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Botswana mobile operators susceptible to SIM-swapping fraud

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A fresh report by Cyber Monitor says Botswana’s three major mobile operators Orange, Mascom and beMobile authentication techniques are vulnerable to SIM-swapping...
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Mahalapye family suspects foul play in police-custody suicide

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Quarry and pit from hell swallows children

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BMC missing P300 million

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Modest investment would have prevented P15 million-loss train accident

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WEEKLY CARTOON

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Economic take-off will heavily rely on infrastructure renewal

Editorials Sunday Standard Commentary -
There is still a real chance that Botswana can lift itself, using the bootstraps to become a higher income developing country.The first...
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Botswana’s economic structure needs a reality check

Editorials Sunday Standard Commentary -
Sometime next month, the minister of Finance, Thapelo Matsheka will deliver his first ever budget speech since ascending following General Election in...
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Lifting of a Hunting Ban should never provide a guise for “legalized poaching”

Editorials Sunday Standard Commentary -
The Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism has released a very shocking and worrying piece of news. Two hunters shot...
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BUSINESS

BAOA to investigate Choppies on financial reporting, corporate governance

Business Portia Nkani -
The Botswana Accountancy Oversight Authority (BAOA) is this month looking forward to visit troubled local retail giant Choppies Enterprises Limited to scrutinize...
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Skills purge at BMC rings hollow with Board Chairman

Business Mpho Keleboge -
Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) Board Chairman Victor Senye has put a blind eye at some reports about the acting chief executive officer...
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National lottery on the cards

Business Cedric Swanka -
Botswana is finally set to have its own National Lottery, with awarding of the license later on in March 2020 after being...
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Kuwait bans Botswana beef

Business Bonnie Modiakgotla -
Botswana government officials have denied reports of an anthrax outbreak in a swift response to news that the country’s beef has been banned...
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DCI up, but Lucara loses its lustre

Business Bonnie Modiakgotla -
It was a bag of mixed fortunes for Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) listed companies during the early trades of the first month...
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BSEL revises rules for demutualisation

Business Kabelo Seitshiro -
The Botswana Stock Exchange Limited (BSEL) has announced the revision of members’ rules to complement a demutualized environment and drive the company’s...
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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?

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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

BCP youth want a UDC revamp; it is actually a by-word for taking control

Opinions Spencer Mogapi -
For an organization that has always prided itself with cadre discipline and strategic coherence, this week’s admission by Botswana Congress Party that...
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The Jameson Raid of 1895 was Planned in Gaborone

Opinions Richard Moleofe -
We have just come into the New Year. I am reminded of the infamous Jameson Raid of 1895 because it occurred on...
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A new decade of hope should not be sidetracked by celebrated delinquents and/or scapegoating!

Opinions Kenneth Dipholo -
To cope with Botswana’s negative news cycle, despondency and apprehension, one has to get hooked to some of the most potent alcoholic...
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Ray Molomo: Champion of freedom of speech

Opinions Kwapeng Modikwe -
The Matlapeng Ray Molomo story appears to be unending. It appears it is a story which will be told for weeks or...
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Botswana politics can still be rescued from the unwieldly shackles of China/India money 

Opinions Spencer Mogapi -
Late last year, following their victory at the polls the Botswana Democratic Party organized what the party said was an event to...
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SPORTS

Lost in translation or interpretation?

Sports Botlhale Koothupile -
In the wake of the coming into effect of the revised Botswana Football Association (BFA) constitution, the Botswana Premier League (BPL) has...
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BFA upbeat despite Afcon qualifier fixture changes

Sports Godfrey Mowaneng -
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) has saluted changes by the African football mother body, CAF, in rescheduling Afcon 2021 qualifiers.
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Teams cry as reality of no league sponsorship bites

Sports Botlhale Koothupile -
When the Botswana Premier League (BPL) board agreed to run a league with no prize monies back at the beginning of last...
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Johnson’s arrival marks the return of Ngele

Sports Godfrey Mowaneng -
Undoubtedly one of the best attacking midfielders in the South African ABSA premiership, Mogakolodi Ngele’s football career has gained yet another lifeline...
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Here’s what to expect in football this season

Sports Anita Rannoba -
“Do not doubt my motivation, determination, toughness, commitment, perseverance, mental ability nor my desire, most of all do not under- estimate what...
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Anxiety awaits Rakgare’s sport merger decision

Sports Botlhale Koothupile -
Uncertainty abounds within the local sports federations as they await a decision from the newly appointed Minister of Sports Tumiso Rakgare on whether or not...
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BOTSWANA MAINTAINS GDP GROWTH RATE AT 3.1 PERCENT

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Botswana’s economy continues to show signs of weakness, with the latest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures revealing that the diamond dependent economy staggered following slowed growth in key sectors.

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LIFESTYLE

Stakes Are High

Lifestyle Online editor -
In the last 12 months a lot in the jazz space has been trending and in particular the standard of jazz compositions...
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Jazz is not a music genre!

Lifestyle It Has To Be Jazz -
The year 2019 was exciting in many ways and there were a lot of thought-provoking jazz subjects which did not quite exactly...
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The current lights-camera-action episode in the High Court is a throwback to 2007

Lifestyle Sunday Standard Reporter -
Like the United States’ highest court, Botswana highest courts don’t allow TV cameras in the courtroom. For that reason, TV cameras are...
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Botswana not doing too well with the Third Industrial Revolution

Lifestyle Sunday Standard Reporter -
Not a day goes by without one hearing the term “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (sometimes called 4IR or Industry 4.0) which refers to...
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It’s Botswana parents against the world

Lifestyle Mpho Kuhlmann -
Spare the rod and spoil the child, this is the operational mantra of most Batswana parents who still subscribe to time tested...
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IN-DEPTH

Determination of 2019 election petitions is problematic

In-Depth Lediretse Molake -
It is generally accepted that judges know the law, and that counsel appears in court to assist the court to come to...
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In memory of Oom Ray, his hunting rifle, 3rd Schedule and  desperate measures on presidential nomination day!

In-Depth Botsalo Ntuane -
Aspiring politicians have cottoned on what to do to rise to remunerative office. Generally the rules are unambiguous and even if not...
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Does KPMG have questions to answer over Choppies?

In-Depth Victor Baatweng -
Troubled local mass grocery retailer - Choppies Enterprises Limited’s prolonged financial saga is on each passing moment proving to be Botswana’s definitive case study in...
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Agric ministry employees win class suit against unfair discrimination

In-Depth Joe Balise -
Scores of employees in the C Band grade at the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security recently won a class suit in which their...
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Legally the 2019 general elections are not yet over

In-Depth Lediretse Molake -
Section 65A(12)c of our constitution enjoins the Independent Electoral Commission to ensure that elections are conducted efficiently, properly, freely and fairly. We have of course...
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Contrary to what UDC expert says, Botswana stopped using election ink 15 years ago

In-Depth Sunday Standard Reporter -
In declaring the outcome of Botswana general election false because it was “rigged”, a British-South African man called Paul O’Sullivan has himself offered a false...
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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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