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Thursday, April 17, 2025

AI-driven cybercrime exploits human error

“AI itself is neither inherently good nor bad – but it has the potential to be both. In the hands of defenders, it can offer powerful protection from cyberattacks; in the hands of cybercriminals, it can be used to exploit human vulnerabilities on a massive scale.

correspondent | 17 April 2025

Sharing insights: Juma

UDC should foster social justice and equity in cannabis policy!

As one of the fastest growing global industries, cannabis has come full circle in just 100 years after a global scale ban as long ago as 1925 (see the League of Nations Opium Convention), where countries around the world included cannabis both as scheduled and controlled drug with all associated criminalisation consequences.

Gaontebale Mokgosi | 11 April 2025

Mr & Mrs Maroo, on their wedding day, flanked by family in Johannesburg

Remembering the fallen liberation stalwart

The year 2025 is a major anniversary year for South Africa’s liberation struggle.

Dr Lebogang Maroo | 04 April 2025

Yesteryear: The verandah holds a hallowed position in many people’s memories PIC: SA-VENUES.COM

A veranda

Life is often as ordinary as the lifestyles we choose, the friends whose company we enjoy, and the last chapter of a spellbinding book we are loath to finish reading.

Bongi D D M Radipati | 28 March 2025

Shining bright: Solar World Botswana believes the vision for renewable energy in the country is dazzling

Botswana’s road to a diversified energy portfolio

In a setting where farms are mostly off-grid, the absence of straight-lined tangent utility poles often dims the prospects of electricity connection in farmlands. Not for Michael Joseph — the smallholder millet producer around Sebina, in north-eastern Botswana has defied this mindset.

Baboki Kayawe | 28 March 2025

Transitions are a complicated struggle against the ghosts of past administrations and entrenched interests
PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

The vanishing euphoria

The hour of transition has always been drenched in a mix of jubilation and breathless expectation.

LETLHOGONOLO LAMONG | 28 March 2025

‘Protecting the Game’ a must read (Part II)

His Chapter 7 is titled ‘Brush-Up with University of Botswana (UB) Students’. Although the University of Botswana students were known to engage in protest marches, the nation and the BFA itself were not used to football-related protest marches by the students.

Tshiamo Rantao | 28 March 2025

Locked and loaded: Botsat 1 Ground Station in Palapye PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

BotSat-1 soars into space, well done BIUST!

Last Saturday, at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA, Botswana carved its name into the eternal scrolls of space exploration with the historic launch of its first-ever satellite, BotSat-1.

LETLHOGONOLO LAMONG | 21 March 2025

Has AI replaced ethics in journalism?

Whilst I seek not to impute myself as an authority, I write this under the compulsion that if I didn't, then I would have defied my conscience.

Staff Writer | 21 March 2025

New research offers hope in Africa's malaria crisis

A new weapon in the battle against malaria is emerging, and this time not from a laboratory, but rather driven by machine learning.

correspondent | 14 March 2025

Botswana needs accountable DIS

Solly Rakgomo | 06 March 2025

Camel thorn trees found to enhance lamb growth performance and meat quality

Prof UPENYU MARUME,Dr GETRUDE MANAKEDI CHELOPO | 07 March 2025

Judicial arrogance versus

LETLHOGONOLO LAMONG | 07 March 2025

Achieving gender parity in African business leadership

Staff Writer | 07 March 2025

Revitalising Botswana’s media through innovation, ethical journalism, sustainable growth

THOMAS NKHOMA | 21 February 2025

Tame your excitement about the forensic audit

LETLHOGONOLO LAMONG | 21 February 2025

BURS intensifies searches at ports of entry

The Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) says it will intensify physical searches at all commercial border posts and international airports in response to rising levels of smuggling at points of entry.

Now US tariffs – Will diamonds ever catch a break?

The long-awaited recovery in diamonds has received yet another knock, this time from uncertainty, that archenemy of business stability. The US imposed, then paused major global tariffs, decisions whose impact the diamond world is still studying. MBONGENI MGUNI writes

Keorapetse, has indicated that they have talked too much, for too long, and it is now time to act
PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

We have talked too much, it’s time to act – Keorapetse

With the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) government under pressure to please the electorate and revive an ailing economy, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has indicated that they have talked too much, for too long, and it is now time to act.

On the up: Copper mining is surging in values around the country and the world

Copper exports shoot above P10bn

The country’s exports of copper passed P10 billion last year for the first time in history, as stronger production and higher prices helped national revenues in the midst of the diamond slump.

Making waves:; Duma Boko PIC REUTERS/TIMES

Boko named on Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025

President Duma Boko has been named one of the leaders on the Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025 list, being recognised for leading the seismic change last year that brought Botswana’s first change in political power since Independence in 1966.

DIS agents demand backpays, say delay is unlawful

About 400 aggrieved employees of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) have decried the government's failure to comply with a court order for close to 10 months. This is after they won a case in which they had taken the employer to court for breach of contract (for refusal to pay them back pays dating as far as 2001).

Fare thee well Mosikare

The family of Mmegi and The Monitor is mourning the fall of a dedicated journalist in Lebogang Law Mosikare whose painful passing was announced yesterday by his family after a short illness. Below, colleagues reminisce about their interactions with the former Francistown-based journo who will sorely be missed by colleagues across the fraternity

Diamond deal demands transparency

Instead, it has sparked a storm of accusations, denials, and unresolved questions about the influence of De Beers on the nation’s politics. Former president Mokgweetsi Masisi’s claims that the diamond giants bankrolled his removal to dodge taxes – and that the new Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) government watered down a favourable diamond deal – are explosive matters. But without evidence, they risk becoming a toxic distraction from...

Mmegi Editor | 11 April 2025

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