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At the pinnacle of his address, Masisi commonly known by a moniker ‘Sisiboy’ in political circles, seemingly ‘dribbled’ the villagers when he flavoured his address with a tone purely conciliatory in nature. At the outset of his address, he...

With a serious demeanour, BNF and UDC president 53-year-old Advocate Boko told his story for the first time openly to the party’s multitudes perhaps as a take home about somewhat unpalatable developments in the two parties that he leads.His eyes...

For a long time, the body languages communicated by Boko and his (now suspended) deputy Dumelang Saleshando was of two men in deep crisis at the helm of a party challenging to oust the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from nearly 60 years in...

At the nimble inception of the BPF, former president Ian Khama and also Bangwato Kgosi, there was a general belief that tribal politics will yield desired political results to oust the ruling party from the seat of power.Khama was quick to seek...

Cabinet is an advisory body made up of the heads of the Executive departments. Its members solely serve at the pleasure of a sitting president and are mostly the President’s closest confidants.It is the dream of ruling party legislators to serve in...

In the absence of our crime beat reporter, PINI BOTHOKO who has bereavement back home, we chose to look at few events that stood out in the crime scene. The crime beat contributed immensely in our coverage of events this year.Crime stories usually...

The boot camp brought statisticians from Statistics Botswana (SB), the Ministry of Health, the National Aids and Health Promotion Agency (NAHPA), public relations professionals, journalists, WHO officials and other stakeholders under one roof at the...

When the BPF, a splinter party from the ruling BDP was launched three years ago on July 6 in Kanye, a village in the southern District of the country, it hit the ground running. Its founding president, Biggie Butale is on record having told the...

Botswana’s ruling party has been in power since the country's independence in 1966 and every election year, regime change has seemingly been an agonisingly and elusive moving target.When the country goes to the polls in 2024, the opposition...

The VP’s lobby group has performed with aplomb by thumping the opposite lobby group headed by former Cabinet minister, Nonofo Molefhi to a complete whitewash.This is despite political commentators doubting Tsogwane’s prowess in contesting elected...

It will be interesting to appreciate what could have motivated Molefhi’s sudden return to contest the BDP positions. He has been conspicuously absent from party activities.The towering politician is surely exercising his party's constitutional...

Justin Hunyepa is the Botswana National Front (BNF) spokesperson and he hails the BNF’s coalition partnership with the Botswana Peoples Party (BPP) and later the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) as a winning formula. He challenges anyone to dismiss...

Many factors have apparently been conniving against the UDC’s outspoken legislator. For a long time, Ramogapi has been a loner in the wider Palapye constituency now with an estimated population of about 53,000.From the 2019 General Elections, the...

The trio of Mohwasa, Happy Bashe from the north, and Naledi Akambakamba reportedly joins the BNF leadership elected in July in Gaborone that is expected to take the party to the 2024 General Election.The BNF constitution mandates that after an...

Like or hate him, UDC president Boko has been the busiest and consistent politician in the country lately, taking every moment seriously.He has been preaching a message of hope to all and sundry that the UDC project can benefit Batswana away from the...