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The party has lately been gripped by brouhaha with some of its legislators strongly feeling that the Executive is unduly extending its hand into matters of the Legislature.Five months as head of State and government since October 2024 General...

It was the frosty light mizzles in the early stages of the rainy season that particularly sent boys and girls of our times into an alluring whirl, boogying and chanting as an appreciation for the genesis of the rainy season. It was a moment to...

For nearly six decades, weaker opposition coalitions wriggled to oust the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. It was an exercise that proved arduous with all efforts simply pitiful and ludicrous. The opposition was not given even the...

Boko recently told a Cabinet retreat held at the Pavillion conference facility in Gaborone to defend freedom of expression.At a meeting that was also attended by various senior government officials, the President whose government is human rights...

The trouble-torn BPP, an affiliate of the ruling Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), recently suspended the Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship, Tiroeaone Ntsima (party secretary general), BPP youth president, Vivian Ramokapane, (youth league...

NEW DELHI: India, a country that occupies the greater part of South Asia, has the largest population in the world at 1, 450, 935, 791, having overtaken China, which has been the most populous nation in the world for the longest time. Coming from a...

The University of Botswana (UB) political science lecturer, Dr Leonard Sesa, enunciated this week that the President represents the unity of the nation and is the embodiment of State continuity. Responding to Mmegi enquiries, the political scientist...

The nation is still reeling in shock following a chilling incident that saw a speedy young man wielding a paper beating a cluster of security officers and landing at the genesis guard of honour inspected by President Boko to the chagrin of the nation...

These are the words of USA-based Nigerian scholar, Associate Professor Uche T. Onyebadi of Texas Christian University.The words of this scholar resonate well with the situation of Botswana National Front (BNF), a member of the ruling coalition party,...

The polluted air was pregnant with a feeling or atmosphere so intense as to suggest that Masisi and Tsogwane had almost done something that openly earned them sustained booing and the wrath of the public. The somewhat unruly public behaviour or spat...

In the race for the highest office in the land is Dumelang Saleshando of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), Mokgweetsi Masisi of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) vying for the second term, Mephato Reatile of the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) and...

Naysayers had already dismissed the Biggie Butale-led BRP as a non-starter fearing that it may even fail to take part in the October 30 General Election as the youngest party started its preparations on the wrong footing.BRP, a splinter party from...

He does not filter his language when he speaks about the process of elections. He has a strong belief that for the past 12 parliamentary polls, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has not been so popular like its popular vote reflects, giving the...

“The time for change is now,” Boko thunders as he opened the conversation just in the corridors of the Gaborone High Court. He led a brigade of royal blue-kitted loyalists who had come to witness him being nominated alongside other party leaders...

Four political parties successfully registered their presidential nominees, which is an important step pre the 2024 General Election which is billed for October 30. Masisi was nominated as the BDP presidential candidate for the second term, while...