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The debt is tuition fees going back to 2013 that the DTEF had been dragging their feet to pay for one reason or another. What is most disheartening is the fact that we are talking about hundreds of our young people who spent between three and four...

Literally, government is refusing to come to the negotiating table, leaving the public service unions and most importantly the more than 100,000 public service workers, a frustrated lot once again. A frustrated public service, especially a very large...

This trend is not only starting to show recently, one could count back to  a period spurning  five years or more when primary school and secondary school textbooks and exercise books got a sustained knock that continues up to today. There are no...

Mokaila’s two intentions immediately present huge problems. Here is a minister, without the evidence of any research findings, claiming that Japanese cars are contributing more to environmental pollution than mining emissions. Indeed to say these...

We wish to welcome the new Governor as he starts  his  chapter. We hope he will have a lasting legacy like his precessors. Pelaelo takes over at a time when Botswana is grappling with unemployment. Surely, BoB’s duty in the current situation is...

From the tone of their release, BB seem to doubt the reasons advanced for the closure of the BCL and Tati mines.  In their statement, BB say they have appointed their own task team to look into the BCL and Tati Nickel mines in order to  be better...

BCL mine’s closure has been in the offing for the last decade or so. In fact under normal circumstances, the mine could have closed much earlier, when evidence of low grade minerals became clear, but it was the considerate heart of government that...

It was pleasing to the eye to see that even the coordinators of the Bot50 celebrations went a step further and celebrated the diversity of political opinions that have characterised our democracy since inception. In particular, the opposition...

The news has rubbed the neighbouring country the wrong way. When Botswana was looking for support for its candidate for the AU commission chairmanship, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, Botswana paid a visit to Zimbabwe where she was received with much...

Btv is yet to involve the independent media on their digital migration project, at least to help us appreciate certain aspects of the gadgets, technology and other pertinent issues around the digital migration agenda. While digital migration is no...

Indeed the minister’s advice has hit the bull on the horn. Traditional medicine can no longer afford its traditional secrecy, when it is dolled out at night under the cover of darkness so that villagers do not know which traditional doctors’ help...

On paper this should have been an easily highly welcome development for the simple reason that electronic voting would hopefully reduce time taken to release the results. The last General elections results announcement was the slowest process by...

Indeed in areas such as agriculture and education,  high numbers of Batswana have benefited  from programmes such as ISPAAD, which continues to benefit every Motswana, while in education, citizen  and foreign investors in areas such as training...

For decades of independence, Botswana was hailed as exemplary for maintaining peace and the independent Judiciary. There has been a shift, with divisions and polirasation of the Judiciary. This critical arm of governance finds itself in a precarious...

Even though we have seen on a number of occasions some members sent out and two having been suspended for a week, the just ended session was not different from the previous one. The only difference was that this time around after wasting lots of...