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The Ministry of Education and Skills Development yesterday drew the Public Accounts Committee’s wrath as its poor record-keeping and widespread accounting failures, mean taxpayers will have to wait a little longer to know how their funds have been...

The call comes after DPSM boss Carter Morupisi told the committee that so far they have discovered about 115 ghost employees on government payroll. Although he was unable to state the length of time these ghost employees have been getting salaries,...

Disgruntled members of BNF had earlier won a default order to stop Boko and the party central committee from incorporating the party symbol into the Umbrella for Democratic Change  (UDC) election material. On Wednesday night at the Lobatse High...

The fresh talks come after President Ian Khama announced a four percent across the board wage increase for civil servants on April 6, saying the increase, while unilateral, was necessary to adhere to government’s financial year. While Khama said...

Speaking during a tour of the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) here yesterday, Tsekoa also called on regional meat producers to support each other in terms of capacity for export markets. This also follows the recent call by former president, Festus...

Louis Herbst sued the council for damages claiming failure by the local authority to restore the flow of effluent to his property, failure to repair damaged roads by council as well as the council’s alleged failure to return pumps that Herbst said...

Addressing the ongoing Commonwealth Law Ministers’ meeting on Tuesday, Kedikilwe said the executive, legislature and judiciary must work together towards securing the fundamental principles that safeguard the rule of law. “Adherence to and...

On Wednesday, lawyers on both sides wanted to continue with the case, but could not as it was not set down for hearing on the day. Attorney Mboki Chilisa, appearing for the BNF leadership and president Duma Boko, told Justice Godfrey Nthomiwa that...

Speaking at the launch of his campaign for Gaborone North parliamentary seat, he reiterated that the collapse of the opposition cooperation talks was a blow not only to parties involved but to the nation. Nkaigwa said leaders who were involved in...

The union had sought to have their issues heard urgently, and further asked the court to put a gag on Khama and Morupisi from making any unilateral announcements on bargaining council matters. However, Lobatse High Court Judge Michael Leburu...

Mooketsi, Meshack Mthimkhulu and other disgruntled BNF members had questioned Boko’s membership of the party and alleged that he got it fraudulently. But yesterday, Rannowane dismissed the objection raised by Mthimkhulu and others who wanted the...

On Friday, Gabriel Kanjabanga and Meshack Mthimkhulu, the attorneys representing the other 12 applicants had an uphill task in trying to convince Justice Terrence Rannowane to prevent Mooketsi from pulling out of the case.  At one point, Rannowane...

A small group of disgruntled party members had taken their leader to court seeking his removal from office for allegedly having forged his membership card when he was elected party president in 2010 in Mochudi. Boko is also the president of the...

The High Court Judge Michael Leburu has postponed the case to next week when he will make a determination on the ongoing legal battle between the Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) and President Khama over averments regarding...

The BNF had, before Moatlhodi came to the picture, assigned youthful Maokaneng Bontshetse the constituency candidature for Umbrella For Democratic Change (UDC). UDC is an opposition cooperation of the BNF, Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) and...