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Botswana sold for USD 100m

Sunday Standard Reporter - 20th January 2026

IMF Spotlights Botswana’s Corruption as Threat to Growth

How Botswana Quietly Sealed Disputed US Health Deal

Botswana’s passport-for-profit scheme backfires

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LATEST NEWS

Mzwinila Calls DCEC’s Bluff

Khonani Ontebetse -

Former Cabinet minister Kefentse Mzwinila has mounted a legal challenge against the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Director of Public...

Competition Authority Distances Itself from Mupane Collapse

Sunday Standard Reporter -

Inside Mzwinila, Moagi DCEC probe: same faces, same companies

Khonani Ontebetse -

Botswana’s Diversification Efforts Hit Cul De Sac – IMF

Portia Nkani -

Why governance, licensing and management matter in Botswana’s real estate sector

Portia Nkani -

WEEKLY CARTOON

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SUNDAY STANDARD ONLINE

Sunday Standard News Review 7 July 21

Sunday Standard Interview with former President Ian Khama

JOBLESS + LAMONADE = LOVE

GAY OR HUMAN, WHO DO YOU SEE?

SHOULD WE REWARD CAR MARSHALLING?

WHAT A SILLY SEASON

CORRUPTION: SPEAKING TRUTH, AS I SEE IT

THE STREET COFFEE MAESTRO

FOOD, THOUGHT DIFFERENTLY

SHE DIDN'T DREAM IT BUT SHE LIVED IT

WHY I MADE A 9 M TALL, 2800 KG STEEL HEAVY ROBOT STATUE

HER GOD IS A BLACK LESBIAN WOMAN

HAVE YOU DECIDED ON YOUR VOTE?

UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE TEACHERS' VOICE GOES UNHEARD

COOL TIME SELLING TODAY, BIG BUSINESS TOMORROW

LIFE WITHOUT A DEGREE

IT'S TIME YOU HEARD MY VOICE

WHEN SALT DOES MORE THAN JUST FLAVOURING FOOD

DOES THE 'OFFICE' MAKE A JOB?

TWO LIVES IN ONE BODY

CHAMPION GAINS ARE SWEATED FOR

REAL HUSTLERS SELL BOTTLES FOR CHAMPION GAINS

NO PEACE IN PIECE JOBS

WHEN FINDING A JOB IS NO LONGER AN OPTION

PALLET CARPENTRY, THE ROADSIDE TRADE

RISE, FOR REASON

THE SUNDAY STANDARD SAYS...

Is Botswana ready for the coming drug invasion?

14th December 2025

Why are Botswana’s HIV/AIDS gains getting eroded?

7th December 2025

Mental Sickness is reaching crisis levels

1st December 2025

BUSINESS

Shine bright like a Diamond

Gov’t draws line on spending as austerity tightens

Kenewendo flags rising import costs as key pressure on BPC

Gov’t turns to Treasury Bills to manage near-term funding

BDC extends $10m lifeline to Letshego

Debswana Pension Fund moves for 50% of Bona Life

ANALYSIS

A time for Europe to wake up from its slumber

Stephanus Gentium - 23rd December 2025

At the beginning of the year, Ivan Ostojic, a former partner at the consulting group McKinsey, published a piece that examined Europe's slow growth...

Australia’s social media ban and the case for digital safety in Botswana

Ikanyeng Molemele - 23rd December 2025

Australia’s recent decision to restrict social media access for children has reignited fervent conversations about online safety, regulation, and responsibility. These conversations have been...

Afrikan Countries Are Not Viable – Part 1

Bugalo A. Chilume - 23rd December 2025

It is unfortunate that Afrikan leaders have never given a thought to the twin legacies of colonialism: the appropriateness of the governing system their...

Botswana’s ICT trajectory: What 2025 taught us and why 2026 Matters

Ogone Mothooagae - 14th December 2025

Botswana’s digital landscape in 2025 was defined by a growing sense that policy ambition and private-sector innovation are finally beginning to move together. For...

The propaganda of climate change

Stephanus Gentium - 14th December 2025

In April this year, Nature, a science magazine that takes itself seriously, published an article on climate change. You know how they are with...

SPORTS

Will Sikwane turn around BNSC fortunes?

New sponsorship signals fresh start for Tafic

Botswana Ready to Welcome the World at Athletics Relays 2026 Gaborone

Bona Life Lets Maruapula ‘Loxion’ Kids “See Life” Through Golf

Daggers Out for Newly Appointed ‘Truant’ Football League Chief

‘No Pressure’ as Botswana’s Crown Jewels Jet Off to Angola

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LIFESTYLE

The wives who ran Botswana…until their husbands returned

Vaping, secret Apps and the silent crisis taking over secondary schools

The real cost of Botswana’s economic downturn could be a lost generation

Full Circle: How a controversial intersection could become Botswana’s most innovative urban project

Botswana’s marathoners nowhere to be seen as Kenya rules World Athletics Championships

IN-DEPTH

Al Cook’s measured bet on a bruised but resilient diamond industry

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Africa tests its unity at CoP20, leaves many wondering if this is the way of the future

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Key Dingake – a Judge raised by Robben Island ghosts

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Boko writing his own Greek tragedy?

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Boko in Masisi’s corner against Khama’s tourism stranglehold

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Mpho Kuhlman – A fearless voice for the silenced falls silent

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