Competition Authority’s post–merger impact assessment
The Authority has been assessing mergers and acquisitions; and making determinations pertaining to mergers and acquisitions since November 2011. The merger assessment provisions are contained under...
View ArticleBDP biggest loser in Bulela Ditswe ruling
Contestants for Bulela Ditswe – primaries for Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) – have intensified campaigns following a decision by the party central committee on Monday that elections will be held in...
View ArticleMasisi responds to SONA
This is part of the response the Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi made to the State of the Nation Address. LEADER OF THE HOUSE (MR MASISI): Madam Speaker, I want to thank you for this opportunity this...
View ArticleButale’s date with the bike
The MP for Tati West Biggie Butale will on December 16 embark on a cycling expedition from Masunga through to Gaborone. He is expected to complete the journey on December 20. Through the race Butale...
View ArticleResidents warned against visiting Zim
Residents of the North East have been warned against visiting the neighbouring Zimbabwe until its political and economic transition is complete. North East District Council (NEDC) chairperson Flora...
View ArticleNever fight each other – unions urged
For the sake of employees, the fragmented labour movement in the country should never fight each other, the resident representative of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s Botswana chapter, Ulrich Golaszinski...
View ArticleP15 m for ‘Orapa Today Boteti Tomorrow’ projects
Efforts to diversify the economy of Orapa, a dream envisaged by former Orapa Letlhakane Damtshaa Mines (OLDM) General Manager – the late Adrian Gale – is now taking shape. Dr Gale came up with the...
View ArticleUDC accuses BDP of fueling tribalism
The opposition has accused the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) of fueling tribalism in the Boteti region where it dominates. For years now, sources within the opposition politics in the Boteti...
View ArticleMilking the Khama name dry
Contrary to the much hyped cliché that "there is still no alternative" peddled by Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) activists to lure voters and destroy opponents around elections period, political...
View ArticleDIS deal behind Seretse’s arrest?
Eye popping details of multi-million Pula transactions that caught the attention of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA), leading to the...
View ArticleBPOPF terminates CMB, assess Kgori Capital
When the board of trustees of Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOPF) convenes on Tuesday there will be two agenda items about asset managers on the table to deliberate on: 1. Termination of...
View ArticleBDP demands prosecution of money launderers
The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has condemned the alleged looting of government coffers at National Petroleum Fund and alleged money laundering. Recently Kgori Capital Managing Director Bakang...
View ArticleCouncillors demand answers from Thutlwe
Gaborone City Council Mayor Kagiso Thutwe survived a motion of no confidence from the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) councillors by a whisker after...
View ArticleGlobal Fund slashes Govt funding
Government’s failure to show full commitment to exhausting allocated grant from the Global Fund has resulted with a 50 per cent slash of the next allocation covering the period 2019 to 2021, informed...
View ArticleUDC unfit to govern – scholar
University of Botswana (UB) lecturer, Professor Agreement Lathi Jotia, has dismissed opposition political parties as unfit to govern. Presenting a theme paper at the just-ended Botswana Public...
View ArticleKhama's salary increases illegal – CoA
Government and Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) have shared spoils with Botswana Federation of Public Sector Trade Unions (BOFEPUSU) in a protracted legal battle over the scope of the Public...
View ArticleIndiscriminate waste kills NE’s tourism potential
Indiscriminate disposal of waste and open defecation taking place in most villages in the North East posed threats to the environment thereby blighting tourism prospects on the district. North East...
View ArticleBack off! – Balete declare
In an effort to get its hands and assume ownership of Farm forest Hill 9 KO whose ownership currently rest with Gamalete Development Trust, Malete Land Board has slapped the Registrar of Deeds, The...
View ArticleKhama hails Masisi’s intelligence, loyalty
As the official Botswana’s leadership transition process got underway, outgoing President Ian Khama needed many nice superlatives and poetic pronouncements on intellectual prowess to usher in his...
View ArticleKanaimba-Senai bids farewell to Debswana
Veteran Communications and Public Relations practitioner Esther Kanaimba-Senai has retired from Debswana Diamond Company after 10 years of service. Speaking during her farewell party on Tuesday,...
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