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Mephato Reatile (Ngwaketse West) : The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) MP who defected from the opposition Botswana National Front (BNF), had a good year that has endeared him to electorates.  As head of a special parliamentary committee...

FPK and indigenous tribes have been criticised for their relationship with SI whose campaigns have targeted the country’s mining and tourism sectors, the two biggest contributors to the gross domestic product. Speaking to journalists in Gaborone...

According to Keikabile Mogodu, executive director of Khwendom council, a resolution to unite in the fight for the emancipation of the oldest indigenous groupings of Botswana was taken at December 2013 meeting of six advocacy groups representing the...

Final figures from Statistics Botswana peg the economically-active population - 18-60 years - at 64.9 percent of the total population, an increase from 58.2 percent in 2001. The development has experts warning that it may put pressure on the...

Under the project, a collaboration venture between the Fish Keitseng Family Trust, the National Museum and Art Gallery and the South African High Commission, the museum will have an exhibition room dedicated to the life of Fish Keitseng and his role...

The two services could not have been more different. Ninety-one world leaders, including American President Barack Obama and President Ian Khama, attended the Johannesburg service held at FNB Stadium.  In Lobatse yesterday afternoon, people...

This rapid decline in infant mortality is not surprising, argues Rolang Majelantle. In his paper titled ‘Infant and Childhood Mortality Levels and Trends in Botswana’, Majelantle says that successful government programmes such as the Prevention...

As at 2011, the official population count for Botswana is 2,024,904, with non-citizens accounting for 5.5 percent of the population (111,846 people in real terms.) Statistics Botswana’s Deputy Statistician General Dabilani Buthali said yesterday...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Lobatse, Nehemiah Modubule, brought the motion to the House, arguing that without such an intervention, the historically significant town of Lobatse would fade into a ghost town. Modubule argued that because of...

The Ambassador of Japan to Botswana Hiroyasu Koboyashi told a gathering at his official residence on Thursday night that his government intends, with the cooperation of the Botswana government, to embark on a pilot project for e-government and...

For the last two years, Joel Motshubi, an unemployed father of four has locked horns with the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) in his quest to have access to water. According to Motshubi, the problem started in January 2012 when he experienced an...

The bill, which was presented by the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture (MYSC) Shaw Kgathi on Tuesday, seeks to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, the Botswana National Sports Council Act, and to establish the sports council under the new name...

To rescue the town, Modubule asked Parliament to request for government to establish an Economic Diversification Unit (EDU) similar to the Selebi-Phikwe Economic Diversification Unit (SPEDU).  He also wants the town to be declared an industrial...

UNFPA’s state of the world population report of 2013, has noted that in 2011, Botswana recorded a 39 primary school students dropped out due to pregnancy, while in the same year 453 dropped out of both junior and secondary schools. Last year there...

 He told Parliament yesterday that this time around, the government would consult widely. Aggressively pushed by the then Minister of Communications and Technology Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, the Act was passed on December 28 2008, obviously to...