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Mogae defends Khama’s flying of BDF planes
President Festus Mogae has defended his deputy Ian Khama’s continued piloting of army aircraft.
In a statement issued yesterday, Mogae said as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, he had authorised Khama to continue to pilot government aircraft when the occasion warrants.“From time to time, most often when elections or by-elections are pending, the question has been raised as to whether His Honour the Vice President,UB students boycott classes over delayed allowances
University of Botswana (UB) students boycotted classes and held a demonstration yesterday to protest the delay in paying allowances for first-year students. The students were annoyed that the UB administration failed to keep its promise to remit the allowances by Monday this week. By 10 o’clock in the morning, crowds of angry students started banging doors, chanting and generally creating havoc at the campus. Court president pleads with men on sexual behaviour
FRANCISTOWN: President of the Gerald Estates Customary Court, Paul Motshwane, has called on men to accept that times have changed and having multiple sexual partners is no longer safe. He lamented that a lot of men are still deriving a sense of pride in a culture of multiple sexual partners, even in this era of HIV/AIDS. He encouraged men to be trustworthy, faithful and honest with their sexual partners.Skelemani accepts responsibility for legal errors
Former Attorney General, Phandu Skelemani, has accepted responsibility for legal oversights that occurred during his term of office. Speaking in an interview yesterday from the campaign trail in Francistown, Skelemani said it would be hypocritical of him not to own up to the mistakes committed by officers in the Attorney General’s Chambers in allocation of state land.Politicians camp in Francistown West
FRANCISTOWN: The cloud of dust that hangs above the poorly constructed structures of the low-income location of Block-One in the Francistown South constituency depicts the gravity of political activity on the ground.Where has all the compassion gone?
Society is a long way from accepting people with
disabilities, writes TOMELETSO SEREETSI
History has it that the disabled have been associated with bad luck and misfortune in many parts of the world. They have been cast away from the rest of society. Newly born babies have been lost to dark dungeons to rot and die away with the perceived ill luck.Masire to tutor on leadership
Former president Sir Ketumile Masire will be a keynote speaker at the Eskom African Business Leadership Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa from 13 to 15 October.
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