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Seeing green shoots: Cook

De Beers sees surprise jump in festive sales

De Beers CEO, Al Cook, says initial diamond sales over the key holiday season are proving surprisingly stronger than expected.

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BPF to possibly rejoin UDC – Molapisi

FRANCISTOWN: Botswana People's Party (BPP) president and chairperson of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), Motlatsi Molapisi, has said there is a possibility of the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) rejoining the coalition following the election victory in the 2024 polls

Botswana Police.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Top cop arrested for defilement

Othusitse Marape (61), an Assistant Superintendent in the Botswana Police Service based at Kasane Police Station, who was in 2008 convicted and sentenced to 10 years for defiling a girl under 16 years, has been arrested yet again for defiling a 15-year-old girl in Kasane.

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Letshego secures £15m senior loan

Homegrown microlender, Letshego Botswana, has secured a senior loan deal worth £15 million (P257 million) with Proparco aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Ndaba Gaolathe.PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMOtif

Gov't isn't broke, Gaolathe assures Batswana

With rising concerns about the state of the government's coffers, newly elected Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe has once again assured the nation that "Botswana isn't broke".

Setlhomo Tshwanelang. PIC KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Tshwanelang wins against CEDA

Whistleblower and social media influencer, Setlhomo Tshwanelang, will not be jailed for 30 days after emerging victorious in a legal battle against Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA).

Moeti Mohwasa. PIC PHATSIMO KAPENG

Mohwasa promises reforms at IEC, DCEC, DIS

The Minister for State Presidency, Moeti Mohwasa, has stated that they plan to reform the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) to better serve the people of Botswana.

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Is our screening adequate?

Sadly, we live in a society that seems to be losing its moral fibre by the day.When parents take their children to a boarding school they do so to give them a brighter future, not to have some dirty paedophilic predator to prey on them. Sex orientation is a touchy subject and for young minds to be sexualised at a young age by a grown man perpetrating harm on them by cutting through their sphincter muscle to penetrate their anal canal. Anyone can...

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