When they last met to discuss a joint industrialisation bid last April, member states of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), opted for diplomacy and spoke of regional unity for investment, rather than the restless elephant in the room.Last...
Established 40 years ago, Chobe Holdings Limited operates two famous safari brands, Desert & Delta Safaris and Ker & Downey Botswana, as well as providing safari services through its tour operator The Booking Company and integrated air charter...
Mike had come in earlier in February and I came in seven months later. I later learnt he had joined the newspaper from Maun where he had been teaching at Maun Secondary School.The other veterans were Pamela Dube, Mesh Moeti and Keto Segwai. Sechele...
They then must have concluded that to achieve that goal the city would require many things including multiple traffic lanes and public artworks. So they started getting them. Now Gaborone has several traffic intersections, fewer traffic circles,...
Despite the numerous voices that have spoken and are still speaking, there’s no debate about where the economy should be headed. Government policy, priorities and strategies echo the advice and recommendations of entities such as the World Bank,...
Developing nations have for years demanded that industrialised and polluting countries pay to help the less emitting, poor countries finance their climate change mitigation and development paths. The Loss and Damages Fund was established at COP27 in...
As in previous meetings of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as the Conference of the Parties or COP, the upcoming gathering in Dubai is expected to be dominated by discussions around financing. At COP28 in Dubai, developing...
In his remarks at the Natural Diamonds Summit on Monday, President Mokgweetsi Masisi appeared to break from the version of the speech that his office and government communications would later share.“We as Botswana and others will protect the...
But as the Biblical manuscripts rightly point out: who builds a house without first considering its cost?To reach the status of a high-income economy, Botswana will have to significantly increase its wealth levels, a near doubling in Gross National...
We landed in the centre of the stunning Okavango Delta after 45 frightening minutes of an epic private charter flight operated by Safari Air out of Maun International Airport.Even though I was terrified, I was able to get the most amazing and...
It was only one-way: The boys will immediately receive two or three strokes as a sharp reminder never to repeat it. This was the elders’ first line in many attempts to inculcate a sense of responsibility and accountability on the boys, for the...
Environmental, Social, and Governance, or ESG, was once a lofty idea that was supported as a driver of change in the corporate sector. However, businesses more concerned with looks than results have hijacked, distorted, and dilute it. It's high...
The homegrown group celebrated its 40th anniversary recently, sharing the journey of its impact over the decades.Where others saw a patch of remote savannah, Wilderness’ pioneers were able to spot potential, building value for the company, the...
“The United States is all in on Africa,” President Biden affirmed during the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit last December. Our stories have always been intertwined. Today we know that our success—the success of all our people, on both sides of...
Nonofo Leteane from National AIDS and Health Promotion Agency (NAHPA) believes there are some stereotypes around the way men are socialised.Speaking at the recent UNAIDS Pitso, he pointed out that society imposes certain expectations on men that lead...
Mmegi: Kindly provide your brief background, where you are from, your primary and secondary education, how you made your choice of study at tertiary and what that choice was?Ntwaetsile: I am Dr Kushatha Ntwaetsile, a Computer Scientist turned...
In just a year, the price of a carton of milk has soared to over P20 while the price of cooking oil has increased by over 50% and all the central bank can say to the battered consumer is economic jargon like base effects, bank desirable rate blah......
The policymakers behind the recent statutory notice giving Botswana Oil (BOL) the exclusive right to import 90% of the country’s fuel, were evidently not interested in half-measures, or half-stepping.From April 1 next year under the 90% “import...
Goboza is an established auto electrician-cum-electrician, farmer, and philanthropist as evidenced by the giving that I would witness him extending to his community over the days that I visited him.I first encountered Goboza at a nearby Good-Price...
FRANCISTOWN: Masego Lecha, a certified addiction professional at Sbrana Psychiatric Hospital, recently revealed that the country’s main facility for mental health rehabilitation does not have sign language interpreters.This, she said, makes it...
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