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The country’s FMD crisis is currently concentrated in Zone 11, the second largest disease control area and the country’s most economically critical area for cattle ranching.The Zone has been under the strictest FMD restrictions in the country...

Acting Minister of Agriculture Dr Edwin Dikoloti revealed the plan during a Kgotla meeting he addressed in Otse yesterday."Deputy Permanent Secretary for Livestock Farming Dr Kefentse Motshegwa has started engaging with the Prisons Officials as we...

Documents obtained by this newspaper paint a disturbing picture of how public funds were allegedly channelled to Dreambond (Pty) Ltd, trading as Geothax Consulting, through direct appointments, irregular contract variations, and outright...

Sekai would not be dragged into discussing why Kgafela could not make it this year, only stating that it was what the Kgosikgolo had told him.On December 11, 2024, Kgafela virtually addressed Bakgatla, who gathered in large numbers at the Mochudi...

On 27 March 2026, the Court of Appeal (CoA) brought down the curtain on a long-running dispute over one of the country’s largest water-supply tenders. It dismissed an appeal brought by two Chinese-owned construction giants and confirmed that the...

By overlooking the Public Procurement Tribunal, the court ruled that the company had bypassed the dispute-resolution processes mandated by the Public Procurement Act.Handing down judgment on April 28, 2026, Justice Onkagetse Pusoentsi found that...

Last month, the DC wrote to the coordinator of the Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) office at the Ministry for Environment and Tourism to formally seek expert guidance and intervention regarding the persistent governance challenges...

This is contained in the Botswana National Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment Report. The Risk Assessment (2020–2024) is the country’s second national assessment following the inaugural exercise concluded in 2017.The risk...

In a detailed written response to the DIS staff accusation the Director General Peter Magosi of attempting an unlawful P1.5 million deduction from their salaries, Ngakaagae painted a picture of a four-year legal battle fought largely on charity and a...

This publication has established that at least 137 employees were served with letters which sought to deduct at least P1 548 305.50 from their monthly salaries.Documents filed as part of a court case in which at least 137 employees of the DIS are...

The protracted legal battle, which has found its way through the Public Procurement Tribunal, the High Court, and now the CoA, centres on the award of one of two tender packages floated by the Francistown City Council in 2022.The tender was for a...

This is after the Court of Appeal (CoA) confirmed the award of the P1.5 billion water supply tender to Tawana Joint Venture by the then High Court Judge Zein Kebonang. The case had dragged on for almost two years from the Public Procurement through...

The apex court has reversed a High Court decision that determined that four incidents of forced sexual intercourse over three days constitute a single count of rape.Rivers Kakana, who had thought he had completed his 10-year sentence for rape, has...

His death sentence was confirmed by three Court of Appeal Justices led by Judge President Tebogo Tau after he failed to convince them that he did not kill the then-Form 2 student.Amongst those who attended the case was Marks ‘Kganka’ Ofentse,...

The consequences also seem not severe as the Directorate is yet to take action against any individual. She says the Directorate has not taken action against anyone and continues to encourage eligible declarants to declare in order to reach the 100%...