In-Depth

The wheeling and dealing

Festus Mogae paced the floor of the cluttered office next to the Parliament Members Lounge like a caged animal. His sluggish footsteps suggested that...
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THE REGENT WHO BECAME KING

The watershed moment came on 4 November 1995. By the time delegates made their way back home, it was all over. In an extraordinary...
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A green revolution betrayed

The host loosens his necktie, and suggests that we move out of the garden. It's only midmorning, but the sun is already scorching; nature's...
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A conversation with Steenkamp

The consummate, results-oriented professional he was, Philip Steenkamp never confused an official meeting with a social get-together. That account comes a thousand kilometers away...
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Labour pains

The buzz of machines grinds to a sudden stop. Power switches on the factory floor are flipped down. All hell breaks loose as workers...
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Larger than life

With a figure that would fill a size 40 pair of trousers and towering a few inches shy of two meters, Leina Gabaraane is...
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Diamond in the rough

Every morning, hundreds of diamond cutters file into Botswana factories. Operating lathes and lasers, they slice, polish and facet the cloudy crystals from De...
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Talking sense into business

One thing that Kabelo Binns takes great exception to is being referred to as a “spin doctor”. He sees the description as one of...
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A rebel with a cause

Moutlakgola Ngwako's detractors like to regale friends with stories about how his wife went to take measurements of the State House windows to buy...
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Death by diamonds?

Only animals had not written off Lake Ngami, an inland lake in north-west Botswana famous for the birds that breed on its shores... For...
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