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This is Palapye, Botswana’s hub of energy generation, set in some of the richest coalfields of the southern African region.  It is here where the highly contested 600 megawatt (MW) Morupule Power Station B is housed. Duncan Modise’s* business...

On Tuesday, for the second time in a month, students demonstrated in Gaborone with unconfirmed reports of damage to property. Yesterday DTEF deputy director, Eugene Moyo told Mmegi that as the organ tasked with tertiary education sponsorship, they...

Under this strategy, all people with HIV will receive antiretroviral therapy regardless of their CD4 count or health condition.  It is projected that more than 118,000 people will be save from being infected with HIV/AIDS, in addition to it...

Gender activists and affiliated civil society groups had lobbied President Ian Khama to sign the instrument before leaving the helm of the regional organisation on Tuesday.  The protocol is a sub-regional instrument that brings together African and...

After several promises to have the bill in Parliament did not materialise, the industry is pinning hopes on the next.  On the sidelines of a sectoral workshop on Thursday focusing on innovative ways of growth, chairman of the Citizen Contractors...

Disgruntled job seekers were early this month sjamboked by riot police for assembling in front of Parliament to submit a petition on lack of employment opportunities in the country.  Spokesperson of the #UnemployedMovement – the group that held a...

In a communiqué published in the Daily News, government says given the level of national investment in the teaching hospital and the anticipated high running costs of such a hospital, it was important to ensure it has an “effective governing body...

Event coordinator, Charity Kgotlafela said additional funding could still be sought towards the event, even though there are competing needs such as tertiary education funding and drought relief interventions because challenges will forever be, and...

Management has attributed the delays, which they say started in June, to government’s decision not to sponsor Diploma programmes at the three campus - Gaborone, Francistown and Selebi-Phikwe.  An affected worker said since the beginning of the...

The Johannesburg-based UNFPA East and Southern Africa regional director, Julitta Onabanjo, told Mmegi that though Botswana was doing well towards positioning young people to be leaders in development, given the country’s investment in social...

Professor Sourav Moukhopadhyay and Emmanuel Moswela undertook the study in partnership with the Disability Support Services Unit, Law Department and support from the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA). The researchers argue that...

The ‘truism’ that tertiary institutions are producing non-market ready graduates, has been the talk of conferences and workshops held to strategise the country’s human capital development. In the past decade, institutions tasked with aligning...

Repeated calls for the body’s existence have been echoed with the Gaborone-Bonnigton South MP Ndaba Gaolathe at the forefront of this reform. His motion on the matter was this week passed by Parliament. On the other hand, government made promises...

Under the quota system, which has already kicked in, government has published the number of students it is willing to sponsor during the 2016/17 financial year, specifying courses and institutions. Education authorities say the review was done to...

In a statement delivered to the House yesterday, Minister of Defence, Justice and Security, Shaw Kgathi, highly condemned the act, describing it as “undermining public order” and fuelled by certain opposition politicians. “They were encouraged...