The drinking holes are the heartbeat of the town’s social lifestyle. It is there that one can hear stories about the state of life and times of any town. On a rainy Sunday night, the Mmegi news crew barhopped through the nightclubs and speakeasies...
Last Sunday afternoon, many people in the town watched with nostalgic admiration and hope, as smoke rose out of the BCL Mine area. The smoke could be seen over 20km away from Phikwe. The black smoke spewed from the mine’s tailings dump fused with a...
Those who took the decision to close are now shouting the loudest in desperate attempts to accrue adulations for purportedly reopening the mine. We need to put things in proper perspective so as disabuse them from their dishonest mischief. The...
A few days later BCL Mine, which was the lifeblood of the town I grew up in called Selebi-Phikwe, was closed.At least 5,000 direct jobs disappeared, many more indirect jobs suffered, companies closed down, unemployment skyrocketed, suicides were...
Derek de la Harpe, Wilderness Holdings’ commercial director, remembers how the business believed it could withstand the impact of the pandemic when COVID-19 first arrived in Botswana last March. While various sectors of the economy knew that...
The list of items that have increased this year is lengthy and exhausting. From the sharp jump in general prices triggered by the increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) and the fuel levy in April to higher Botswana Housing Corporation rentals and the...
“Countries with few or no vaccine supply constraints should consider the issues of global equity when making policy decisions about vaccinating children and adolescents,” WHO said in a statement on Wednesday.“In the context of ongoing global...
In the wake of the damning results of the Auditor General’s findings into the millions of pula misspent, wasted and abused in the first eight months of the pandemic, more scrutiny is being piled onto how fiscal authorities monitor public...
On Monday, the Presidential COVID-19 Task Force announced that the entire country had ‘gone green’, representing the first time this year that COVID-19 cases have fallen below 10 per 100,000 this year.For Batswana who endured the harshest winter...
Last week, the Botswana delegation at the global UN climate summit in Glasgow signed a commitment, along with more than 40 other countries, pledging to ease the country’s use of coal. Critically, however, the local delegation declined to sign a key...
Eunice Ntobedzi has enjoyed an illustrious career. A graduate of the University of Pretoria and following sponsorship from the UK government via a Chevening scholarship, Ntobedzi was awarded her MSc in Management (Enterprise & Business Growth) by the...
Other coal-dependent developing countries such as Botswana have not scored similar levels of financial support, even though they are required to also move away from coal, as part of global climate change commitments.In fact, on Monday in his State of...
According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), which produces the world’s most authoritative reports on value in the tourism sector, Botswana’s travel and tourism sector contributed about P19 billion to the overall economy in 2019,...
Recently, Lorraine Maseng, a University of Botswana student studying Social Work hosted a debate on Human Rights versus Abortion to find people’s opinions on legalising abortion in Botswana. The debate naturally drew mixed reactions with some...
KAZA’s estimated 220,000 elephants have attracted global attention. The majority of these elephants, about 130,000, reside in Botswana with neighbouring Zimbabwe home to an estimated 80,000 of the animals.The other three KAZA members; Angola,...
TONOTA: Teachers face many challenges in their work, one of which is classroom discipline. In some cases, pupils have even threatened their teachers with knives and similar weapons. And that makes the classroom a potentially dangerous place where the...
Late on Thursday afternoon, information coming out of the conference where 180 countries and 30,000 delegates are hammering out climate change commitments, indicated that at least 49 countries had officially committed to moving away from coal and...
The UN’s World Food Programme’s (WFP) latest research indicates that 50 million people in the SADC region are facing food insecurity. Of these, 78% are in just two countries: the DRC with about 27 million and South Africa with the balance.By...
Before the world changed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the most loved and fashionable vehicle was the ‘Vrr Phaa’. The name, which came from South African townships, refers to modern sports cars that make a semi explosive sound when...
Local Coal Bed Methane (CBM) developers have dreams of replicating the phenomenal success of the Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas (GLNG) project in Queensland, Australia.Gladstone, established in 2011, has created 6,000 jobs, generating US$42.45...
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