In-Depth

Seven rights groups fighting to keep Molapisi alive

Lesedi Molapisi’s case has been taken up by a total of seven human rights organisations, which include Botswana’s own Ditshwanelo as well as its...

Horrific stories about cruelty of govt hospital workers pour out

From Gaborone to Francistown, Selebi to Maun, Gantsi to Goodhope, Molepolole to Mahalapye, Serowe to Mochudi, Palapye to Kanye, Bobonong to Ramotswa, members of...

MoH, BONU and NMCB react to TikTok video – not service delivery crisis in hospitals

In a curious attempt to “apologise” for an extreme case of professional misconduct at Princess Marina Referral Hospital in Gaborone, the Ministry of Health...

KAZA communities edgy over life after Masisi

Most local conservationists lean one of two ways: The proposed Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) bill is good or the proposed CBNRM bill is...

Private sector wages stagnant while public sector’s grow

It should be good news that post-Covid, Botswana’s economy performed the strongest in the SADC region but four years later, the windfall has yet...

‘Botswana Congress Party judges are messing up the judiciary’

A minister and lawyer who works in a state organ that appoints judges has alleged that “Botswana Congress Party judges are messing up the...

Ramaotwana accused of falsifying database to sneak in non-BNF candidate

The Deputy Secretary of the Botswana National Front, Nelson Ramaotwana, is at the centre of an electoral fraud allegation. The fraud is alleged by...

A drug dealer with a dubious name led Lesedi Molapisi to the gallows

Minutes after her plane landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on January 23 last year, Lesedi Molapisi entered the terminal and...

Proposed law means BDP can’t benefit from Mogae’s Oxford education 

Giving former President Festus Mogae as an example, the Francistown West MP, Ignatius Moswaane, says that what is proposed in the Constitution (Amendment) Bill...

Feasibility studies for Lesotho-to-Botswana Water Transfer scheme to be completed by 2026

Following a site visit to Lesotho, the Executive Secretary of the Orange-Senqu Commission (ORASECOM), Comfort Molosiwa, says that after Covid-occasioned delays, feasibility studies that...