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Spira Tlhankane
  • 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...

  • Gov’t races to complete 400km route to end FMD crisis

    In a statement to Parliament this week, Lands and Agriculture Dr Minister Dikoloti said the move could finally unlock international beef markets and begin reversing the economic damage caused by prolonged livestock restrictions. As Dikoloti appealed...

  • LSB bid to block SA FMD expert lawyer fails

    In a ruling delivered at the High Court this week, Chief Justice Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe declared that the Society’s challenge was “misconceived”. Ketlogetswe dismissed with costs the LSB’s urgent application seeking to rescind his July 30...

  • Gov’t can’t say why 40,964 died in five years

    The startling revelation emerged in Parliament recently when Nkange legislator Motlhaleemang Moalosi asked the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Pius Mokgware, to provide statistics of registered deaths between June 2021 and June 2026, state the...

  • BDP MP questions party's own floor-crossing law

    Gabane-Mmankgodi Member of Parliament (MP) Mmusi recently asked the Minister for State President, Defence and Security Moeti Mohwasa whether government would table a Bill to repeal the Constitution (Amendment) Act No.1 of 2021, arguing that doing so...

  • Feedlot giants staring at P27.8m loss

    The country’s two largest feedlot operators told the High Court they have already lost P27.8 million and exhausted bank funding. In court papers filed under a certificate of urgency, the firms have indicated that they are just weeks away from...

  • BMC, gov’t dragged to court over FMD restrictions

    The beef companies, JS Beef (Pty) Ltd and Primefast (Pty) Ltd, are accusing authorities of strangling their businesses through prolonged Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) restrictions.At the centre of the dispute is a series of FMD control measures...

  • Gov’t accused of shutting gate to beef export markets

    In an urgent High Court application, Primefast (Pty) Ltd and JS Beef (Pty) Ltd, through their lawyers Makuyana Legal Practice, claim that the government is blocking them from exporting cattle and beef while the domestic market struggles to absorb...

  • Cabinet approves PSLE abolition

    In a circular dated July 14, 2026, addressed to school heads at all PSLE centres, the exams body confirmed that preparations are already underway to manage the transition and ensure a smooth wind-down of the examination over the next few years. "The...

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