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The foundation funds about 500 students from Botswana.  Mogae returns on Sunday after which he will fly to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Monday to present a final report on the 2013 turmoil in Egypt.  Mogae along with two other former heads of...

According to the so-called Happiness Index report, out of the two people you meet in the streets, 99 percent of them are angry with one thing or another. Indeed the people are very angry - angry with low salaries, expensive beer, fake pastors,...

The ministry has roped in its peers at Lands and Housing as it says part of the problem is that property owners along the country’s borders do not give government officials access to their holdings.  This week, Defence, Justice, and...

Galebotswe said the problem started after Botswana’s neighbours in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe completed their liberation struggle wars. “The government has been reluctant to invest in defence structures ever since the end of...

Speaking in an interview with Mmegi recently, Majwabe said that the current education system is being mended to feed the market with required skilled manpower. “It’s a revamping of the current education system from pre-primary to...

“I got a call from my mother who wanted to know if I was now killing people and I told her that I was not yet employed at the Prisons as a hangman,” testified the Director General of Intelligence and Security before the Committee...

The two Ugandan doctors scheduled to be deported later today or tomorrow morning reportedly owed Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) over P2 million in Income Tax and Value Added Tax. Sources say that one of the deportees operated a business bank...

The ruling African National Congress, The Democratic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters were leading the pack at time of going to press last night   Botswana Congress Party Spokesperson Taolo Lucas said: “We admire...

Speaking at the World Press Freedom celebrations in Lobatse on Saturday, Rari said BOFEPUSU is ready to offer its experience towards the establishment of a trade union. “You are workers, you should form a trade union that will advocate for...

Former Vice President Lieutenant General Mompati Merafhe, used to warn that “go busa ga se diketo’ every time he held the floor in the National Assembly to dismiss the remarks raised by opposition members. The Opposition backbench...

The project liquidator, Nigel Warren-Dixon, has said that so far, the two companies that prefer to remain anonymous have not made any offers. “They just indicated their interest. We have told them we are not ready now, unless the offer is too...

The two most powerful offices in the land are at loggerheads over the attendance of Botswana election observer mission in South Africa, which goes to the polls on May 7, 2014. The OP issued a statement yesterday reaffirming the government’s...

He argues that he almost gave up on ploughing this year after learning from his neighbour’s television news that there was going to be below-normal rain. It was in the first week of November, he claims, when the television warned that there...