While inevitably peppered with self-praise and gloating for some of the accomplishments, SONA 2021 failed to address some of the pressing social, economic and political challenges the country is currently facing. In failing to broach these, the...
The plenum was convened in a year of significance, which marked the 100th anniversary of the CPC’s founding. The plenum considered and adopted the resolution on the major achievements and historical experience of the party over the past century,...
Upholding unity as the fundamental principle of His teachings, Bahá’u’lláh established the necessary safeguard to ensure that His religion would never suffer the same fate as others that split into sects after the deaths of their Founders. In...
During Khama's administration, it culminated in the break-up of the BDP leading to the formation of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD). During President Mokgweetsi Masisi, factionalism is taking place and it’s likely to tear the party...
Scenes of life that appear commonplace, may actually be compelling us to acknowledge the presence of others in our midst, or even to reckon with their usefulness. Oftentimes, the nameless individuals inhabiting them are in many ways just like us, but...
Even though kleptocracy (governance characterised by rampant thievery of public resources) has been largely synonymous with Africa’s immediate post-colonial dictators, it is still very much alive today but perpetrated through sophisticated...
INTRODUCTION1. Mister Speaker, before I address this august House, I would like to request that we observe a moment of silence in remembrance of our citizens and residents, who have departed during the course of this year. AMEN! I wish to extend my...
The conflict affects both animals and humans in different ways. What happens is, animals roam residential areas searching for water or simply crossing by. The residents then proceed to try to defend themselves by killing the animal or at least trying...
Here was a community of agrarian people able to earn a living while learning academic and technical skills. As young people growing up in this community, we all knew that at the end of our primary school leaving education, we would either go to...
I was never in doubt that the farm rightfully belonged to the tribe under the title of freehold. When you own land and it is freehold, it simply means no one else has any interest whatsoever in the land. The ownership is unlimited (in perpetuity) and...
The government of Botswana is aware of these dangers and this month achieved a major milestone by completing a reform programme to crackdown on illicit finance. I congratulate the Botswana authorities on the enormous amount of work they have...
It touches intimately on many great questions, of governance, or regulation, of socio-economic development, of transparency, or legislation and a challenging crime fighting scenario that recognises no borders.Few of our journalists have a background...
To me, that is both the attraction and limiting factor of any place that one calls home. Unsurprisingly, my home is that place.My home is a village. It is not contiguous to the city, but is close to it. It has a proud historical pedigree; over the...
They largely focused on the supposed benefits the lotto/lottery would bring to the economy and why it is important to expedite the awarding and operation of the lotto/lottery. These 'protests' piqued my interest, not in the behind-the-scenes...
TONOTA: But, unfortunately, we see in many households a different scenario, especially in those headed by a single parent, usually the mother. Such a parent may be burdened with so many responsibilities - working full time, guiding the children,...
The aforesaid media release carried defamatory and misleading allegations intended to tarnish the good name of the company, and that of its chairman, aforesaid. In particular, the following allegations, bear reference; Ad Simbi Phiri (Chairman- Khato...
The last study on poverty at the district level in the country found that Ngamiland East and West had poverty incidences ranging between 21% and 33%, meaning between one in five and one in three people in the two areas respectively were classified as...
This was on account of a presentation that the COVID-19 Task Force had made to Parliament. It was their strongest opinion and recommendation that a State of Emergency was necessary to fight the invisible and rising tide of COVID-19.According to the...
The African region shed an estimated US$83 billion in GDP contribution (down by 49.2%), and lost up to 7.2 million industry jobs compared to 2019 levels.The impact of health crises such as SARS, H1N1 and Ebola weren’t on the scale of the disaster...
The year 2021 was the worst year for almost every nation as many people lost their lives to the pandemic. Hopefully, 2022 will be a better year. As I indicated last year during the 54th Anniversary celebrations of our independence, there was no...
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