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Botswana government is over-reacting
A Zimbabwean court has finally pronounced a verdict on the blameworthiness of th...
Government has increased Value Added Tax (VAT) by two percentage points, from 10 percent to 12 percent, as it tries to compensate for dwindled mineral and customs revenues by dipping its hands into ... Read more
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Marumo in early Egypt exit
Botswana international goalkeeper, Modiri Marumo is back in the country after th...
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Sebele gets 4-year jail term
MOLEPOLOLE: Curtains finally fell on the former Bakwena regent and president of ...
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2010 Budget Speech (Full text)
"TRANSFORMING OUR ECONOMY AFTER THE CRISIS: 2010 AND BEYOND"
NEWS
Govt hikes VAT...the reaction | Dr Sayana comes to the rescue | |
| Shock has greeted government's decision to hike Value Added Tax (VAT) by two percent to 12 percent, with various commentators saying the move would do... | FRANCISTOWN: Former Jubilee Hospital superintendent Dr Veera Sayana and his wife have recently opened a Senior Citizens Free Health Clinic in Francist... |
BUSINESS
SA looking at stimulus measures - report | De Beers targets 51 million carats | |
| South Africa is looking at whether it should maintain stimulus measures as the economy has not been severely affected by a global economic slowdown, c... | DE BEERS target in diamond demand is pegged at 51 million carats this year, a level it last achieved in 2008. |
SPORT
Marumo in early Egypt exit | Pirates-GU tie moved to Port Elizabeth | |
| Botswana international goalkeeper, Modiri Marumo is back in the country after the Egyptian Premier League (EPL) cut short his stay at Alexandria's Har... |  The CAF Champions League return leg tie between Gaborone United (GU) and South African giants, Orlando Pirates has been moved from Johannesburg to Por... |
FEATURES
Is the shining star, that is Botswana fading? | 2010 Budget Speech (Full text) | |
| In a private conversation, a diplomat from another African country once told me the region is largely baffled by Botswana's seemingly puritan attitude... | "TRANSFORMING OUR ECONOMY AFTER THE CRISIS: 2010 AND BEYOND" |
OPINION
What about the Pula Traveller | As I See It-Twisted logic | |
| The sun has set in a burst of colours, the evening cools and slowly the heat of summer becomes bearable again. | "With all the painful disclosures coming out of Botswana, the fact that the press is allowed to report it all without restrictions, and no one seems w... |
ARTS & CULTURE
Backstage-America's greatest film poet | Miss Botswana auditions attract few participants | |
| Man of Aran (1934) is being shown today only at 7 pm at the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School by the Gaborone Film Society. After an intermission anoth... | FRANCISTOWN: Few Miss Botswana aspirants turned up for the first session of the auditions for the coveted pageant held at Thapama Hotel in Francistown... |
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