaghoo mine dropped five percent to 11, 029 carats after the miner said in February it considered...

23 May 2016

DeBeers remains positive despite market volatility

The beginning of 2016 has seen an improvement in rough diamond demand following a positive holiday selling season in the United States last year, the group’s latest diamond market update shows. De Beers’ Group Executive Head of Strategy and...

23 May 2016

Phillip Matante’s immense contribution goes unnoticed

Botswana, formerly the Bechuanaland Protectorate gained her independence from the British in 1966 mainly as the result of incessant agitation by Phillip Matante. He had in 1962 and 1963 addressed the United Nations committee on decolonisation...

23 May 2016

BONELA demands justice for child impregnated by village Councillor

Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) says action should be taken against perpetrators of sexual abuse and exploitation of children including those who fail to protect children from these crimes.Following the Sebina saga in which the...

23 May 2016

Fidelis Molao and the many rivers to cross

Despite desperate attempts by some quarters including the Minister of Education, Unity Dow to trivialise the Sebina issue, it is becoming clear that they must scramble for better ways to keep skeletons locked in the closet. Desperate times call for...

23 May 2016

Protection of reputation and media freedom are competing rights - Judge

Lobatse High Court Judge Michael Leburu says the right to good name and or reputation and media freedom are competing rights.He explained that the freedom of the press, which is subject to limitations, is subsumed under the freedom of expression and...

23 May 2016

GEM Diamonds appeal retrenchment case

GEM Diamonds, a diamond company operating the Ghaghoo mine in the South-Eastern border of the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve(CKGR) inside the Kgalagadi Desert, has appealed the judgement of the Industrial Court. In his determination of April 15th,...

23 May 2016

Gaborone City Council to auction Makgalemele

Gaborone City Council will soon attach and auction the property of Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Phillip Makgalemele, who owes P15 315.29 in unpaid rates. The debt for Plot No. 18020, Extension...

23 May 2016

Rollers press on despite NDC reversal order

The management of Township Rollers is not relenting on their course to seek the intervention of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in their case that saw them lose ten points and have their player Ofentse Nato declared a defaulter. This is...

23 May 2016

Spinners clash in ‘Earthquake’ next month

The third round of the Botswana Motorsport (BMS) Spinning Championship will take place in Gaborone on June 4. The event which is expected to bring the best spinning or drifting talent from Botswana and South Africa is scheduled for Fairgrounds...

23 May 2016

Park Lane, a model football development team

There is not much happening to improve development football in Botswana, as most of the money and resources seem to focus on elite structures in the sport. Recently Kgalagadi Breweries Limited decided to divert from top-flight football and focus on...

23 May 2016

"We are clean"

The Ides of March’ is the date best known for the assassination of the main protagonist Julius Caesar by Brutus and Cassius in the famous Shakespearean tragedy - ‘Julius Caesar’. This literary masterpiece best describes the recent political...

Sun Reporter | 23 May 2016

"I have forgiven you" says Minister

Minister of Youth Sports and Culture Thapelo Olopeng says he has forgiven the faceless person who posted on his Facebook page condemning his silence in the wake of the Sebina saga and wishing that someone could brutally rape his daughter. The...

Sun Reporter | 23 May 2016

BDP Women's Wing joins Sebina fray

Botswana Democratic party (BDP) Women’s Wing has called on the mother body to revisit the party’s Code of Conduct and act accordingly in the Sebina saga. BDP Women’s Wing Chairperson, Dorcus Makgato revealed that the wing’s executive...

Sun Reporter | 23 May 2016

Deputy PS' car attached to pay legal costs

When Deputy Permanent Secretary for Information in the Office of the President,  Mogomotsi Kaboeamodimo tried to sue a newspaper little did he know that he would end up with a huge legal debt. The debt comes up to R30 000.00 being consultation fees...

Sun Reporter | 23 May 2016

You are not alone: A crusade to shame the nation into action

The infamous Sebina saga has lifted the lid on sexual exploitation suffered by many women and children, along with blatant collective failures to deal with the issue.  For over a week now, the Men and Women against All Sexual Abuse of Children, a...

Sun Reporter | 23 May 2016

Collins Newman and Co loses first round against newspaper

Lobatse High Court Judge, Michael Leburu has said that Collins Newman and Company (CNC) law firm together with its senior partners took long to approach the court to interdict publication of alleged defamatory articles. Leburu said this when...

Sun Reporter | 23 May 2016