Divisions emerge in BDP youth ranks
FRANCISTOWN: The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) youth congress and elections scheduled for Bobonong mid this month have been hit by controversy.

BDP cllr escapes remand
SELEBI-PHIKWE: A Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) councillor in Moletemane, Jantlha Bojalwa escaped remand last week when he was granted a P2,000 bail by Selebi-Phikwe senior magistrate Vihiligan Jogasothy.

BNF choir spits fire
Songs. They can be used to entertainment guests or to provide a break at functions for speakers and the audience to loosen up. Sometimes they can be more than just songs. At the Botswana National Front (BNF), the political songs are as venomous as the stuff their politicians shout into the microphones.

Moupo slams 'Khama dynasty'
The timing was perfect. The Botswana National Front (BNF) president, Otsweletse Moupo turned the long weekend into a Khama-bashing session when he slammed the family of the founding president for destroying opposition parties in the country.

Maforaga withdraws from BDP youth elections
FRANCISTOWN: The race for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) youth chairmanship has become a two-way contest after the withdrawal of one of the candidates. Isaac Maforaga told Mmegi yesterday that he is no longer in the running, leaving Kefentse Mzwinila and Kitso Seloma to fight it out.

Review open learning curriculum - SADC told
Open school learning curriculum needs to be critically reviewed to enhance its efficacy, the director of the Botswana College of Distance Learning (BOCODOL), Daniel Tau has said. He said the review is necessary to make learners graduating from the open learning initiative to have the full potential to effectively compete in the labour market.

Fisher on a cleaning mission
Ikageng Community Junior Secondary in Metsimotlhabe is scheduled to undertake a village clean up campaign on July 8, which will be championed by the Commander of the Botswana Defence Force (BDF), Lieutenant General Louis Fisher accompanied by the MP for the area Edward Raletobane.

BEBS threatens to sue Gabz FM
Business and Enterprises Solutions Botswana (BEBS) have threatened to sue Gabz FM for using their trademark/brand name, Consumer Watchdog, in their Monday morning show.

Court convicts man for double deaths
FRANCISTOWN: The High Court has convicted a man who killed his two-timing girlfriend and her uncle and reserved judgement to a later dater. Though Nchidzi Hazard Scotch denied killing his lover Tshegofatso Dihemelo and her uncle Gosalamang Sekgore in Mahalapye on October 2003, Justice Zibani Makhwade found him guilty of ending the lives of the two.