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Ministers of foreign affairs of the SADC countries met in Gaborone last month and endorsed Venson-Moitoi as the southern African region candidate for the position of the Chairperson of the AU Commission. Three candidates from South Africa, Malawi...

This comes a few weeks after the country was ranked the friendliest country to people living with HIV/AIDS, by a March 1 survey published by Afrobarometer, a Pan-African non-partisan research network, which ranked Botswana first among 33 countries...

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) NGOs Group, comprising of Botswana Council of Non–Governmental organisations (BOCONGO), DITSHWANELO, Kuru Family of Organisations, LeGaBiBo, MISA Botswana and Rainbow Identity Association‘s main contention is...

Masisi had arranged to meet the nine councillors, after his Economic Stimulus Package address to Kgatleng District full Council recently to renew his promises and relationship with them. Kgatleng constituencies are believed to have voted for Masisi...

The councillors wanted council officers to answer questions under oath during full council meetings because the latter often gave false information to the former. The mover of the motion, Thabo Komane of Ntshinoge ward, said officers gave inacurate...

The councillors’ main concern was that the government did not consult them on the ESP to know their priority demands. The debate was led by the council chairperson, Mpho Morolong, who said Bakgatla have their priority needs than what is being put...

The councillors, led by chairperson Mpho Morolong and his vice, Stephen Makhura, told Masisi on Wednesday that Morupisi clandestinely cancelled their deal with First National Bank Botswana (FNBB). Morupisi recently cancelled a deal of over P12...

While the council authorities say the new bye-law, gazetted on March 4, 2016 was passed in 2008 after extensive consultation, the tribal administration authorities, however, insist it is not the case. Bakgatla tribal administration representative,...

The Botswana Council of Churches (BCC) and Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN) have revealed that their respective state Presidents, Ian Khama and Hage Geingob, snubbed their requests to meet and defuse the burning issue of the Namibian refugees at...

The two organisations have filed supporting affidavits in the Lobatse High Court case in which the refugees are suing the Botswana government for plans to deport  or forcibly repatriate them to Namibia. The Namibian government has already reacted...

Shaheed, who paid a 13-day official visit to Botswana in 2014, said her visit was to identify, in a spirit of co-operation and constructive dialogue, good practices in and possible obstacles to the promotion and protection of cultural rights in...

The UN Special Rapporteur, Farida Shaheed, who spent some time in the country in 2014 making these observations, made these recommendations. She and her team noted that some groups, which have requested to be recognised as tribes under the Bogosi...

The Hambukushu’s views were also shared by Batawana who have notified Kgosi Tawana Moremi that they wanted to see the minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Slumber Tsogwane in relation to his meetings with the Wayeyi. In the missive...

Entitled ‘Good Neighbours’, the perception survey asked respondents whether they would be opposed to having homosexual neighbours. Thirty-three countries participated in the study released this week. In four countries, Cape Verde, South Africa,...

Mahumapelo said the commission has sidelined Botswana-based Bakgatla. The premier said the report he signed recently has serious omissions and commissions that he only learnt of. At the forefront of his reservations, the premier wants the commission...