Botswana Football Association leadership has been advised to make meaningful contributions in football and to also make plans ahead of time.
This was said by Debswana Managing Director, Balisi Bonyongo when officially opening the BFA General assembly.
Bulgarian former chess champion and Grandmaster Marian Petrov arrived in Botswana this week on a mission to impart chess skills on the country’s chess stars.
According to the Botswana Chess Federation (BCF), part of Petrov’s mission in the country will be to train and make assessment of both junior and senior players.
Botswana Cycling Association (BCA) had their hands full this past weekend as they held an elective Annual General Meeting (AGM) while also conducting the 2016 Mountain Bike National Championships on Saturday and Sunday respectively.
The AGM was held at the National Stadium warm up area where Mmetla Masire retained the position president, a job he will have for the next 3 years.
A 2015 policy paper compiled by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) identifies several obstacles to the integration of media support into international electoral assistance programmes.
It was the legendary American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow who made that poignant observation. Ed Murrow, as he was affectionately called, observed that as a nation, we are responsible for what becomes of our leaders. There are several interpretations to Ed Murrow’s statement and they all come to the conclusion governments are shaped by their nations.
There is no question that unemployment has become an exceedingly sensitive public debate.
We are living in a confused world. For this country in particular, the way things unfold lately best captures how hopelessness and despair has become the new buzzwords in both private and public affairs. Madness is the appropriate word to describe the new Botswana and beyond. Certainly, I will not concern myself with crazy developments emerging beyond our borders.
The 7 231 residents of Block 5 in Gaborone, which is electorally designated as Tlogatloga Ward, will have to figure out a way to make do with the P4 125 that has been allocated to them for the Independence Day celebrations.
To some within a certain time horizon and with special interest in local electoral politics, the apprehension over the introduction of electronic voting machines will come across as non-nostalgic throwback to a time when the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) was supposed to be rigging elections with the help of fermented urine.
Basarwa spokesperson and councillor for New Xade Jumanda Gakelebone has corroborated reports by Survival International that his tribesmen were recently stripped naked, assaulted and shot at from a police helicopter in Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).
