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The state burial of Pitseng Gaoberekwe has once again reignited the controversy surrounding the establishment the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). The people of CKGR, bushmen/Basarwa, the indigenous first people of the Kahalari are buoyed up by...

GANTSI: ‘Grief is the price we pay for love’, this quote popularised by Queen Elizabeth II, is the motto of Joyce’s Funeral Services here which has accommodated the body of Pitseng Gaoberekwe for two years and 11 months now.Joyce Dikkop, the...

But this week, her flame sadly flickered out. While her music will undoubtedly live on, we will never get that special ‘Zahara magic’ that she used to exude while on stage.Zahara could probably have come up a little sooner if Kalawa Jazmee’s...

Back in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, before Thato Kavinja was Koolkat Motyiko, he was bored and so started fooling around in front of his computer.He was at Mmopane, a small village on the outskirts of Gaborone and missing his...

When the Nkashi Classic was announced in 2018,Kedisa, then a young fisherman from Boro, knew that his sport had finally arrived. This would be a competition about his way of life of mokoro poling and because he trusted his endurance to pole faster...

My country, Botswana, and particularly the Okavango Delta, has been the subject of several nature and wildlife films. But rarely do these films feature people. And almost never do these films acknowledge our people for their role in protecting our...

Reporters can attest to this; you never forget your first byline in the newspaper. Even to this day, I still love seeing my byline in the newspaper. My first article in the newspaper was a travelogue. I had gruelled my body by walking about 120km in...

I first read a copy of Mmegi at the Serowe Library. That is where my love for newspapers was nurtured. As a kid the library was initially my excuse for arriving home late from the playground. But in the beginning it was just a pretext to avoid the...

Most humans when they have a problem, dancing is the last thing they can think of. But for Motsomi, she says, “when I was sad, or have a problem, I would literally go into my room, and I would dance my life out”.Motsomi (28) is that dance...

On June 18, some residents of Shakawe and Mohembo woke up early to go to the Okavango Bridge hoping to be the first members of public to go through the new bridge.Earlier in the month, bridge engineer Kobamelo Kgoboko, who is the supervising...

The book, which tells the story of Desert & Delta Safaris, aims to celebrate the people behind the organisation and was written by Mana Meadows.At an event held at Sedie Hotel in Maun, the marketing team led by James Wilson and Andrew Flatt took...

The Chobe riverfront along the Botswana and Namibian border in the Chobe National Park comprises some prime real estate in Botswana. Although it is adjacent to Kasane, the area has been left undeveloped for the wildlife to roam free. The location...

Far out on the western horizon, through the vast plains of the Kalahari shrub bush, a wintry morning mist fuses with the smoke from the veldt fires to produce a pinkish hue that skirts around the isolated hills in the middle of nowhere. That is the...

Few minutes into the performance, the clouds began to drizzle before pouring down cold rain. As the crowd ran for cover at the stadium’s stands, Rangers was unstoppable. When everyone was expecting the choir to cut short their act, they continued...

In 2006 the High Court ordered that the refusal by government to allow Basarwa to enter the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) unless they are issued with a permit was both unlawful and unconstitutional. This was a majority judgment in the Roy...