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ISPAAD coordinator, Lepodisi Telekelo told Mmegi yesterday that in the current ploughing season, they have dispatched more maize seeds, though farmers are informed that sorghum is more drought tolerant. He said that so far, they had dispatched 450.4...

BITRI held its second seminar yesterday where Dr Kamal Bhattacharya, the vice president and lab director of IBM Research Africa based in Nairobi, shared his own experiences. Bhattacharya said that in Africa a different approach of doing business was...

This season, Maitengwe village has been the first to record the highest rainfall. On Monday the north east village registered a high of 154mm followed by Kutamogoree with 150mm. Numbers however have been different for the southern part of the...

The BPS plans to increase aviation crew and restart their sky patrols over Gaborone, which were suspended after the crash in April, due to the lack of craft. Yesterday, the director of the Air Support Branch, Arthur Johnson told Mmegi that the only...

But there is a man who has expressed his un-dying love for donkey. The 53-year-old Johannes Visagie is adamant that donkey farming is an untapped lifetime treasure. His life took a different turn last year after he conducted research on donkey meat....

According to Dedede the construction of the sewerage network will commence in January next year and is expected to end in January 2019.  Defects notification period will run from January 2019 to July 2020. Currently the project is at its...

In an interview with Mmegi, Kgosi Sebele declared himself a staunch member of the Botswana National Front (BNF) though he had not been active due to his former status as a regent. Weeks before elections, Sebele addressed Umbrella for Democratic...

Kitso Mokaila, Kenneth Matambo, Eric Molale and Unity Dow were chosen by majority as Specially Elected legislators in an election that quickly established the dichotomy between the ruling party and the opposition. Prior to the vote, Federation of the...

This year’s most unexpected fall was of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) heavyweights, one a 45-year veteran of the National Assembly and near legendary status in the village, and the other two decades history spent largely in Cabinet. As...

Gaborone Dam is now at 6.8 percent with its supplies due to run out in under a month. Some experts had expected WUC to take advantage of the dam’s drying to conduct a de-silting exercise. Yesterday, however, Infrastructure Director,...

She said they had realised this after they conducted an assessment among the disabled and trained them on how to go through the voting process.  Keoagile explained that the deaf depend on sight, and would need to see facial pictures of the...

He said that the farmers were paid cash at the rate of P2, 500 per beast provided the farmers furnished the department with adequate evidence. The price is given regardless of the breed the farmer had. Dr. Makgetho said that the animals died after...

The principal public relations officer in the Ministry of Health, Doreen Motshegwa, said that the ban against travellers from Ebola-affected countries remains effective. However, individuals who had been staying in neighbouring countries could be...

The study was expected to take a year after Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) last year in March. The research was to determine the possibility of water transfer from the Lesotho highlands to Botswana,...

Annah Majelantle from Statistics Botswana told a national AIDS council meeting yesterday that the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate has increased from 17.5 percent in 2008 to 18.5 percent last year. The results were from a sampled population of 213, 518...