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Pauline Dikuelo
  • Three arrested for illegally selling Zamaroko

    Ghanzi District Station Commander Modiro Lekone said the sale of that kind of loose tobacco is not allowed in the country as it poses a serious threat to the health of human beings.“ The sale of this kind of loose tobacco is not allowed in the...

  • Patient hangs himself

    Ghanzi District Station Commander, Modiro Lekone told MmegiOnline that the patient who comes from Charleshill is believed to have hanged himself between11am and 12 noon, while nurses were busy attending to other patients.“We received a call from a...

  • Botswana Oil secures 90% petroleum products importation

    According to the Botswana Energy Regulatory Authority (BERA) Act, 2022 and the Botswana Energy Regulatory Authority (Importation of Petroleum Products Allocation) Order of 2023 , effective 1st of April 2024, only majority citizen owned companies will...

  • FIA laments weakness in pursuing dirty money

    Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) Deputy Director General, Legal and Compliance, Susan Mangori, recently revealed that the biggest contributors to the situation include the country’s weak controls in money value transfer services combined with...

  • Leather Park aims for December production

    The Leather Park has been in the pipeline since 2014 with little progress, a fact that has frustrated authorities and residents in the border town.The implementation of the Leather Park was said to be delayed by the need for project reconfiguration...

  • Gov't eyes citrus export to US by 2025

    The country is currently locked in negotiations to secure a supply deal of citrus to the US by 2025, BusinessMonitor was told.Minister of Agriculture, Fedelis Molao, said in an interview that government was working around the clock to clinch the...

  • BURS sees “tall order” in P71bn revenue target

    The revenue service's target for this year amounts to about 76% of the P93.5 billion in revenues government expects to accumulate in 2024-25. The task before the BURS is essentially to collect nearly 80 thebe out of every pula the government...

  • Tsabong abattoir readies for commissioning

    Presenting before the Parliament’s Committee of Supply recently, the Minister of Agriculture, Fidelis Molao, said the project is nearing completion and will start commissioning by the end of March. “The ongoing construction of Tsabong...

  • Minergy sees light after doldrums

    Masama’s new mining contractor, Meropa Resources, a wholly citizen-owned mining contractor, is currently mobilising while mining operations restarted in February this year.Minergy’s operations were temporarily stopped last March after a dispute...

  • Milk shortfall persists despite improved output

    Figures disclosed by Agriculture Minister Fidelis Molao in Parliament this week, reveal that local output constituted approximately 10% of national demand last year, a decline from the previous average of 12%.Despite an improvement in milk...

  • CEDA funded project failures blamed on promoters

    Responding to a question on impediments in the way for entrepreneurial successes in Botswana, Entrepreneurship minister Karabo Gare admitted that indeed there were hindrances faced by business owners.“I am aware of various impediments in the way of...

  • FNBB fee income reaches P789m

    Non-interest income has been a star performer for FNBB over the years, as the bank has reaped the dividends of its heavy investment in fintech innovation.In the six months to December 2022, FNBB’s non-interest income grew by five percent to P757.3...

  • BITC focuses on policy advocacy for 2024

    Mmegi: What is the BITC’s focus this year, looking at the continuing stabilisation of the economy from the post-Covid period?Olebile: (We are focusing on) Policy Advocacy and Reforms:We will continue to work closely with government bodies to...

  • CCA approves Khoemacau’s sale

    Highly placed sources told BusinessWeek that the deal, the largest in the country’s private sector, is on track to be finalised in the first half of the year, as originally anticipated by the parties involved.On Wednesday, the CCA confirmed the...

  • BAMB assures on adequate grain supplies

    Known as the SGR, the strategic grain reserves usually involve government buying crops and taking responsibility for their storage until they are needed to make up for shortfalls in the economy.BAMB’s silo storage capacity is 85,000 metric tonnes...

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