As the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, we call on stakeholders to increase funding for TB prevention and treatment programmes in Africa. Partnerships between the government, private sector organisations, civil society groups, and international...
To him, his daughters were just as exceptional as his sons, and with my mother, he loved us and supported us while teaching us about duty, responsibility and service.Throughout my life and career, I have learned that, whether in the home, in work, or...
This passage from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, one of the greatest literary works of its epoch, informs us that we forget the good deeds of the departed easily but the bad deeds linger longer in our minds.Someone in response to why Shakespeare uses...
To varying degrees, our independence Constitution has its supporters and critics. Despite the various amendments that were introduced over the years, it did not change much from its original form and content.It was certainly not a perfect document. I...
Led by former permanent secretary Dr Howard Sigwele, the alumni has formed the Moeng College Alumni Agricultural Cooperative Society, with specific aim of venturing into horticultural business.The cooperative society has already leased almost 20...
This week, I traveled to a remote village near the furthest northern edge of the Okavango River, where the farmers of Xakao faced a problem: elephants raiding their crops and cattle pasture. Conservationists and tour guides in the region also...
Because they know it: a Southern African stage performer will hold an audience enthralled as he or she breathes life and gives substance and emotion to forms of art; as if he or she is merely going through a routine; an East African athlete will...
MAUN: The seemingly lacklustre manner in which President Masisi’s administration is approaching the Constitutionalv review process has raised concerns and anxieties from day one.Understandably, the Constitution-making process is a serious matter as...
This year, the union is introducing a new format for its Annual Conference, aiming to enhance engagement and discourse. The official opening ceremony is scheduled from 7:30am until around noon.In the afternoon, a round table symposium will feature...
This announcement was made on Thursday during an event marking the launch of Mphusu Attorneys’ corporate social investment (CSI). Winston Radikolo, the educators’ union president, expressed gratitude for the partnership with the esteemed law...
The forum targets stakeholders from different sectors who provide MHPSS services especially to children, the youth, families, workforce, academia, international partners and community implementing partners among others.The main forum will take place...
What we encounter are breaking news stories of suicides, acts of passion resulting in death, divorces, and other disconcerting incidents. These revelations are astonishing, for these very individuals appeared content outwardly, concealing their inner...
These include student allowances, safety on campus, Disability Support Services as well as Bachelor of Science Students applications. The Executive Management Team has and is currently working on measures geared towards addressing the said issues....
Often, they rush into making lasting decisions about getting married, at young ages, sometimes as teenagers, and many of these marriages end in stressful lives and divorces.Such decisions often come with problems and usually, ultimately ruin the...
Two competent and consenting adults – whether man and man or woman and woman – should be allowed to erotically express their feelings for each other and even marry. So, John and Robert (or Lisa and Sophie) should smooch in public – while little...
Sekgoma was the second born in a family of five. Other siblings were Leapetswe, Semane (who was married into the Molotlegi family in Phokeng, SA), Modiri and Mphoeng. They were born of the late Tshekedi Khama and Ella Khama.Multitudes of people...
It was the end of the first thirty years of my own experience with writing exclusively by hand and in pencil. (Context: The earliest allusion to what today we call a pencil was made in the 1600s.)I began another indefinite period of pencil...
Let me, therefore, thank the Institute for Labour and Employment Studies for recognising MISA Botswana Chapter as one of the stakeholders in this noble endeavour for not only does it underscore the role of media in information dissemination but also...
A new focus report, produced by Oxford Business Group (OBG) in partnership with the Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC) and Special Economic Zones Authority (SEZA) Botswana, charts the country’s impressive growth story since independence...
The quiet resilience and integrity that my father displayed all through his life, sometimes to his detriment, specifically because he would not compromise his morals, became an inspiration and eventually a template for me.It was baffling at first...
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