In-Depth

Neighbours from hell

Customary court presiding officers, government officers and the rest of Batswana may not agree on much, but their joint operating ethos too often boils...
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Will Batshu sink or swim?

Commissioner of Police, Edwin Batshu must deal with everything from the growing crime rate, to the growing pile of iddle police badges ÔÇô which...
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Botswana faces a BDF takeover

A few months ago Tlokweng police officers found themselves saddled with a very difficult case. Two villagers walked into the charge office and filed...
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Moupo weathers the storm

Mahommed Khan, the BNF Deputy Secretary General and an ardent Moupo loyalist could have been referring to Otsweletse Moupo when he said the more...
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Bottoms up!

A number of Botswana lecturers, medical doctors and researchers have joined forces to try and force Botswana to cut down on beer drinking. But...
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Mogae changes tact

IT'S DECEMBER 3, 2002, a pivotal moment in the Survival International campaign to malign Botswana diamonds as “conflict diamonds.” It's the first day of...
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De Beers, Debswana in cloak and dagger intrigues

Sheila Khama makes no secret that her diary has a lot of entries that say, “date with journalists.” Beaming at a spread of journalists...
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Sexual abuse lurks behind the Lobatse

The first thing that strikes you about Lobatse Mental Hospital is how difficult it is to see inside from outside. That is the point....
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Independence Day Message

Theme: National unity and Self Reliance - 30th September, 2006 I greet you all my Fellow Citizens.   Forty years ago, we took charge of our destiny...
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Botswana’s privatization on a tailspin

Botswana's privatization process will be lost and won in the privatization of Air Botswana which will pave the way for the privatization of other...
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