Botswana will lose more than 95% of the P500 million spent in the construction of the controversial Fengyue Glass Manufacturing project in Palapye which is currently being auctioned.
Thursday, 18 August 2016
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18 Jul 2016
Fresh information has emerged showing discrepancies and conflicting details in the financial transaction relating to the multi-million Pula business deal between Botswana Railways and Transnet Engineering for the purchase of 37 new passenger coaches.
18 Jul 2016
In a curious turn of events, Botswana asked Chinese diplomats last week to call off a scheduled press conference to brief the media on the outcome of the disputed South China Sea case that was before the International Arbitration.
18 Jul 2016
Ending months of speculation, a senior partner has left a marquee law firm to set up his own and is communicating that to the world through a newspaper advert.
18 Jul 2016
As evidence that it has turned a Bushmen pressure group into an extension of the civil service, the government has not only hired the leader and chief campaigner of the First Peoples of the Kalahari (FPK) but has also co-opted two other members into the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve Consultative Community.
18 Jul 2016
On days that the Leader of the Opposition, Duma Boko, and other polyglots think that on its own English would be inadequate to describe the mental agility of the wise they simply say, “verbum sapienti satis est.” To an ear trained in Tsotsitaal, the only recognizable word is satis but the sentence has nothing to do with doing anything on a Saturday.
18 Jul 2016
The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) has launched an extensive investigating into the controversial Economic Stimulus Program (ESP) tenders.
This follows a number of complaints that the scheme, widely believed to be President Khama’s brain child is riddled with corruption.
18 Jul 2016
The beef value chain analysis action plan chooses not to mention names only revealing figures that in one respect, illustrate Botswana’s rich-poor divide in mindboggling detail.
18 Jul 2016
A Chinese company with deep roots in Botswana has won a lucrative multi-million pula contract for a mega construction project, easily outbidding six local and five foreign competitors.
18 Jul 2016
At various times in its history, Botswana has had more cattle than people, thus it come as something of a surprise that experts are advising the country to import beef. All this doesn’t make sense until the experts give their reasons.
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