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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Sometime between June and July of 1848, at a conference in the city of Bedasht, in the Semnan Province of Iran, a Babi poet and revolutionary named Fatimih Baraghani Tahirih dared to appear unveiled in front of 80 men.

Correspondent | 27 September 2022

Caption: A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration protesting her death at the hands of Iran's morality police PHOTO: AFP

Still standing: Kgale Hill is one of Gaborone’s most renowned landmarks

Standing its ground

It is the only hill that is a part of this city. But that is just one sense of it. Another is that fame came to it in an unprecedented way: it is the only place in this country that has ever given rise to a Hollywood-like name for itself.

Bongi D D M Radipati | 26 September 2022

From the ground up: Entrepreneurs are the engine of economic growth PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

How do we get more entrepreneurs in the African ecosystem?

After two years of physical disconnect, the moving parts of the African eco-system have the opportunity to come together at GTR Africa.

Mosa Tshabalala,Kuben Pillay | 20 September 2022

Market leader: Liquid Telecomms has built the largest independent fibre network in Africa

Satellite holds key to connecting Botswana’s unconnected

In a digital world, connectivity rules our lives, so the faster Africa gets connected, the stronger and more competitive this continent will be on the world economic stage.

Odirile Tamajobe | 16 September 2022

GUC first-year students get promised laptops

Gaborone University College of Law and Professional Studies(GUC) recently gave free Connex Swift Pro 14 inch laptops to more than 200 full time government sponsored first year students to support and motivate the new students.

Archie Mokoka | 14 September 2022

Botswana was the first high-burden country to achieve silver status on the path to the elimination of vertical HIV transmission

Botswana needs to sustain strides made in fighting AIDS

Global shocks such as COVID-19 and the Ukraine war have undeniably slowed down the global goal to end AIDS by 2030.

Alankar Malviya | 09 September 2022

Testing times: The Bank of Botswana has raised interest rates three times this year but inflation continues to rise PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

BoB! Stop raising rates and focus on fuel costs

In the Mmegi edition of June 24, 2022, I wrote about how the Bank of Botswana (BoB) and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoF) needed to think outside the box about how to fight rampant inflation.

Mphoeng Mphoeng | 09 September 2022

Bargaining chip: Russia intermittently switches off the Nord Stream pipeline citing repairs PIC: UPSTREAM ONLINE

Geopolitics: Energy price surge in Europe

The outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war has left a lot of political unrest among the developed economies and the imposition of sanctions was a one-way ticket towards economic crashes.

Chilo Ketlhoafetse | 09 September 2022

The ugly side of cash transactions

Every jurisdiction has a cash threshold limit as per its risk-based matrices to ensure that measures to mitigate Money Laundering, Terrorist, and Proliferation Financing (ML/TF/PF) are within the national risk appetite.

Larona Seribe | 05 September 2022

PPPs are key to economic resuscitation

Long-standing business relations between government arms and the private sector have always proven to align to synergistic benefits that are key to industrialisation in emerging economies and this will be instrumental to Botswana's case setting.

Chilo Ketlhoafetse | 28 August 2022

Botswana’s transport, logistics sector’s preparedness for the AfCFTA

EVIES IPELEGENG JOINA | 28 August 2022

Digital skills training can help address unemployment

Seabe Setshwaelo | 28 August 2022

Didiza asked to intervene in blocking of SA vegetables by Botswana, Namibia

Correspondent | 28 August 2022

Reflecting on silver tier to EMTCT of HIV

Lesego Nswahu Nchunga | 22 August 2022

Nothing will stop China

Wang Xuefeng | 19 August 2022

Reflecting on Botswana eliminating Mother-to-Child HIV transmission

Alankar Malviya | 19 August 2022

Was ‘Butterfly’ DIS bait?

The highly publicised and controversial case of Welheminah ‘Butterfly’ Maswabi continues to take the spotlight as contradictions as to what prompted her arrest and prosecution emerge. Now, it is increasingly becoming clear that government officers were used as pawns on a chess board in the case for the benefit of big players who have now turned their backs on them.

Metropolitan Life Botswana Limited has appointed Mogopa as the new CEO effective October

Metropolitan Life appoints new CEO

Boitumelo Mogopa has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Metropolitan Life Botswana Limited.

'Prepare for job cuts from parastatal shake-ups'

Trade and Industry minister Mmusi Kgafela says while the number of jobs to be cut in the rationalisation of parastatals is still unclear, employees should prepare themselves to 'transition' out of the public service and find opportunities in the private sector.

Concerned farmer Pius Malikongwa PIC -Lesedi Mkhutshwa

MoA in ‘lawsuit’ threat over FMD livestock culling

FRANCISTOWN: The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) faces a possible lawsuit from anguished farmers over its plan to cull cloven-hoofed animals infected by the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Zone 6(b) in North East District (NED).

Miss Botswana 2022 top 10 revealed

The organising team of Miss Botswana beauty pageant has revealed the pageantry’s Top 10 finalists out of the 15 beautiful and talented young women who aspire to win the crown.

EOI letters flooding in—Boko

Ahead of today's deadline, Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) President Duma Boko revealed that letters from the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) councillors and legislators choosing the UDC over the latter are arriving in large numbers.

Rising numbers: The local population is estimated to be “stable and growing” PIC: MBONGENI MGUNI

Four African states want CITES to ban elephant hunting in Botswana

Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Mali and Senegal have asked the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to ban Botswana and three of her neighbours from any commercial trade involving elephants, Mmegi has established.

Happy Independence!

We are 56 years old and what do we have to show for it? Looking at where Botswana started and where it is today, there are a lot of developments, but whether the developments match the number of years we have enjoyed as a country is a topic for another day.The fact that cannot be denied is we have seen major developments, but we are still lacking in several pertinent areas.Our beautiful country imports almost everything. We import fuel, food,...

The Monitor Editor | 27 September 2022

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