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  • Spurned Air Botswana dolls up for new suitors

    On the business case alone, it appeared to be a match made in heaven.  Air Botswana, the struggling national airline running hundreds of millions of pula in losses annually, would have piggy-backed on the whirlwind success of Wilderness Air in a...

  • Inside the billion pula tariff war

    The mobile phone service provider had approached the court seeking an interim interdict to halt the implementation of BOCRA’s directive and a subsequent ruling that were implemented on Thursday last week. Mascom Wireless argues that the...

  • UB union sues over management appointees

    The UB is cited in the matter as first respondent while other respondents are Beatrice Burrows, the deputy director of Human Resources (HR) Department, Meshack Mauco deputy director HR, and Peter Morapedi, also a deputy director HR. In his...

  • Mascom loses first round of tariff war

    The cellular network service provider had dragged the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA), along with rivals Botswana Telecommunication Corporation Limited, and Orange Botswana (Pty) Ltd, to court to secure an interdict on a March...

  • A closer look at the SADC Industrialisation Strategy

    The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has embarked on an ambitious path to transform into a manufacturing region instead of being consumer-driven. The 43-year plan will see regional member states trading among themselves, working on joint...

  • Kgosi and eight others face court subpoena

    Thulaganyo Boiditswe and Tshepo Makgalemele who are directors of Sparkling Auto Care Botswana argue through their lawyer that Kgosi should be jailed for trying to intimidate them on a matter that is before court. The case emanates from a P1.6 million...

  • Khama�s love for King Mswati III defies protocol

    The same was not extended to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during a similar visit in May 2015. Mugabe’s visit as Southern African Development Community (SADC) chairperson came a month after reports that President Ian Khama walked out of a...

  • Duo want Kgosi, Makgophe jailed for contempt

    Thulaganyo Boiditswe and Tshepo Makgalemele state in the Court papers that Kgosi has denied them a business opportunity of a lifetime after they secured a franchise deal with South Africa-based Sparkling Auto Care. The duo are directors of Kgang tsa...

  • 'Botswana needs no codified foreign policy'

    Speaking during a panel discussion at the UB last Thursday, Mokhawa who teaches International Relations stated that Botswana’s outbursts on international issues has been strategic and worked well to position the country in the international...

  • Former British colonies uncertain as Brexit starts

    How many Batswana are currently living in the EuroZone? Batswana are not many here.  All together we have in the region of about 60 living in different countries like Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Vatican. But in the UK the number goes up to a...

  • Govt shuns private sector � Mosienyane

    He said that if Government treated the private sector as partners in development and in economic growth, the country would have made significant progress even going as far as having graduated from Middle Income status. “The Government should...

  • How will the world deal with the turbulence ahead?

    The world’s most recognised international organisation the United Nations has just appointed António Guterres, the ninth Secretary-General who took office on January 1, 2017. Guterres is yet to make his maiden international trip and...

  • Bush would not take any questions

    Among the media houses that were present were the New York Times, Reuters, Washington Times as well as Mmegi, Sunday Standard, Btv and Botswana Press Agency. The staff from USA Embassy would not allow any questions to the man who oversaw the removal...

  • Kalafatis brother demands P16million from govt

    The 34-year-old, who is the brother to John Kalafatis who was executed by the Botswana Defence Force members in May 2009, says his attackers were plain clothes Botswana police officers. The matter is before Lobatse High Court Justice Jennifer Dube...

  • HIV/AIDS used as weapon against Basarwa � UB don

    In an article published in African Educational Research journal, Dr Dama Mosweunyane condemns what he calls forcible relocation of Basarwa from the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve (CKGR) and argues that the Government did not educate Basarwa about the...

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