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TABEF, a prestigious forum, brings together prominent representatives of public and private sector actors from both Africa and Turkey.Botswana’s Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship, Tiroeaone Ntsima, led a delegation of two officials including...

Although it was unclear how many countries are participating in this year’s fifth TABEF, records show that at some stage, 53 participated, with an estimated number of over 4000 participants taking part.TABEF is open to prominent representatives of...

He exited the only job that he had served for nearly four decades with a bitter taste in his mouth, considering the way he was treated.As if the pain associated with failed job grading that carried further remuneration was not enough, glaucoma that...

Immediately, he was elected the sixth BDP president in Maun at the party’s elective congress recently, Mpho Balopi, whose fallout with former State and party president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, was legendary, conceded that reconciliation with Bangwato...

Before I even forget, I should recognise that you are the gladiator because of your reputation as a legal hawk of repute. Certainly, you have become the cynosure of all eyes because of the nature of the office you hold.As the helmsman in a country...

It all began ahead of the 2019 General Election when past immediate State president Mokgweetsi Masisi promised to ‘spill the beans’ on his former principal Ian Khama at a rally launching former vice president Slumber Tsogwane and other...

The party’s performance in the 2024 General Election under the realm of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) partnership placed it at an auspicious locus to charm more people to race for party positions.The AP is a splinter party from the...

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...