UB hosts Alumni holding lofty positions in Govt & P/Sector today
Vice Chancellor of the University of Botswana, Professor David Norris is pushing boundaries to market the University. The University is this evening (Friday August 24, 2018) hosting its Alumni that...
View ArticleKeorapetse protests BCL closure in letter to Masisi
Member of Parliament for Selibe Phikwe West Dithapelo Keorapetse has blamed government for the closure of BCL on not treating it as a parastatal or public enterprise. In a letter he wrote to President...
View ArticleTribal Admin Director accused of insulting Baherero culture
Justice Modiri Letsididi of Lobatse High Court is expected to preside over a dispute over the chieftaincy of Omaweneno village near Tsabong.The dispute stems from disagreements among the Bimbo royal...
View ArticleMatsheka calls on pension industry to prop up economy
Over the past two decades the financial services industry has not promoted any meaningful citizen participation, this is according to new entrant in the market Fiducia, a pension fund administration...
View ArticleBMC to retrench workers
The Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) has hatched a plan to place its loss making Francistown plant under care and maintenance to save the parastatal a whopping P35 million annually.Brian Dioka, BMC...
View ArticleMinistry, DCEC investigate BPC
Jonathan Raheem Hosseini, the Chief operations Officer (COO) of Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) who was suspended pending investigation has been cleared of all charges. However, BG News has reliably...
View ArticleBOPEU chaos escalates
Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) leadership team that lost its case against union President Masego Mogwera has filed appeal papers with the court, Botswana Guardian has learnt. The factions...
View ArticleMost BDP candidates have criminal records
While President Mokgweetsi Masisi who is also leader of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has vowed to fight corruption, more rot is emerging in his backyard (BDP), Botswana Guardian has established. In...
View ArticleBotswana robbed in CPA elections
What is good for the goose must certainly be good for the gander but it will seem this does not apply in the case of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s (CPA) elections. There was hue and cry...
View ArticleMoyo Guma survives Bulela Ditswe battle…
Incumbent Member of Parliament for Tati East Guma Moyo brushed aside a challenge from his bitter rival Sean Sebele in the past weekend Bulela Ditswe, polling 2730 votes against Sebele’s 1929. The other...
View ArticleBDP failed Bulela Ditswe candidates dismally
Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Central Committee and Electoral Board failed Bulela Ditswe candidates in the primaries that were held this past weekend, Botswana Guardian can reveal.The BDP conducted...
View ArticlePilane will follow my instruction – Boko
Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) President Advocate Duma Boko has indicated that they are still waiting for the letter from Registrar of Societies confirming the error communicated in the letter...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal hears BOPEU power struggle
Justice Singh Walia of the Court of Appeal has directed that the power struggle between Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) National Executive Committee (NEC) be heard today (Friday). Justice Walia...
View ArticleBDF’s P161 million waste
Less than a year in operation, the controversial Botswana Defence Force fleet of Landrovers bought for P161 million from the United Kingdom is facing mechanical challenges. The 500 second-hand Land...
View ArticleBotswana-China Bilateral Investment Treaty in limbo
President Mokgweetsi Masisi has returnsl from his visit to Beijing, China, certainly a happy man, in light of the concessions he has extracted from his counterpart, Xi Jingping. According to official...
View ArticleAP demands commission of enquiry into BDF’s purchase of old fleet from UK
Chairman of Alliance for Progressives (AP) Maj. Gen. Pius Mokgware says his party will call for a commission of enquiry into the controversial procurement of Land Rovers from the United Kingdom by...
View ArticleAP demands commission of enquiry into BDF’s purchase of old fleet from UK
Chairman of Alliance for Progressives (AP) Maj. Gen. Pius Mokgware says his party will call for a commission of enquiry into the controversial procurement of Land Rovers from the United Kingdom by...
View ArticleEngage Parley in BCL matter-Gaolathe
Alliance for Progressives (AP) President also Member of Parliament for Gaborone Bonnington South Ndaba Gaolathe, has challenged government to consider a draft Bill they have availed for the reopening...
View ArticleEngage Parley in BCL matter-Gaolathe
Alliance for Progressives (AP) President also Member of Parliament for Gaborone Bonnington South Ndaba Gaolathe, has challenged government to consider a draft Bill they have availed for the reopening...
View ArticleEditors Forum to lobby for repeal of oppressive laws
Botswana Editors Forum (BEF) has welcomed as a positive development a decision by prosecution to drop charges of sedition against Editor of Sunday Standard Outsa Mokone. Early this week when the case...
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