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Maxala who allegedly murdered his assailant Thuso Mlalazi gangster-style in 2015, had been heading for the gallows since 2021 when the High Court sentenced him to death.Now Maxala will get 30 years in prison instead because the CoA believes that what...

Making the damning allegations before the Speaker of the National Assembly, Phandu Skelemani in Parliament on Wednesday, Moswaane claimed that people are planning to kill him.“I begged this before you and the president yesterday. I have received...

This week Minister of Education and Skills Development (MOESD) Douglas Letsholathebe admitted that it has not been easy to establish the exact amount owed to government due to initial shortcomings of the manual sponsorship process employed for the...

The couple was suing the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) and Botswana Police Service (BPS) for (Tsholofelo) Bareetsi’s unlawful arrest and detention in June last year.Delivering the judgment on the matter on Thursday, Lobatse High...

In 2021 Justice Lot Moroka of the Francistown High Court sentenced Mojanki to death for murdering Bokani, who was a former nurse at the Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital.On Tuesday Mojanki appeared before the Court of Appeal (CoA) where his attorney,...

Appearing before the Court of Appeal (CoA) on Tuesday, Maxala said his alleged assault at the hands of the deceased should be sufficient to establish reasonable provocation.When Justice Matlhogonolo Phuthego found Maxala guilty of murder in 2021,...

Isaac Kgosi“Hollywood style like” arrests all started with the dramatic arrest of former DIS director-general, Isaac Kgosi at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in January 2019. In a movie style sting, Kgosi was nabbed by a team of...

The scheme, which has been seen as nothing but a down degraded version of the National Internship programme, among others targeted graduate youths who are unemployed but are also not enlisted for the Internship programme.The programme, which many...

With African leaders known for their reluctance to leave office, Masisi added that he never understood why anybody wants to be president for so long. “Speaking from the privilege of being a president this thing alters your life completely and if...

It’s not like this shortage was not there before the ban. Potatoe shortage gase botlhodi,” he told Parliament yesterday. Molebatsi was responding to a question from Francistown West legislator, Ignatius Moswaane who had asked the Minister of...

This comes after last month’s revelation by government that it has not yet done a study to determine the degree to which the imposition of restriction on importation of vegetables has to date influenced the country’s balances of trade. Earlier...

Recently, Members of Parliament in the UK voted to support a controversial ban on importing hunting trophies from thousands of species into the UK, preventing British hunters from bringing the body parts of lions, elephants, and giraffes into the...

On Tuesday, Parliament removed Kgosi Mosadi from the committee and replaced her with Specially Elected Member of Parliament Unity Dow who has since rejected the appointment.This was barely a week after Kgosi Mosadi had expressed that not many people...

Presenting the budget to the Committee of Supply, Minister of Justice, Machana Shamukuni said the rollo-ut of the project will continue in the financial year 2023/2024.For the 2022/2023 financial year, Shamukuni revealed that the project was...

Parliament removed Kgosi Mosadi yesterday from the committee and replaced her with Dow, something that the Specially Elected MP says is not supported by the law regulating election to the Pan-African Parliament and is therefore of no force or...