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Since last year’s October historic polls that condemned former president, Mokgweetsi Masisi-led Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) to the political gutters after 58 years of continuous rule, the Boko administration has been preoccupied with an elusive...

“But, as you know, the BNF is founded on the principles of free talking or ‘Puo Phaa!’ and it has always been a democratic party in terms of allowing members to talk openly,” explained Molutsi in an interview with Mmegi this week.There has...

As such, the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) found easy meat at its sister security organ (DCEC) with allegations of political interference a commonplace. Fresh allegations of the interfering hand of the DIS have surfaced at the DCEC...

In a sweeping statement he made recently, Boko lambasted the local press alleging 90 % of media reports are fake, triggering a heated response from the practitioners calling his assessment ‘fake’. Boko recently told a Cabinet retreat held at the...

It was diametrically a befitting case of a metaphorical expression of ‘from the cradle to the grave’. ‘Tso’ was born and succumbed to a recent malady at the hospital of his birth 42 years ago - Jubilee Hospital. From his birth to his passing,...

Numerous of his colleagues in the fraternity were shell shocked that the fledgling Mosikare had come out in the open about his political link and he would later scruple the choice he had made. He expeditiously dealt with the emerging professional...

The depressing news of his passing was broken just on the verge of the Mmegi newspaper early deadline last Wednesday ahead of the Easter Holidays. Area W or Dablaas, as his location is affectionately known and (his home of many years), will never be...

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...