Former finance minister Kenneth Matambo has sought to review and set aside the proceedings of the Select Committee of the National Assembly, and that of the National Assembly itself, primarily on the basis that the adoption of the Committee’s...
Some psychologists call it “disaster fatigue” or specifically in this case, “Covid fatigue,” a situation where the sheer volume of information about the ongoing pandemic, the constant stress, fear and helplessness began building in once...
A stroke of a pen was enough. More accurately, it is the stroke of a pen on the last page of a hefty partnership agreement dated November 11, 2014, signed by BPOPF and CMB directors. Legal experts on both sides of the dispute agree that the...
FRANCISTOWN: A question on everybody’s lips today is where have we gone wrong as a country? Our dependence on the neighbouring Republic of South Africa for everything is apparently widening instead of narrowing. Botswana attained her independence...
Local post mortems into elephant fatalities in the northwest showed no definitive cause of deaths, but a “high parasitic” burden was found throughout the gut of one carcass, an Environmental ministry report passed to Mmegi shows. Local...
In their different incarnations over the years, pyramid schemes and similar cons have had the same hallmarks. They rely on the continuous recruitment of new members to reward older ones and at some point, they inevitably become unsustainable and...
The P600-plus million each year that government spends on the Integrated Support Programme for Arable Agriculture Development (ISPAAD) is set to be substantially cut going forward, as the economy is restructured towards long-term growth and...
The ministry recommends that the opening should be implemented in 2020. “The [Tourism & Hospitality] sector could look at bringing tourists (with negative COVID-19 status) from, say Europe or North America on direct flights into Maun or Kasane,...
The Labour Force survey for the fourth quarter of 2019 released recently is only the second quarterly labour report Statistics Botswana has produced, following on from the third quarter edition released in January. The data indicates a troubling...
FRANCISTOWN: The growing numbers of unemployed young people, who are the future of this country, should be a source of worry to the authorities. This worrying phenomenon means families continue to be burdened with the responsibility of providing for...
The development of a major mall was paralysed for sometime in 2016, as Seretse demanded that provisions be made for citizens not only in the allocation of spaces in retail developments but also in supply contracts for the shops that operate in...
According to the people of the Delta, the mention would trigger thoughts of the river. To them the Okavango Delta is a river that is the source of their lives. The water they drink, where they fish twini and mpa-khibidu (cat fish and tilapia),...
Going to one of the country’s top tourism addresses and then returning into a 48-day lockdown must count as one of life’s curious ironies. The juxtaposition of the two cannot be more stark, a poles-apart experience with surreal luxury and...
That Nchindo heads Debswana Diamond Company, the largest earner of Botswana’s foreign exchange, is only part of the story. Picture this. He has been close to Mogae since they were students at Oxford University. He still has the president’s ear....
If the economy is a cake, many would argue that indigenous Batswana have not been receiving their fair share. Historically, the country’s economic structure has leaned towards capitalism on one end, as espoused by free market policies and socialism...
Batsweletse ‘King Can’ Mogabala first arrived in Gaborone in 1996. He was just a 17-year old Form Two dropout from Moshopha in Tswapong, coming to fight off the vicious poverty circle that was consuming him in the village. Six weeks into his...
FRANCISTOWN: The un-rehabilitated mining sites around the 123-year-old city of Francistown, popularly known by its moniker ‘the Ghetto’ are a clear reminder of the gold rush of the late 1800s. It was the gold rush that attracted thousands of...
However, the informal sector in the city faces several problems. For years those eking a living in the informal sector, particularly vendors (operating within the city’s main CBD) have accused the Francistown City Council (FCC) of failing to...
FRANCISTOWN: The clatter of cars and people from different places in and around the city pervades the environment at the Francistown transport terminus. People from different parts of the city congregate to sell different wares at the terminus,...
Omphemetse ‘Queen’ Kebotswang, who has been trading as a street vendor for the past 13 years, is amongst the underprivileged members of the society here that were pushed into the corner by the mandatory lockdown. Queen sells fruits and...
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