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A man of Indian origin, who is said to own a plot in the area but resides elsewhere where he also has businesses, decided to treat his ‘neighbours’ to food hampers and toiletry.  He had tasked one of his employees to deliver the items to the...

The celebration, aptly themed “Celebrating The Past, Igniting the Future: A Call for Stakeholder Participation”, took place inside four giant marquee tents that had been erected on the grounds previously occupied by red-bricked (later painted...

Dubani worked for The Voice, either freelancing or on a full time basis, all the time. To his early grave, Dubani never wavered in his dedication for The Voice and particularly co-founder, Beata Kasale, who usually treated employees of the newspaper...

I may not be a genius, but like everybody else, I am entitled to my own opinion and thought, independent of everyone else. Some thought and opinion may appear weird, others outlandish, yet others the very panacea people have been looking for. Long...

Her Standard 3 classmates sat confusedly amongst adult mourners, tears streaming down their uncomplicated faces, at White City’s House Number 1666. But heart-broken  speaker after speaker, including the girl’s class teacher comforted the family,...

I am talking about our formative years, both as journalists and media houses, which were also still in their formative stages. Those were truly humble beginnings when newspapers that I found running were The Botswana Gazette, Mmegi and The Botswana...

“Botswana will officially mourn Masire until Sunday, and information about his funeral will be released in coming days, President Ian Khama said. The president’s father, Seretse Khama, was Botswana’s first president after independence from...

Sedudu Island (known as Kasikili Island in Namibia) is a fluvial island in Botswana, formed in the Chobe River adjacent to the border with Namibia which runs down the thalweg of the river immediately north of the island. The island was the subject of...

His mission now, is to write the biography of Patrick van Rensburg, a South African anti-apartheid Afrikaner who turned Botswana into his home in the 1960s and hence brought a new and potentially fruitful dimension in children’s upper education and...

For a number of years now, Bokamoso Richfelt Mogorosi, 25, originally from Tonota, was a permanent feature at the Middle Star shopping complex parking space where, at first he would badger shoppers and Diagnofirm Medical Laboratories (DML) clients...

The elders would then say “Ya mosimane ke e nkgwe (a boy deserves a canning”. They did not discriminate who should get larruping or not. As long as one was of school-going age, any adult seeing a juvenile engaging in unbecoming behaviour was at...

In short, in Botswana, premeditated murder is punishable by death. Period. In most instances, murder cases and the sentences thereafter meted out to the convicted, are like a match made in hell (the opposite of heaven). It leaves a sour taste in the...

Not exactly, argues Professor Part Mgadla, a historian and the director of Confucius Institute. Last Thursday, at the first of a series of lectures on the country’s milestones since independence at the University of Botswana, Mgadla made his...

Every time there is mention of Sir Ketumile Masire, I swell with pride that suddenly invades my whole being. That’s how I felt about this indefatigable son of Africa, when the Botswana Netball Association president, Tebogo Lebotse-Sebego reported...

He remembers vividly how he would listen to these musicians while munching magwinya, which sold for one cent each at Sebego’s tuckshop, owned by the father of the present Botswana Football Association president, Tebogo Sebego. During the 1970s and...