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The appalling behaviour of a section of Mphuthe Junior Secondary School students who have organised themselves into gangs, is worsening by the day. They are forever intoxicated, they beat up other students and threaten to kill teachers. This past...

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) decided to hire public servants as voter registration clerks because the youth and the unemployed messed up the Voter’s Roll in 2018 ahead of the 2019 elections.IEC Secretary Jefferson Siamisang told The...

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was clueless regarding being dragged to court by the Umbrella for Democratic Party (UDC) late Tuesday afternoon this week.The UDC went to court seeking relief after the IEC refused to allow them (UDC) a...

Residents of Semotswane village along the Tonota-Francistown Road have more questions than answers regarding the death of Gabalape Tshwang (32).Tshwang was found dead on Sunday morning after a goods train ran over his body.Assistant Superintendent...

Thieves got a lot more than they had bargained for on Monday morning at Gabane when members of the community successfully tracked them down and handed them to the police. But before the police were called in, members of the community took their anger...

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...