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This is according to the director, Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Benetia Chingapane. The SADC Double Troika is made up of Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Tanzania and Swaziland and...

Justices Zibani Makhwade and Leatile Dambe will join Walia to complete the bench. There is no set date for argument of the case at the moment. The case is stuck because the suspended quartet contended that the case record from the Attorney General is...

“The issue of whether Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) has terminated its affiliation to BOFEPUSU is neither here nor there in our view, and it is immaterial to the current salary negotiation. To the best of our knowledge BOPEU has not...

This follows the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Slumber Tsogwane’s consultations recently in Gumare. Tsogwane had told the Wayeyi that consultations regarding their recognition as a tribe have been completed. In an...

  Never has it happened since independence in 1966 that separation of powers between the Executive and Judiciary would be tested to that limit. The suspension of Justices Key Dingake, Modiri Letsididi, Mercy Garekwe and Ranier Busang brought...

Since the suspension of the quartet, acting judges have been employed to take over the cases that have been allocated to the suspended judges. Apparently, attorneys have been receiving notifications from the Registrar of the High Court, Michael...

NALCGPWU lawyer, Mboki Chilisa has confirmed that the case went for a status hearing last Friday before Justice Abednico Tafa and it will be argued next year July. In his founding affidavit, the national organising secretary of the NALCGPWU, Johnson...

Motlhabi informed them that Khama, acting in accordance with the advice of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), has appointed Bashi Moesi as the substantive High Court judge effective from January 1, 2015. Khama also appointed little known Boipuso...

According to documents seen by Mmegi, the Commission has already written to the LSB asking for Torto’s replacement. “We have received resignation of your representative Mr Marvin Torto from the Judicial Service Commission with effect...

Selebi-Phikwe West MP Dithapelo Keorapetse had tabled the motion saying it was of urgent public importance. The motion also called for an enquiry into the accident. “That this House resolves that government should ensure that there is full...

Early this year Khama rejected the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to appoint Omphemetse Motumise to the bench. Three judges: Singh Walia, Abednico Tafa and Phadi Solomon have been appointed to hear the case. The lawyer for...

A senior government attorney Morulaganyi Chamme confirmed the deportation in his affidavit filed in court on November 2, 2015. The Attorney General filed a notice to defend Commissioners of Police and Prisons, Keabetswe Makgophe and Silas...

This week the government lawyer notified attorneys for Musa Isabirye and Timothy Yamin that Makgophe and Motlalekgosi shall, at the hearing of the matter, oppose the relief sought by the applicants. Last week the two Ugandan political refugees filed...

Addressing journalists yesterday at the Phakalane Golf Estates, Bensuda said that it is not true that the court is targeting African leaders, but helping the voiceless victims of the perpetrators. The African Union has accused the ICC of targeting...

“The respondents shall not remove from the jurisdiction of Botswana certain Eritrean nationals, all members of the Eritrean national football team, 10 in number, who on or about October 14, 2015 presented themselves to the Botswana government...