“It’s emotionally draining. It’s tough. You cannot go out. It’s just the same four walls, seeing these everyday with nothing new. “We have had guys experience panic attacks and we believe others are going into depression.” Mmilili Santu...
Elephant Havens, the brainchild of young local elephant handler who used to work at Abu Camp in the heart of the Okavango, and philanthropic American couple, is presenting a unique opportunity for the people of Ngamiland to change their mindset about...
On Monday, Letshego Holdings will unveil full year 2019 results showing an increase of up to P157 million in pretax profits, continuing a long standing track record of delivering returns to investors. However, the 21-year old homegrown microlender,...
It takes very little to spread panic. A scream, loud noise in a sensitive surrounding or even sudden running where running is not called for. For the passengers of BP 204 from OR Tambo to Johannesburg that afternoon, one quietly spoken sentence from...
When the now suspended permanent secretary to the President (PSP), Carter Morupisi first appeared in court on September 3, 2019, the whole event seemed like a political smokescreen for the general elections. Watching such a powerful man sitting in...
Since its commissioning in 2012, Lucara’s Karowe Diamond Mine has fast built a reputation for finding some of the world’s most remarkable diamonds. From 2015’s 1,109-carat Lesedi la Rona and 813-carat Constellation, to last year’s 1,758-carat...
In response to epidemic situation and the travel-rush of people during the Spring Festival holidays, the Chinese government has made the prevention and control of novel coronavirus-related pneumonia a national priority and set up a national joint...
MATOBO/GOSHWE: With unemployment expected to hover around 19% this year from 18% last year, some people, mostly women, on the outskirts of Matobo and Goshwe villages, have pitched camps in the bush to harvest mopani worms. Many of them harvest...
The government’s seasonal agricultural inputs programme, ISPAAD, was climate sensitive for a few weeks last year before pressure from farmers won the day. The programme, on which government spends upwards of P600 million each year providing...
Kgori Capital implicated in NPF scandal Kgori Capital, an asset management entity, was one of the companies that came under the spotlight when the National Petroleum Fund (NPF), a statutory fund run under the Energy Affairs Department, hit the...
When taking over government on April 1, last year, President Mokgweetsi Masisi talked of rescuing the country from years of misrule by the previous administration under former president, Ian Khama. The first act of the rescue plan involved the...
Farmers are a notoriously philosophical lot. In their defence, any activity that involves spending a lot of time watching the sky for rain tends towards one becoming a deep thinker. Farmers know all about the Ts and Cs of life, that few things are...
In desperate attempts to block the raging waters from inundating their houses, some pilled sand at the home entrances. However residents’ efforts were somewhat in vain as the water made its way through. In other homes, the floods left chickens...
Given recent events in the matter of the alleged P100 billion gone missing, it is increasingly apparent that the State may have made a real dog’s dinner of the case against Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) agent Welheminah Maswabi,...
Omphemetse Taunyane* a young employee started working for her company several years ago as a casual worker. Due to hard work and dedication, the young woman found herself securing a permanent position in her workplace. This was a dream come true for...
Traditionally, finance ministers have a handful of choices to cover deficits. Dip into the country’s foreign reserves, borrow from supranational bodies such as the African Development Bank or borrow from the local capital market. Each of those...
Where his predecessor, the late Baledzi Gaolathe was reserved, renowned for being expressionless and restrained, Matambo during his decade at the helm, built a culture of something approaching ‘fearsome’ around him. “Gaolathe was quiet but...
However, the study says this happened some 200,000 years ago when the landscape was a lake, lush green and replete with even more wildlife on which our forebears feasted. This is based on the research led by, amongst others, geneticist Professor...
However, what is heart-warming is that their research is real science and the proposed location offers much weightier possibilities than the ‘Lost City of the Kalahari’ in the van De Post fables. What is reassuring, therefore, is that the...
They feel the preparations of the just concluded national polls disregarded them. Modiredi Monthe defined the past polls as the worst in his view since he started voting during the nation’s second polls in 1969. He was a 14-year-old primary...
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