One of the top priorities for the pre-independence dikgosi was water, unsurprising because so little was available with the country being routinely described as arid and ...
The sad news has come that Sylvia died recently after a long stay in hospital. Sylvia was secretary of the Botswana Society during its glory years in the 1970s when she f...
The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi has challenged Kgatleng District Council (KDC) to take a decision on whether to open a cont...
Hopefully Rre Segadika has now run out of words and invective. But that is the problem with long rejoinders which tend to ramble, which refute comments that were never ma...
The National Museum, originally known as the National Museum and Art Gallery, is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary even though neither it nor anybody else has re...
Clearly, we are indebted to those 87 elephants but we also owe a word of thanks to both Dr Chase and Thea Khama. There was so little that we, the general public knew abou...
Credit score is one of the most important concepts that individuals face in credit or credit card application processes. In this article we will share with you how you ca...
There is little to be cheerful about these days as we try and prove to the rest of Africa that this country is really no different, although it’s taken a little longer ...
He also railed against divisive tribal practices, which would militate against the creation of a State where everyone was in harmony with each other. (Seretse Khama in 19...
Over the last few weeks of high drama, I have regularly reflected on the appalling saga of Caitlin Davies, Editor of the Okavango Observer in Maun. Most will be unaware t...
Why, without good need, would a sitting President humiliate a former President? He has other problems on his hands. Did Mogae humiliate Masire. Did Khama humiliate Mogae?...
Why, without good need, would a sitting President humiliate a former President? He has other problems on his hands. Did Mogae humiliate Masire. Did Khama humiliate Mogae?...
It’s been a bits and pieces last week or so with the muddled, muddy affairs of the UDC being given an extraordinary amount of attention by the newspapers and providing ...
No retiring President or Prime Minister should either expect or assume that an incoming successor will perform as a mere replica, or surrogate of himself. Reports have su...
President Masisi's recent visit to 91-year-old Kenneth Nkwa, accompanied by ex-president Festus Mogae and BDP stalwart, Dan Kwelagobe, should not be allowed to pass witho...
Single houses only rarely make it into the national news. There was, however, an exception last week with the Sunday Standard coming up with an extraordinarily tortuous r...
Wishful thing, I suppose, because I had kidded myself into believing that the controversy over the Gripen fighter jet was over and done with. Sadly, last week's Gazette m...
It really does seem like a 'I didn't know'last week. Take, for instance, the curious business of the plastic bags with a local newspaper reporting that soon first-time us...
Just imagine. There must have been many people there who had never previously attended a Presidential press conference. They would have had little idea what to expect. Ol...
Is this the lull before the storm or the lull before the lull? The Kgosi saga is all set to go on and on as with the sordid NPF affair. But is there anything more on the ...
Some say that it was the man, some the law and others, the oversight bodies. Of course, no one can know what did happen in those Councils and Committees.
That word 'euphoria' has come into unusual prominence in the last few weeks. We have been reminded that the Zims discovered that their euphoria at the overthrow of Mugab...
