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Spira Tlhankane
  • The night the dead tree sang again

    Local artists Vee Mampeezy and Eskimos took to the stage and their music travelled across the Main Mall like a ghost returning to an old home. Since the lifeless trunk of the tree was removed from the mall’s pedestrian-only walkway last year, there...

  • FMD crisis turns political

    The BCP, through its shadow minister for Lands and Agriculture, Kesitegile Gobotswang, recently issued a strongly recently worded press statement described the government’s handling of the outbreak as a failure.Gobotswang demanded an overhaul of...

  • The GUC-LSB battle: How it all began

    Twenty-one Gaborone Universal College of Law and Professional Studies (GUC) graduates, led by Arnold Rapula Somolekae, have refused to accept the High Court’s September 1 dismissal of their challenge against the Law Society of Botswana (LSB). In...

  • GUC graduates refuse to leave legal profession door closed

    The appeal follows refusal by the graduates to accept defeat after the High Court shut the door on their bid to sit for the bar examinations. Led by Arnold Rapula Somolekae, the group has filed an appeal against Justice Godfrey Nthomiwa’s September...

  • Kenewendo caught between alleged DCEC probe, push-out

    Questions surrounding Minerals and Energy Minister Bogolo Kenewendo have taken a political turn after unconfirmed allegations that she may be under investigation by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC).Responding to questions from...

  • GUC law graduates in limbo

    The graduates, who completed an LLB programme offered through Gaborone University College of Law and Professional Studies (GUC) in collaboration with the United Kingdom’s Leeds Beckett University, had hoped to sit for the June 2026 Bar...

  • Your degree alone is not enough, LSB tells GUC graduates

    At stake are 21 graduates of the Leeds Beckett University Bachelor of Laws programme delivered through Gaborone Universal College of Law and Professional Studies (GUC), who were refused registration for the June 2026 Bar Examinations. The application...

  • 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...

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