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We also confirm our solidarity with those who continue to be harassed by the system just because they are doing their job. We should note that annually over 100 national celebrations take place each year to commemorate this Day. UNESCO leads the...

Even by the low standards with which the current leadership has been held this is a new low. It is important to also note that this new action comes at a time when there were attempts to repair the damaged relationship between the private press and...

As Sakarea Makgapha left this world for the hearafter sometime between end of Sunday and beginning of Monday, his stories became more alive on the pages The Sunday Standard. The Sunday publication, media exprts have said, is best placed to enter...

  Khama may ok acquisition When President Ian Khama and his right man on defence, Minister Ramadeluka Seretse meet Botswana Defence Force (BDF) experts sometime this month, the soldiers will present a somewhat grim picture. Khama may ok...

Exactly two years ago, nearly to the year, an Uzi was pulled up against some man’s head, the trigger pulled, the bullet sent into the body. The bullet dealt with the physiology the way a bullet is manufactured to. The man was Malawian-born...

    Pretoria-based Forensic Document Consultants, which Mmegi engaged late last year to authenticate the petition, have found the document to be fraudulent. The findings of Brigadier Hannes Hattingh are that large quantities of writing on the...

Costa’s girlfriend who accompanied him during the incident, Marang Podi related that a Landcruiser bearing a ‘BX’ registration number pulled up behind them in the car park at Segoditshane Flats behind Middlestar Shopping Complex. Marang Pudi,...

The soft spoken veteran politician Michael Dingake was more direct. “A itapolose. O tshedile. A tsamaye sentle. O lole ntwa e tona mo lefatsheng leno. O gaisa botlhe. Go ne go sena ope yoo neng a dumela gore Apartheid e ka hela mme gompieno ke fa...

Last night, the Umbrella for Democratic Change and the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) were engaged in meetings with their legal teams to launch an onslaught against Vice President Ponatshego ‘PHK’ Kedikilwe’s postponement of the by-election in...

The Directorate of Intelligence Services appears to be an instrument through which millions are funneled to those with connections to the director-general, Isaac Kgosi and President Ian Khama, Mmegi investigations have revealed. In total tenders...

‘At some point Survival International will have to leave us to fight it because ultimately it is our struggle,‘ Job Morris, San intellectual When Basarwa actors who had been hired to act Basarwa characters in the now acclaimed movie, The No.1...

At New Xade the old men with weather beaten faces are attempting to water their cattle. Dust billows. Voices echo and occasionally, laughter pierces the sky. Boys with sticks, old men with wide brimmed hats and caps squint and give out...

CAPE TOWN: If at the very moment Michelle Potgieter, the Director of Corporate Marketing and Communications at Samsung, brought the company's officials to the top table before the legion of journalists from across the continent, someone had brought a...