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Ryder Gabathuse
  • 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...

  • A rare moment of unity

    The perceived favour and inclination that is often conferred upon government media by government officials ahead of other media practitioners had vanished. Right or wrong, the private media is often accused of taking a hard stance against the...

  • In the belly of London

    Aside of official work, we mingled with the Londoners. It is a moment we all cherished as the majority of us were first visitors to the first world country in Europe. Mounted police patrol the Palace area on the back of horses attracting attention of...

  • Fare thee well ‘Biggest Champ’

    The Champane family in Mahalapye bid their father a final goodbye after struggling with an ailment until he succumbed to it on March 16, 2024, at a hospital in his home village. He was buried last week Saturday at the village cemetery. The family...

  • A trip to London

    LONDON: Besides the fact that I was a first timer to the UK, I was interested to appreciate London, a city with about 8.982 million (2019) people coming from a country with a population of slightly over two million. Botswana’s population can only...

  • Limbo relives lion, elephant attacks

    LONDON: At the Botswana’s High Commission here, Limbo relives a heart-wrenching experience of escape when his life could have easily ended in the thickets of his home village, Satau, in the Chobe District.As a retiree, his life now revolves around...

  • Mbaiwa tells Botswana's story at Oxford University

    Mbaiwa is a Professor of Tourism Studies, Okavango Research Institute and University of Botswana.He led a lecture on the UK Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill and its implications to conservation and livelihoods.His main story was that...

  • Arrest Khama – Mthimkhulu tells UK

    Khama was recently in the UK advocating for a ban on trophy hunting and lobbying the House of Commons. The minister indicated that the House of Commons should be aware that "Khama is a fugitive running away from the law"."Khama has been declared a...

  • Southern African hopes raised in UK lobby

    Speaking here this morning, Godfrey Engliton, the Botswana High Commission Minister Counsellor, said that even if the Trophy Hunting (Import Prohibition) Bill goes to its second reading at the House of Commons on Friday this week, the six countries...

  • Mthimkhulu kicks off Westminster lobby

    Earlier today, Mthimkhulu was due to address a Botswana delegation at the High Commission here on the country’s position regarding the second reading of the United Kingdom’s Trophies Hunting (Importation Prohibition) Bill.According to the British...

  • Resignation complicates Mahalapye East

    This is a hostile constituency that the opposition party fortuitously usurped from the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in the 2019 polls. And of course, the ruling BDP is still hurting as a result of the loss. It was chiefly aided by Ian Khama, who...

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