It has been about eight months since Botswana closed down its borders in a desperate attempt to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. And after a few lockdowns and travel bans, the people of Ngamiland, who have been making a living mainly through...
Many residents believe the thunderbolt that hit the kgotla was “sent as ammunition to eliminate the incumbent” in the raging Bogosi feud – the bolt struck right at the spot where the Kgosi normally sits. But soon the village noticed more...
FRANCISTOWN: Who really holds the National Assembly accountable, as an institution that provides checks and balances on the government? This question is being asked for the umpteenth time, but it doesn’t seem there is a quick answer to it. It is...
In years gone by, the garden variety con artist would pounce on their victim in the streets, convince them of some ‘miracle’ or magical financial solution and make off with their hard earned cash. From those claiming to double your money, sell...
Visiting the Three Dikgosi Monument in Gaborone, which has been positioned as the country’s main Nation Monument, is very disappointing and shameful, especially for students of history of Botswana. “Historical resistance figures who opposed...
Whenever I watched news on television, my focus would be on that interpreter in the corner of the screen. I always wondered myself how they do it. So last year, I was thrown into the deep end when the executive director of Botswana Association of...
Every year hundreds of thousands of tourists arrive in Botswana during the winter season for safari. But this year, the tourism peak season had no foreign tourists because the pandemic stopped the annual pilgrimages to this safari capital of the...
Botswana is widely regarded as a conservation hub, with an abundance of a variety of wildlife. The southern African country is home to the world’s largest elephant population at more than 130,000. This has meant the world’s eyes have kept a...
According to the Bible, Jesus chided the Pharisees for “straining gnats and swallowing camels”, a criticism of how they improperly placed focus on minor issues, while allowing major ones to pass through. The Auditor General’s frustration with...
According to the DMS, this season will be wetter than the last one, which government recently announced millions of pula in drought relief to certain farmers for. The DMS also predicts that the southwest will start off moderately dry and then become...
“So, how well do you know Gaborone?” Professor Fred Morton, historian and member of The Botswana Society - my guide for the day, fired a question while I was still drying the sanitiser on my hands. Without sounding overly confident, I told him...
FRANCISTOWN: So many times in my career as a writer, I have written about the passing of many prominent people and commoners in our society alike. Little did I know that one day, I will be confronted by the stark reality of paying my last respect to...
Many have asked me about the highlight of the expedition and I have battled to come up with just one. I could say it is driving on the Kgalagadi red sand dunes. The detour that Yours Truly and his travelling party reluctantly took from Kgalagadi...
Bakeries have fallen great heights from their heydays when they were the pride of the village, to their current shamed status, small entities squashed in busy industrial areas, barely getting by and surviving only through the cut-throat battles for...
According to the experts, local political parties should take a cue from the US by electing women to positions of power in their political parties. Mmegi Staffer, LEBOGANG MOSIKARE reports FRANCISTOWN: Since the advent of politics in Botswana,...
Our own economy is on its knees following the April nation-wide lockdown. Many small-scale companies have gone under, while other companies are retrenching, and workers are subjected to pay cuts. The situation is going to get worse before it gets...
It’s not only boxers who know the pain of taking heavy blows, mounting the courage to get up, then taking even more to send you to the ropes. The alcohol industry, a sector employing about 60,000 people directly and indirectly, has had a year which...
The alcohol industry has been one of the hardest hit sectors in the COVID-19 pandemic, with three booze bans imposed since the first case of the virus was reported on March 30. Industry players have been left bamboozled, their plans for the year...
Bars were closed about two weeks ago due to a new alcohol ban, and the sector is struggling as revenues have dried up, while overheads such as wages and rentals mount. Brown Sport Bar owner, Nametso Lillian Griesmeir called on government to assist...
FRANCISTOWN: While it is a truism that Moswaane’s defection from the BDP is a bitter pill to swallow for some of his constituents and general BDP members across the country, lecturers Adam Mfundisi and Dr Leornard Sesa from Department of Political...
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