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Spira Tlhankane
  • Police yet to recover P17.5m from heists

    The millions of pula are monies stolen in cash-in-transit heists, bank robberies, and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) blasts. Responding to a question in Parliament yesterday, Mmusi disclosed that cash stolen in all heists amounts to a total of P22.6...

  • Decentralisation strategy to transform public sector

    Delivering his Committee of Supply Speech in Parliament recently, he said the strategy aims to improve capacity and coordination amongst stakeholders at different levels of government to enhance performance, efficiency, equity and sustainability of...

  • Traversing the boundaries of Forest Hill 9-KO

    This week, CoA ended the decade-long feud when a five-judge panel affirmed Balete as the rightful owners of the farm, which was purchased by the tribe in 1925. Fresh from their victory at the CoA on Tuesday morning, Bamalete royal uncles Kgosi...

  • Kgosi Mosadi: Price of victory on her life

    The CoA ruling put an end to a legal fight over Forest Hill 9-KO, the fiercely disputed land measuring 2,229 hectares that left government and Bamalete at odds.Now with Bamalete granted court victory, Kgosi Mosadi who was among the respondents for...

  • Forest Hill 9-KO acquired without consent

    This week Court of Appeal (CoA) upheld last year’s High Court’s decision to grant Bamalete ownership of their piece of land. “Based on the evidence on record, the farm was not purchased from the tribe but it was acquired by the Land Board...

  • Legislative scheme was unconstitutional- COA

    Delivering the judgement, Judge President Tebogo Tau said this was in violation of the protections of the right to property enshrined under section 8 of the constitution. “Based on the evidence on record, the farm was not purchased from the tribe....

  • Curtain closes on Bamalete land saga

    The Court of Appeal (CoA) was supposed to deliver judgement on the case on February 17 but Registrar of CoA Nomsa Moatswi wrote a letter to Bamalete lawyers, Motlhala and Co to inform them about the court’s decision to postpone judgement to a later...

  • Mthimkhulu dares Katlholo

    Katlholo was suspended from work on June 2, 2022, which means he has been on suspension for 8 months with full pay in compliance with legislative requirements, according to Mthimkhulu.Responding to a question in Parliament yesterday Mthimkhulu said...

  • Human-wildlife conflict costs gov’t P38.4 million

    These are costs incurred by damages caused by elephants and six other wildlife species that attract wildlife compensation namely lion, leopard, hippo, rhino, buffalo and crocodile.Responding to a question in Parliament this week, Minister of...

  • Magosi, PSP sleaze dockets ‘back to owner’

    These are the same controversial corruption dockets which led to the raid and sealing off of the offices of the then DCEC DG, Tymon Katlholo and his eventual suspension last year.German was investigating top echelons of the public service and his...

  • German goes for the jugular

    German was investigating DIS Director General (DG) Peter Magosi, Permanent Secretary to the President (PSP), Emma Peloetletse and Acting DCEC DG, Tshepho Pilane when he was arrested without a warrant on June 8, 2022.He was arrested by the DIS...

  • We want our troops back home—Kwape

    Speaking to the media this week, Kwape said their wish is for the BDF soldiers to return home but indicated that Botswana cannot turn its back on Mozambique when the situation is as it is.He said they do not want to be labelled as people who decamped...

  • COVID-19 food baskets, wage subsidy abused

    The report shows that most local authorities had not complied with the COVID-19 Food Relief Response also known as the food basket programme. Government in 2020 budgeted about P150 million for social protection packages for people affected by the...

  • Khama Sanctuary no longer safe haven

    KRS has been known for an excellent security system in place to protect these endangered animals and was thought to be a safe haven for the relocated rhinos and existing rhinos until the first ever poaching incident between October and November. KRS...

  • BCP yet to officially ditch UDC

    The latter last year in Mahalapye gave the BCP central committee (CC) six months to iron out governance and constitution issues with the UDC but the CC has since met twice this year following the end of the deadline in January.Addressing the media on...

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