About P4m allegation throw Boko, Khama into controversy
President Duma Boko and former president Ian Khama are at the centre of a political and security storm following allegations involving P4 million.
President Duma Boko and former president Ian Khama are at the centre of a political and security storm following allegations involving P4 million.
A new board of directors has been named at the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC), marking a pivotal step in the country’s economic transformation agenda.
Botswana’s political atmosphere is thick with speculation, rumours, and growing cynicism about the true state of the nation. At the centre of the debate are questions about the health of the national coffers, the delivery of election promises, and whether the much-touted change that Batswana voted for is underway, which the President must clarify, writes TIMOTHY LEWANIKA
Bangwato tribe and the country at large will pay their last respects to Kgosi Mokhutshwane Peto Sekgoma, who will be buried tomorrow, November 8, 2025, in Serowe. Kgosi Mokhutshwane died in a car accident aged 85. Tributes are already pouring in for the fallen chief.
Botswana Congress Party (BCP) publicity and information secretary Mpho Pheko has made a bold claim that the leading opposition party will emerge victorious at the Kgalagadi South by-elections on November 15.
The number of people employed in the banking industry rose by 3.9 percent in 2024, growing from 5, 094 in 2023 to 5, 293, despite the increasing spread of digitisation in the sector.
SEROWE: Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) stands at a perilous crossroads, its survival teetering on the edge after a stormy and chaotic elective congress here over the weekend. What was meant to be a triumphant democratic exercise to usher in new leadership descended instead into political theatre, a fierce duel for legitimacy, power, and survival.
When Botswana navigated its early years as an independent nation, few diplomats shaped its global voice as decisively as the late Ambassador, Legwaila Joseph Manson John Legwaila.
Pivotal moments
Yet somewhere in that chaos, our brains begin to map meaning. A mother’s coo repeats often enough that it becomes familiar; a father’s laugh becomes music we recognise. Slowly, sound starts to segment into patterns, and patterns into possibilities.From babble to brilliance, we experiment, testing the edges of sound like sculptors of air. “Ma,” “ba,” “da”, nonsense at first, but thrilling nonsense. Then, one day, a sound lands. It...