In-Depth

Thinking Inside and Outside of the Diamond Box

How long will the current crisis in the global diamond market last? That’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot over the last week. When will we,...
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Is Gaolathe stepping on Trump’s toes?

After inheriting an empty national purse, Vice President and Minister of Finance, Ndaba Gaolathe is scrounging around for every Thebe he can get to finance the...
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Accumulation of contradictions cost BDP state power

The dust from the Botswana’s 2024 general election has settled and the results of that election have gone into the annals of the country’s...
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The Trump surprise that Botswana queers should have seen coming

Botswana’s lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals and transgenders were last week caught napping by President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American support, but they should have...
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‘Why are you wearing a wig?’ Boko once asked a Speaker

As an idealistic first-term MP serving between 2014 and 2019, Duma Boko had a long wish list of what he wanted done differently. From...
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Boko reasserts controversial GBV statement he made in 2015

Some six years ago, then Leader of the Opposition, Duma Boko, challenged Botswana Democratic Party MPs “or anyone else for that matter” to contest...
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Economic refugees from BDP will destabilise UDC

You need money – lots of it, to run an effective campaign for elective political office. On the basis of personal experience from a decade...
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Unitrans makes last-minute surrender to union

As perhaps their final official engagement for 2024, Unitrans Botswana and the Botswana Transport and General Workers Union were to appear before the Gaborone...
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Former top cop wants apparent black-ops hit job investigated

The MP for Okavango West, Kenny Kapinga, wants the killing of 10 alleged armed robbers by security agents on February 22, 2022 to be investigated. “Alleged”...
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Police station Masisi officially ‘opened’ remained closed for two more months

Custodians of the law (in the Botswana Police Service management) knowingly helped former President Mokgweetsi Masisi seek to obtain votes by false pretences –...
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