Today, Thursday, April 30th, was supposed to mark the end of the four-week period of "extreme social distancing" declared by President Mokgweetsi Masisi at the end of Mar...
Last week the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is usually measured in its pronouncements for fear of causing panic in world markets, said Covid-19 was the worst e...
Over 50 percent of the globe is under lockdown as Covid-19 spreads like bush fire around the world leaving behind a trail of death and untold misery for those who are han...
The eventuality of a hung Parliament in next week's general elections does not exist because the disunity of the opposition will deliver the BDP an outright majority to...
On the 28th June 1990 a couple of South African students studying in Cleveland, Ohio and I, travelled to Detroit, Michigan to attend what was billed as a ‘Freedom Rally...
When I parted with Beata on the 10th of last month as we alighted the Air Botswana flight BP 222 in the evening, after a two-hour delay in Johannesburg due to a technical...
It was in 1996 when three of my friends and I, left Gaborone on a Friday, after work, and headed towards the Tlokweng border en route to the then sprawling dusty village ...
“Who is here? Hugh is here!” That is how Hugh Masekela was introduced to Botswana audiences for the first time. This was by none other than Dr Thabo Fako of the Sociology...
Last Thursday, the University of Botswana in conjunction with the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime, held a symposium under the theme, ‘United against corrupti...
It was on a Tuesday evening when I received a text message from Methaetsile Leepile that Patrick van Rensburg had died. Although I knew that Pat had been sick, and Mothu...
Renowned jazz vocalist, Alwin Lopez Jarreau, died last Sunday in a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 76. A week earlier he had announced his retirement after cutting sh...
Quality assurance agencies should place the interests of students in tertiary institutions and those that are still coming front and centre of what they do. In this secon...
Higher education is in a state of decay in Botswana with grave ramifications for the plight of young ones who should compete with their peers elsewhere in the global econ...
In this second and final installment of a two-part series, Titus Mbuya dispels the myth of a media industry purportedly captured by corporate interests, and shows how int...
What conjoins INK at the hip with the local weekly newspaper, the Sunday Standard, is the duo’s association with George Soros money. The New York-based Media Development ...
In this first installment of a two part series, Titus Mbuya* untangles the intricate web of relationships and deceit involved in the funding of the newly established Ink ...
Former South African National Police Commissioner, Jackie Sello Selebi was buried in Pretoria over the weekend. I first met Selebi in 1989. If you think about it, that wa...
The Isaac Kgosi story, which hogged newspaper headlines throughout 2014, is a textbook example of what happens when journalists bombard the reader with an avalanche of in...
The outcome of the general elections to be held tomorrow will not be substantially different from that of the last three general elections, writes TITUS MBUYA, whoa has c...
The conditions under which journalists work are becoming more dangerous as governments around the world clamp down on their freedom in the guise oaf safeguarding national...
