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Spira Tlhankane
  • Kweneng Land Board goes after land grabbers

    According to the Kweneng Land Board chairperson Kgang Kgang, involved parties include councillors, judges, lawyers, former Land Board employees, Board members, and high-ranking members in the military.In 2019, the Mogoditshane Sub-Land Board...

  • We can’t compromise to please a few - BCP

    The BCP which is still a member of opposition coalition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) started 2024 General Election cooperation talks with AP last year only to be later joined by Botswana National Party (BNF) splinter party BLP.BCP is unhappy...

  • CoA dismisses ex-gov't employee's seven-year late return-to-office

    Tshwaane was employed as a supplies officer in the Ministry of Basic Education and Skills Development and stationed at one of the schools and his employment contract was terminated by his desertion from work. When he received a letter that the...

  • Why Maxala won't hang

    Maxala who allegedly murdered his assailant Thuso Mlalazi gangster-style in 2015, had been heading for the gallows since 2021 when the High Court sentenced him to death.Now Maxala will get 30 years in prison instead because the CoA believes that what...

  • Moswaane's life 'in danger'

    Making the damning allegations before the Speaker of the National Assembly, Phandu Skelemani in Parliament on Wednesday, Moswaane claimed that people are planning to kill him.“I begged this before you and the president yesterday. I have received...

  • Gov’t readies to go after student loan debtors

    This week Minister of Education and Skills Development (MOESD) Douglas Letsholathebe admitted that it has not been easy to establish the exact amount owed to government due to initial shortcomings of the manual sponsorship process employed for the...

  • Aggrieved DCEC officer, wife lose unlawful detention case

    The couple was suing the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) and Botswana Police Service (BPS) for (Tsholofelo) Bareetsi’s unlawful arrest and detention in June last year.Delivering the judgment on the matter on Thursday, Lobatse High...

  • Key witness a liar, a police informer - Mojanki

    In 2021 Justice Lot Moroka of the Francistown High Court sentenced Mojanki to death for murdering Bokani, who was a former nurse at the Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital.On Tuesday Mojanki appeared before the Court of Appeal (CoA) where his attorney,...

  • Provocation could determine death row inmate’s fate

    Appearing before the Court of Appeal (CoA) on Tuesday, Maxala said his alleged assault at the hands of the deceased should be sufficient to establish reasonable provocation.When Justice Matlhogonolo Phuthego found Maxala guilty of murder in 2021,...

  • The President’s five years of high profile arrests

    Isaac Kgosi“Hollywood style like” arrests all started with the dramatic arrest of former DIS director-general, Isaac Kgosi at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in January 2019. In a movie style sting, Kgosi was nabbed by a team of...

  • Gov’t phases out Graduate scheme

    The scheme, which has been seen as nothing but a down degraded version of the National Internship programme, among others targeted graduate youths who are unemployed but are also not enlisted for the Internship programme.The programme, which many...

  • ‘Go home’, Masisi tells unelected presidents

    With African leaders known for their reluctance to leave office, Masisi added that he never understood why anybody wants to be president for so long. “Speaking from the privilege of being a president this thing alters your life completely and if...

  • Gov’t admits to potato, tomato shortages

    It’s not like this shortage was not there before the ban. Potatoe shortage gase botlhodi,” he told Parliament yesterday. Molebatsi was responding to a question from Francistown West legislator, Ignatius Moswaane who had asked the Minister of...

  • Veggie ban bears fruit – Gov't

    This comes after last month’s revelation by government that it has not yet done a study to determine the degree to which the imposition of restriction on importation of vegetables has to date influenced the country’s balances of trade. Earlier...

  • Proposed UK ban on trophy-hunting imports irks gov’t

    Recently, Members of Parliament in the UK voted to support a controversial ban on importing hunting trophies from thousands of species into the UK, preventing British hunters from bringing the body parts of lions, elephants, and giraffes into the...

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