Most analysts agree that Africa and other parts of the world have a long way to go before any other fuel replaces coal as the base load for electricity provision. New, cleaner sources such as coal bed methane, solar, nuclear, hydro and others are...
As matters stand, few expect commercial activities involving elephants to begin in the recently opened hunting season. At best, the open licences, which allow local trophy hunting players to bid on behalf of their foreign clients, will be auctioned...
The announcement by government that hunting would be reintroduced, prioritising Batswana for this season, drew much excitement. Five years after the hunting moratorium caught many unawares, the doors for direct sustainable use were being opened....
All in all, the Khama’s departure from a political party their father Sir Seretse Khama co-founded is a self-introspective moment for the country on legacy and establishment politics. It also casts Serowe into a spotlight that will force...
Although the party itself has not had the best record of being a reasonably effective opposition movement, their electoral targets, especially on the economy, are worth giving careful scrutiny and engagement. It seems a reasonably gifted economics...
The trucks that sped out of the Dukwi Refugee Camp on Tuesday and Thursday transporting hundreds of Namibians to their motherland also carried two other things. One was the fear of refugees returning to an uncertain future, a homeland they left in...
There is a place in Ngamiland called DRC. It is the Wild West on the frontier of a real wilderness that is the Okavango Delta in the Northwest. DRC is a temporary settlement located at the gate of the Buffalo Fence on the Boro River, just...
Tensions had long been rising. The inhabitants of a 20-kilometre wide and 400 kilometre-long piece of paradise nestled amongst the Zambezi, Chobe, Linyanti and Okavango rivers said they were being brutally oppressed. The Caprivi Strip wanted to be...
About 30 students due to write national examinations and in grades such as Standard 7, Form 3 and Form 5, were removed from their classrooms and taken to their parents, to await deportation. Some were taken to the Francistown Centre for Illegal...
Amongst the detainees are 30 students due to write national examinations, made up of 11 Standard 7s, 10 Form 3s and nine Form 5s. The exams are in a few weeks’ time. The earliest statistics from sources near the refugee camp reported that 66...
A splinter party of the BDP, BMD was perhaps the most talked about political formation, its messaging hit home, its energy was new, young and vibrant, and it could’ve easily become the main opposition political party or the next...
By Thursday evening, the market was agog with speculation and rumours. The auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers resigned, the banks are calling in loans, the chief financial officer quit. All the reports difficult to verify, but even if totally untrue,...
For many young people born with the epidemic, the battle against the stigma rages on social media. At the recent Sentebale Second Youth HIV Summit in Gaborone, most young people living with HIV pointed out that they use social media for a positive...
FRANCISTOWN: It’s not in doubt that money power continues to oil the wheels of political machinery within our shores, as it is the case elsewhere in the world. The power of money in politics becomes even more pronounced when politicians and...
Government and non-governmental officials representing several Southern African countries returned from CITES’ Geneva meeting enraged this week. The Conference of Parties (a general assembly of sorts) of the Convention on International Trade...
The three elephant over-populated SADC countries, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe submitted a joint proposal to trade in thousands of tonnes of stockpiled ivory. But they were incredibly defeated by 101 (81%) no-votes, with only 22 votes (19%)...
The Ivory Education Institute is dedicated to an understanding of the historic, practical, and artistic uses of ivory. For CITES — an organisation that pays an enormous amount of lip service to the scientific basis for its decisions —...
It is like a scene in a disaster film but this is a real life and death situation. From a distance and approaching from the southwestern side of the dry bed of the expansive lake, are silhouetted figures of humans, vehicles, and livestock, all...
The venue could not have been more fitting. The three dikgosi, Sebele I, Bathoen I and Khama III, whose larger than life statues, emblazoned in bronze – and dominate the CBD landscape, are legends in so far as they rebuffed Cecil John...
“If Africa is serious about balancing both conservation and development, it has to have the courage to do the right thing. “So, it must cease being bossed around by Western-fuelled lobbies that are blind to reason. “That requires...