But here, it is called ‘letlhafula’ – an evocative word, signifying, among others, the movement of this food from being a side dish to being the centerpiece of our daily diet. As with all healthy foodstuff, it is herbivore but with an...
The military contractors from the West, especially the United States of America and Western Europe, see the ongoing war as a big window of opportunity to reap huge profits from this war the same way they have benefited from other wars through the...
The 2019 general election saw the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) systematically rigging elections assisted by some state organs in the BNF-managed constituencies in the southern part of the country.The courts of law regrettably refused the electoral...
We believe that such words undermine the unremitting members of the BNF who have given so much of themselves in their capacities to fight for this revolution. We wonder who is this man who attacks an organisation he claims he wants to lead.What is...
Disqualified on the basis of age? Hai madoda! This indicates how far the "new" BNF has deviated from the path of political consciousness when a frivolity is made a factor in the debate about the candidacy for the office of party leader.It has been...
He follows in the footsteps of equally discredited characters like Joseph Goebbels and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, otherwise known as Comical Ali, so named because of the most outlandish claims he made during his daily press briefings during the US...
Addressing the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 50th-anniversary commemorations in Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday, President Masisi said the country continued to ensure the safeguarding of the environment through various policies and...
The facts are that Russia, a major nuclear power, has attacked and invaded a peaceful and democratic neighbouring country, which posed no threat to it, nor provoked it. Moreover, President Putin is threatening reprisals on any other state that may...
Contest is the hallmark of democracy. It is only through contest that party members are able to assert their will on who should lead them and how they want the affairs of their movement to be conducted.I say this ladies and gentlemen because often...
Dr Ramzy Baroud is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Islam and Global Affairs based at the Istanbul University in Turkey. In his article, Baroud was reminding African nations and their citizens not to abandon the Palestinian struggles as...
This milestone means that as country we are not far from achieving the UNAIDS’ fast track targets of 95-95-95 before 2030.However, we still have to continue to find PLHIV who do not know their status and who do not easily present to health...
The third Botswana National HIV and AIDS response strategic framework 2018 – 2023 (NSF III) has prioritised AGYW to address vulnerabilities exposing them to HIV infection.Such vulnerabilities include amongst others early sex debut, multiple sex...
Later, WHO escalated the outbreak to a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Life hasn’t been the same ever since the new norm of lockdowns, masks, sanitisers and social distancing were introduced to tackle the menace sown by the virus. It’s now...
And while most scholars agree that judicial independence is critical to maintaining the rule of law and the effective administration of justice, it is clear that some methods for selecting or appointing judges can result in a judiciary that is — or...
This is a Bill, which seeks to make it legal for law enforcement organs of the state to use undercover operations to make interceptions to telephonic communications, access to computer systems and the use of controlled devices in the process of...
The recent coup attempt in the West African coastal state of Guinea-Bissau has brought to the surface the nefarious impact of the drugs or narco-trade on national security and overall democratic governance of states.Guinea-Bissau is generally...
You may answer that many or some, or worse, a few remember them now. Of course many of those who conceived them are now sadly deceased and have entered the pantheon as part of our nation’s heritage, while their surviving contemporaries are aging,...
The recent rise in coups in the continent is a reflection of a declining regional and international willingness to enforce anti-coup norms. It was between 1960 and 2000 when coup d’états were prominent as demonstrated by 82 successful coups...
This statistic has been steadily worsening with Botswana ranked one of the most unequal countries in the world. Unemployment has steadily been climbing over the past 15 years to reach 24% officially (unofficially I suspect if you remove Ipelegeng and...
Statistics show that in 2017, 83.9% of tobacco smokers planned to or were thinking about quitting. More than half (57.8%) of tobacco smokers made a quit attempt. Two-thirds of tobacco smokers (67.0%) who made a quit attempt tried to do so without any...
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