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During the COVID-19 lockdown, the womens’ shelters in the country were reportedly overwhelmed by numbers of survivors in need of safe spaces, reflecting the crisis we are in. Whilst the country has made a commitment to reduce Gender Based Violence,...

We promise to make an informed, fair, and honest assessment of the contributions of honourable men and women in Parliament ahead of the November Parliament sitting.As a reminder, we would like to revisit one of our past stories, ahead of the October...

We take this opportunity to condemn in the strongest terms the trail of destruction the habit-forming drugs continue to leave behind. At the memorial service of the fallen artist, Atasaone Molemogi, popularly known as ATI, this week, we learnt a lot...

The young and old believe in get-rich fast schemes that ultimately land them in all sorts of trouble. Corruption has become so entrenched that some in both the private and public sectors have normalised corrupt behaviours as means of survival.We...

Evidence is galore that it is not only government pharmacies that are experiencing the disconcerting shortages, as even many of the private pharmacies are unable to dispense prescribed medications, leaving patients running all over the place in...

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...