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Spira Tlhankane
  • Delayed party primaries cast shadow over voter registration

    Voters in various constituencies across the country have reportedly expressed reluctance to register for the general election later this year because political parties have not availed their election candidates to them.While the Botswana Congress...

  • BCP will not stand by UB rape suspect

    UB today confirmed that indeed the police are investigating a rape case involving its senior lecturer and 18-year-old female student. The institution of higher learning however, did not disclose the name of the lecturer. Earlier today, Mmegi Online...

  • Thamaga Festive Challenge adopts late night football

    In an interview after the tournament, organiser Tiro Lepotokisi told Mmegi Online that after realising that the attendance was not satisfactory in the morning and afternoon matches, they decided on late night kickoffs during the semi-finals.He...

  • Freak accident claims two lives in Thamaga

    According to the acting station commander of Thamaga Police, assistant superintendent Busang Malope, the accident, which happened just across from popular Thamaga bar, Heroes Park, involved a combi which struck two female pedestrians and injured...

  • Heavy downpours soak Gaabo Motho but revellers undeterred

    It is worth noting that when the festival started the day was sunny and hot so it was actually easy to forget to check out the weather forecast before heading off to one of the biggest festive shows in the South. Most people were so stoked about the...

  • Dusting the land issues of 2023

    As a reporter I love working with archives and laying my hands on information that has been untouched for years. Stories about land are tales as old as time and they are very conflict sensitive, among other things. Research, reports and documents...

  • MPs fear Zim invasion in Masisi -Mnangagwa Omang agreement

    The Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Anna Mokgethi defended the agreement in Parliament, stating that technocrats would finalise the issue at the instruction of both presidents.The agreement, made during the Kusi Ideas Festival, proposes that...

  • BCP launches 10 pledges to 'save Botswana'

    The party revealed this when launching its 10-point plan to save Botswana over weekend. The BCP recently formed an alliance with Botswana Labour Party (BLP), and this past weekend, the party’s members gathered at Maruapula to launch their 10-point...

  • BCP women tackle tenacious political challenges

    At the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) Youth and Women’s League conference last weekend, women vowed to continue tackling the tenacious global challenge, which includes amongst others, gender-based violence.Quoting the former BCP Women’s League...

  • Gov’t to relax tax laws for pensioners

    Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Serame admitted that they are aware of the outcry by Batswana due to exempting, in part, the amounts allowable for withdrawals under the Retirement Funds Act, 2022.Serame added that it is against this background that...

  • BCP, BLP formalise partnership tomorrow

    Even though this is a partnership as the two prepare for the 2024 General Election, BCP has previously revealed that both parties will use the BCP logo and brand, a move which suggests that the latter will eventually swallow the newbie in the...

  • Minimum wage hot topic in Parly

    A minimum wage is the lowest amount a worker can be paid hourly determined by law and paying an individual below the minimum wage is illegal. On Friday Lobatse Member of Parliament, Dr Thapelo Matsheka asked Mokgethi amongst others the factors...

  • Ketlogetswe’s judgment is confusing – Tau

    Ketlogetswe’s November 10 ruling confirmed an October 31 rule nisi ordering the IEC to allow the UDC to observe and monitor the General Election voters’ registration exercise which has since been suspended indefinitely. In her ruling, which...

  • CoA grants IEC expedited appeal

    In a case in which the IEC also sought an order staying execution of the interim order granted by Francistown High Court's judge Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe on November 10, Court of Appeal (CoA) Judge President Tebogo Tau this morning ordered that the...

  • Khama’s office operates at full capacity – Gov’t

    State President minister, Kabo Morwaeng told Parliament on Friday that Khama’s Office is still operational and is operating at full capacity as defined in the detailed entitlements of Former Presidents as provided in the President (Pensions and...

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