Now in its second edition, the MISA Golf Day is a fundraising initiative to support the ongoing MISA Botswana activities. As a champion of media freedom, freedom of expression, and pluralistic independent journalism, MISA plays a vital role in...
Professor Chilisa was honoured and given an award for excellence as ‘the most widely cited author on ‘Made in Africa Evaluation’, and the author with the highest number of articles on ‘Made in Africa Evaluation’ making Africa’s...
A budget of $638 million has been allocated for this project. The key areas that the SLL will focus on include improving healthcare workforce, refining diagnostics and vaccines, and partnerships to support primary healthcare.The objectives of SLLs...
"They deeply regret the video and have decided to take it down. They acknowledge the mistake and take the concerns seriously." It is also fitting to commend Mascom Wireless for responding swiftly, showing the kind of corporate responsibility that the...
This collaboration will help drive Botswana’s economic diversification and elevate the country’s standing within the media, tourism, luxury, and sustainability sectors. Through this strategic partnership, GVP intends to establish its African...
The answer lies in being average. Average, by the definition of most dictionaries, is the quotient obtained by dividing the sum total of a set of figures by the number of figures. This is its definition for the purposes of mathematical sciences. For...
The sharpest of minds have long embraced this irrefutable truth; each one of these two faculties is indispensable in its own right, and their misuse, or the overreliance on one at the expense of the other, can lead to folly, fractured relationships...
That acknowledgment then has to be followed by recognition that the media can no longer claim to be the gatekeepers of information.Those days are gone – most certainly for good. The media has to reform.And those reforms should not be about...
That tragic misuse of radio became a convenient deterrent for policymakers wary of allowing citizens to take to the airwaves. Yet this narrative was always one-sided. Just across the border, South Africa’s vibrant community radio sector, with over...
The event drew early risers and health-conscious individuals from across Gaborone, beginning with a spirited community walk at dawn and unfolding into a vibrant celebration of health and unity throughout the day.Hosted in partnership with churches,...
Here are the different types of medicine options available to treat allergies. Talk with a healthcare professional to find the one that's best for you.Antihistamines Antihistamines block certain cells in the body from receiving histamine....
Words are not just inconsequential vocables, they are policy, promise, and posture. For sovereign leaders, particularly true-blue maximalists, every syllable uttered in Kgotla-like gatherings, or press conferences, carries both political freight and...
While there, I interviewed the editor of die tageszeitung, or simply taz, Mattias Bröckers. What began as a research interview quickly became a moment of journalistic awakening. I was struck by the courage and ingenuity behind the taz model, a...
From the pandemic and escalated shipping costs; Evergreen’s six-day siege of the Suez Canal; Richard’s Bay Port shipping jam; Russia-Ukraine War disrupting fuel and cereal supplies; and more recently the Trump tariffs imposed and revoked over...
Africa is the most vulnerable continent to the effects of climate change, with droughts, floods, extreme heatwaves, and shrinking forests and vegetation causing widespread devastation.Irregular weather patterns mean that predicting storms and other...
I have observed that it has taken off in Botswana and from my social media feeds, I see a lot of active ‘betters’, if that’s the right word to use. I have a few friends who are into sports betting and always want to recruit me, but I fear I...
In a speech marking World Press Freedom Day, he subverted the age-old refrain that "the pen is mightier than the sword" with a chilling observation: “The advert is mightier than the pen.” In that moment, Justice Ketlogetswe captured, with...
She achieved this as a highly respected academic but, more fundamentally, as a key founder and activist of Reteng Multicultural Coalition and Kamanakao Association.Her advocacy incorporated international outreach at the UN and elsewhere alongside...
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, we gather here to confront one of the great questions of our era: As global power shifts toward multipolarity and uncertainty, what force will hold the centre?We meet at a moment when the ground beneath global...
This year the WPFD commemoration was held under the theme: ‘Reporting in the Brave New World: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Press Freedom and the Media.’The theme could not have come as a surprise. Undoubtedly, the last two decades...
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