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Kgosi engages Malaysian lawyers
Isaac Kgosi’s lawyers in Botswana say their hands are tied while their client instructs lawyers in Malaysia to fight his warrant of arrest and eventual return to Botswana where a …
Business News
Reduced bank rate is good for customers but bad for banks
Caught in a merciless trap of high rentals, rising food prices and household debt that threatens to shoot through the roof, impoverished Batswana can take a breather after the Bank …
FNBB cashes in on bank charges
P1.1 billion made from transactional charges Bank hikes service fees Makes money from swiping charges More non-interest services in the offing Non-interest charges unregulated KEABETSWE NEWEL The behemoth commercial banking …
Sefalana directors buy more shares
… splash almost P1m KEABETSWE NEWEL The Managing Director (MD) of Sefalana Holdings Limited Chandra Chauhan and his Finance Director (FD) Mohammed Osman have splashed P 977 461.10 combined, personally …
BURS loses P3.9m case against Bank Gaborone
BURS ordered to return the P3.9m The ruling will affect the entire banking sector JONATHAN HORE The Court of Appeal has ordered Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) to return to …
BAMB off takes beans exports to Asia
Sign contracts with Panda farmers to export beans to Asia 20 000 tonnes of mung beans exported annually BAMB also exports sorghum Over P140m made from export revenue CEDA/BAMB partner …
Desai hits back: “Ram lied”
… inside the fallout between Ram and Desai Desai says Ram avoids damning allegations and instead attacks him personally Ram accuses Desai of conflict of interest KEABETSWE NEWEL A war …
Lifestyle
Imagine Beullah’s Mophane Harvest shade along the A1 Highway
Not only will phane harvesters cash in the process but the installations will be an attractive tourist site GAZETTE REPORTER After winning two awards for her Old Palapye Museum Historic …
“Am I Next?” Movement is relevant to us
GOSEGO MOTSUMI After a heavy week of violence, looting, femicide, murder and manslaughter in South Africa, women are asking – out of frustration – whether they are the next victims …
Teamwork makes the dream work
Batswana women are raring to go after MultiChoice training GOSEGO MOTSUMI Africa’s film industries, Botswana included, have long held the ambition to catch up with Hollywood, which is the world’s …
A casting call for Batswana to star in Hollywood film
The Blue Mauritius is a US$15m budget movie that is due to start filming next year and is looking for a Motswana actor GOSEGO MOTSUMI After winning the title of …
Is P58m roundly slammed as too stinting?
In the wake of American TV host Steve Harvey’s visit, critics iterate the common position that a budget 10 times more would be more like it. As for the President’s …
The Main Deck is the latest cool spot in town
The hit with patrons must be the option of building one’s own braai dish GOSEGO MOTSUMI As Gabs aspires to be counted among the world’s top culinary capitals, the city’s …
