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The government is set to allocate more than P500 million as the purchasing cost for BCL houses to the liquidator, according to Vice President and Leader of the House, Slumber Tsogwane.Tsogwane disclosed to Parliament that a total of 1 576 properties...

Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Sethabelo Modukanele had a hectic day in parliament as he responded to inquiries from Members of Parliament, representing two constituencies in the capital city.Tumisang Mangwegape-Healey,...

The portfolio of the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA), amounting to P2.4 billion across 5,482 accounts, existed before March 31, 2020, prior to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.In response to a question from Dr. Thapelo...

President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi’s State of the Nation Address put his Vice, Slumber Tsogwane and Minister of Transport and Public Works, Eric Molale under the spotlight.Both men are chairman and vice respectively of the Development Manager market...

Former Botswana National Front Women’s League (BNFWL) president, Dr Bonang Nkoane, who resigned recently from her party has joined the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), Botswana Guardian has been reliably told.Nkoane who took over the BNFWL...

President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi‘s next week Monday State of the Nation Address (SONA) is likely to be more politically oriented than address the diverse challenges that the country faces currently.Reading from the prevailing atmosphere, Botswana has...

The delay in announcing retirement of former Bank of Botswana (BoB) Governor, Moses Dinekere Pelaelo has set tongues wagging and sparked suspicions that he was pushed out.Palaelo vacated office silently last Friday when his contract ended on October...

The Directorate of Public Service Management's (DPSM) greatest challenge is to call all decision makers to shorten the process of procurement in order to speed up service delivery, while guarding against impropriety.Gaone Machola, the DPSM...

Botswana has caught a big fish ready to invest millions of Pula in Dr. Prince Donatus Okonkwo – a Nigerian entrepreneur, philanthropist, chairman and founder of Tetrazzini Group - a conglomerate with operations in construction, Real Estate and Agro...

Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) and Botswana Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU) have welcomed and embraced with reservations government’s decision to buy over 1000 houses put up for sale by the BCL mine liquidator.The unions cite not being...

United States Trade and Development Agency has awarded over US$1 million grant to Botswana Fibre Networks Proprietary Limited (BoFiNet) for a feasibility study to support equitable and affordable broadband internet access to nearly half million...

The United States government has waded into the crisis of Gender Based Violence (GVB) currently besieging the country including the armed forces, Botswana Defence Force (BDF).Last week through the bilateral cooperation that exist between Botswana and...

The absence of Climate Finance Mapping (CMA) and Climate Finance Investment Plan (CFIP) respectively leads to Botswana experience a duplication in the implementation of Climate Change initiatives.This revelation comes just after the recent inaugural...

The three investors in the multibillion Pula Korowe mine in the Boteti district hit a stroke of luck that is needed when venturing into the mining business.The reasons are very simple as Lucara Botswana Managing Director Naseem Lahri puts it. “In...

Adam Cruise, the acting Chief Executive Officer of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, has since escalated his smear campaign of Botswana Tourism to the House of Lords in the United Kingdom.In his concerted campaign, Cruise is calling on the Lords to...