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This was expressed at the law society’s own opening of the Legal Year hosted at their head offices in Gaborone, as well as another satellite meeting in Francistown and Maun. The first burst of the bubble was from one of the senior members of the...

The voters’ registration for the 2024 General Election started on January 5, and ended on February 3, 2023. The IEC this week revealed that it has registered only 736,424 prospective voters, meaning that they had achieved 69% of their targeted 1.7...

Mogorosi Korae was found guilty and convicted on two accounts. “The accused appeared before this court as an aggressive individual who thrives on intimidating people.During his appearance before this court, he replicated his conduct of walking out...

The Court of Appeal (CoA) bench comprising Court President Justice Tebogo Tau, Justices Singh Lakhvinder Walia and Baaitse Nkabinde this morning advised Morupisi through his lawyer, Busang Manewe, to consider taking more time to address the court on...

Selolwane was arrested and detained by the Broadhurst police on Monday and later transferred to Gaborone Maximum Prison where he remains detained.In his petition seen by Mmegi Online, Selolwane states that on January 27, 2024 he was called by the...

The facts of the case are that on May 17, 2022, Korae appeared before the Molepolole Magistrate court on charges of threat to kill.On that day, Korae found that he was appearing before a different Magistrate. He had protested that he had made a bail...

The 48-year-old July was once a feared serial robber in the country, but perhaps it was his 1999 armed robbery incident where together with four of his friends robbed a police station P900, 000, abducted an on-duty police officer and got away with...

Even Motshegwa himself has vowed to throw his weight behind the man anointed by the UDC leadership to contest in Mmadinare in the October general election. This comes after he had initially shown interest to contest the constituency, but a BPF...

Following the incident on Wednesday last week, the man, a kgosana, was arrested the same week after the child was rushed for medical assistance in Francistown.Superintendent Michael Maphephu said preliminary investigations point to the suspect as the...

The reality on the ground is that ‘My Star’ brand remains popular but the creative minds behind the show have been overtaken by time. This means that the team needs to make way for fresh minds that would ride on the wave of the brand that is...

The soldiers, Mpho Baleseng, Matlhogonolo Kearabile, Timothy Mogatwe, Kaone Matlhosi, Moagisi Buti, Morena Mangesi, Karabo Tsimako, Baeng Ramohobo, Edward Gabaikanngwe, Vincent Motsie and Lesego Mokopakgosi on Friday filed contempt of court charges...

At the beginning of the event, the technical team arrived extremely late to set up at the venue, meaning that the event start late at 9PM.To add salt to the injury, the rain was not on the side of the organisers and revellers. For about two hours,...

One of their major findings is that the direct appointment of a president could lead to disaster. A Cabinet White Paper, which sums up their stand on matters raised by Batswana following the review process explains the matter.One of the...

One of the recommendations by Batswana was that the Constitution seems to give the President excessive powers that seem to set him or her above the law.Some people opposed a sitting President’s immunity from criminal prosecution and advocated the...

This comes after proposals from Batswana and a recommendation from the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Review of the Constitution.The recommendation was that “Political party funding be introduced based on parliamentary seats won by...