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Tefo Pheage
  • Eleven strike victims die awaiting reinstatement

    This was revealed by the Union when preparing for the just-ended conference that was geared towards raising funds for the dismissed workers who are still battling to be returned to their jobs. The labour movement has been supporting the workers...

  • Expect improved quality health system � Khama

    The President said through organisational transformation, access to quality health care service, prevention with particular emphasis on primary health care, and the Economic Diversification Drive (EDD) the health system is geared towards significant...

  • Double-faced immigration officials suspended

    The three officials were served with letters last week pending investigations into the matter. They are alleged to have colluded with the 35-year-old Zimbabwean man, Bhekizwe Nkomazana, who was recently nabbed along with three Batswana, after...

  • Councils Fight Over Boundaries

    The KDC chairperson, Mpho Morolong said he was not aware of the development as he was never briefed by anybody on the matter. “I do not know that SEDC will be installing traffic lights in Kgatleng. It is news to me. I will follow the matter up...

  • Royal tension brewing over Montshioa�s presidential award

    The widow of the late Barolong tribal leader in South Africa, Neonyana Montshioa, says she has never received or heard anything official in relation to the award given to his late husband by President Ian Khama. Kgosi Montshioa was one of the 75...

  • BDP MP, grandma in land tussle

    Maphane is accusing the Boteti East legislator of  trying to claim a residential plot she has been awarded since 1968, which she says is located in Letlhakane some distance away from her ploughing field that she lives on.  Maphane, who...

  • PS warns on tobacco rights

    She was speaking at a public debate under the theme ‘Smoke-Free Public Places - A Human Right’ at the University of Botswana(UB) conference centre. El Halabi said protecting our right to breathe clean air is a fundamental...

  • Khama frustrates criminal lunatics

    The board, which is founded under the Mental Disorders’ Act, is made up of diverse experts in the medical and psychological field. Highly placed sources told Mmegi that for the past seven years, Khama had generally been declining to act on the...

  • We are not blind followers � OP

    Trump was recently elected the 45th President of the US and will be inaugurated in January 2017. African leaders, including from South Africa, Burundi, Tanzania, Gabon, Mali, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Uganda and Ghana have been quick to send their...

  • Basarwa want the state to drop case

    Mokate Setshume, Xebetso Mokate, Kwaxara Kenenxo, Gantsi Sekapasamokawa, Mago Uxalao, Tale Mogatle, Qoma Kealeboga and Kelapile Gantsi in addition want the state to release their Toyota Hilux, which the state says they caught the accused using to...

  • Gov't pays Sesana and Co over P90,000

    Sesana, Xamme Gaotlhobogwe, Dube Ngwanaosele, Kanyo Kaingotla, Sister Gaotlhobogwe and Kealotswe Motsoketso, all residents of Molapo, had sued the government for confiscating over 95 of their goats and a horse on the basis that they have been brought...

  • Sesana�s son, Co mount war against state

    Tshoganetso Sesana and six others are facing charges of hunting in a protected area, after they were arrested in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) few months ago. Their argument for the recusal of Mothuba is that she is the one who signed...

  • Africa breaks silence on gays

    African nations have colluded to suspend the work of the first United Nations  (UN) independent expert charged with investigating violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The expert, appointed in September,...

  • Kapinga calls Khama a dictator

    The former deputy police commissioner said Khama’s obsession with security institutions clearly shows that the President is also insecure. “His predecessor, Festus Mogae used to move around the country, visit officers at the mess and...

  • Khama promises 7,000 jobs in Phikwe

    Khama made this revelation in Kanye on Thursday in a Kgotla meeting where he also touched on a few national issues. Khama regretted the decision to close the Mine, but said it was not possible to continue operating  it.  “We have...

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