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Tribute to Hugh Masekela

Local jazz music fraternity this week thronged social media with messages expressing their heartfelt condolences following the death of South African Jazz icon Hugh Masekela who died at age 78 after succumbing to prostate cancer. Having settled in...

30 January 2018

Celebrating Africa Based M merges fashion & brands

Basadi Masimolole is a well-known face in the social scene, revered as a mean marketer and fashionista.  However, she is now carving a new albeit similar path in her life, merging her passions to create a soaring brand known as Celebrating...

30 January 2018

Mophato Dance Theatre has set the bar high

Botswana dance ensemble “Mophato Dance Theatre” continues to break the music dreads through excellence and perseverance. The youthful group is the brainchild of Andrew Kola who was inspired to set up the dance troupe after receiving dance...

30 January 2018

Bulela Ditswe gobbles over half a million

Botswana Democratic Party has spent over P600 000 in the just-ended first batch of Bulela-Ditswe, the party has said. BDP conducted primary elections in eighteen (18) opposition held constituencies this past Saturday an exercise which the party said...

30 January 2018

New party says UDC is a ‘make believe’

They style themselves the “Alternatives,”- the new political kid on the block, Real Alternative Party (RAP). Somehow, they managed unlike the purple movement of the Alliance for Progressives (AP), to enter the theatre of local politics without...

30 January 2018

Meepong JSS in Phikwe scoops second position in JCE

Meepong Junior Secondary School  in Selibe Phikwe performed against all odds to obtain an impressive national second position in the 2017 Junior Certificate Examination (JCE) results realised this week by Botswana Examination Council. Many...

30 January 2018

Islamic State is down but not out

Although the biggest security threat to the coming winter Olympic Games in South Korea has been a potential nuclear showdown between erratic Trump and the daring Kim Jong Un, the present terror of Islamic State or ‘Daesh’ cannot be ignored. After...

30 January 2018

Hugh Masekela: The horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day

Trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. When he cancelled his appearance last year at the Johannesburg Joy of Jazz Festival, taking time out to deal...

30 January 2018

UB workers sue over 7% salary hike

University of Botswana workers through their unions are now taking management to court over refusal to pay the seven percent salary hike. University of Botswana Academic and Senior Support Staff Union (UBASSSU), President Dr. Kaelo Molefhe revealed...

30 January 2018

BOFEPUSU won’t support any standalone party

Acting Deputy Secretary General of BOFEPUSU Samuel Molaodi has revealed that the federation will not support any opposition party outside coalition of parties. Molaodi said Batswana have been taken for granted for too long, to still be experiencing...

30 January 2018

Lekganyane, ZCC pay P45, 000 security for appeal

Zion Christian Church (ZCC) and its leader Bishop Barnabas Edward Lekganyane have agreed to pay P45 000.00 as security for their appeal case against a Lobatse High Court decision barring them from holding disciplinary hearing against members. The...

30 January 2018

BOFEPUSU’s agenda for Masisi

Botswana Federation of Public, Private and Parastatal Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) is preparing its demands to be presented to incoming President Mokgweetsi Masisi. The Federation has expectations from Vice President Masisi as he prepares to assume the...

30 January 2018

GDP to pick by 5% on strong non-mining sector

Botswana’s economy is projected to see a sustained pickup in the medium term, with real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth projected to rise to nearly 5 percent in 2018. Supporting this growth will be the good performance in non-mining and the...

30 January 2018

UDC/BMD showdown looms large

Umbrella for Democractic Change (UDC) might have to prepare itself for a rude awakeing from one of its contracting partners, Botswana Movement for Demcoracy (BMD), Botswana Guardian has learnt. After publicly differing over the issue of constituency...

30 January 2018

DCEC invades Seretse

The war between Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and money laundering accused persons Bakang Seretse and others rages on and reached another level this week. It was revealed this week Thursday that DCEC has impounded the accused...

30 January 2018