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Fact-checking Botswana government response to EU blacklisting

Editorials Sunday Standard Commentary -
It is now common cause that Botswana has received a letter from the European Union giving the country a heads-up that they...
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Covid-19 should not become a cover for further delays in long promised constitutional reforms

Editorials Sunday Standard Commentary -
President Mokgweetsi Masisi won last year’s election against the backdrop of promises of Constitutional reforms that he made on the campaign trail.
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Africa, and Botswana in particular should not be caught in the West Vs China cat fight

Editorials Sunday Standard Commentary -
Long before covid-19 pandemic, the United States and China were already engaged in an ugly trade war. But by...
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BUSINESS

Once again “Thank You” CIPA for OBRS

Business Victor Baatweng -
It has been just over a year now since the Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA) launched the Online Business Registration System also...
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Botswana Bankers joins the “Diversification Chorus”

Business Portia Nkani -
Several years before the now popular pandemic – Covid-19, it became clear that fierce competitions from world markets were amongst other things...
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Earliest trade data does not look good for Botswana

Business Sunday Standard Reporter -
Botswana ended the first quarter of the year with a gaping deficit, signalling a difficult economic recovery road ahead as more data...
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Foreign Exchange Reserves take a dip

Business Bonnie Modiakgotla -
Botswana’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen in another sign of the country’s deteriorating financial position and its vulnerability to external shocks which...
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De Beers on Covid-19 impact

Business Kabelo Seitshiro -
The De Beers Group has confirmed that the global impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent restrictions on the movement of both people...
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Covid-19 delayed projects will be reassessed – Segokgo

Business Kabelo Seitshiro -
The Botswana Government is expected to soon meet up with companies that were awarded multibillion public works tenders to reassess amongst other...
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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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A 19-month-old baby boy urgently needs liver transplant

Lifestyle Online editor -
Thato Tsheko, a baby boy of only nineteen months, urgently needs a liver transplant. Thato was born with a liver condition called biliary atresia,...
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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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ANALYSIS

Don’t underestimate intensity of public anger seething underneath

Opinions Spencer Mogapi -
President Mokgweetsi Masisi should do everything to maintain a non-partisan public trust.He won the General Elections last year on the basis of...
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BDF Retired Soldiers Could Provide Answers to Food Security

Opinions Richard Moleofe -
The nation has never been in this kind of situation before and we hope it will not come back in our lifetime....
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Audit clears Mochudi’s Leobo Committee of wrong-doing

Opinions Kwapeng Modikwe -
Psychologists who contributed to the formulation of theories of mass communication say people tend to avoid messages that contradict their strongly held...
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Masisi/Balopi slow dance spells fire for the BDP

Opinions Spencer Mogapi -
For Mpho Balopi, the incumbent Secretary General of the Botswana Democratic Party, the year 2020 was supposed to be a year of...
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Save Botswana Military History (SOS)

Opinions Richard Moleofe -
Over the past months I have been going through this country’s military history on this paper starting with the participation of the...
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SPORTS

No political will to grow women football?

Sports Botlhale Koothupile -
‘Where there is a will, there is a way,’ so goes an English proverb. Unfortunately for Botswana women football, this proverb does...
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Football league needs P36 million to restart

Sports Godfrey Mowaneng -
As the dark cloud of the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to hover over the sporting fraternity, resumption of the leagues may prove...
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Referees can whistle for COVID-19 bail out – Rakgare

Sports Anita Rannoba -
As the Minister of Sports Tumiso Rakgare unpacked his ‘COVID 19 Relief Fund’ for football, one interested group was keeping a keen...
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Double Whammy for Women Football

Sports Patience Lephogole -
Sports Minister Tumiso Rakgare last week served women football a double dose of heartbreak. The minister did not only omit women football from...
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BFA tread carefully ahead of resuming play

Sports Botlhale Koothupile -
Botswana Football Association (BFA) will take all precautionary measures as it mulls resumption of the football leagues amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This...
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COVID-19 and sports: Masitaoka shows the way

Sports Oratile Otsetswe -
Botswana Premier league teams can learn a thing or two from some First Division clubs when it comes to the welfare of their players.  There are...
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LIFESTYLE

The work spouse phenomenon – are they purely platonic?

Lifestyle Mpho Kuhlmann -
The bane of most happy marriages and romantic relationships in Botswana is that “work colleague” who is always on the other end...
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Exclusive use of Setswana during televised COVID-19 updates angers some

Lifestyle Sunday Standard Reporter -
With as much false information as there is both online and offline about COVID-19, Btv updates have become one of the main sources of...
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Botswana chocking behind the face mask

Lifestyle Mpho Kuhlmann -
Listening to Orapeleng Phuswane-Katse, clinical physician with the Ministry of Health describe how something as seeming trivial as wearing a mask has...
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A Woman’s Worth In Jazz

Lifestyle It Has To Be Jazz -
Let us not make a mistake of thinking that jazz is separate from the personal lives of women in jazz. It is...
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The myth of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ and Botswana’s embrace of it

Lifestyle Sunday Standard Reporter -
Having been displaced by “COVID-19”, “extreme social distancing” and “lockdown”, “Fourth Industrial Revolution” is a term you haven’t heard in a while....
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IN-DEPTH

The natives are coming for their share

In-Depth Mesh Moeti -
There is something in the air, and it smells so much like a version of the Arab Spring. As with most popular...
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How the mighty pen thumbed Khama’s virulent sword (Part 1)

In-Depth Abraham Motsokono -
“The United States is deeply concerned by the arrest of newspaper editor Outsa Mokone by the Government of Botswana on charges of...
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Why a regional security summit can’t be held via Skype

In-Depth Sunday Standard Reporter -
If there was a credible reason for President Mokgweetsi Masisi to attend the inauguration of his Namibian counterpart, one would have been...
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The truth about police officers’ P10 million ‘donation’ to the COVID-19 Relief Fund

In-Depth Sunday Standard Reporter -
If COVID-19 philanthropy ever needs a motto and based on what donors are doing, anything else other than “giving with one hand,...
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A witness to a church gone astray

In-Depth Mesh Moeti -
From his vantage position, Miki Hardy can speak with authority about what seems to be wrong with the church today, and how...
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Bon appétit, we are in power!

In-Depth Mesh Moeti -
In a review of Michela Wong’s book “It’s Our Turn to Eat”, which chronicles corruption networks in Kenya under President Mwai Kibaki,...
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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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