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Dear Ndaba I trust this brief finds you in good health, Nkosinathi – if not, then we could be headed for trouble as a country. We need you to be healthier today and tomorrow than you have ever been before.Akere ke wena o tabogileng mabelo mo,...

Balete will host a landmark celebration on June 21, 2025, honoring their tribe’s leader Kgosi Mosadi Seboko’s 75th birthday, alongside the centenary of their ownership of Farm Forest Hill, a historic site at the heart of a decades-long legal...

Dear NdabaI know this brief finds you in good health, Nkosinathi – if anything else, then we could be headed for trouble as a country.We need you to be healthier today and tomorrow than you have ever been before. Akere ke wena o tabogileng mabelo...

As the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) prepares for its high-stakes Central Committee elections, the campaign trail has been anything but dull. While candidates loudly proclaim the rejection of lobby lists, their actions seem to paint a different...

It took me more than 24 hours to finally accept that Barbara was gone. Only on Monday night did I start to browse through facebook after I had abandoned it some minutes after seeing confirmation of her death on Sunday evening. The first time I learnt...

In a career marked by dedication, innovation, and transformative leadership, former Minister of Minerals and Energy Lefoko Moagi, was earlier this month honoured with a lifetime achievement award as a Prominent African Statesman.This is a State of...

Dear ReaderI hope this brief finds you all in optimal bill of health, ready for exercising your power to once again employ your never-so-humble servants on Wednesday of October 30. I pray you go all out to do the needful – vote! Gore mang, it’s...

A 34-year-old woman from Kanye, Bakang Baleseng, appeared in court last Thursday with her unkempt-looking husband, asking that he be jailed or sent for psychiatric evaluation at Sbrana Mental Hospital.The court heard that the husband had been held in...

- As things stand, the Umbrella for Democratic Change is a powder keg waiting to ignite. The Midweek Sun’s JOE-BROWN TLHASELO demonstrates why behind the colourful façade of confidence and vibrant sloganeering, is a political coalition on a...

In the weekend rallies of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), President Mokgweetsi Masisi boasted about how his government set aside P1, 5billion to rectify the mistake that inconvenienced former soldiers of Botswana Defense Force (BDF).Masisi revealed...

- Isaac Makwala has received a lot of messages following his performance this past weekend at the World Relay Championships. With some advising him to hang his boots, he responded via a facebook post, to which more messages followed. Here is how it...

According to the Moral Education subject, there are four rites of passage namely; birth, puberty, marriage and death. We, as individuals, are mostly excited about puberty and marriage as compared to the other two. With puberty, becoming a young woman...

Dear KgosikgoloHello Kgosikgolo. Having seen you brag this week about your rail adventures with Kgosikgolo Mswati of eSwatini, I know for sure this brief letter will find you in good health and good spirits even though I am not sure anymore about...

When the news of Mike Mothibi's death reached me via a text message from The Midweek Sun’s former scribe Yvonne Mooka, I was immediately gutted. Left numb. For this is the man I was only talking about - with my colleagues - some few days...

The combative relationship between the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) bodes ill for next year’s general elections.Ideally, as an electoral management body, the IEC ought to maintain a cordial and...