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How soon will Batswana living in villages close to the borders with neighbouring countries such as South Africa, Namibia and Zambia get electricity supplied by the monopoly power company- Botswana Power Corporation (BPC)?Currently, there is nothing...

Leader of Opposition (LOO) and Member of Parliament for Selibe Phikwe West, Dithapelo Keorapetse says it would be obscenely embarrassing if foreigners buy the remaining BCL assets such as laboratory, workshops, dumps and tailings, houses, machinery...

A number of Prisons across the country will finally get a facelift through the current development budget of the Transition National Development Plan (TNDP).Minister of Finance Peggy Serame confirmed in her Monday’s budget allocation, naming the...

Minister of Finance, Peggy Serame’s budget speech is expected to address how the over P64 billion approved by parliament to finance the two-year Transition National Development Plan (TNDP) will be used during the first year.Last December Parliament...

Botswana is preparing for a two-day visit of the President of the Swiss Confederation, Switzerland, Alain Berset and his delegation comprising his wife Muriel Zeender Berset, senior government officials, and representatives of multinational Swiss...

Two South African jurists made their maiden appearance in the local Court of Appeal (CoA) bench at the ongoing session which started last Friday ending on February 17th, when all judgements will be delivered.A total 52 appeals enrolled, but about...

South African legal gurus - Geoff Budlender SC and Advocate Mitchell De Beer - Counsels for the Balete tribe, will appear before a full bench of the Court of Appeal next Tuesday to defend their client’s bold position - “the Land is ours”.The...

Good as Health minister, Dr. Edwin Dikoloti’s overture this week was, it came a little too late.The public is already agitated about the absence of medicines in public health facilities. Any allaying of these fears should have been done much...

Botswana Institute of Geometics (BIG) whose primary role is to deal with land surveying is positioning itself and its members for huge government tenders worth billions of Pula that have eluded them in the past.The Institute leadership is working...

Selected villages, towns and cities around the country will have an added advantage over others through the envisaged land development and service programme estimated to cost billions of Pula.This particular programme is budgeted for P2.350 billion...

The longer the BCL liquidation process takes to complete, the more the taxpayer’s purse will continue to bleed with no guarantee that the billions spent as advance payment to the liquidator will ever be recovered. So far government has provided...

The critical shortage of most of the pharmaceutical supplies in the country remains “dire and indeed unsatisfactory”, because there are still many Batswana who are unable to access all the medications prescribed for them.The situation is likely...

Monteco Solutions (Pty) Ltd, has enjoyed dominance of tenders awarded by the then Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) and the Ministry of Health through Central Medical Stores, raking over P98 million in the last five years,...

A high network citrus farming company located near Selibe Phikwe with a capital investment of P300 million is preparing more land where they will plant more fruit trees, increasing the number to one million.The South African based company that uses...

Kgolagano College of Theology, one of the country’s oldest tertiary institutions, is not accredited with the Botswana Qualification Authority (BQA), Botswana Guardian has established.This week‘s inquiry brought confirmation to the longstanding...