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Let there be darkness

On Saturday March 28, Botswana will plunge into darkness in celebration of Earth Hour, a global initiative that asks electricity users to cut back on usage for one hour, from 8.30pm to 9.30pm. Earth Hour is a movement organised by the World Wildlife...

31 March 2015

Matrimonial property law passed

Married couples can now decide to vary their property regime to in or out of community (and vice versa). The old Married Persons Property Act of 1971 was inflexible and gave too short a period for the validation of property regimes. It was amended...

31 March 2015

Principal Education Officers eager to go to court

Some Principal Education Officers (PEO) in Kgatleng are still bitter that levels of operation implemented by the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) in 2013 effectively downgraded them. Their bone of contention is that in terms of...

31 March 2015

Academics differ on veracity of fishing ban

Minister of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, Tshekedi Khama has vehemently defended the controversial one-year ban on fishing in Lake Ngami saying it will nip a looming ‘ecological disaster’ in the bud. Speaking in an interview at parliament...

31 March 2015

BLLAHWU’s Motswaiso to fight her suspension in court

Suspended Treasurer General of the Botswana Landboard, Local Authorities and Health Workers Union (BLLAHWU), Yarobi Motswaiso is expected to fight for her survival this morning before Lobatse High Court judge, Justice Terrence Tafa. This follows her...

31 March 2015

Poverty and despair in Motokwe

Tausu Molotwe wants to die. Squatting beside her makeshift shack in Motokwe in Letlhakeng West, the octogenarian describes how she has lost the will to live.  “It is better to die than to continue living like this,” she says as she points at her...

31 March 2015