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Throngs of villagers had gathered at the Letlhakane Sub-Land Board premises on Friday to apply for residential plots, with some saying the last time the land authority accepted applications was five years ago. Residents who travelled through the...

 The coalition’s draft manifesto states that UDC will have, ‘A government and governance system that is decentralised and close to the people they serve’. It further states that ‘Public services do not reach the ordinary...

The messages communicated by the parties through song and dance were consistent with the issues of the time. For instance, because the Botswana Peoples’ Party (BPP) and Botswana National Front (BNF) were decidedly revolutionary, their songs...

The Francistown West constituency became the epicentre of disputatious primary elections especially by the BDP in 2004, 2009 and 2013. In what could reverse the fortunes of the BCP which recently benefited from the BDP instability resulting from a...

This is because, as religious scholar, Professor Musa Dube of the University of Botswana (UB) put it, the church, at least in our context, has been working with the poor even before independence. Besides, pastors not only work more closely with the...

Neither do the parties have policy documents spelling out how they would look after the physical environment should they be given the mandate to govern the country. Despite the fact that the Francistown West constituency ­– where a...

The elections was postponed following a successful appeal by the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) against the refusal by the IEC to register its candidate, Ignatius Moswaane, owing to an internal conflict arising from the party primary elections. The...

“I can confirm that we are petitioning the president through either the DC (District Commissioner) or a Cabinet Minister. As I speak to you, I am on my way to the Francistown DC office to submit a letter to His Excellency the President Ian...

Because the words ‘teacher’ and ‘preacher’ rhyme in the English language, his parents must have taken some consolation that their only child had not completely defied them in the choice of a career. Besides, teaching is a form...

At the time, he was reacting to speculation that he would represent the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) in the impending by-election following the, just over a month, death of the incumbent Member of Parliament, Tshelang Masisi. For good...

The former Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital superintendent garnered 568 votes, Lazarus Tlou 400, while Baathodi Monyatsi had a paltry 90 votes.  There were 13 spoiled votes in the BCP primaries in which 5,700 voters had been expected to take part...

Wikipedia describes compulsory voting as "a system in which electors are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. If an eligible voter does not attend a polling place, he or she may be subject to punctive measures such as...