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a) 'Act fast and do whatever it takes', a euphemism for the deployment of heavy fiscal artillery to minimise the economic damage from COVID-19;b) Build back betterBoth require bold and decisive action, elements of which include unprecedented...

CAIRO: In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered Africa’s first recession in a quarter-century and, with it, an avalanche of sovereign credit-rating downgrades across the region. Eighteen of the 32 African countries rated by at least one of the...

The title of the story and its contents are void of scientific information and, therefore, exaggerated and misleading. For the record, President Masisi has led a spirited and well-coordinated fight against COVID-19 despite our nation’s resources...

In the past few weeks, Botswana has recorded some of the highest Covid-19 transmission rates on the African continent. This debilitating third wave of infections has come at a time when the country’s inhabitants remain inadequately protected, with...

Will this ruling party’s decision to postpone the census pose any challenges or political uncertainty regarding the 2024 general elections?Should the census get taken in October 2022, the final results of the exercise may not be known until the...

TONOTA: There are two main types of teaching methods – teacher-centred and student-centred. Many teachers today still rely heavily on teacher-centred methods such as the lecture method, commonly referred to as the chalk and talk method. In this...

TONOTA: There are two main types of teaching methods – teacher-centred and student-centred. Many teachers today still rely heavily on teacher-centred methods such as the lecture method, commonly referred to as the chalk and talk method. In this...

The 64-page special issue entitled ‘Korean, Man Hee Lee, The True Story of Peace’ details major achievements in the peace movement of the HWPL chairperson, Man Hee Lee.It gives an in-depth introduction on the Mindanao Peace Agreement in the...

This is purely a undisguised political decision intended to serve a political cause. If achieving political ends is everything to the President, then he is worthy of full credit for his accurate reading of the current political tempo. The party is...

In a popular interview with Forbes magazine, he said: “More people in America study public relations than study farming. We have no farmers. You went to Princeton; nobody you went to school with became a farmer. I went to Yale; nobody I went to...

One reason given for the development is that we now have sufficient teachers in our schools. Yes, that might be true if classes continue to be overcrowded with numbers of students of classes exceeding 40 being the norm. This is a pity since teachers...

Continent-wide, recorded infections are at over six million, with more than 153,000 official deaths. The highly transmissible Delta variant is now prevalent in 16 countries, and is surging through unvaccinated populations.“The worst is yet to...

Schools closure brought a sigh of relief in the teaching fraternity, which, is reeling, from high casualties. It is evidently clear that schools are super spreaders of the dreaded disease. Drastic measures were thus needed to control spiralling...

FRANKFURT – After many years of low inflation, prices have risen almost everywhere in recent months. Energy and commodities have been leading the way, owing mainly to post-lockdown supply bottlenecks. But while such obstacles are widely seen as...

TONOTA: This is especially true of the STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. For this reason, each year both University of Botswana (UB) and the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) churn...