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Friday, August 25, 2023

Collectively we can fight HIV/AIDS (COMMENT)

BG REPORTER | 25 August 2023

Botswana’s quest for success at the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships

As the spotlight shifts towards Budapest, Hungary, for the 2023 World Athletics Championships, Botswana finds itself at a pivotal juncture in its athletic journey.The heart of...

BG REPORTER | 18 August 2023

Moving BAMB, BMC to a new ministry is a wrong turn (COMMENT)

Government has made a decision to move the troubled Botswana Meat Commission and yet another struggling Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board to the new Ministry of...

BG REPORTER | 28 April 2023

The dawn of a new era for the diamond industry in Botswana (COMMENT)

Monday 27th March 2023 marked, in the words of President Dr. Mokgweetsi Masisi, “the dawn of a new era for the diamond industry in Botswana, as we begin this journey with HB...

Ernest Moloi | 31 March 2023

BRICS: A force the world can't ignore any longer (COMMENT)

The world is going through an unprecedented geopolitical transition with the emergence of the multipolar world system promoted by the five nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China...

Ernest Moloi | 17 February 2023

MISA elections present a chance for the Media to redeem itself

The local chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) meets tomorrow (Saturday) to conclude its elections that were postponed last year on account of breach of...

BG REPORTER | 20 January 2023

Swim or sink: The new mantra for Parastatals (COMMENT)

The country’s investment and trade promotion agency - Botswana Investment and Trade Centre - last week announced it has generated P3.84 billion from export earnings in the...

BG REPORTER | 02 September 2022

William Ruto: How Kenya’s new president took on powerful political dynasties

William Samoei Ruto, 55, has been declared the winner of Kenya’s presidential election. He is the leader of the United Democratic Alliance party under the Kenya Kwanza (Kenya...

BG Correspondent | 19 August 2022

Commendable Pan Africanist solidarity revived in Botswana’s Trade Unions and Political Parties

In a message of solidarity addressed last week by Botswana Land Boards Local Authorities and Health Workers (BLLAHWU) to the Saharawi Umbrella Trade Union, UGTSARIO, Secretary...

BG REPORTER | 19 August 2022

ROYAL RIFT

Kgosi Malope II drags cousin to court over ‘private letter’

ICY HOSTELS: Boarding students rise at 3am to make fire for bathing

Shashe River School students in Tonota, Central District, are enduring a winter nightmare, bathing with cold water, as biting cold grips the country and frost blankets the...

Police allegedly force man to eat his poop to extract confession

A 29-year-old man from Lepapa ward in Moshupa, Obusitswe Nkaelang, has alleged that police CID officers forced him to defecate in the bush behind the station, and then compelled...