While in Maun last year during our Rediscover Expedition, I sat in a low lit bar with a group of friends, mostly safari guides, downing some cold ones disguised in coffee mugs and sharing stories about the hardships of the closed tourism industry due...
Sekoti – the lion king from Savuti who has become a social media sensation – has been elusive for me. I had failed to find this lion on my past three attempts and last week the anxiety from the memories of failures all came back as I...
An authoritative report recently estimated that 200 more people had become US dollar millionaires in Botswana during 2020, a year in which ordinary citizens struggled against the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on livelihoods. On the other end of...
Political analyst, Mokaloba Mokaloba says the country needs to fix skills mismatch to solve the problem. He also believes government should in a short term come up with interventions to support those hard hit by the COVID-19....
Throughout Gaborone, more street stalls, kitchen and food points are opening up. On social media, every other person is producing, trading and/or selling one commodity or another. The economy appears to be slowly informalising, where people leave...
Mpho Kebosietswe, 22 All I can say is that the situation is deteriorating further because there are no jobs and people are still losing their jobs. Government efforts are not visible in alleviating Batswana from this crisis. If I remember correctly,...
Gender-based violence (GBV) activist and survivor, Malebogo Molefhe says the challenging times brought about by COVID-19 have pushed many people out of work, in particular women and young girls. As the time get harder, women and girls, particularly...
For those who witnessed the highly emotional and strained scenes at BBS Ltd’s recent Annual General Meeting (AGM), the pleas of an elderly shareholder stand out amongst the bouquet of jaw-dropping moments at the occasion. “I am appealing...
The adventure is all but gone. The border crossing at the world’s unique “double tripoint,” has been totally transformed. On May 10, five Heads of State from Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and DRC together with Vice...
The components are new arrivals. They were being brought to the site from various Johannesburg manufacturers on a daily basis for the final touches of joining pipes and valves in the inlets and water chambers of the 100km pipeline project...
The completion of the Kazungula Bridge is a feather in the caps of both President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his Zambian counterpart, Edgar Lungu, who this week delivered a rare infrastructural milestone for Southern African Development Community’s...
That is how I met Mabedi Letsholo of Mabedilets Photography, Brians Moneke of Brains Bond Nature Photography and Oteng Lekgowe of Oteng Lekgowe Photography. They are all Gaborone-based nature photographers who are juggling their...
No one is willing to go on the record, but late Zimbabwe president, Robert Mugabe appears to have been a stumbling block in the early days of the Kazungula Bridge. The project, which involves building a 930-metre road and rail bridge over the...
Mmegi: What position exactly are you taking up within the Bamangwato bogosi?My father Kgosi Sekgoma Tshekedi Khama, is the remaining son of Kgosi Tshekedi Khama. As is the tradition, when Kgosi Tshekedi Khama passed away on Wednesday June 10, 1959,...
It was in the summer of 1994 when I landed in Francistown, then a town infested with squatter settlements in all its directions. Somerset East, West, PWD, Kgaphamadi, Maipaafela, Monarch, Madzibalori, Matjimenyenga, Coloured and others were indeed an...
Mmegi: You were one of the main architects of Botswana’s historic 2011 public servants’ strike, how do you think that strike had shaped or influenced labour relations between government and unions in the country? Motshwarakgole: When the...
Mmegi: You were of the main architects of Botswana’s historic 2011 public servants’ strike, how do you think that strike has shaped or influenced labour relations between government and unions in Botswana? Marenga: Notable achievements...
To use an exhausted cliché, it was already raining for the BBS Ltd directors this week, when it began pouring. BBS shareholder and Botswana Centre for Public Integrity executive director, Pusetso Morapedi sued the directors at the High Court...
Sixty years after explorers first noted the “quartz veins rich in copper, silver and lead” in what was then referred to as ‘North Ghanziland’, the Kalahari Copperbelt appears to have lined up all the variables needed for the...
On April 8, 2021, the presidential jet OK1 landed at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport just after 8pm and before President Mokgweetsi Masisi could sit behind the wheel to drive his Toyota GD6 home, he met the press in a televised media...