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Trade unions are rendering themselves irrelevant

Editorials Sunday Standard Commentary -
The two biggest stories of the last two weeks have been a decision by Government to suspend sports in government schools. And...
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BoB should provide clarity on how it intends to cushion the economy in case of Virus attack

Editorials Sunday Standard Commentary -
Botswana’s economy, like the rest of the world finds itself facing the worst crisis since the global crisis that started in 2008.
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Authorities should be more honest transparent in preparing people on eventuality of Coronavirus

Editorials Sunday Standard Commentary -
It is now months since the world became aware of a deadly disease called coronavirus. Coronavirus has during that...
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BUSINESS

Here is the chronicle of Choppies’s troubles with auditors

Business Sunday Standard Reporter -
Botswana’s top budget grocer, Choppies, has for the first time chronicled its strained relationship with local audit firms, which led to not...
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Choppies chops Ram’s salary but…

Business Bonnie Modiakgotla -
Choppies’ maverick chief executive officer (CEO) Ramachandran Ottapathu is getting a huge pay cut, seen as part of the deal to stay...
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Diamond beneficiation still viable

Business Bonnie Modiakgotla -
Botswana, home to some of the world’s most known diamond mines, remains one of the key players in the diamond industry, but...
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Stanchart profit on a surge

Business Sunday Standard Reporter -
The country’s oldest commercial lender Standard Chartered Bank Botswana has nearly quadrupled its profit, staging a strong comeback that will take a...
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Public transport operators still await Gov’t “brief” on Coronavirus

Business Cedric Swanka -
As the deadly COVID – 19 coronavirus continues to spread its pernicious tentacles across the globe including at neighbouring countries, largely in...
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Botswana car market is weakening

Business Sunday Standard Reporter -
The country’s used car market which has enjoyed significant growth over the last decade appears to be slowing down, with rate expected...
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News blackout on civil service strike

Opinions Online editor -
The ongoing public servants' strike in Botswana has seen that country's state-owned media cover only one side of the story. Yup, you guessed it,...
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DCEC, DIS losing spy wars

Music Sunday Standard Reporter -
When South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa delayed in congratulating his Botswana counterpart, President Mokgweetsi Masisi on his election victory, conspiracy theorists went into overdrive. Curiously,...
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Botswana broke and living beyond its means

Headlines Khonani Ontebetse -
Botswana’s fifth President Mokgweetsi Masisi has his job cut out as he inherits a country that is broke and living beyond its...
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Is Khama privy to Boko and Moti’s plan to take over Botswana and Zimbabwe?

News Sunday Standard Reporter -
Self-exiled Zimbabwean G40 kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo and MDC-ALLIANCE leader Nelson Chamisa are banking on former President Lt Gen Ian Khama’s supporters in the Botswana...
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Balopi “shocked” by UDC petition allegations

News Thobo Motlhoka -
Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Secretary General Mpho Balopi has dismissed as outrageous allegations contained in the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) election petitions. The contents...
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ANALYSIS

Masisi, Khama & coronavirus

Opinions Spencer Mogapi -
President Mokgweetsi Masisi should be careful not to make his predecessor Ian Khama a hero, or even a martyr. He does not...
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BDF Should Ask China for Help with Anti-Poaching

Opinions Richard Moleofe -
The recent death of a BDF soldier has actually disrupted my sequenced Botswana military history write-ups. The death of this Special Forces...
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A Parliament of damn slackers and fraudsters signals another era of mediocrity!

Opinions Kenneth Dipholo -
If there is one lesson we learnt from the 11th Parliament of the Republic of Botswana is that Members of Parliament are at...
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Zimbabwe’s false dawn; how the military ran the people’s dreams aground

Opinions Spencer Mogapi -
A little over three years ago the world woke up to the hoarse voice of a military general in Zimbabwe effectively telling...
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Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Should Botswana be Worried?

