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At a regional agricultural research meeting on Tuesday, de Graaff said that agriculture was critical to the economy, as it creates employment and sustenance for rural communities, where the bulk of Batswana reside. “There can be no food security...

Nationally, the report found a degree of accommodation congestion in households, concluding that the situation puts people at the risk of contracting airborne diseases. The Statistics Botswana report focussed on households with five or more persons...

The east, the northeast and southern parts of the Central District, are expected to experience largely normal winter temperatures with a tendency to warmer weather.  Normal maximum and minimum temperatures for this region during winter are expected...

Briefing the media last week, a midwife from Gaborone West Phase 1 clinic, Lame Sedimo, said the idea was mooted after realising that while government is providing antenatal care to all pregnant women, maternal and infant morbidity and mortality...

The report emailed to Mmegi by Statistics Botswana on Tuesday stated that households in Orapa and Selebi-Phikwe enjoyed the highest regular service of waste collection with about 95 percent of households covered, followed by Jwaneng with about 92...

The report states that HIV and AIDS related maternal deaths dropped to 1.4 percent of all maternal deaths in 2012 from 10.2 percent in 2008. The Botswana Maternal Mortality Ratio report indicates that the most common cause of maternal mortality in...

WUC water resource manager, Joel Selemogwe said in Kasane last Friday that the dam is currently 14.7 percent full and they are currently pumping out 54 million litres per day from it. In an address to the Hospitality and Tourism Association of...

Mokalake said this yesterday the induction of more than 170 new members from seven landboard in the southern part of the country. The minister said landboardmembers should be vigilant as they could be approached by unscrupulous land-seekers. “You...

Chairperson of the Thusanang Bagwebi Association, Kagiso Masupane, told Mmegi that they have engaged a consultant to put together a letter listing concerns they wish to share with the President.  Among numerous issues, the letter is expected to...

“It was a job well done. We did very well. This was because we had prepared very well. We had a plan and we actualised it,” the director of Immigration and Citizenship, Mabuse Pule said yesterday. He said the difference is that since last year,...

The ministry has also not reduced the level of rentals the teachers have been paying over the years, despite the ongoing overcharges. At present, MoESD figures peg rentals for a one-bedroom sitter at P342 and a two-bedroom flat at P608, while...

“Dam water levels went up from 11 percent at the start of the rain season to 16 percent a few weeks ago,” she said. “The dam water level is now at 15 percent and therefore, water shortage problems have not changed in the greater Gaborone...

They claim the People with Disabilities bureau within the Office of the President passed on the venture funded by Norway’s Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF). In partnership with Southern Africa Federation of Disabled...

The exercise is done to establish and assess food availability, rainfall distribution across the country, grazing and rangeland situation, nutritional status of vulnerable groups, magnitude of destitute in terms of number and distribution, as well as...

Speaking during a meeting of environmental scientists yesterday in Gaborone, the minister said implementation of the policy is likely to begin in 2015, depending on how long legislators take to debate it. Scientists from the...