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Masisi told Parliament yesterday that the country is at a point where all efforts the IEC does are meant to facilitate preparation for the forthcoming general elections. “I therefore feel obliged to implore honorable members of Parliament to...

The ruling effectively means that Tshipa will have to complete the 10-year jail term imposed on him by a Molepolole magistrate in 2009. However, he was given a reprieve when Kirby allowed his appeal to backdate his sentence.  Kirby found that...

The Tonota North MP who was felled by Thapelo Olopeng in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) primaries told Mmegi that so far, the negotiations have not borne fruit. “It will be my democratic right if I join them. Some people in my...

Ministers Peter Siele, Patrick Masimolole and Shaw Kgathi implied that the recent workshop conducted by United Kingdom’ Labour Party amounted to a coup. “The words uttered by the three cabinet ministers are not only grossly mischievous...

Answering a question in Parliament yesterday, Mokalake said he dispatched a team comprising the Department of Town and Country Planning and the Department of Technical and Geological Surveys to investigate. “The investigation did not...

Seretse, who is also the Botswana Democratic Party parliamentary candidate for Mmopane/Lentsweletau, his party colleague and businessman Paul Paledi and Botswana Telecommunications Corporation project manager Bernt Astrom were charged with corruption...

Sedumedi was a vibrant 30 year-old when he went to jail, but he now cuts a sorry figure of a 47 year-old man after 17 years ‘inside.’ He now wants his continued incarceration reviewed because he has never undergone a medical check up...

The case was heard by Judge President Ian Kirby while Mzwinila appeared in person. In convicting the two brothers, the then Regional Magistrate Lot Moroka said that it was unfortunate for former Gaborone North Member of Parliament, Michael Mzwinila,...

Mmegi has learnt that some of the losing parliamentary candidates are planning to join forces and challenge Tshireletso. Tshireletso, who is also the Assistant Minister of Local Government, retained the constituency with 1,634 votes, followed by Neo...

Teisi has taken his former employees to Gaborone High Court demanding P2,777,282 as compensation for unfair dismissal. On the other hand, Home Corp through its attorneys Daphne Briscoe, Luzibo Benza and Nondumiso Ntuli are opposing Teisi’s...

Relatively young Mangwegape-Healy told Mmegi that despite coming last in the first round of Bulela Ditswe, he still believes that he can snatch the constituency from Mogami who led the pack. He attributed his loss in the first round to the timing at...

  UDC may sue  IEC over symbolsISAIAH MOREWAGAE Staff Writer KANYE: Botswana National Front (BNF) President Duma Boko has accused Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of overstepping its mandate in refusing to register the Umbrella...

Kgati was sentenced to death by Lobatse High Court judge Mercy Garekwe in January last year after she found no extenuating circumstances that could persuade the court to impose a sentence other than capital punishment on Kgati. However, in their...

Speaking at the opening of the legal year, Molokomme implored stakeholders to work together to stamp out this undesirable practice of forum shopping. "It would also be remiss of me if I did not comment on a topical subject to which your Lordship...

  “On the issue of relations between the bench and the bar, LSB seeks to emphasise that respect between these parties is critical for delivery of justice and perceptions relating to the same,” Lecha said. Lecha noted that last year...