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“This shows that there is a problem with the national elections registration exercise under the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) as people still find a way of registering ineligible people,” Ramogapi alleges in an interview this week.His...

From some quarters, Botswana’s elections have been hailed as free and not necessarily fair. To many, the elections registration case is indeed a clash of principles as the UDC claims to have experience from the 2019 General Election, which they...

It was only one-way: The boys will immediately receive two or three strokes as a sharp reminder never to repeat it. This was the elders’ first line in many attempts to inculcate a sense of responsibility and accountability on the boys, for the...

Mmegi: The opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) has lately been worriedly repeating allegations that the DIS and the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) have been covertly helping the BDP to retain power with the 2019 General Election...

The passing of the baton of power to President Mokgweetsi Masisi by his predecessor Ian Khama in 2018, anointing his then favourite (Masisi) as the fifth State President has seemingly been an undisputable game changer in the party’s north-south...

In Botswana, the opposition has been failing to carry the hopes of the people by unseating the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from the seat of power since 57 years ago. Botswana’s opposition parties have been largely struggling to put...

The flowering of the trees that surely attract butterflies and insects generally announces the open season for the boys’ native games, which depend on the availability of certain select species of trees.A hawk-eyed rural boy would be able to...

For many years, the opposition was popular in Gaborone and surrounding urban places and major villages with the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) playing second fiddle including in other urban centres.The Botswana National Front (BNF), the main...

Sometimes mokwakwa provided entertainment to the villagers although it often rubbed some the wrong way, especially those chased out of the territory. It was through this somewhat outlandish game that boys were able to defend their territory by...

Butale took the helm of the BPF in 2019, steering the then new kid on the political bloc. The attorney-cum-pastor-cum-politician’s initial stability crumbled when he fell out with the party patron and benefactor Khama. Shaken, Butale would never...

Hopping between the spaces where I was raised at Boikago ward in Palapye and the kotoisi just a stone’s throw away from Lotsane River was an exciting experience that had already made the Palapye railway station my second home.The railway compound,...

During our days as boys and girls, there were only two important places to visit on independence day: The village kgotla and your primary school. It was literally difficult to sleep on the eve of the Independence Day, thinking about the day’s...

Just for the background, outside the umbrella arrangement, one of the political parties touted to be focused, stable and very strong as a single entity, the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) has also witnessed bitter factionalism tearing it asunder.The...

The President Masisi-led government has seemingly been worried about the performance of certain departments and ministries to the extent that in the past there was a strong feeling that the public service was awash with some individuals hell-bent on...

Political bigwigs have started pulling the strings from behind the scenes selling their political ideologies ahead of an event that promises a lot of action as a clash of the titans.The political parties’ move is heightened by the reality that the...