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Mayors and deputy mayors who were recently removed from office through the controversial ‘vote of no confidence’ motions around the country are likely to take up the matter with the government following a recent Court of Appeal...
The 4, 6 km wall of Dikgatlhong Dam is intact and not in any danger of cracking, the Dam’s resident engineer Boikanyo Mpho has assured the nation.Speaking in an interview Mpho, who was part of the team that constructed the P1.134 million dam said...
The presence of former Debswana Chief Executive Officer Blackie Marole at the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) BOMASE region extraordinary congress in Bobonong has raised speculation that he is seriously thinking of challenging the incumbent area MP...
NENEWS When the Public Procurement and Disposal Board (PPADB) took over the tendering process in all government departments, many thought that the tendering processes would sail smoothly, but challenges still remain. All the ministerial tender...
NENEWS Transnational crimes often hamper police investigations and may even prolong investigations because they are committed between many countries. Officer Commanding (OC) No. 15 District Senior Supt. Alakanani Makobo said this in an interview...
NENEWS Botswana faces an onslaught over the proposed Public Health Bill, which a regional AIDS and rights alliance organisation has described as regressive.A regional litigation centre has also joined the fray. Both came out guns blazing this week...
Africa’s democratic transition is back in the spotlight. The concern is no longer the stranglehold of autocrats, but the hijacking of the democratic process by tribal politics.Kenya’s 2007-08 post-election violence revealed the extent to which...
The Central District Council (CDC) will be undertaking two major projects in 2013 due to financial constraints – fewer than they had initially planned.Council chairman, Lesego Raditanka has said the projects include the Bobonong internal roads,...
The car, which belonged to Independent Newspapers and was being used by Cape Times journalist Xolani Koyana, was destroyed.Koyana said he and an intern reporter had been in the vehicle when protesters surrounded them and told them to move. “I was...
A number of police officers who recently completed an operation in Phakalane say they are victims of discrimination after they were informed that they will not be paid commission for working outside their station. Operation ‘Sting’ was aimed at...
The Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), which was handed over to government in July this year has been constructed without a physical master plan and its design is said to be awkward. Chinese Civil Engineering...
In a strange twist, the leadership and residents of Palapye are in total darkness regarding the stalling of the Shanghai Fengyue Glass company project set up in their village to produce float glass sheets.Both tribal and political leadership told...
The future of over 500 orphans living in the SOS villages around the country hangs in the balance as the non-profit organisations’ finances have run dry. SOS board chairman Major General Bakwena Oitsile has told this publication that the...
An accounts clerk with the Palapye Sub-District Council was late last month dismissed after it was established that he had swindled the local authority large sums of money over a period of five years. An audit at the sub-district council conducted...
Some business people have taken to grabbing land from Basarwa cheaply taking advantage of their economic and academic situation. In Serowe most Basarwa reside in Mannathoko, Palamaokue and Ramogate wards. Mannathoko is where Botswana Housing...
Former Francistown mayor Buti Billy has suffered a devastating blow in his quest to topple the Member of Parliament for Francistown East Phandu Skelemani in the upcoming Botswana Democratic party (BDP) primary elections. Billy’s team lost all the...
Following the conclusion of the Umbrella talks which recently gave birth to the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and the party launch on November 11th, the conveners of the negotiation process are now part of the leadership of UDC. With only...
Love him or hate him, you just can’t ignore Themba Joina, the president of the MELS Movement.And who to realise this than Botswana Congress Party (BCP), which has already begun courting him with the view to have him stand as the party’s...
When president Ian Khama made a surprise appearance at a Botswana Congress Party (BCP) rally in Chadibe three years ago, little did he know that he was inadvertently endorsing the area’s opposition candidate in the person of Dr...
Following the formation of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) in 2010 by people who had either resigned from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) or expelled from it because of “indiscipline”, the situation became so fluid in the...
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