It was in the summer of 1994 when I landed in Francistown, then a town infested with squatter settlements in all its directions. Somerset East, West, PWD, Kgaphamadi, Maipaafela, Monarch, Madzibalori, Matjimenyenga, Coloured and others were indeed an...
Mmegi: You were one of the main architects of Botswana’s historic 2011 public servants’ strike, how do you think that strike had shaped or influenced labour relations between government and unions in the country? Motshwarakgole: When the new...
Mmegi: You were of the main architects of Botswana’s historic 2011 public servants’ strike, how do you think that strike has shaped or influenced labour relations between government and unions in Botswana? Marenga: Notable achievements happened...
To use an exhausted cliché, it was already raining for the BBS Ltd directors this week, when it began pouring. BBS shareholder and Botswana Centre for Public Integrity executive director, Pusetso Morapedi sued the directors at the High Court seeking...
Sixty years after explorers first noted the “quartz veins rich in copper, silver and lead” in what was then referred to as ‘North Ghanziland’, the Kalahari Copperbelt appears to have lined up all the variables needed for the sustainable...
On April 8, 2021, the presidential jet OK1 landed at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport just after 8pm and before President Mokgweetsi Masisi could sit behind the wheel to drive his Toyota GD6 home, he met the press in a televised media...
Justice Tebogo Tau delivers a judgement on whether the board was right to dismiss Molefe and company secretary Sipho Showa, a potential legal end to two weeks of highly public sparring between the sides. Ahead of the judgement, Molefe will remember...
FRANCISTOWN: As the BBS boardroom hoo-hah rages on, a pertinent question is: who really is Showa? Already there is gossip in the corporate space that the main target in the BBS saga could be Molefe whilst Showa is just but collateral damage. That...
One night recently, a suspected Zambian poacher was nabbed while four others escaped after law enforcement in Namibia caught them crossing into the Okavango Delta in Botswana to carry out their illegal activities. According to reports of the...
Botswana’s hunting season opened this week Monday, amid optimism from the hunting safari companies and local professional hunters, despite last month’s decision to put elephants on the red list. It has been a dry period between 2014 and 2019 as...
This is despite the fact that the two urban areas have identical economic challenges. Regardless of several calls to save the Francistown economy, it appears as if there is no urgent policy or initiatives formulated by the government to address the...
The Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry, Peggy Serame recently told Parliament that in the three-year period from April 2017, 2,294 jobs had been created in the SPEDU region, from a target of 6,856. The numbers, analysts say, indicate the...
Perhaps, the recent rising mortalities of COVID-19 related ailments in our shores are the source of societal fears and worries. When a report is mentioned that a family member has tested positive for the virus, people tend to surrender everything to...
But, as fate would have it, Mogokgwane who on a casual look appears as fit as a fiddle, has unfortunately been battling against glaucoma that is threatening to cut his career short and possibly render him completely blind. Amongst many other things,...
In times past, groups of men would depart before dawn from the cattle posts on hunting excursions, indulging in a practice as old as humankind. Using skills inherited from their forebears and polished by cattle herders, the teams would diligently...
But it will be amiss of me not to try. To the world beyond, Mma Matante was a powerhouse of sorts but to us, she was a loving ever-present mother to the neighbourhood children, as she was to her own. So here I am, writing an obituary of one that I...
At times his painful cough lasts long, so much that telling the story of his survival becomes a challenge. Mathe, a media practitioner-turned horticulturist was recently on 10-day isolation after he tested positive for COVID-19. He is on the path to...
Beaten and battered as it is, the alcohol industry continues to demonstrate surprising resilience. Despite only being operational for 183 days out of a total 286 days between March 21, 2020, the first sales ban and December 2020, the end of the...
FRANCISTOWN: Adam Mfundisi, UB lecturer in politics and administrative studies, blames lack of strategic leadership as having contributed to the slow pace in prevention, control and vaccination of citizens in Botswana. He declares this week that...
It was during the height of the first of wave of the Coronavirus global pandemic. The grim days, when COVID-19 wreaked havoc through some of the world best medical institutions, and left wealthy western nations helplessly counting bodies. It was the...
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