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A four-member team from BOAD recently made this, and other demands, before the Minister of Transport and Communications Nonofho Molefhi.  The team cited the difficulties that the hearing impaired and other disabled people still have to navigate...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) heard yesterday that while the promotion of Botswana abroad and the attraction of investment is a core mandate, most of the missions run on a shoestring budget.  Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary,...

Accounting before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday, Malefho conceded that the current means of dispensing the drugs is a violation of patients’ privacy and promotes stigma. Currently, most government facilities have Infectious...

Reporting before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Permanent Secretary, Boipelelo Khumomatlhare, said he was pursuing P30.4 million that his ministry had spent on poverty eradication projects.  As the department in charge of the flagship...

He says the latest incident took place in March this year, following another wild goose chase over a meeting the OP claimed to have scheduled with the Ngwaketse Land Board. The Land Board claimed it did not know about the meeting. “I arrived...

At a recent Botswana Family Welfare Association (BOFWA) event, Sam Ntelamo, Resident Representative of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Liaison Office to the African Union Commission, said the games are an opportune time to...

The MoPAPA deputy permanent secretary responsible for media, Mogomotsi Kaboyamodimo, last week told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the ministry is working on an election coverage plan that will provide fair reporting on all registered...

Vision 2016 is the country’s long-term strategy to drive its socio-economic development, with seven key goals developed towards the realisation of the vision. Two years before it lapses in 2016, the OP has said it will begin work on a new...

It emerged yesterday that government has struggled to recover the money, as there is no legal or written record when the former MPs were allowed to stay in the Parliamentary Flats beyond their terms. The clerk of the National Assembly, Barbara...

In a stern warning, PAC chair Nehemiah Modubule said he would hate to see the befuddled Madikwe, the acting Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President (OP), become the first accounting officer to be charged with perjury for the glaring...

The Industrial Court yesterday brokered peace in the Ramotswa Centre for Deaf Education labour crisis, ordering the 35 striking workers to return to work and their employer to pay their salaries by Friday. The workers, who comprise house parents,...

The BSD on Friday morning hauled the employees, all based at Ramotswa Centre for Deaf Education, before court on an urgent application, seeking the court to declare the boycott illegal and to direct them to return to work. Although the matter was...

Acting Minister, Mokgweetsi Masisi this week told primary school heads that between 2017 and 2018, the ministry would introduce the pre-primary programme in all public primary schools. Masisi’s announcement follows the introduction of the...

Dilapidated classrooms and other inadequate infrastructure, shortage of water and staff housing, delays in electrification as well as problems in the delivery of textbooks and learning materials, were among shortcomings discovered by the high-level...

Section 8 of the new Act provides for couples married under Common Law, to change their property, loss and profit regime from one type to another (either in community or out of) up to a maximum of two times. It allows the same for married couples...