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In its repeated statements and court filings in which it argued that it properly invested the P427 million allegedly misappropriated from the BPOPF, CMB has frequently cited an investment of P150 million in Kawena. The asset management firm, which...

Unbeknown to many, including the media, Marsland had been on a smooth operator mode since he was detained at a Johannesburg prison cell last July, from where he silently launched a series of bail attempts closely guarded from media attention. So...

 Mmegi can reveal that documents show that 24 of those charges relate to money laundering, five of which are obtaining by false pretences and one of attempt to obtain by false pretence. According to investigations, the charges were first shared...

Marsland fears it is only a matter of time before the virus gets him while he is incarcerated. He has been held in a South African prison facility since July 2019 at the behest of the Botswana law enforcement authorities. In urgent court papers...

It has been two weeks now since the contractor,  Khato Civils, set up base at Artesia, from where  bulldozers have been busy with bush clearing to mark the pathway along which trenching activities and associated works will be carried out. Country...

The coming into swing of the project is largely seen as President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s fulfilment of his water promise to the rest of the southern region, which is traditionally water stressed . During the 2019 elections campaign, Masisi promised...

The group realised a whopping 48% sales growth, following a subdued two years. The Botswana Stock Exchange-listed grocer announced revenue of P2.8 billion, up 11% from last year. According to the latest report, Sefalana Botswana contributed 57% and...

Manual Workers Union’s Motshwarakgole took aim at the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) shooting down its election pledges, while addressing members at the Mahalapye Community Hall for the opening of this week's leg of the Manual Workers...

In view of the transgression, the High Court hit the legal practitioner’s oversight entity with punitive costs at attorney-client scale. Tafa and his law firm in June this year found themselves in the list of non-compliant firms and attorneys as...

In an interview with Mmegi at his office the PSP however said taking the project to parliament for inclusion in the NDP11  and for approval of its expenditure was a normal planning process required when the executive proposes variation to an...

This has put the prospects of jobs from the project in doubt, as the new investor in the town, a citrus fruit company, cannot be allowed to draw water from the nearby Letsibogo Dam since it is a high national security feature delivering water to the...

It was also tabled before Cabinet way before the tender award was announced, the documents revealed. The documents also established that when the award of the tender was announced, Khato’s winning bid was put at P781 million or USD 65 million,...

Moswaane claimed that there was no need for the construction of another pipeline from the same wellfields to Mmamashia, while water from the same sources was being pumped into the North-South pipeline already. It emerged that the Masama wellfields,...

In an interview with Mmegi at his office, the PSP said taking the project to Parliament for inclusion in the NDP11, and for approval of its expenditure, was a normal process in the implementation of a Presidential directive. He added that there were...

While he is fully aware that his request means there is no funding for the emergency project, Mzwinila also knows quite well that there is no Plan B or C. Not out of the laziness to think; but the more he counts all the water projects’ options...