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Attendants of last week’s seminar on climate change, held at the University of Botswana (UB)said because Botswana was inherently semi-arid, adaptation was not a new phenomenon, just that policies were not stringent enough to promote the...

‘The judiciary is too far important an institution to be left to the whims of a divisive old man…,” charged Union president, Andrew Motsamai, during a media briefing yesterday. These remarks come after the latest developments in...

It is believed that with these skills, the women will be in a better position to tackle the prevailing power woes, and most critically, light up their villages, which are currently outside the electricity grid. The women, who range from illiterate...

A senior official in the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MoFDP) said this at the Botswana Coalition on Sustainable Development Goals stakeholder interaction on the SDGs on Monday. Director of population and development coordination in...

Health minister, Dorcas Makgato has engaged her counterpart at Minerals, Water and Energy Resources, Kitso Mokaila to find alternative water sources. Yesterday, Makgato told journalists that various interventions were being put in place on a short...

There is no redemption in sight for Gaborone, Bokaa and Nnywane Dams, which are headed for their worst dry spells as we approach the next rainy season, The situation could even be worst than before for the greater Gaborone residents with northern...

Authorities at the facilities admitted to encountering complete water supply outages over the weekend. However, by the time of going to press it was unclear how many patients had been referred, as well as the cost of their procedures, as officials...

The deal, concluded on Monday, averts a national exams crisis such as happened in 2010 when teachers boycotted final exams, resulting in the delay of results and the subsequent troubles for students progressing to different grades. Under the deal,...

Nations meet at the Dithubaruba cultural village- where the history of Bakwena informs was once the capital, before members of the tribe relocated to Molepolole. The event, which has proved over the years not to be just a Bakwena affair and neither...

Government is taking the bill amending the Act to Parliament in November. The existing law places the responsibility for invigilation on the BEC, not on the teachers. “We are yet to meet with the Botswana Teachers Union (BTU) to discuss the...

Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Kitso Mokaila uttered these words yesterday in his first public briefing as the maelstrom around recent water shortages in the country’s south darkened. Public schools are open in the face of...

During a briefing on the recent outbreak in Ramotswa recently, the ministry’s head of communication and public relations, Doreen Motshegwa said that even if the water situation could not directly be identified as the cause of the disease,...

The startling statement, coming on the back of Justice Michael Leburu’s Monday ruling that President Ian Khama has no power to decide on the conditions of public service including salaries, was made at the inaugural stakeholders forum...

Patients considered “not very critical” and whose care and procedures required water were at risk of not being attended to because of the measures adopted by the hospital this week, as the water crisis deepened. Even the 200,000 litre...

The learners completed their diploma programmes through distance learning at the institute and are now enrolled for their degrees. The learners say BOCODOL made them start their degrees at year two, as they had already covered the first year modules...