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        <title><![CDATA[BATTLE FOR PHANE]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Life has taken a painful turn for familiar faces once seen on national television and voices that filled the airwaves, after a wave of contract terminations at Botswana Television...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Botswana slips further into recession]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nearly two decades after its release, Tsaya Thobane continues to echo across stages, festivals and community gatherings, proving that some songs never fade with time.Performed by K...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[An outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) at the Ramatlabama National Artificial Insemination Laboratory and Training Centre in the Goodhope District has triggered urgent disease...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mogoditshane’s rapid urbanisation, driven by expanding businesses, new shopping malls, and a growing population, has not only brought economic activity but also a sharp rise in cri...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Student Congress Movement at the University of Botswana (UB) has accused Moono wa Baithuti, an affiliate of the ruling Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), of hijacking last w...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are no signs of recovery at the once mighty Limkokwing University of Creative Technology; if anything, the situation appears to be deteriorating with each passing day.What wa...]]></description>
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