When the festive season happens, 80% of the population uses A1 to get to their Christmas destination every year. The Department for Transport has confirmed that the annual ‘Great Festive Migration’ will soon be underway. On the A1, it’s not...
The one deficiency that can ruin the students’ prospects of achieving academic prowess is lack of reading culture. A solid reading foundation plays a significant role in the long-term education journey of children. If students do not have reading...
We learnt to measure everything except enough. Convenience promised simplicity and delivered prospects with infinite possibilities. Roads multiplied, and so did choices; both became ways to get lost.We traded the ache of hunger for discovery for the...
The feedback was like a clearance sale: insults 50% off, sarcasm buy one get one free and unsolicited advice in bulk. One kind guy though offered me a spare couch to sleep on. Basically the feedback ranged from marriage counselling to witness...
A stranger’s laugh on a bus, the soft rain on a tin roof, a memory you thought you’d mislaid, suddenly everything leans forward, asking to be used.It is quiet and persistent, this spark. It tugs at the sleeve during work, taps insistently at the...
Ethiopia, a landlocked country since the independence of Eritrea in 1993, has always been interested in having secure access to the seas: the port of Assab was historically the key gateway to the Red Sea. Egypt’s perception of any efforts by...
Some quarters might perceive the shift as an additional burden, an ambitious mission that cannot be accomplished in light of the education sector’s history of academic underachievement. Critics are saying that the child welfare agenda would assume...
Otherwise, if you don’t have height, not many women would convert you into a husband quickly. If you don’t have patience, who do you expect to accompany your wife when she goes shopping? I think shopping is a woman’s attempt to get back at the...
I might have not had a chance to make it myself before going on tour, but I tasted it at the first school we visited and it blew my socks right off. Ahhh, Christmas.That time of the year when the sun is blazing, kids are running around chasing each...
My eyes slowly adjusted to the blackness as I looked through the window, the sounds of shuffling students gathering around me and filling the quiet.My internal switch flicked, pulling me back to the moment, and I gathered my books and tucked them...
The civil war in Sudan is no exception. Sudan has been a country experiencing a humanitarian crisis since the military clashes in 2023. There are strong allegations of foreign interference through illicit funding, which has exacerbated this crisis....
Some educators may be gripped with a feeling of despondency occasioned by the abolition of CP as an integral part of a school management system. It would appear that the controversial form of discipline has been the most effective and powerful...
I surmised that ‘That column’ would have meant Ink Spills. I was flattered. Ink Spills is now referred to as ‘that column’, which means it is steadily creeping towards being referred to as ‘the column’ – an upgrade of ‘that column’....
The first major event was supposed to be the announcement of the final squad on Monday (yesterday), but that did not happen.The BFA indicated that the announcement has been postponed due to the passing of national executive committee member, Keleeme...
My backpack was already packed, my brain had clocked out, and my legs twitched like a sprinter on the blocks. Then, at last, the bell rang, sweet liberation! We erupted outside like jubilant prisoners on perfectly legal parole. The excitement level...
Thirty years following Eritrean independence, Ethiopia’s maritime ambition forced an old question back into view.Will port infrastructure foster regional harmony or merely intensify tensions under the guise of economic development?Despite shiny,...
An education system worth its salt should cease to emphasise on transmission of content but endeavour to churn out graduates who could flourish both in their personal endeavours and professional lives.Embedded in the 21st-century curriculum should be...
For me and for anyone who believes in the magic of food that place is the kitchen. Chellzkitchen has always been about more than just cooking; It’s about creating thoughtful, memorable experiences.My Individual No-Bake Cheesecakes: made three ways...
How do you have a preliminary squad just weeks before a tournament of the Africa Cup of Nations' magnitude.Coach Morena Ramoreboli and his technical team should have resisted the temptation of releasing a long list, which made them central...
Only 30% of the people are interested in the contents of the SONA. But one must survive these long speeches without losing their will to live. Many people attend the SONA for 3 things really. First they want to see the fashion parade and the whole...
FRANCISTOWN:A lucky Motswana man , Erick Molope, has won a preloved Toyota Corolla sedan in the Debswana Orapa, Letlhakane, and Damtshaa Mines (OLDM) Annual General Manager's Charity Walk Car Raffle.
The Office of the First Lady is set to host the second national Thanksgiving ceremony this Sunday at Bible Life Ministries, marking a continuation of an agreement reached last year with churches throughout Botswana to establish the event as an annual tradition.
A legal battle has begun at the High Court as a same-sex couple pursues marriage equality. The couple, Bonolo Selelo and Tsholofelo Kumile, has taken the government to court, challenging the Marriage Act, which they say forbids same-sex marriages.
The IMF has cautioned Botswana against attempting to increase its stake in De Beers, advice that comes as Finance Ministry technocrats reportedly spend sleepless nights on the 2026 budget which is due in two months’ time.
Norwegian renewable energy giant, Scatec ASA, says the second 60MW phase of its 120MW Mmadinare solar facility has officially begun commercial operations.
A 26-year-old man was discovered hanging from a tree in the bush behind Sir Seretse Khama Barracks on Saturday, in what police suspect to be a case of suicide.
A 26-year-old man from Metsimotlhabe was arrested after police, acting on a tip-off, allegedly found him in possession of substances suspected to be dagga.
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Human rights are sacred
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...