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Spira Tlhankane
  • BIUST VC arrogated court powers

    Justice Bugalo Maripe has ordered BIUST to reinstate lecturer Dr Malatsi Galani with no loss of benefits or seniority, declaring that the Appeals Committee’s September 2024 decision was final and binding. The judgment, delivered in Maun on Friday,...

  • BMC’s P14m claim falls flat in court

    BMC told the court that the payments arose from an oral agreement concluded between the parties in January 2016. In a recent ruling, Justice Dr Zein Kebonang refused BMC’s application for summary judgment over its claim for P14,069,875.04, ruling...

  • Salakae’s court of public opinion

    Salakae’s usual ministerial convoy was nowhere to be seen, and there was no entourage of government officials waiting to usher the Gantsi legislator into another official engagement. Instead, the man who only recently occupied the powerful office...

  • I won’t wait for Seretse —Ndzinge

    Ndzinge, Seretse, Sharifa Noor, Kgori Capital (Pty) Ltd and Kgori Holdings (Pty) Ltd are jointly facing a 63-count indictment that includes charges of stealing by an agent, forgery of an official document, conspiracy to defraud and money laundering....

  • Kgosi’s widow wins back property

    Last week Justice Pusoentsi Mojapelo ruled that Kgosi’s widow, Matlho Jennifer Kgosi, is entitled to have the remaining restrained property restored to her estate after authorities failed to justify keeping the assets frozen. The case exposed how...

  • Court slams ‘indefinite’ Kgosi property freeze

    The State has been accused of turning a court order meant to preserve the late Isaac Kgosi’s Kgosi’s property into a punishment, with the High Court describing the prolonged restraint of the ex- intelligence chief’s assets as an abuse of the...

  • Moti-Boko’s school, clinic race to launch in exclusive unveiling

    The Duma Boko School & Clinic in Block 7 will officially be unveiled on September 5 during a tightly controlled launch event, according to an invitation and information published by African Hero, the infrastructure initiative behind the project....

  • Inside Boko’s new blueprint for fast delivery

    About 380 learners, 288 daily consultations and a technology-enabled campus emerge as African Hero puts speed at the heart of delivery. The Duma Boko School & Clinic is designed to put education and healthcare under one roof, creating what African...

  • Moti’s UDC investment pays off

    Moti’s African Hero project is now at the centre of a flagship school and clinic development bearing the President Duma Boko’s name. Moti, a friend to Boko, financed the Umbrella for Democratic Change’s (UDC) 2019 General Election campaign....

  • A deep dive into history’s Cabinet scandal resignations

    Salakae is the latest political casualty of a corruption controversy, and he now joins former Ministers who stepped aside as allegations involving public office closed in on them.Due to that, the Member of Parliament of the ruling Umbrella for...

  • From Cabinet to court

    There will be no Cabinet table, ministerial briefings and government convoy carrying Ghanzi legislator Noah Salakae into an official engagement. Instead, Salakae, who this week resigned from his Cabinet post as Minister of Transport and...

  • The Fortuner that drove into the charge sheet

    The stylish SUV is highly celebrated for its exceptional reliability and rugged terrain capability and it is the sort of a vehicle that can glide through Gaborone traffic in the morning, and by afternoon it can disappear down a dusty road. It moves...

  • A reflection on Salakae’s co-accused

    The items, a P1.6 million payment, a Toyota Fortuner and bush-clearing services formed part of a wider scheme surrounding the award of the multi-billion-pula Ghanzi-New Xade road project.The charge sheet dated August 11, 2026, lays out an alleged...

  • We won’t risk the beef industry – Gov't fires back

    The feedlot giants, who claim they have already lost P27.8 million and exhausted their bank funding, say they are running out of time and money to keep thousands of cattle alive.Segale and the Minister of Lands and Agriculture, Dr Edwin Dikoloti,...

  • Feed lotters backtrack on suing BMC, go after gov’t

    Although the court is yet to hear and decide on the matter fully, the feedlot giants have amended their initial filing notice and no longer seek any action against BMC, who are the fourth respondents in the matter. The farmers now want to take on the...

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