In-Depth

Smiles and frowns as diamonds come home

Driving in Botswana's murderous summer heat from the Sir Seretse Khama Airport near Gaborone to the city, one immediately passes an enormous construction project...
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Collapse of Nchindo’s ambitious project shakes Debswana

Nestling the State House and Cabinet ministers' residences is Botswana's caviar and champagne belt named Extension Five. It is whisperingly moneyed and epitomizes a...
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Crunch time for Blackie Marole!

The appointment of an all too important and long awaited position of Deputy Managing Director Technical at Debswana was supposed to elicit a lot...
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The many faces of Nico Czypionka

This is a true story. Nico Czypionka dozed off during an economic briefing and drifted into dreamland. He found himself in a conference room...
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A silent killer is on the loose

Last week, I joined a family at the bedside of a sick relative at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital. The mother, an elderly woman, was lost...
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Air Botswana and Separation of powers!

It was that renowned French philosopher Baron de Montesquieu, who, in 1748, coined the concept of separation of Powers. In his The Spirit...
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Breaking the hearts of permanent secretaries

The relationship between Auditor General Pelonomi Namogang and his former civil servant colleagues has grown irreversibly tempestuous. His former friends and close colleagues with whom...
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Park your SUV and cycle to the office

Boatametse Modukanele is under no illusion about the challenges of a project he is spearheading. He is project manager of the UNDP-backed non-motorized transport...
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Inside the Air Botswana privatisation conspiracy theories

Air Botswana needed someone to turn it around. Lance Brogden needed a challenge. On paper, it was a match made in heaven. The young...
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Tales of a murder accused!

THAMAGA: The sound of a condemned prisoner as his life is cut short sent shivers down the Polly Tsapoga?s spine. Each day, Tsapoga?s mind...
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