“Countries with few or no vaccine supply constraints should consider the issues of global equity when making policy decisions about vaccinating children and adolescents,” WHO said in a statement on Wednesday.“In the context of ongoing global...
In the wake of the damning results of the Auditor General’s findings into the millions of pula misspent, wasted and abused in the first eight months of the pandemic, more scrutiny is being piled onto how fiscal authorities monitor public...
On Monday, the Presidential COVID-19 Task Force announced that the entire country had ‘gone green’, representing the first time this year that COVID-19 cases have fallen below 10 per 100,000 this year.For Batswana who endured the harshest winter...
Last week, the Botswana delegation at the global UN climate summit in Glasgow signed a commitment, along with more than 40 other countries, pledging to ease the country’s use of coal. Critically, however, the local delegation declined to sign a key...
Eunice Ntobedzi has enjoyed an illustrious career. A graduate of the University of Pretoria and following sponsorship from the UK government via a Chevening scholarship, Ntobedzi was awarded her MSc in Management (Enterprise & Business Growth) by the...
Other coal-dependent developing countries such as Botswana have not scored similar levels of financial support, even though they are required to also move away from coal, as part of global climate change commitments.In fact, on Monday in his State of...
According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), which produces the world’s most authoritative reports on value in the tourism sector, Botswana’s travel and tourism sector contributed about P19 billion to the overall economy in 2019,...
Recently, Lorraine Maseng, a University of Botswana student studying Social Work hosted a debate on Human Rights versus Abortion to find people’s opinions on legalising abortion in Botswana. The debate naturally drew mixed reactions with some...
KAZA’s estimated 220,000 elephants have attracted global attention. The majority of these elephants, about 130,000, reside in Botswana with neighbouring Zimbabwe home to an estimated 80,000 of the animals.The other three KAZA members; Angola,...
TONOTA: Teachers face many challenges in their work, one of which is classroom discipline. In some cases, pupils have even threatened their teachers with knives and similar weapons. And that makes the classroom a potentially dangerous place where the...
Late on Thursday afternoon, information coming out of the conference where 180 countries and 30,000 delegates are hammering out climate change commitments, indicated that at least 49 countries had officially committed to moving away from coal and...
The UN’s World Food Programme’s (WFP) latest research indicates that 50 million people in the SADC region are facing food insecurity. Of these, 78% are in just two countries: the DRC with about 27 million and South Africa with the balance.By...
Before the world changed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the most loved and fashionable vehicle was the ‘Vrr Phaa’. The name, which came from South African townships, refers to modern sports cars that make a semi explosive sound when...
Local Coal Bed Methane (CBM) developers have dreams of replicating the phenomenal success of the Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas (GLNG) project in Queensland, Australia.Gladstone, established in 2011, has created 6,000 jobs, generating US$42.45...
Early morning at Harvey’s Pan, on the northern side of Savuti River, Sekoti is sleeping like the ‘man of the house’. Relaxed and at home on the territory which is known to belong to his elder brothers, he is in a Kappa position, back-to-back...
So your favourite fast-food treat, the spicy, hot chicken wing, has not been available for months? So what? After all, the other chicken pieces are still available at the country’s fast-food franchises.But what if it was explained to you that the...
Fifty-five years into Independence, the 16-year-old Three Dikgosi Monument in Gaborone is undoubtedly ‘the’ national monument. The 5.4-metre statue of Khama III of the Bangwato, Sebele I of the Bakwena, and Bathoen I of the Bangwaketse at the CBD...
Sceptics point to the initial optimism that greeted the start of the COVID-19 vaccination programme in March. At that time, the Health Ministry had just wrapped up a lightning speed countrywide measles campaign, vaccinating 220,000 children within 10...
TONOTA: Most classes in junior secondary schools have more than 40 pupils and, in some schools, 50. Indeed, student numbers should be reduced to no more than 30 per class. In fact, in some private secondary schools, classes may have no more than 20...
For technocrats in the Finance Ministry, the broader goal in the short-term is to balance the budget, which would be a return to the fiscal stability necessary to continue the country’s sustainable development aspirations. That type of stability...
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