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Botswana has managed to successfully amend the Penal Code and put in place stiffer penalties for sexual offences, in an effort to curb growing cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the country.The amended laws make provision for compensation of...

A 14-year-old form one student of Tsetsebjwe Junior Secondary School in the Bobirwa district has been impregnated by her mother’s boyfriend.The student is four-months pregnant and her 37-year-old abuser has been remanded in custody after appearing...

President Mokgweetsi Masisi says if Batswana do not want to vote him back into power as president, he is fine with it, he will pack his bags and go home to concentrate on farming.Masisi said this at a consultative kgotla meeting in Bobonong recently...

Thuto Ratau (34) of Raserura ward in Mochudi needs urgent help with her bulging tummy that makes her look like she is pregnant.Speaking to The Midweek Sun this week, a stressed Ratau said sometime in March 2022, she went to the clinic after realising...

Vincent Lilane who is a Business Development Representative at inDrive, Southern Africa, admits they are not complying with laws and regulations of the Department of Road Transport and Safety (DRTS).He says this is because Botswana does not have...

Maphalaola a Pitse Cultural Association and 17 other men who dragged Bogosi-jwa-ga-Malete to court in August 2023 praying to go for initiation school have been slapped with a huge P110 000 bill of costs.According to court papers leaked to this...

Jimmy Kereng of Prestige Funeral Parlour has appealed to the Minister of Health Edwin Dikoloti to stop all ongoing deals between FSG Funeral parlour and Bamalete Lutheran Hospital (BLH) in Ramotswa.Kereng is begging the minister to investigate and...

More than 1 000 women from 16 countries amongst them Botswana, are gathered in South Africa, Johannesburg for a week-long South African Women in Dialogue (SAWID) conference.SAWID is a women organisation established in 2003 to represent the voices of...

Kgosi Sesa Maleele of Rasesa in the Tswapong District says he would rather be dethroned from his top position than to have Rasesa recognised as a ward instead of a village.This follows concerns from divided residents of Rasesa who have pointed...

Botswana Kombi and Taxi Association has complained to the Department of Road Transport and Safety (DRTS) that indrive, an online controlled transportation service, is robbing them of business.Indrive is an E-hailing service where passengers can...

Bogosi baga Malete in Ramotswa believes that men who identify themselves as Maphalaola a Pitse Cultural Association are going against them because there is a fight for power.Deputy Paramount Chief Kgosi Tsimane Mokgosi said they have long heard of...

Zimbabwean national, Darlington Jayaguru confessed in court this week that he cheated on his deceased girlfriend Joyce Tachiona because she was unable to bear him children.This is what is suspected to have led to the death of Tachiona in the year...

Thapelo Mido Diraditsile (33) of Kanye died this past weekend following a freak accident that left her with severe head injuries.The accident occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning along the Poloko road which is between Kanye and...

The government of Botswana spends more than P600 million every year on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) medications.But sadly, some unknown people get the medication free of charge from public health facilities only to throw it away.This past Tuesday, a...

The political and civil service leadership at the Ramotswa District Council is still in shock as to why street vendors trading in the vicinity of Choppies store and the old village cemetry were forcibly moved out of their trading points by people...