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He appeared before the Court of Appeal (CoA) on Friday with the hope that his litigation would come to an end but the bench of justices, Baaitse Nkanbinde, Singh Walia, and the apex court President Tebogo Tau refused to grant him his wish. Morupisi,...

Although the intra party elections were less chaotic than the previous ones, many potential voters say they feel cheated as they were "denied the right to vote for their preferred candidates". In Mogoditshane East, a relatively new constituency, one...

Badubi at the time he was fired on February 20, 2023 was accused and found guilty of security breach. He and three others were accused of leaking President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s security vehicles. He later filed a review application to set aside the...

By neglecting his constituents and slacking in Parliament debates and hardly bringing forth the struggles of residents of Molepolole, Oabile Regoeng sealed his fate in the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP)’s Bulela Ditswe over the weekend. According...

"The chaos today speaks volumes about our leadership." BDP's Molepolole constituencies, just like others on Saturday, experienced extended delays in various polling stations due to the reported late arrivals of the voters' rolls. The...

AG, representing the Ministry of Defence and Security and the BDF, says the latest list of plaintiffs represented before the court contains some plaintiffs who don't have sufficient and direct interest in the case while some haven't signed...

Hitecon had sought a court intervention citing irregularities after it was allegedly disqualified from the 2023 controversial tender for failing to provide a list of local sub contractors. The tender was allegedly awarded to Zhong Gan Engineering....

In his recent judgment where he decided on the controversial Botswana Defence Force (BDF), P169m tender dispute between the disqualified Hitecon (Pty) Limited and the awarded company, Zhong Gan Engineering (Pty) Ltd, Justice Kebonang said a party has...

The two parties last week Wednesday sat for talks with the aim of settling out of court. The government had proposed an out of court settlement after indicating that they have secured P1.5bn for the settlement. In a brief interview with an ex soldier...

On Monday, the Attorney General, the Ministry of Defence and Security and retired soldiers were supposed to face off in a case in which the latter is suing the government for transferring their pension to the Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund...

Despite the application being moot or having lost relevance, it was dismissed with costs. Justice Kebonang had at the time refused to recuse himself from the case after it was allocated to him after it was referred back to the High Court by the Court...

BDO Botswana which is a partnership of auditors, was reportedly engaged by Bluthorn in 2016 and was subsequently reappointed from 2017 to 2019 to audit BFM . The embattled Bluthorn group was placed under liquidation in 2021 following a High Court...

The State through DPP states the former Permanent Secretary to the President, who is now Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) chairperson, has been closed out by the same court when the bench ruled that the appeal continue. DPP’s argument comes after...

“Rarely, has agencies or arms of government come into conflict with each other over their respective mandates to a level at which litigation ensues up and proceeds to the apex court of the jurisdiction? This is such a case. Our attention has not...

Justices Isaac Lesetedi, Baaitse Nkabinde and Edwin Cameron said the AG (who at the time of the clash between the two organs was Abraham Keetshabe), acted nonchalantly to provide legal direction between the DIS and the DCEC to avoid escalation of the...