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The Minister of Finance this week announced that they had managed to halt government spending by P5.5 billion in the eight months between November 2024 and June of this year.While this is a welcome development, the problems approaching Botswana’s...

Almost every week, the police record cases of men cruelly battering their loved ones to death, and in some cases, then take their own lives, leaving the surviving relatives in incessant pain.Therefore, we would like to call on Batswana to exercise...

Minister Nelson Ramaotwana voiced what many citizens feel daily; that the current approach to bail, especially for repeat offenders, is failing our communities. His urgent call for the legal world to revisit bail laws cannot be ignored.We see it too...

This publication is appalled. Whilst the details of the contractual dispute are complex, involving allegations of unpaid bills, failure to appoint key engineers, forced procurement favouring a specific supplier, and even accusations of corruption,...

Senior Assistant Commissioner Pilane Sibigi’s urgent plea, reported elsewhere in this edition, lays bare the heartbreaking pattern where holidays meant for joy and family union become marred by avoidable deaths and injuries.Holiday buzz, as Sibigi...

For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who...

Hurt as he may have been, former president Ian Khama, Sir Seretse’s senior son who was given an opportunity to speak on behalf of the Seretse family, couldn’t mince his words as he took advantage to shred his successor Mokgweetsi Masisi to...

In an era of a government that prides itself on being human rights-oriented, we expect healthcare in places like the former mining town to be given first priority. This is especially after Selebi-Phikwe’s fortunes dwindled to the lowest ebb...

As Mmegi’s investigation lays bare – from the consultant’s inexplicable rock miscalculation to the anguish of homeowners facing blasting and unfair compensation – this is a clarion call to everyone involved in public procurement: Do the right...

Particular trepidations lie with the seemingly embedded nature of embellishing tender sums, in most cases without the barest minimum of authority. The worrying thing is that the inflated amounts run into millions of pula across the government...

Gambule’s concerns, he alleges, are precipitated by articles carried by various media houses alleging cases of corruption being investigated by the Directorate on Corruption ad Economic Crime (DCEC).He was particularly irked by the reality that the...

We urge senior government officers to act with caution when they deal with welfare issues of government employees rather than just pushing their agendas or those of their principals.The current Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) administration is a...

This ruling is more than a technical legal decision it is a mirror reflecting the rot in the country’s procurement processes and governance.For far too long, government officials have twisted regulations to serve their interests, betraying the very...

While every citizen, including the Head of State, has the right to voice opinions, the tone and context of the President’s comments were regrettably dismissive and risk chilling free expression in our country. The remarks are not isolated. They...

By nature, elective congresses, like other party meets where leaders have to be elected, often disintegrate into physical battles or threaten to put the party asunder.The BNF is replete with history of cadres engaging literally in physical fights...