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Trimming down: Standard Chartered has been a household name in the country for more than 100 years PIC: STANDARD CHARTERED BANK BOTSWANA FACEBOOK
Panic as Stanchart moves to sell retail division

Standard Chartered Bank Botswana plans to sell its retail unit within the next 18 to 24 months, a decision that has unnerved employees and customers of the local economy’s oldest commercial bank.

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Seeing green shoots: Cook

De Beers sees surprise jump in festive sales

De Beers CEO, Al Cook, says initial diamond sales over the key holiday season are proving surprisingly stronger than expected.

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BPF to possibly rejoin UDC – Molapisi

FRANCISTOWN: Botswana People's Party (BPP) president and chairperson of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), Motlatsi Molapisi, has said there is a possibility of the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) rejoining the coalition following the election victory in the 2024 polls

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Letshego secures £15m senior loan

Homegrown microlender, Letshego Botswana, has secured a senior loan deal worth £15 million (P257 million) with Proparco aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Botswana Police.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Top cop arrested for defilement

Othusitse Marape (61), an Assistant Superintendent in the Botswana Police Service based at Kasane Police Station, who was in 2008 convicted and sentenced to 10 years for defiling a girl under 16 years, has been arrested yet again for defiling a 15-year-old girl in Kasane.

Ndaba Gaolathe.PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMOtif

Gov't isn't broke, Gaolathe assures Batswana

With rising concerns about the state of the government's coffers, newly elected Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe has once again assured the nation that "Botswana isn't broke".

Setlhomo Tshwanelang. PIC KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Tshwanelang wins against CEDA

Whistleblower and social media influencer, Setlhomo Tshwanelang, will not be jailed for 30 days after emerging victorious in a legal battle against Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA).

Moeti Mohwasa. PIC PHATSIMO KAPENG

Mohwasa promises reforms at IEC, DCEC, DIS

The Minister for State Presidency, Moeti Mohwasa, has stated that they plan to reform the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) to better serve the people of Botswana.

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Kudos to Kario

A few weeks after the former ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) was reduced to a pale shadow of itself in the just passed General Election on October 30, it was only logical that you take a conscious decision of resigning from the party. This was before you could be pushed out of the position by irate party diehards who feel you did not do enough during your tenure as the head of the party secretariat.We know that it is at the party...

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