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Teachers’ unions say Botswana’s education spending has not adequately improved…
A government economic review warns that sluggish growth, dwindling diamond…
Boko’s third State of the Nation Address reports progress on…
Business
BDC targets P5.5 billion in priority-sector investments and 25,000 jobs by 2031 but Botswana’s savings…
SEZA brings intelligence services into investor vetting as Botswana moves to detect financial crime,…
VP warns Botswana’s competition safeguards are failing to prevent concentrated franchise ownership, price collusion and…
President Duma Boko says Botswana’s planned increase in De Beers ownership is as much a…
Stanbic Bank Botswana has barred its directors and executives from buying shares during the IPO’s…
BoB removes prime-rate ban as liquidity improves, handing banks greater pricing freedom while borrowers face…
Botswana has not just sent a beauty queen to Puerto Rico. It is sending a diamond story, a tourism pitch and a national ambition, with Dabilo Moses carrying the spotlight. GOSEGO…
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Gaborone’s electric Metrobus initiative is welcome, but its success depends on reforms first proposed fifteen…
Botswana’s support for Beijing’s position on Taiwan raises a difficult question about the right to…
Beyond agreements and investment opportunities, the real test of Botswana’s visit to China is whether…
As President Duma Boko prepares for his November State of the Nation Address, a review…
A proposed P60 billion restoration programme asks whether Botswana should repair the public assets built…
Six decades of development have raised living standards, but gaps in social indicators may obscure…
From famous labels to club tastings, a developing wine palate is about knowing what you enjoy, not agreeing with everyone else. PHENYO MOTHAGODI There is a particular kind of pressure that comes…
By Reason Nyamambi, Managing Director, Old Mutual Life Botswana A comfortable retirement is not determined by how much you earn, but by what you save, protect and grow along the way. Old…
A memorable home tasting needs curiosity more than expensive equipment, with blind pours, unfamiliar bottles and even seswaa opening up fresh discoveries. PHENYO MOTHAGODI There is something wonderfully sophisticated about a wine…
Stanbic Bank Botswana’s public offer matters not because it makes the bank more famous, but because it gives Batswana a chance to share in the future they help create. By Manuel Veiruapi…
Wine, chocolate and brandy with serious age credentials. South African heavyweight KWV brought its finest pours to Gaborone, proving that Botswana’s growing wine culture has plenty more to explore. Wine had the…
Universal acceptance of diversity is a positive development because as an immensely influential platform, pageantry can now help many girls and young women realise that there is nothing wrong with the way…
DITSHWANELO – The Botswana Centre for Human Rights noted with concern and great disappointment, the execution of Mr Phemelo Botogeleng, which took place on Friday 11 June 2021, at the Gaborone Central…
Aissatou Diallo The need for an economically integrated Africa has never been more urgent. With the severe disruption of global value chains due to Covid-19 and related lockdown measures, there is no…
Creatives have applauded the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sports and Culture Development for extending monthly stipends to them as announced early this week but want further assessment done with their unions. GOSEGO…
In the past decade we have seen people uniting to bring justice to victims of sexual abuse. Organizations like the #metoo movement and #esengmongwangeng movement rose to amplify the voices of the…