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He said along with the changes to their bodies, the onset of adolescence brings new vulnerabilities to young people, particularly on their sexuality. “HIV infections remain uncomfortably high, most young people continue to drop out of school due...

An internal audit into the books of the centre, funded almost exclusively by the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) through the Department of Special Support Services, found possible falsification of records and utilisation of funds...

Thousands of teachers who were sent to South Africa to upgrade their Diplomas to Degrees have not been paid due to a delayed Letter of Authorisation approving the processing of the allowances An email forwarded to the affected...

Tensions at the Ramotswa Centre for Deaf Education boiled over yesterday when support staffers downed tools in protest against the non-payment of April salaries, even as the Education Ministry demands answers about alleged gross maladministration at...

A case returns to the High Court this month, BOFEPUSU secretary general, Tobokani Rari, told workers at the Gaborone May Day commemorations last Thursday. BOFEPUSU won the case in which it appealed a decision by the Registrar of Trade Unions and...

He was speaking in the wake of a last minute change of Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU)’s Labour Day theme allegedly effected in order to remove contentious “regime change” understones.   Reports indicate that on...

Gaokgakala Sobatha, Keokeditswe’s younger sister, related that aviation accidents had been on the superintendent’s mind since the media frenzy surrounding the missing Malaysian flight MH370. “Waitse, ke ete ke imagine e le nna,...

At a meeting in Gaborone this week, Tanki Mothae, the director of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, said member states had been pushing for SACC and had shown their commitment by signing the SADC Protocol Against...

In a student conference scheduled to take place on May 2 in Xiamen, China, the scholars, who are members of the Botswana Student Association in China (BOSAC), are also expected to elect a new Student Representative Council (SRC). The organiser of...

Out of the 624 students who registered for the Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) last year, only 16 qualified to be accepted into tertiary institutions, the ministry has said. The school registered the worst performance in...

Inspector Ricardo Mabotho died last Sunday when the police helicopter he and two other colleagues were in, crashed into the Okavango Delta. Investigations into the crash are continuing as a shocked nation seeks answers. Yesterday, Modisaotsile,...

Youth activists have argued that Botswana’s current wide-ranging sponsorship system has become counter-productive. They say it makes learners aspire to pass their secondary school examinations with the bare minimum just to get sponsored. They argue...

Speaking at the just ended Eminent Women’s Dialogue gathering, Nasha, a senior member of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party, said Botswana is yet to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other...

The Member of Parliament for Tonota Constituency Pono Moatlhodi never thought in his entire life that he could find a second political home. After being in the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) for 39 years, Moatlhodi finally joined Botswana...

Speaking yesterday at the Eminent Women’s Dialogue in Gaborone, Nasha described government’s failure to sign the Protocol in the years since its inception in 2008, as one of the persistent challenges to gender equality. “Government’s refusal...