Author

The Monitor learnt that in Motetshwane Ward in the Serowe North constituency, while there were 601 voters on the roll, the total number of votes for council candidates was more than 800. The votes for the Parliamentary candidate were, however, not...

Confidence shot up after the party held its primary elections over the weekend and multitudes turned up to cast their votes. As expected, Serowe constituencies proved to have more BPF members than any other area as they came in large numbers and...

Pule garnered 1, 472 followed by Lucas Kgosi’s 1, 363 votes and Pakiso Pule got a paltry 127 votes. Just before the elections were postponed to the following day owing to delay with voters’ rolls production, Pule and Kgosi met where the minister...

The Bagammngwato capital is made up of three constituencies, namely, Serowe South, Serowe North and Serowe West, which parliamentary seats are all occupied by the BPF. The party made history in the 2019 General Election winning all the seats without...

Dingake recently delivered a public lecture as part of Motheo O Mosha’s efforts to raise P500, 000 for initiatives aimed at addressing issues pertaining to the constitutional review process, which they have since said was not properly...

He laments in his detailed resignation letter the "poor leadership" which he accuses of ‘sleeping’ on the job. The BNF secretary for political education quit the party leadership last week ahead of the party’s annual conference that was held...

The Mogoditshane Sub Land Board has been on the spotlight over the controversial Compensation-In-Kind Policy. The Kweneng Land Board Chairman, Kgang Kgang, visited Mogoditshane Kgotla to discuss the Compensation-In-Kind Policy employed for land...

In what could be seen as both a noble act of humanity or a good advertising strategy, the party’s women’s wing recently launched BDP branded merchandise targeting women and specifically for expectant mothers and newborn babies. The initiative was...

Some members of Balwela Kgosi (a group made of Bagammangwato tribesmen and women fighting for Ian Khama) who had camped outside the Khama family home in Serowe over the weekend were denied a permit to march to the Kgotla by the Police. Determined to...

They would on the day of the marathon invade the Kgotla with placards where they clashed with the police resulting in at least eight of them being arrested. They also claim some were brutalised. According to Balwela-Kgosi chairperson, their visit to...

Louisa Urquilla (in her capacity as Executor of the Estate of the late Johannes Welhemus Moller) wants to be a party in a case in which the trio is attempting to stop the transfer of a sale of a lucrative 1,730 hectares horticultural farm to a...

Khama is demanding that the minister appoints Seretse Peter Khama as the regent. Consequently, Chief Justice Terrence Rannowane has empanelled three judges to the matter namely Justices Bengbame Sechele, Godfrey Nthomiwa and Itumeleng Segopolo each...

The union believes the health system has qualified individuals, a lot of whom are BONU members. The ministry earlier this month advertised vacancies titled: "EXTERNAL ADVERTISEMENT VACANCY CIRCULAR NO. 25 OF 2024" with nine vacancy codes. Unamused by...

President Mokgweetsi Masisi commended the event organisers who were led by Bagammangwato deputy regent Kgosi Serogola Seretse, emphasising the importance of celebrating the exemplary leadership of Sir Seretse Khama. “What is happening today is...

Masisi reacted to the G7's decision that all diamonds sold in G7 countries now need to be certified in Antwerp, Belgium, as part of sanctions on Russia. The President called this a wrong decision that is taking away Botswana and other diamond...