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  • BCP embarks on membership drive

    The purpose of the drive is to re-energise party structures, revive the love for the party, the spirit of work, and also for the public to feel the presence of the BCP as it used to.The recruitment drive launch will be held on Sunday in the Gaborone...

  • BDP head honchos intervene in Mogoditshane dissension

    The other purpose of the meeting was for Kgathi to understand what could have exactly transpired during the Ledumadumane East by-election. People called to the Kgathi meeting included the Member of Parliament for the area, Tumiso Rakgare and...

  • Traditional doctor's word divides village

    On Wednesday last week, there was an all-out strike over the traditional doctor’s alleged ‘prophesy’ that divided residents leaving some buildings destroyed as many believed what he allegedly told the father of the 25-year-old missing person in...

  • P34.3m-owed WUC moves to disconnect

    Lastly... the corporation has implemented the last option to recover customer debt effective February 1, 2022, by disconnecting all connections with overdue debt without further notice. The corporation has put in place measures to facilitate easier...

  • BNF splits hairs over presidential challenger

    The BNF is supposed to go to its elective party congress in July this year. However, Molatlhegi’s expression of interest in the BNF presidential election seems to be changing the dimension of the lobby team’s campaign within the party. It was...

  • BDP aims to retain Bophirima ward

    Of recent, the BDP has been losing badly in by-elections. Out of 12 that have so far been held, the BDP has only won three wards and lost nine to opposition parties. The candidate for BDP is Onkemetse Mothei while opposition parties are yet to decide...

  • Opposition clash over Bophirima ward 

    This has since enraged some coalition members who feel 'enough is enough'. Already the BCP, which is an affiliate to the UDC, has compromised on the Lentsweletau, Metsimotlhabe and Tamasane wards. According to the Independent Electoral...

  • Masisi, Balopi factions divide Mogoditshane

    Kweneng regional committee held a meeting on Tuesday this week but failed to come up with a solution or answers to internal fights within the Mogoditshane constituency. The issue of internal fights within Mogoditshane back dates to 2018 and efforts...

  • BUAN Vice chancellor resigns

    BUAN staff and students were informed today by BUAN council chairperson Neo Moroka through a press release.Dr Rees was appointed Vice Chancellor in February 2020.He is a British National and Permanent Resident of South Africa. He graduated in 1982...

  • Jwaneng council sticks to efficiency

    According to Ditsie, some of the motions that will be discussed include JTC requesting the Ministry of Basic Education (MoBE) to consider establishing a non-formal education facility in the mining town and that Jwaneng council resolves to identify...

  • Gaborone Bonnington South branch chairperson resigns

    This comes at a critical time when the party is heading for Gaborone Bonnington South constituency's Bophirima ward by-election, which writ will be announced soon. Bophirima ward councillor Kagiso Mongwaketse's passing last month left the...

  • Mothei wins BDP primaries for Bophirima ward

    Out of the 12 council by-elections held so far, Saturday’s aspirant candidates contesting for the ward were all women. What made members content was the fact that even those who had lost vowed to support the winner so that the party could retain...

  • Central District in P141m deficit

    This was revealed during the chairpersons and mayors’ forum held on Wednesday this week in Gaborone. The Minister got a shock as he learnt that CDC has been operating on a deficit over the years.CDC chairperson, Ketshwereng Galeragwe said in an...

  • Gov’t approves councillors’ 6% salary increase

    This came after the councillors put pressure on the government to increase their salaries and vowed to de-campaign Members of Parliament (MPs) in their areas for failure to approve their salary hike. Autlwetse said the adjustment was approved against...

  • BPP: Time to do or die

    Machacha’s observation comes after some people held the view that the party’s current survival was only because it was affiliated to the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC). “I believe that if the party was not affiliated to the UDC, it would...

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