Opinions Thabo Seleke -
I must first start by stating that, I am heterosexual, I look at women. I don’t look at other Men. I am...
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SPORTS

Coronavirus suffocates football

Sports Botlhale Koothupile -
If the Botswana Premier League (BPL) expected the 2019/20 league to be a struggle, then things may just turn ugly.
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Demystifying coronavirus on athletes

Sports Oratile Otsetswe -
For some Batswana, coronavirus (Covid-19) appears like a crisis occurring in other continents. It is not an African problem they would like...
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Rakgare invites business to sports party

Sports Duncan Kgangkenna -
The Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development (MYSC), Tumiso Rakgare has reiterated government’s stance that the corporate sectors must seriously...
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BFA dribbles past dejected committee

Sports Duncan Kgangkenna -
“Justice delayed is justice denied,” so goes one legal maxim. For the suspended First Division North league committee, this maxim bears more...
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Rollers, GU cautioned over coronavirus

Sports Godfrey Mowaneng -
In the brink of the Covid 19 scourge that halted almost all sporting activities across the country, the Botswana Football Association (BFA)...
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Suspension of School Sports unfortunate but necessary evil

Sports Botlhale Koothupile -
For a decade now, the payment of teachers’ allowances for extracurricular activities has been a thorn in the hell of school sports....
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LIFESTYLE

Rocking Marital Bliss

Lifestyle Lesley Seetso -
Ashley and Jimmy Thaba fling wide open their closet, trading their skeletons for the peace and stability of Batswana marriages. It is...
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COVID 19 Virus Hits Jazz, Hard

Lifestyle It Has To Be Jazz -
The initial announcement of the Corona Virus in 2019 got the It Has to Be Jazz® team thinking of the worst case scenario....
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Mombo Camp – To heaven and back

Lifestyle Outsa Mokone -
My wake-up call was a powerful roar of a male lion that seemed to be thundering right on my door step. 
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Taking to kids about the dreaded C subject

Lifestyle Mpho Kuhlmann -
Talking to our children about Coronavirus is one of those dreaded by “necessary evils”, like talking about the birds and the bees....
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Obakeng – I drum what i like

Lifestyle It Has To Be Jazz -
You know these artists who play and right at the end of the show you call out their names, more in a...
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IN-DEPTH

DCEC investigating conflict-of-interest allegations against Court of Appeal judge

In-Depth Sunday Standard Reporter -
Good sources tell Sunday Standard that having earlier rejected a request to investigate Justice Lakhvinder Singh Walia of the Court of Appeal...
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A once reputable Gabane school trying to get back up on its feet

In-Depth Sunday Standard Reporter -
Decades after the fact, James Sentongo-Lukwago recalls two incidents, one at a riverside nightclub in Mahalapye and the other at a Tlokweng...
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Botswana economically vulnerable as global recession fears mount

In-Depth Victor Baatweng -
In what has now come to be known in the international community as the Coronavirus Economy, Batswana are expected to join other...
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An industry reels in shock as African Alliance takes BPOPF head-on

In-Depth Spencer Mogapi -
When Botswana Public Officers Pensions Fund took a drastic step in 2019 to immediately cancel the mandates it had offered to asset...
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Restoring Botswana’s economic Sparkle 

In-Depth Kitso Lemo -
What does Botswana do for its second act? Once the model African economy, Botswana boasted the world’s fastest growth rate for three...
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The P10m from tenders reserved for citizens won’t trickle down to most needy citizens

In-Depth Sunday Standard Reporter -
On paper (literally), the February 28 order issued by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Dr. Thapelo Matsheka, seems a good...
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News blackout on civil service strike

Opinions Online editor -
The ongoing public servants' strike in Botswana has seen that country's state-owned media cover only one side of the story. Yup, you guessed it,...
Read more

DCEC, DIS losing spy wars

Music Sunday Standard Reporter -
When South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa delayed in congratulating his Botswana counterpart, President Mokgweetsi Masisi on his election victory, conspiracy theorists went into overdrive. Curiously,...
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Botswana broke and living beyond its means

Headlines Khonani Ontebetse -
Botswana’s fifth President Mokgweetsi Masisi has his job cut out as he inherits a country that is broke and living beyond its...
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