Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Kitso Mokaila last week defended the decision of BCL management to sideline local contractors and award a multi million Pula tender for refurbishment of the mine smelter to controversial South African mechanical and electrical engineering firm, Kentz SA.
Friday, 09 December 2016
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20 Sep 2015
One Botswana judge has confessed to being indebted and loyal to President Lt Gen Ian Khama while another has confessed to being prone to influence by mob psychology “which often results in poor decision making.”
This emerged in confidential letters addressed to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) this week as Botswana’s judicial crisis lurches through a comedy of errors.
08 Dec 2016
The ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is allegedly courting the Chairman of Ntlo ya Dikgosi and Batlokwa Kgosikgolo Puso Gaborone to join the race for the looming Tlokweng by election.
The constituency fell vacant following the death of opposition Botswana National Front (BNF) Member of Parliament, Same Bathobakae.
08 Dec 2016
Leader of Opposition Duma Boko fears that the ruling party will not readily hand over power after losing elections in 2019.
08 Dec 2016
The president of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), Dumelang Saleshando, says trade unions must act decisively and take additional steps to prevent multinational corporations from defrauding Botswana by paying them slave wages.
08 Dec 2016
Selibe Phikwe West Member of Parliament Dithapelo Keorapetse has observed that the State of the Nation Address (SONA) offers no hope for the unemployed former BCL Workers and the community of Selebi Phikwe.
Keorapetse observed that President Ian Khama should have acknowledged in his SONA that liquidating BCL was a mistake adding that the impact on the people and the economy is huge.
08 Dec 2016
Botswana Democratic Party Women’s Wing led by Dorcas Makgato wants the government to align the age of defilement of 16 years in the penal code with the definition of a child in the children’s Act.
The Act recognises anybody up to 18 years as a child
08 Dec 2016
Botswana Harvard Aids Institute Partnership (BHP) has officially launched the Antibody Mediated Prevention (AMP) Study which aims to assess the effectiveness of antibodies in reducing the acquisition of HIV among high-risk female populations. The study will give people antibodies that fight HIV in order to assess how well they will protect them from HIV infection.
08 Dec 2016
Doubt hangs over the government’s latest move to subdivide concession areas in most of the tourist areas to give Batswana a stake in the industry which is mostly foreign dominated.
Though pundits are of the view that it is possible to subdivide concession areas they are of the opinion that the move will not take place in prime tourism areas owned by rich individuals.
08 Dec 2016
Suspended High Court Judge, Key Dingake, says there is need for the Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) and the government to work together in order to advance the welfare of employees.
08 Dec 2016
Another Government official has been arrested after issuing a fraudulent driver’s license to prime suspect Bhekizwe Nkomazana who allegedly robbed Gaborone businessman Solomon Tlhapane of P3, 9 million after his death.
08 Dec 2016
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Support services) Tapudzani Gabolekwe says he finds no problem in supporting the use of corporal punishment, considering the many reported cases of wayward behavior amongst the youth.
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