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Dr Fahim Chand

The hidden destiny

Framed by Parliament and a soft mist, it feels less like architecture and more like London’s crown, unmoving, iconic, quietly magnificent. I glanced left as I stepped onto Westminster Bridge toward Southbank.Even blindfolded, if you’d erased Big...

Thulaganyo Jankey

One Bite Closer to the Emergency Room

Well, before I catch any strays let me just say it is the council by-law officers who are saying this. After years and years of sitting back and watching the city residents eat unhygienic food the officers got an epiphany and decided to sanction all...

Michelle Phetlhe

Take a Bao

hey are perfection and deliver on making sandwiches with an Asian flair. It is not pretty standard practice that we make our steamed buns using our simple, trusted and fool proof 2 ingredient Nutriday Dough. We keep making this dough over and over...

Mqondisi Dube

Of teams and their obsession with muti

The path to traditional doctors, who are believed to wield immeasurable powers in determining the outcome of 22 men chasing a pig skin, is well trodden. Imagine clubs that are struggling to pay players but have a full budget for a traditional doctor....

Tshwarelo Hosia

Beating academic underachievement

Student achievement levels can only go up if students are subjected to a thorough instructional regimen while also students are sufficiently encouraged and challenged to fully apply and bring their best selves to the classroom learning theatre....

Solly Rakgomo

Al Qaeda’s deadly global outreach

Pakistan, however, dismisses these allegations as a calculated strategy to distort its global standing and obscure the intricate realities of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).This polemic underscores a broader narrative: The...

Thulaganyo Jankey

Public Accounts Comedy

Winning an argument with a bus conductor 3. Accountability Government has decided to constitute the Public Accounts Committee to ask the government captains ‘where is the money’. The committee chairing the hearings has been carefully selected by...

Michelle Phetlhe

INSIDE CHELLZ KITCHEN

While some insist that frozen rice gets you the best results in egg fried rice preparation, I find it challenging to take a stance. For sure there are advantages to using frozen rice, especially in terms of convenience and time efficiency. However,...

Mqondisi Dube

Teams are the real VIPs

But more often than not, organisers of major sport events, particularly football, appear to suffer from cognitive dissonance. They know the truth but always twist the seating arrangement and create their own VIPs outside the men and women, boys and...

Tshwarelo Hosia

Celebrating teachers’ accomplishments

Members of the teaching fraternity are gathering in the vibrant Palapye town to mark and celebrate their day, highlighting accomplishments made over the years while reflecting on challenges and road blocks that could be inhibiting provision of...

Solly Rakgomo

Liberate Western Sahara

Far from offering a genuine path to peace, the autonomy plan is a strategic repackaging of occupation that violates the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination and undermines the very foundations of international order. The Moroccan autonomy...

Dr Fahim Chand

A radiant hue

The earth’s architecture, so vast, so varied, has the uncanny power to astonish and even shift the rhythm of our bodies. We cruised steadily forward on a ribbon of smooth grey tarmac, summer blessing the day with a perfect blue sky and a bold...

Thulaganyo Jankey

Beauty With A Purpose.........and Butt

It is a contest where elegance meets diplomacy, and contestants answer life’s toughest questions like, ‘What would you do to achieve world peace?’ They introduced a Beauty with a Purpose component—where contestants go from runway queens to...

Mqondisi Dube

League awards and controversy

TAFIC emerged as the biggest winners on the night, eclipsing league champions, Gaborone United. Those in the red corner of Gaborone felt the champions had been short-changed and should have dominated the evening. But the other red end of Francistown...

Dr Fahim Chand

An unsettling truth

To the right, an imposing row of ancient trees rose high, their vast canopies interlaced above, casting shifting shadows on the earth below. Through a break in the foliage, another structure emerged, an architectural marvel etched with exquisite...

Solly Rakgomo

Restoring world order through diplomacy

Historically, in the world of multiple sovereignties before the commencement of the Cold War, it was the balance-of-power system that brought stability into international politics: i.e., a pattern of relations among states which through shifting...

Tshwarelo Hosia

The spirit of community enterprise

Poverty was not used as an excuse to deter people from participating in the education affairs of their children.Indeed, as the Bible states, where your treasure is, there will be your heart also. Before the government seriously took care of erecting...

Michelle Phetlhe

Chicken Noodle Soup

We make chicken soup every winter season and this was a great twist to it. This might just become my go-to soup whenever it’s chilly or someone in the family has the sniffles. I trust and believe that you too will love this homemade chicken noodle...

Thulaganyo Jankey

Beware of The GC Driver

The streets of GC are teeming with motorists who should be stopped by police. In my considered view more than half the motorists in GC actually do not have driver’s licenses. Even the police force has a huge chunk of drivers who are not licensed....

Mqondisi Dube

League winners deserve more than P1.4m

It is a huge improvement from the previous season where champions received half the amount in a league that had no sponsor. But with the FNB sponsorship secured, teams will be rewarded better for their efforts this season. The end of year awards were...

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UB murder suspect to be arraigned tomorrow

The suspect in the murder of a 47-year-old woman the University in Botswana (UB) is set to be arraigned before the Extension II Magistrate Court tomorrow at 0830am following his arrest in less than 24 hours.

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Someone needs to be held accountable – Magistrate

Extension II Chief Magistrate Kamogelo Mmesi has lashed out at the state for what she described as a lack of diligence, stating that the death of 47-year-old Magadi Mokganelwa could have been prevented had those responsible done their jobs.

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Boko tells accounting officers to shape, change habits

President Duma Boko has issued a stern warning to those entrusted in shaping the new administration’s vision saying they need to shape and change their habits, as they have failed.

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Botswana secures access to China beef market

Botswana has secured access to China’s lucrative beef market after signing a long-awaited export protocol at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) meetings currently underway.

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Botswana’s horticultural sector grows stronger amid climate pressures

The Botswana horticulture has made significant strides, now meeting 79% of the country’s national vegetable and fruit demand, although there are challenges besieging the sector, BusinessMonitor has learnt.

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Nthebolan dissects complexity of submission in marriage

Submission In Marriage, a new book authored by Evangelist, Elmah Nthebolan is the latest to hit the shelves. Published by LP Publishers, the book delves into marriage, a complex union, as often portrayed by married individuals.

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Man charged with murder of girlfriend

Thirty-five year old Kabo Garethusane has landed himself in serious trouble after being charged with a single count of murder in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Goabaone Mothofela.

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Let’s fight GBV as a collective

Botswana for the longest time was known for her virulent peace with family being an enviable institution.As the media, we are also scared to be incessantly reporting on these bloody scenes where women are brutally murdered and worse, sometimes in front of their children and loved ones. Yes, we have reported cases where men were also brutally murdered by their loved ones, but such cases are a drop in the ocean.For the past two weeks, Botswana was...

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