At the soonest practical date, the Tati East MP, Guma Moyo will bring to the floor of parliament, a motion that calls on the government to come up with a programme that expedites land acquisition and redistribution particularly in Francistown and the North East district.

A visit to a fishing lodge in the Okavango Delta in 2001 ended very badly for a 70-year old man that a High Court judgement by Justice Ian Kirby only refers to as Petersen. In the evening, as he made his way to the guests’ dining area over a raised wooden walkway, Petersen fell 1.5 metres to the ground below and sustained serious injuries.

In its eagerness to whitewash a shameful past, Botswana’s officialdom never breathes a word about the racial character of the country’s bill of rights. The latter is a declaration of individual rights and freedoms issued by a national government.

When the Managing Director of Diamond Trading Company Botswana starts to speak about the nature of his business his voice gets fast and passionate.
DTCB, he says has embarked on a new journey.
It is a journey to a new happy-land, says Tabake Kobedi.

Our  attendance   at  the  funeral  of  afro  fusion  musician,  Ray Chikapa Phiri  of Stimela  fame in July  last year   involved  participating  in  a number of activities  choreographed  to  befit  a   luminary of song   who  was possibly  the  most  famous  son  ever sired  in  Nelspruit and its hinterlands.  Amidst the solemnity, the pomp and circumstance, great  and famous   sat  cheek by

A little known detail in yesteryear’s Daisy Loo saga is the cameo role that then Vice President Ian Khama played at its very beginning in 2005. Then, Gaborone was as dirty as it is now and Khama reportedly summoned the Town Clerk to his office to raise concern over this state of affairs ahead of a visit by a head of state.

The story of a vast tract of land in Gaborone North that the government claims to own but is being developed by a private sector company gets more complicated by the day.

Around the time that the ancient Greek were debating democracy at public squares, Plato, a rock star-philosopher who founded the first university in the western world, was hugely skeptical of this form of government. It rankled with him that judicial mechanisms within this system could be used to execute people easily.

The excuse that is being peddled for why former Zimbabwean president (Al Jazeera TV guest: “It sounds funning saying that.”) Robert Mugabe should not be tried is that he is an old man. At 93, Mugabe is indeed old but there are very good reasons why he should be tried for slaughtering his own people, looting the national treasury and generally presiding over a monstrous kakistocracy.