BR must find ways to make Blue Train profitable

Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!In this very edition, there is an...

The Monitor Editor | 11 August 2026

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BR must find ways to make Blue Train profitable

Somewhere in this publication, we carry a story on the Botswana Railways’ (BR) passenger train which has been non-existent since the outbreak of COVID-19.

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