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Form 5 student at Ledumang Senior Secondary School sentenced to prison

An 18-year-old Form Five student at Ledumang Senior Secondary School this Friday pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting another student, stealing her money and...

NGOs try to force Zimbabwe on SADC agenda

Civil society organisations in Southern Africa say failure to tackle the Zimbabwe crisis was delaying key infrastructural and economic development projects in the...

Botswana youths top Africa in condomising

Botswana youths use condoms more regularly than any of their partners in Africa. This emerged at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto this week....

Asian CV frauds invade Botswana

Indian expatriates, with bogus degree certificates, are attending to patients at government hospitals and teaching students at the University of Botswana (UB) - an...

Mogae forced to stay out of a cabinet meeting!

President Festus Mogae was this week forced to recuse himself from a cabinet meeting that decided the appointment of the PEEPA (Public Enterprises Evaluation...

Mogae calls on BDP back benchers to order

With his government faced with an unprecedented barrage of attacks from within its own ranks that almost amount to internal revolt, President Festus Mogae...

Two vagrants flogged for illegal stay at dumpsite

Two men who are residents of Old Naledi in Gaborone this Friday left the Urban Customary Court in tears after they were sentenced to...

Stolen tablets worth P3.60 land nurse in court

A 22-year-old nurse, who used to work at Princes Marina Hospital, was this Friday arraigned before the Urban Customary Court Deputy President, Kgosi Kgosimotse...

Government considers privatization law

Government is considering the possibility of an over arching legislation on privatization ÔÇô Finance and Development Planning Minister, Baledzi Gaolathe, told Parliament this week. ...

BoB, DCEC ignored money laundering tip – offs

Bank of Botswana (BoB) and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) are believed to have slept on warnings that the Botswana investor...