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Dikarabo Ramadubu
  • Concerns raised as Botswana's child immunisation coverage drops

    UNICEF Representative, Dr Joan Matji has called on all citizens and caregivers to disregard the myth and misinformation doing rounds about vaccines but instead ensure that they take their children for immunisation when called to do so.Currently, the...

  • Mission schools not discriminated against - Letsholathebe

    Minister of Education and Skills Development, Dr. Douglas Letsholathebe has denied any knowledge of disparity regarding the provision of infrastructure maintenance, teaching materials, teaching staff and staff accommodation of Mission schools...

  • Botswana debt at over P49 billion

    Botswana has obtained five loan facilities amounting to over P7 billion from various multilateral and bilateral development finance institutions over the last five years, despite having not obtained any loan from the International Monetary Fund...

  • Govt. red tape may cost Sam Brooks his constituency

    Government is still to act on a motion calling for the extension of communal areas into Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) in the Kgalagadi district, three years after Parliament adopted the motion.The lack of action on the part of government has since...

  • Air Botswana fined over P1million

    Fresh from a P91million bailout to restore the fleet to full capacity, Air Botswana will start spending the taxpayers’ money paying penalty fines of over P1million to Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana - a fine that arose from management’s...

  • Bayendi ascends to African Union Commission

    One of the country’s finest lady strategists, Botho Bayendi, has escalated to serve at continental level following her appointment to the African Union Commission (AUC) as Director of Strategic Planning and Delivery-Agenda 2063 with effect from 1st...

  • Standard Chartered Bank transforms distribution model

    Standard Chartered Bank’s digitalisation transformation journey meant to take Botswana into the future of banking, a move that saw majority of branches shutting down, has caused fears among customers that the bank might be phasing out in the...

  • Crisis looms for Botswana tourism industry

    Delays in release and renewal of Tourism Concession leases by both the Ministries of Lands and Environment and Tourism is causing turmoil in the country’s lucrative multibillion Pula spinning tourism industry. In most cases the leases last for 15...

  • No Motswana automatically qualifies for land allocation

    Botswana Land Policy 2019 does not provide for persons, either women heading households, individuals under difficult circumstances or People Living with Disabilities to automatically qualify for land allocation.Instead, an assessment has to be made...

  • Motsamai to go on hunger strike

    Motsamai Motsamai, the maverick Member of Parliament for Gantsi South has given government an ultimatum to fulfil the promise of awarding a tender to address water supply challenges at Charleshill and Makunda by April or he will go on hunger...

  • Real Alternative Party victimised to closure

    It was the silence of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and the indifference of the Civil Society to Real Alternative Party (RAP)’s cry for recognition that ultimately led Gaontebale Mokgosi, its founder, to tone down from politics of...

  • BMC exports beef to UAE

    Botswana Meat Commission has successfully been accredited to export beef to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as of March 2023.This means the BMC’s new strategic performance plan - MERITING 2022/25 - is paying dividends on its first year. Over and...

  • Farmers at liberty to set livestock sale prices

    Local farmers are at liberty to set their own livestock selling prices, and currently prices fluctuate based on the willingness of consumers to meet the set prices.Minister of Agriculture, Fedelis Molao told parliament that his Ministry “does not...

  • Over P25 million for citizen owned companies

    The Ministry of Health through Central Medical Stores (CMS) spent over P24.7 million making 96.6 percent on purchases spent on 100 percent citizen-owned companies in procurement of non-drug items carried out between November 2022 to March 2023.Out of...

  • Parliament approves over P2 billion supplementary funding

    Parliament has passed an over P2 billion supplementary funding requested by the Minister of Finance as contained in Financial Paper No.2 amid controversy in a one-way debate after all Opposition Members present walked out.The MPs walked out to...

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