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The boot camp brought statisticians from Statistics Botswana (SB), the Ministry of Health, the National Aids and Health Promotion Agency (NAHPA), public relations professionals, journalists, WHO officials and other stakeholders under one roof at the...

When the BPF, a splinter party from the ruling BDP was launched three years ago on July 6 in Kanye, a village in the southern District of the country, it hit the ground running. Its founding president, Biggie Butale is on record having told the...

Botswana’s ruling party has been in power since the country's independence in 1966 and every election year, regime change has seemingly been an agonisingly and elusive moving target.When the country goes to the polls in 2024, the opposition...

The VP’s lobby group has performed with aplomb by thumping the opposite lobby group headed by former Cabinet minister, Nonofo Molefhi to a complete whitewash.This is despite political commentators doubting Tsogwane’s prowess in contesting elected...

It will be interesting to appreciate what could have motivated Molefhi’s sudden return to contest the BDP positions. He has been conspicuously absent from party activities.The towering politician is surely exercising his party's constitutional...

Justin Hunyepa is the Botswana National Front (BNF) spokesperson and he hails the BNF’s coalition partnership with the Botswana Peoples Party (BPP) and later the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) as a winning formula. He challenges anyone to dismiss...

Many factors have apparently been conniving against the UDC’s outspoken legislator. For a long time, Ramogapi has been a loner in the wider Palapye constituency now with an estimated population of about 53,000.From the 2019 General Elections, the...

The trio of Mohwasa, Happy Bashe from the north, and Naledi Akambakamba reportedly joins the BNF leadership elected in July in Gaborone that is expected to take the party to the 2024 General Election.The BNF constitution mandates that after an...

Like or hate him, UDC president Boko has been the busiest and consistent politician in the country lately, taking every moment seriously.He has been preaching a message of hope to all and sundry that the UDC project can benefit Batswana away from the...

On the surface, the ruling party seems more united than ever, but the results of the recent 14 council by-elections held since post 2019 general election tell a story of a party diametrically in disarray and on a free fall.Well resourced as the BDP...

Watching from the social media platforms as articulated by one political commentator, “is a poisonous political diatribe and avalanche of bitter exchanges”.There is literally war in the opposition bloc, a development that has already left the...

Mmegi: In your honest view, in so far as the rule of law is concerned, how would you describe the state of affairs under the presidency of Mokgweetsi Masisi?Mfundisi: The present government under President Masisi, like its predecessors, has not fully...

In the past, bitter factionalism was so embedded in the party such that it was almost part and parcel of the BDP landscape.But, it was the fortunes of the party that were hardest hit as they continued to dwindle to all time lows in the...

Reports suggest that Boko and Saleshando have not been on talking terms for the longest time. These are the men who ahead of the 2019 General Election, walked side-by-side.The opposition strongmen’s supporters have been throwing barbed wires at...

Mmegi: The public is waiting with bated breath for our Head of State to explain in detail the source of differences between him (President Masisi) and his predecessor, former president Ian Khama. Can the President please give a hint of what could...