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These services are in the form of entrepreneurial packages that are given to the poor to start business services mainly to government supported entities such as schools and local clinics. The government had set itself a deadline of 2017 to complete...

Sadly some of these cases are happening to people who have lived all their lives here, from primary schools to Universities until they started to develop career paths in Botswana and began contributing to the economy in various positive ways. A good...

Things have been going downhill for the Sebego administration from day one  in the office, when his critics accused him of allegely favouring his faction, Friends of Football with certain responsibilities. With more and more talk of  poor...

Africa needed Botswana’s impressive culture of peace and political tolerance, economic growth to take this qualities to the rest of Africa to inspire other less performing states. They are many who would want to copy the blue print and...

It was Gabane-Mmankgodi Member of Parliament (MP), Pius Mokgware, who started the debate with a motion to amend the land policy.  However, we learnt that the Minister of Lands and Housing, Prince Maele stood up to clarify that all the points...

It has surfaced that the youthful Motswana had also recovered an amazing 239-karat diamond two years earlier in the same spot at the Karowe mine. Management of Karowe mine has quashed suggestions that the young man deserves a big reward from Karowe...

At no other time had there been so much commitment by government or private sector to deliberately channel the funds to the local performing arts industry in the various forms to perform in the various districts, special occasions, road shows, and...

The victory however comes in the backdrop of a painful experience, with no funds for adequate preparations, as well as having had to live with the controversy of the local football league that was threatening to rob the national football team of as...

Students on these trips sleep in classrooms, which in most cases are not locked. What do we have to say about the safety of students? We already know we have criminals who are always looking for an opportunity to strike. According to a report carried...

What this means is that all Batswana diagnosed HIV positive will receive antiretrovirals earlier than  reaching the 350 CD4 count, which used to be the starting point for treatment. This approach will see approximately 100,000 more people...

They include appointment of a paramount chief or tribal authority, who will not only be salaried, but will also have a structure of senior chiefs, court bailiffs, clerks,  as well as the power to appoint village chiefs in all their varying...

According to the promoter who is also a well known member of the ruling Party, taking the media on board will go a long way in ensuring that the hype and the build-up reaches every Motswana. The promoter was against any idea of deliberately or...

Just recently MP Tshenolo Mabeo in conjunction with an international NGO donated bicycles and school bags to some rural students in his constituency, while a few years ago Orange Botswana also donated nicely designed donkey carts to the Office of the...

It was broken by a Facebook community, using all the tactics they can muster to drive the message home and clear. It is the story of a Sebina ward councillor Kemmonye Amon impregnating a schoolgirl, who was chased from school on Friday. While we...

This is  a first start in organising or establishing a forum through which the rights of this minority group will be debated, discussed and channeled to stakeholders. While the registration itself does not change any of the existing laws that...