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Innocent Selatlhwa
  • Illegitimate DC chairing costs Kweneng Land Board

    Letsweletse Keoraletse who was employed at Kweneng Land Board, under the Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services as a Principal Technical Officer won his case because his employer had appointed an illegitimate chairperson for his...

  • Botswana looks to civil society to fight corruption

    This was acknowledged by both Vice President Slumber Tsogwane and Acting Director General of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) Tshepo Pilane who said they are prepared and committed to fight with emphasis on engaging the civil...

  • Zimbabwe ‘lectures’ Botswana on anti-corruption

    Botswana through the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) this week hosted the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) in commemorating the Anti-Corruption Pitso under the theme: The fight against corruption 29 years and beyond:...

  • Scramble for Gabs causes BDP headache

    Gaborone Regional Committee chairperson, Lepsy Mosope and his team have been fingered in an elaborate scheme to assist Janjaweed faction councillors and preferred Members of Parliament (MP) who voted for him to return to office unopposed later this...

  • Kweneng landowners threaten court action

    A notice of motion has been issued to the Attorney General on behalf of the Ministry of Lands and Water Affairs and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.In March, Sesinyi and several disgruntled landowners wrote a letter requesting...

  • Shamukuni dismisses Khama claims before UN

    The Minister argued that a solo complaint from Khama cannot be used as a yardstick to determine Botswana’s human rights. “Allow me to highlight Botswana’s commitment to cooperate with special rapporteur on extra judicial, summary or arbitrary...

  • BPF officially joins UDC

    Congress made amongst others the below resolutions in a statement from the party's publicity secretary, Lawrence Ookeditse, that read: "That ratification has been granted for the BPF to join the UDC; and that the NEC is given the full...

  • BPF congress exposes entrenched divisions

    The party held its congress over the weekend against the will of Khama’s faction. Of the nine respondents in the case, only James Kgalajwe showed up. Despite reports that the party is financially strained and failing to meet its obligations, the...

  • Justice Dingake calls for worker-centred constitution

    He highlighted the rising cost of living, stagnated wages, and soaring inflation, especially among the youth, leading to poverty, inequality, and unemployment, the triple burden that needs to be confronted head-on and defeated. To eradicate poverty,...

  • How Butale survived ouster

    This comes after the party’s secretary-general Tshekedi Khama’s efforts to fight his suspension by alleging that Butale had resigned from the party and could not suspend him hit a snag.On April 13, Butale alongside other national executive...

  • Butale still BPF president

    Butale sought the court's intervention to declare his legitimacy as BPF president following his utterances to the effect of a resignation at a BPF National Executive Committee meeting, saying it was merely a threat he made in the heat of the...

  • How Butale 'lost grip' of his presidency

    It has since emerged from the March 20 meeting at Arirang restaurant, Staybridge Hotel that Biggie Butale was trying to reprimand former president Ian Khama, the party patron and his brother Tshekedi Khama amongst others for indiscipline.This is...

  • Khama is sole BPF funder

    One particular meeting of interest was of the NEC gathering on February 14 at Blue Tree in Gaborone. It was revealed that the party only survives by funding from former president Ian Khama.It was at the same meeting that the party secretary-general,...

  • Butale's presidency hangs in the balance

    Butale approached the court on urgency seeking an order declaring that he is the lawful president of the BPF. The applicants in the matter are listed as Butale, Reitumetse Aphiri, Ford Moiteela and the BPF.The respondents, whom Butale says are...

  • Tender query delays 100K plots target

    The delay follows some bidders challenging the award of a tender for the Survey and Examination of the survey diagrams. In June last year, Mzwinila revealed that the ministry had set an ambitious target to allocate 100,000 residential plots for the...

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