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Yesterday Moatlhodi was welcomed in the UDC fold through the Botswana National Front. The move spelt doom for the Botswana Congress Party president Dumelang Saleshando who, who assumed the reigns for the second time in January when Dr Habaudi Hobona...

During the weekend national council meeting, the party resolved to shun mekoko, as independent candidates in the general elections are known. In the aftermath of their primary elections, otherwise know as Bulela Ditswe, the BDP, for the first time...

Addressing a Kgotla meeting in the village yesterday Khama admitted that there is serious shortage of land in the village but apportioned blame to some residents for their own demise.  Khama said according to the number of land transactions that...

“Batswana we have been ripped off by foreigners (re jelwe ke batswakwa) and there is nothing we can do,” Khama said at a Kgotla meeting in Tlokweng yesterday. He cited the Palapye glass project, the delayed Sir Seretse Khama International...

The Minister on Wednesday said that the proposed amendments to the Architects’ Registration Act were key to lifting the council from the financial crisis that has stymied its progress. “Whilst it is intended that in the long term the council...

They described the legislator as a true representative and an intellectual with characteristics of a great leader. UDC leader, Duma Boko, who launched Modubule said he was certain that the candidate would represent the residents of Lobatse well and...

The case in which disgruntled BNF members are challenging his party membership was yesterday postponed to April 25, by the High Court in Gaborone. Boko, who is also the president of the opposition cooperation, the Umbrella for Democratic Change, is...

Attorneys representing BNF president Duma Boko and his central committee in the case to have the BNF symbol used in the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) symbol have come short of labeling Moses Kajane and Kitso Koister agents of the BDP and...

The order was made in the absence of a government legal team. However, immediately after the order was issued, government attorneys rushed to court and made an application for its rescission. In court yesterday, attorney Tshiamo Rantao representing...

Addressing journalists on Tuesday, Seretse emphasised that military barracks are not an open forum for partisan politics that may polarise the military within the barracks.  “We are not saying soldiers should be ignorant of their rights. That’s...

Next week, the Botswana National Front (BNF) and umbrella partners of Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) and Botswana People’s Party (BPP) will hold demonstrations to demand that the power crisis be addressed with immediate effect. BNF and...

Presenting a budget proposal for the justice department, Seretse said human resource challenges pose a problem with staff overstretched. “Government is however alive to these challenges and continues to assist in these trying economic times,”...

Presenting a budget proposal for the AG Chambers, the Minister for Defence Justice and Security told Parliament that some of the challenges include the attrition of experienced middle managers in the core business of the AG Chambers. However, said...

Following the Friday court ruling barring the BNF leadership from incorporating the party symbol in the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) one, the BNF Youth League secretary general, Arafat Khan went on social media stating that BNF president Duma...

Lobatse High Court judge Godfrey Nthomiwa interdicted BNF president Duma Boko, the party central committee and the Independent Electoral Commission from using BNF’s symbol of a golden key in the UDC or any political...