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Tefo Pheage
  • Khama proposes Moitoi for AU Commission

    Ministers of foreign affairs of the SADC countries met in Gaborone last month and endorsed Venson-Moitoi as the southern African region candidate for the position of the Chairperson of the AU Commission. Three candidates from South Africa, Malawi...

  • Botswana stuns the world with HIV strategy

    This comes a few weeks after the country was ranked the friendliest country to people living with HIV/AIDS, by a March 1 survey published by Afrobarometer, a Pan-African non-partisan research network, which ranked Botswana first among 33 countries...

  • Govt, UN clash with NGO group

    The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) NGOs Group, comprising of Botswana Council of Non–Governmental organisations (BOCONGO), DITSHWANELO, Kuru Family of Organisations, LeGaBiBo, MISA Botswana and Rainbow Identity Association‘s main contention is...

  • Masisi seeks counsel from Molomo

    Masisi had arranged to meet the nine councillors, after his Economic Stimulus Package address to Kgatleng District full Council recently to renew his promises and relationship with them. Kgatleng constituencies are believed to have voted for Masisi...

  • Lying Officers Irk Kgatleng Councillors

    The councillors wanted council officers to answer questions under oath during full council meetings because the latter often gave false information to the former. The mover of the motion, Thabo Komane of Ntshinoge ward, said officers gave inacurate...

  • Kgatleng councillors lament lack of consultation on ESP

    The councillors’ main concern was that the government did not consult them on the ESP to know their priority demands. The debate was led by the council chairperson, Mpho Morolong, who said Bakgatla have their priority needs than what is being put...

  • Council urges Masisi to restrain PSP, Tsogwane

    The councillors, led by chairperson Mpho Morolong and his vice, Stephen Makhura, told Masisi on Wednesday that Morupisi clandestinely cancelled their deal with First National Bank Botswana (FNBB). Morupisi recently cancelled a deal of over P12...

  • Bakgatla protest new Burial rules

    While the council authorities say the new bye-law, gazetted on March 4, 2016 was passed in 2008 after extensive consultation, the tribal administration authorities, however, insist it is not the case. Bakgatla tribal administration representative,...

  • Khama, Geingob snub churches over Namibian refugees

    The Botswana Council of Churches (BCC) and Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN) have revealed that their respective state Presidents, Ian Khama and Hage Geingob, snubbed their requests to meet and defuse the burning issue of the Namibian refugees at...

  • Churches, Ditshwanelo refuse to back down

    The two organisations have filed supporting affidavits in the Lobatse High Court case in which the refugees are suing the Botswana government for plans to deport  or forcibly repatriate them to Namibia. The Namibian government has already reacted...

  • Venson-Moitoi takes on UN expert on Basarwa

    Shaheed, who paid a 13-day official visit to Botswana in 2014, said her visit was to identify, in a spirit of co-operation and constructive dialogue, good practices in and possible obstacles to the promotion and protection of cultural rights in...

  • UN rights council worried over Dikgosi, Kgotla system

    The UN Special Rapporteur, Farida Shaheed, who spent some time in the country in 2014 making these observations, made these recommendations. She and her team noted that some groups, which have requested to be recognised as tribes under the Bogosi...

  • Ngamiland wars: Wayeyi reprimand Hambukushi

    The Hambukushu’s views were also shared by Batawana who have notified Kgosi Tawana Moremi that they wanted to see the minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Slumber Tsogwane in relation to his meetings with the Wayeyi. In the missive...

  • Batswana warm up to gays, study shows

    Entitled ‘Good Neighbours’, the perception survey asked respondents whether they would be opposed to having homosexual neighbours. Thirty-three countries participated in the study released this week. In four countries, Cape Verde, South Africa,...

  • Kgafela Smiles As Premier Rejects Commission Report

    Mahumapelo said the commission has sidelined Botswana-based Bakgatla. The premier said the report he signed recently has serious omissions and commissions that he only learnt of. At the forefront of his reservations, the premier wants the commission...

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