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Ryder Gabathuse
  • Serame’s meteoric rise

    This Setswana proverb resonates very well with the words of former Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Solomon Sekwakwa, who from an early stage was able to foretell that Serame, Botswana’s Minister of Finance, was...

  • Church fights Sebogodi’s mysterious fires

    It was a euphoric moment that was greeted with prayer madness as the praise and worship team started by belting a praise song that sent the church into high spirits of worship ahead of the Prophet’s big task. The intense prayers and singing went on...

  • Tsogwane ‘fighting’ for survival

    A party insider who prefers anonymity has, however, dismissed reports associating Tsogwane with an emerging party faction emphasising: “In my view, a faction needs a structure. This structure has to have coordinators and none of that is obtainable...

  • Saleshando suspects political motives in SA robbery

    The former Leader of Opposition in Parliament, who will lead his party to the 2024 polls, was robbed of his mobile phone, laptop in bag, and important personal and party documents. His bank cards were also grabbed at gunpoint in full view of other...

  • Major public service shake-up looming

    It seems the hardest hit is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where officers have been reportedly thrown out with career diplomats basically misplaced. There has been hullaballoo in the corridors of power that the public service is somewhat awash with...

  • Reuniting with ancestors

    LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: Visiting Zambia, the home of the Chipolopolo senior national football team, has always had a special bearing on my life. It’s a place I consider my ‘second home’, albeit I have no idea where my maternal grandfather really...

  • The Livingstone experience

    LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: So, I shared my ill-fated experience with a friend back home (Mmamokete Molefhe) how incessant power outages were disruptive with their 10-hour blackouts that we experienced. A prompt riposte from Molefhe came in through a...

  • Giving power to the communities

    LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: Marco Pani had attended the just-ended inaugural KAZA Heads of State Summit in the tourism town of Livingstone where various issues of conservation took centre stage.He opened up the conversation with the line, “ I belong to an...

  • Tsogwane advocates for the voice of marginalised

    “When you reflect, sometimes we don’t represent the interests of these poor people very well. I am yet to experience a meeting of this magnitude that will bring together the poor communities under one roof to articulate their concerns,” he...

  • The long wait for the KAZA single visa

    LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: Hospitality and Tourism Association of Botswana (HATAB) CEO, Lily Rakorong, this week amplified the voice of the private sector in its endorsement of the UniVisa, as a tool that they strongly feel will revolutionise the way of...

  • KAZA ministers on governance, development issues

    The minister was giving high-level reflections with her colleagues in the KAZA region. The theme of the reflections was 'What Will It Take To Further Strengthen KAZA TFCA Governance And Development To Ensure Conservation And Development Impacts...

  • Green economy: An imperative for KAZA

    He was speaking to a discussion that addressed issues around the question: What are the global best practices for advancing green growth and how do they apply to KAZA TFCA? Scheren spoke of unlocking and growing the wildlife economy in the KAZA TFC...

  • Inaugural KAZA Summit gathers steam

    KAZA aerial survey coordinator, Darren Potgieter, headlined a panel discussion on technical issues within the region, focussing on the implication for policy and management.The KAZA region, a 520,000-square kilometre wetland paradise straddling...

  • Butale’s doubtful prophecy

    Also an entrepreneur, Butale’s big fall out with a party of his youth (1992-2019) the BDP, was precipitated amongst others by his loss of the party ticket at the primaries for the 2019 General Election. His conviction was that his loss to a...

  • How Batswana funded democracy

    As they say, true to the wishes of its fallen hero, 96-year-old founding party president, Michael Kitso Dingake, who is reputed to have been a perfectionist in the art of organising events and enlivening the image of the party, the BCP did not...

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