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Queen Baton arrives in Gaborone

After a long journey across the Atlantic, the prestigious Commonwealth Queen’s Baton finally reached Botswana on Thursday morning. The baton that has been carried around Commonwealth countries toward the games since 1958 is a symbol of unity and...

31 January 2014

Moatlhodi loses appeal

Botswana Democratic Party [BDP] special committee on election appeals has dealt a big blow to the efforts of Tonota legislator Pono Moatlhodi to have a re-run of the party’s primaries for the constituency. Moatlhodi who lost the BDP primaries to...

31 January 2014

What the police commissioner knew?

Evidence gathered by Botswana Guardian shows that senior police officers could be covering up a damning arms scandal, which has since exposed weak monitoring and supervision mechanism within the police service. Sources within the police service told...

31 January 2014

BIFM furious over money fleecing allegation

Botswana Insurance Fund Management (BIFM) has responded furiously over recent revelations alleging that the fund is cheating pensioners out of millions of Pula. “Bifm is shocked by such unfounded allegations which are far from being truthful,”...

31 January 2014

Doing more with less

With the upcoming budget speech announcement, some reflections remain fundamental on how Botswana has fared following the economic and financial crises of 2007/08. There is no doubt that the economy still remains on a fragile recovery path since the...

31 January 2014

Women and teddy bears

More than a third of adults still hug a childhood soft toy while falling asleep, according to a new survey. More than half of women globally still have a teddy bear from childhood and the average teddy bear is 29 years old, the poll...

31 January 2014

Sefalana, Choppies rivalry boils over

Competition between the country’s two largest retail supermarkets intensifies by the day, with Sefalana Holdings Group threatening to reclaim market dominance while Choppies Group says it will remain dominant forever. Since last year, Sefalana,...

31 January 2014

BDP gives Matambo a political lifeline?

Finance Minister, Kenneth Matambo’s name has resurfaced among politicians eyeing Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) primary election in Francistown West next month, the Northern Extra has been reliably informed. The ruling BDP has imposed fresh...

31 January 2014

Gunners, Tafic in relegation quagmire

All attention this weekend is on Sunday’s beMOBILE Premier League clash between Township Rollers and Mochudi Centre Chiefs scheduled for the National Stadium at 4pm. Rightly so, because the two teams command impassioned patronage that will see...

31 January 2014