The Sunday Standard newspaper Editor, Outsa Mokone, was on Friday morning granted bail by the Broadhurst Magistrate Court in a case in which he is accused of publishing a seditious story contrary to section 51 (1) (c) as read with section 50 (1) of the penal code (Cap 08:01) Laws of Botswana and the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act.
Thursday, 22 December 2016
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16 Dec 2016
Gaborone High Court Judge, Justice Zein Kebonang on Friday issued a warrant of arrest against the Commander of Botswana Defence Force (BDF) Major General Placid Segokgo after he was found to be in contempt of court for failure to comply with a judgment to reinstate two BDF officers who were dismissed from work.
15 Dec 2016
Fresh information has emerged to the effect that the director of legal services at the troubled Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Obolokile Sekga has been shown the door.
15 Dec 2016
The Minister of Infrastructure Science and Technology Nonofo Molefhi is reported to have approached President Ian Khama to inform him about his intention to contest for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP)’s Chairmanship.
15 Dec 2016
The ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP)’s failure to provide a list of those who were recently welcomed with fanfare at Tsholetsa House has raised more suspicion on the ruling party recruitment drive. The opposition has since defined it as a hoax.
15 Dec 2016
The tabling of the Freedom of Information Bill in parliament will not be done anytime soon as the government is still busy drafting another “important” law to be known as the Data Protection.
A junior minister at the Office of the President, Thato Kwerepe said Monday that both the Freedom of Information Bill and the Data Protection Bill are still being discussed.
15 Dec 2016
MAUN – Atleast 20 of the 22 squatter families at Maun’s Sedie ward have been evicted from their illegal structures by the Tawana Land Board (TLB) on Friday. Amongst those evicted were orphans, most of who claimed their parents had illegally occupied the land which they had stayed in since birth.
15 Dec 2016
MAUN - The Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism Tshekedi Khama has vowed to ‘get rid of’ non-performing staff within his ministry.
15 Dec 2016
A warrant of arrest has been issued against the son of Member of Parliament for Molepolole North, Mohammed Khan, for his non appearance in court where he is facing a charge of stealing two government vehicles worth over half a million Pula (P601 038.00).
15 Dec 2016
A debate erupted recently on facebook after someone had asked the question, “amongst all the four presidents this country has had, who do you think was the best and state your reasons? I don’t have a distinctively best picking as all of them belong to a wrecked scheme. To me modomkrag ke modomkrag. They are invariable. They only diverge in skin texture, elevation and otherwise.
11 Dec 2016
Government has been caught pants down trying to steal the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) from farmers and giving it to Israeli and Kuwait investors.
The BMC was created by an Act of Parliament as a farmers’ cooperative.
The Minister of Agriculture, Patrick Ralotsia, has however gone behind the back of farmers to negotiate with Israelis and Kuwaits to invest in BMC.
11 Dec 2016
Sunday Standard Editor Outsa Mokone faces possible imprisonment after the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) this week slapped him with a writ of summons to appear before a Gaborone Magistrate on Tuesday were he will be charged with sedition.
11 Dec 2016
A man who knows a little too much about the history of tendering in the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) wants the government to investigate tendering in the force going as far back as 1980.
11 Dec 2016
With the Selebi Phikwe Economic Bailout and Diversification Support Fund Bill that he plans to table, the Gaborone Bonnington South MP, Ndaba Gaolathe, says that he studied models that were successfully implemented around the world to revive comatose industries. One was the United States’ bailout of the motor industry in 2009 that was championed by the newly-elected President Barack Obama.
11 Dec 2016
Not that he ever has to explain his decisions but President Ian Khama would have been hard put to explain why he didn’t welcome an opposition MP in his 2015 state-of-the-nation address last year but did the opposite with the new MPs from his own party.
11 Dec 2016
Information passed to Sunday Standard show that the appointment of Lesedi Moakofhi as the Managing Director of Gaborone Container Terminal (Gabcon) is being questioned by no less an authority than the Chief Executive Officer of the parent company, the Botswana Railways
11 Dec 2016
Botswana Defence Force (BDP) Couple female lieutenant Thabang Tlhapisang and private Kozondu Urea who were kicked out of the army almost two years ago over their “love affair” are still out on the street despite a High Court order three weeks ago that they should be reinstated.
11 Dec 2016
In terms of Section 97 of the constitution, High Court judges must retire at 70 years and that provision has implications for the case of the four suspended judges. The latter are Justices Dr. Key Dingake, Modiri Letsididi, Mercy Garekwe and Rainer Busang.
11 Dec 2016
With just 35 ill-chosen words, President Ian Khama may have sunk Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi’s bid to become the next chairmanship of the African Union Commission.
11 Dec 2016
The move by government to steal Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) from farmers is not an isolated incident, but just part of a grand scheme to hijack community assets, Sunday Standard can reveal.
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