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Botswana Traditional Practitioners Association has distanced itself from individuals who allegedly harvest body parts from innocent people whether dead or alive for potions and charms for purposes of attracting wealth, among other reasons.In an...

Letlhakane Police are investigating a case in which a newborn baby boy was found dumped in a pit latrine in Letsibogo ward in Letlhakane this past Sunday morning.Letlhakane Police Station Commander, Michael Maphephu said they received a report from a...

Over a week later, Police and Botswana Defence Force scuba divers have this week continued in their intensive search for two fishermen who went missing at the Gaborone Dam on Sunday 17th of July 2022.There are fears that the duo may have drowned....

Botswana has entered into a number of inter-government collaborative arrangements with countries including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, and Rwanda to address corruption and related crimes. These arrangements have resulted in the signing of a...

Kativa Diwanga (37) of Block 1 in Francistown is trying to pick up the pieces after a devastating triple murder charge against him back in 2019.He vividly recalls the confusion that filled his life on that fateful day when he was whisked away in...

Teachers’ workload compromises the learning and teaching process hence the Ministry of Education and Skills Development must consider reducing it, the Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Unions (BOSETU) Secretary-General Tobokani Rari has said.In...

A 30-year-old man of Seabe ward in Serowe committed suicide last Sunday morning after stabbing his 28-year-old girlfriend with a sharp object.Serowe Police Station Commander, Poloko Oteng says the incident was reported by relatives after they found...

Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) has this Monday launched the 2021/2022 Tax year Filing Season as it has been tasked by the Government to assess and collect revenue on its behalf.Speaking at the official launch in Francistown, BURS Tax...

Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) President, Dr. Tebogo Motlhagodi says there was no proper consultation with church bodies regarding the Amendment of the Societies Act that governs churches.Dr. Motlhagodi said that the government...

- "We want public servants to be well-paid whether there is money or there is no money"Botswana Amalgamated Local, Central Government, and Parastatal Workers Union, commonly referred simply as the manual workers union, plans to take the...

For Duduzile Petros, a mother of eight from Thamashanga, a stone’s throw away from Francistown, raising children has become unbearable. Thus the 45-year-old unemployed single mother is not even ashamed to ask for help. She gets on by selling...

Walk of Hope Foundation has expressed worry at the neglect of teenage fathers in communities.Clackson Kasungo, the Chairperson of the organisation that provides psychosocial support to victims and perpetrators of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) told at a...

The Tlhobogang family in Mmathethe village, whose household has been ravaged by mysterious fires since the end of May into this month, are still trying to understand the source of their now charred life.Last week, another fire broke out, this time...

Some Mogoditshane residents last week found themselves face to face with the law when their Land Board implemented a resolution to evict all squatters who illegally developed plots in the area, and their structures were demolished.According to the...

The Albinism Community has revealed its ambitious plan to embark on a farm project that will produce Aloe Vera and other medicinal products.According to the Chairperson of Tshimologo Association for the Albinism Community, Ofentse Serurubele, if...