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Spira Tlhankane
  • DIS litigation stack raises budget worries for MPs

    The Ministry for State President, which the DIS falls under, has requested P530 million for the implementation of various development projects during the 2025–2026 financial year.These projects include geospatial, security, and...

  • BPF, AP, BMD should join BDP – Morwaeng

    The BDP, which lost the General Election last October split twice during their 58-year rule resulting in the formation of Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) and Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF). The BDP splinter parties took with them party...

  • UDC gov’t finally commits to fixing ‘rogue’ DIS

    Many questions were raised about whether it is business as usual at the intelligence agency since the tri-party coalition took over government from the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in November last year. Minister for State President Moeti Mohwasa...

  • I have matured – Morwaeng

    Morwaeng served as Member of Parliament for Molepolole South and Minister of State President from 2019 and 2024. He is often connected to BDP’s controversial bills which failed in the 12th Parliament.Briefing the media about his quest for party...

  • We are coming for your personal assets – Boko

    Boko, who was responding to the budget speech this week in Parliament, said he differs with the Botswana Congress Party (BCP)’s suggestion that the president should appoint a commission to carry out the task. “A presidential commission can only...

  • CEDA spending, bad investments revealed

    The revelations were made in Parliament this week when Trade and Entrepreneurship minister, Tiroeaone Ntsima, responded to a question on the rot at development finance institution. He revealed to legislators that the agency lent millions of pula to...

  • Dual citizenship in full force – Gov’t

    Minister of Labour and Home Affairs Pius Mokgware told Parliament recently that any person who is a citizen of Botswana and also a citizen of another country shall no longer be required to renounce the other citizenship immediately before the...

  • Ko Setlhareng long died before the cold fall

    When social media alerted me that the tree that used to stand as a serene symbol of local music had fallen, I walked to the place just in front of the Botswana Book Centre to see it for myself. As I saw Ko Setlhareng.Com’s fallen tree blocking the...

  • UDC injects P233m into DIS, ‘backtracks’ on overhaul

    During his 2024 election campaign trail, President Duma Boko promised that the UDC would take apart the controversial organ to examine and repair it if necessary. As the new government backtracks on its promise made in the 2024 election manifesto,...

  • MPs push to exclude ‘double dippers’ from Tandabala

    The Leader of Opposition (LoO), Dumelang Saleshando, was the first to voice out that there should be a means test for Old Age Pension. Responding to the Budget Speech last week, Saleshando, who is the president of the main opposition Botswana...

  • Companies warned to pay minimum wage or close shop

    His threat comes as the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) grapples with the implementation of the P4,000 minimum wage it had promised in the 2024 election manifesto. Speaking in Parliament this week, he said companies that are not prepared to pay...

  • Pension budget increases to P3.1bn

    Authorised old age pension expenditure for the 2024–2025 financial year (ending March) was P1,385,637,690 and it has now been increased to P3,088,156,960 in the 2025–2026 budget estimates. The P3.1 billion budgeted under the Department of Social...

  • Farmers yet to benefit from Texas bull semen

    Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, the Minister of Lands and Agriculture, Dr Micus Chimbombi said the semen has not yet been supplied to farmers pending consultation on the selling price. He assured the public that this aspect will be concluded...

  • Gov’t not complying with 11 court judgments

    Answering a question in Parliament recently, he revealed that the reasons for the non-compliance are due to a number of reasons. They vary from unavailability of funds, ambiguity in the court order, death of the employee, or the employer still...

  • UDC gov’t sets aside P194m for housing

    During the budget presentation this week, Finance Minister and Vice President (VP), Ndaba Gaolathe, emphasised that the money will cater for the housing projects namely ,the Bonno Housing Scheme, Integrated Poverty Alleviation and Housing Scheme...

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