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With money as an essential component of the democratic processes, the opposition have always advocated for state funding to promote a level playing field in financing democracy.This unlevel playing field in the political game had in the past forced...

Following the release of the commission's report, the opposition feels that the process was flawed, done without consultations and meant to favour the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP).The recommendations which cover a lot from direct...

A total of 19,001 applications for residential use in Gaborone have been pending for more than 20 years. Responding to a question in Parliament yesterday, Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Mabuse Pule said the government...

Minister of Health, Dr Edwin Dikoloti revealed government's IOUs when responding to a question in Parliament recently.Elucidating more on the amount owed to private hospitals, Dikoloti disclosed that Bokamoso Private Hospital's bill stands at...

The Central Executive Committee (CEC) meets to consider annual reports from the national executive committee, audited financial reports that will show the financial position of the union, the Board of Trustees report, consideration of the annual...

Responding to a question in Parliament recently, Minister of Transport and Public Works Eric Molale revealed that since 2019 they have recorded 63,315 road crashes and 1,190 of them were fatal.Molale pointed out that his ministry's strategies to...

The constitutional review according to the Commission is set to ‘help the country to correct injustices of the past’. With the former Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) leader having quit his late father Sir Seretse Khama’s party on the eve of the...

In the current administration led by President Mokgweetsi Masisi, there are a lot of coucillors and some legislators who were rejected by voters only to bounce back into political office. The current Minister of Lands and Water Affairs Kefentse...

Instead, the Commission recommended that the current system of electing the President should be retained. The current system is that a person becomes President if supported by the majority of the elected members of the National Assembly. According to...

The event offered a rare opportunity for gin enthusiasts to learn about the back-stories and meet the makers behind premium gin and tonic brands.The fantastic hosts on the day guided guests through gin tasting as they sampled different gin brands to...

As they descend the red carpet in Parliament we want their snapshots to make noise on social media, some becoming subjects of memes, atleast that’s the lighter side of the SONA.At a time when so much information is received visually, their choice...

“Approximately, over ten thousand Batswana have failed to turn up for Land Board allocation interviews in Chobe, Tawana, Ghanzi, Kgalagadi.Furthermore, some Land Boards have readily available plots with no waiting lists and I urge those eligible...

Delivering the State of the Nation Address (SONA) this week, Masisi highlighted that they need to make up for their huge vegetable, fruit import bill and mature to export to other countries.The ban had targeted 16 vegetables such as onions,...

Responding to Masisi’s SONA on Wednesday, Keorapetse said Masisi had a chance to critically self-appraise the polity he is managing and apply insightful indices to measure the quality of its democracy, the health of its economy, the wellbeing of...

It was his fifth SONA since he ascended to the presidency in 2018 but Masisi did not even dedicate one paragraph to address the country’s high unemployment rate in his long speech.The wide-ranging speech that lasted nearly two hours, examined many...