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The Gaborone City Council has spent over P236 million, which is 54 percent of the total amount allocated it under the recurrent budget, Gaborone City Mayor, Austin Abraham told a full Council meeting.He said the total budget allocated under the...

The Greater Gaborone area is witnessing a surge in new and heightened cases of HIV, with at least 140 individuals testing positive out of over 8,300 people who underwent testing in the current quarter.Gaborone City Mayor, Austin Abraham, expressed...

The Gaborone City Council requires P1 billion for the development of infrastructure and the acquisition of equipment. This investment aims not only to enhance the city's facilities to match global standards but also to bestow upon it the...

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...