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Students fail in schools every year because of poor teaching, Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) Secretary General, Tobokani Rari has claimed.Rari says teachers give out poor quality because they are overworked, the workload is too...

Many Batswana are quick to jump into communal funding groups (metshelo) at the start of the year without doing background checks on people they are partnering with or knowing exactly what they are investing in.At the end of the year, many gullible...

Botswana Post did not buy the land on which Ntlhantlhe post office is currently sitting, Chief Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Officer, Tebogo LebotseSebego has confirmed.LebotseSebego was responding to the uproar in Ntlhantlhe where some...

Bontle Moipodi of Lokgwabe died this past Friday, a day after exchanging vows with her husband David Khumanego.Bontle allegedly complained of a headache while doing her hair on Friday afternoon. She was preparing to celebrate her wedding the next day...

Major Tumisang Sniper Sefularo, who died this past weekend in Molepolole has had a very sorry life in the last few years of his life.Sniper, as he was affectionately known, was at the time of his death a soldier based at ThebePhatshwa Air Base. He...

The Secretary of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Jefferson Siamisang says chances are that they have now lost some of their voter registration clerks due to the prolonged suspension of the registration exercise.Speaking this week to this...

Try as much as they will, Botswana Police will hit a brick wall to convince Bakwena of Molepolole that they are working hard to find justice for Phenyo Jakoba (35) and One Motlhabakgomo (19) who were brutally killed in separate incidents.Bakwena are...

The annual Botswana causes of mortality report of 2020 released this week reveals that the leading cause of in-patient deaths in the country is Human Immune Virus (HIV).Close to 300 people died of HIV in 2020 compared to the 204 that died in 2019....

Drowning in debts is one of the leading causes of depression in Botswana, to the extent it causes some people mental disorders.This is why it is advisable to use money wisely and within budget, advises Oarabile Tuelo, Director of Raycheque Holdings,...

When schools closed for year-end vacation last week, allegations flew high and low that students of Lesirane Primary School situated in Tsolamosese, Mogoditshane, were spooked and claimed to be seeing strange things at the school.According to parents...

Murder accused Kitso Sephonono (20) cut a sorry figure when he briefly appeared before the Extension ll magistrate court this past week.From a distance, it appeared he was all alone, with no one in sight to support him. Kitso is the prime suspect in...

Tshenolo Mogapaesi of Gabane village breathed her last early Monday morning at Bokamoso Private Hospital following a gut-wrenching accident that left her with severe bone fractures.Tshenolo’s father, Odirile Mogomotsi (60), told The Midweek Sun in...

The family of the late Gaoberekwe Pitseng who died on the 21st of December 2021 is finally planning burial for the old man in the next 22 days.Speaking to The Midweek Sun this past Tuesday, Smith Moeti who considered Pitseng his father, said that...

Today, (Wednesday) marks exactly nine days since Smith Moeti’s two aunts - Letsomelo and Tshekokom Kgadikgadi - went missing in Metsiamanong, in the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve (CKGR).The two women who are sisters, one in her 50s and the other...

Jenamo Sephonono (58), the father of murdered former Taung Junior Secondary teacher, Thato Sephonono, has also died.Thato was allegedly killed by her son, Kitso Sephonono early this year at the teacher’s residence where the duo stayed. According to...