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Sleaze, shady dealings rock CITF

Sunday Standard investigations have turned up an executive gravy train with questionable salary adjustments and allowances at Construction Industry Trust Fund (CITF). Investigations revealed a shady 26%...
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Cash crunch tests UDC’s human rights promise

The Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) entered office promising a rights-based approach to governance. Less than two years later, a deep fiscal crisis is...
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Botswana faces harder times

Botswana is rapidly running out of the financial cushion that for decades shielded it from economic shocks, with the World Bank warning that diamond...
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Poverty, inequality driving Botswana’s economic decline – World Bank

The World Bank has warned that stubbornly high poverty, deep income inequality and a worsening jobs crisis are undermining the country's long-term growth prospects...
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Court application raises doubt about eligibility of the current parliament

An urgent court application has raised doubts about the legal status of legislators who may have continued sitting and voting in Parliament despite being...
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Gift or golden handcuffs?

A whistle-blower report has exposed the hidden economics of America’s donations of C-130 aircraft to Botswana Defence Force (BDF) and how Botswana may have...
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Khama alleges Zimbabwean agents dispatched to Botswana amid assassination fears

Former president Ian Khama has alleged that individuals linked to Zimbabwe have been dispatched to Botswana as part of a plot against him. This...
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The financial time bomb behind donated C-130 aircraft

Botswana is reported to have diverted hundreds of millions of pula from public health, public education and public infrastructure, just to keep a single...
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Inside Botswana’s trillion-Pula illusion

For the past two years, Botswana has been promised close to P1 trillion in investments, but so far many of the names attached to...
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Inside Botswana’s P8 billion shady puzzles

Either First National Bank Botswana (FNBB) has lost or misappropriated nearly P8 billion belonging to a foreign investor, or a Mauritian company has constructed...
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