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World Press Freedom Day, 3rd of May is a day to commemorate the contribution of the media to democracy, justice and social reform. It is a day that recognises the contribution of not just the role of the media, but the contribution media activists...

MBONGENI MGUNI   Cometh the hour, cometh the man? For the 277 million citizens spread out across the 15 states making up the SADC region, President Ian Khama’s ascension to their chairmanship on Monday is a Godsend, a non-event or an...

Sometime in June 2000 at a seminar at Botswana National Productivity Centre, President Ian Khama, then vice president, angered Members of Parliament (MPs) across the political divide after likening them to vultures that were all out to loot the...

For years, residents of Botlhatlogo, Sehithwa and Toteng, were among the poorest in Botswana; in 2014, according to the government-run Statistics Botswana, found that 46.2% of the district’s residents lived in abject poverty. But the 2010 advent...

It has now become a ritual for Iue Tjitemisa, 42, to wake up every morning and look towards this abandoned mining structure in the distance and curse. He will curse until he has had enough for the day. There is now complete silence where, just a few...

Supporters of vice president Mokgweetsi Masisi are said to be lobbying their man behind the scenes to stand for the party’s chairmanship position, but odds are against President Khama’s deputy in the fight for the soul of the ruling party. While...

Who emerged the biggest loser in the recent Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Women’s wing elections in Lobatse? It’s certainly not only Tshepo Wareus, but also the former party chairperson and Member of Parliament for Tati East Samson Moyo Guma...

Its is now official that President Ian Khama’s younger brother Tshekedi Khama has joined the ruling Botswana Democratic Party’s  (BDP) chairmanship race. Sources close to the younger Khama this week told Mmegi that the minister of Environment...

In what is turning out to be one of the most bizarre cases in the history of the judiciary in Botswana, the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) refused to prosecute the De Beers Botswana resident director Neo Moroka for the killing of his...

For the first time in Botswana, an independent law firm will attempt to independently prosecute an accused person following the decision by the DPP not to do so. Law firm Senamela Sekga Attorneys represents Margaret Danster. In September last year,...

The video was the missing part of the widely publicised transcriptions of the interrogation that was leaked to the press last year under the heading ‘Disc One’. The leaked transcriptions were however incomplete because they did not have the...

Mmegi has established this in a leaked interrogation videotape between the DIS director general Isaac Kgosi and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic (DCEC) crime investigators. In the videotape, which Mmegi has seen and studied, Kgosi concedes...

Kgosi makes this admission in a tape seen and analysed by Mmegi. In an interrogation with the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) investigators Kgosi said that he installed covert cameras in his office after he realised that some...

The embattled spy chief is likely to face 16 counts of corruption from the initial 35 previously prepared by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC). Mmegi investigations indicate that the DCEC has handed over the docket to the...

It is a truism.  The government of Botswana has clearly taken a draconian position that senior members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) deserve to be kept away from the corners of this beautiful republic.  The recent visa restrictions imposed...