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Former President and Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) Patron, Ian Khama has claimed that there has been an attempt to kill him through poisoning.According to Khama, the attempt was made in the heat of the 2019 general election following the formation...

The Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) condemns unreservedly the manner in which the government seems to be handling a thorny issue of national significance as in resolving pension grievances involving retired members of the Botswana Defence Force...

Former Deputy Police Commissioner (Operations) and Director General of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) Victor Bruno Paledi is off the hook as the state has withdrawn criminal charges against him.Paledi was charged alongside...

Tlokweng District Council Chairman, Collen Mochotlhi has expressed concern about the widespread unauthorised waste dumping in the district.He stated that with the commencement of the new financial year, the Council has enlisted four external...

Lobatse High Court Judge, Boipuso Makhwe has demanded that Bank Gaborone should publicly apologise to her for defamation of character.Bank Gaborone has been dragged into a legal battle between Pricewaterhousecoopers-Botswana, the audit firm that has...

The Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) and the Botswana Police have been interdicted from arresting, and searching without judicial warrant, the suspended DIS officers.Justice Boipuso Makhwe this week issued an interim interdict against...

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has bowed to pressure and changed the voters’ roll inspection day after the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) wrote a letter demanding the cancelation on the basis that the voters’ roll was...

The President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi is expected to allocate the last plot of the set target of 100 000 plots in Kanye on the 11th of June 2024.Before then, Minister of Lands and Water Affairs, Dr Kefentse Mzwinila will allocate the 99 900th plot in...

Member of Parliament for Sefhare-Ramokgonami, Dr Kesitegile Gobotswang is expected to lead a delegation from one of the villages in his constituency to petition Lands and Water Affairs Minister Dr Kefentse Mzwinila over land crisis.Dr Gobotswang...

Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) leadership might get more than what they have anticipated for the party’s primary elections, following what democrats have labelled a bogus registration exercise.The registration process in preparation for...

The Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) has challenged the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to cancel the ongoing voters’ roll inspection.The 42-days-inspection period is expected to end early next month. The call by the UDC comes after it...

Statistics from the Presidential Constitutional Review Commission demonstrate that Batswana canvassed all issues that they felt needed to be addressed and did not just restrict themselves to the Constitution.The Minister for State President, Kabo...

President Mokgweetsi Masisi says Thuo Letlotlo Guidelines contain a total of 29 packages.According the president, the packages include among others, livestock subsectors, game farming, waste management, privatisation of extension service, livestock...

The Umbrella for Democratic Change will at the end of the Second Reading of the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill propose for the Bill to be subjected to a Special Select Committee.This was said by the Leader of Opposition, Dithapelo Keorapetse this...

Leader of Opposition, Dithapelo Keorapetse says they have noted the arrival of breeding cattle and dairy goats from Australia procured by President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his administration.He said this is a testimony that contemporary Botswana is a...