Following their successful bench marking trip to South Africa late last year, Batswana ostrich farmers are determined to start operation of their businesses despite hardships the industry is likely to face.
The advice by their hosts while there has motivated them.
The founder of Leadership Nurturing, Hannah Lecha, who is also a John Maxwell Certified Team member, is set to host the local version of the Global Youth Initiative, a world-changing youth movement that seeks to empower youth in communities around the world to thrive in life.
Last week Friday morning saw Botswana’s private sector kingpins deliberate for the first time on the subject of social protection, an engagement which had been made possible by the partnership between Business Botswana (BB) and International Labor Organisation (ILO).
The long awaited interchange junction or “Spaghetti” as it is commonly known has been finally opened for Francistown motorists to use.
The road which is the first of its kind in the country opened two days before the Easter holidays making it easy to drive around the city.
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) in its 2017 Botswana economic report titled Travel and Tourism Economic impact shows that the largest share of tourist spending in 2016 came from residents than from international tourists.
According to the report, Botswana generated P6 519.2 million from residents and from international tourists she made P6 220.0 million.
For the umpteenth time, Botswana has been ranked Africa’s best country in a global survey of mining companies.
If you have left linguistic fingerprints and publicised your thoughts all over your workplace, it is certainly not a good idea to have controversial writing published anonymously in the press.
Botswana Premier League (BPL) may soon find itself in an embarrassing situation as the local law enforcement officers wade through its murky waters to investigate an alleged ticket fraud scam.
This follows last week’s incident in which Township Rollers officials nabbed unknown individuals selling match tickets without the knowledge or authority of the team.
Following their failure to qualify for promotion to the World Cricket League Division 5 at the just ended ICC World Cricket League Africa Championships, the Botswana team is now focussed on the ICC World T20 Cup in 2018.
Botswana’s youth netball team will pin their hopes on Australia-based Sarona Hans when the country takes part in the upcoming Netball World Youth Cup (NWYC) in Gaborone on July 2017.
Since the beginning of March this year, Hans has been in fine form for the Wildcats.
The International Working Group on Women and Sports (IWG) in conjunction with Women and Sports Botswana (WASBO) have started a two-year mentorship programme.
Once again as a country we seem to be reverting towards a one-party state.
The hope of transfer of power from one political party to the other which so much engulfed this country in 2014 has slowly dissipating away.
The opposition coalition might yet still retain Tlokweng in a by-election scheduled to happen soon.
Poverty eradication was supposed to be President Ian Khama’s signature project.
From the early days of his presidency, Ian Khama came up with a host of initiatives all aimed at lifting the poor from poverty.
Now with less a year left before he leaves, office, it would be interesting for him to visit the projects he started to see if his legacy will outlast him.
Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-Pf is in as much a mess as Zimbabwe is – if we can separate one from the other, which we cannot do since Mugabe views the party as his own private club while his party takes the country as an extension of itself. We are owned!
Unfortunately, both are run by the same person who has caused deadly fracas in both the country and his ruling party.
May I just confess dear reader; the above title heading is not what I had penned for this week opinion piece. I had actually written about Tshetlha and his lack of consciousness. Titled “Tshetlha: The Gift and The Curse”.
Then I came across some opinion piece in one of the local news papers and thought perhaps it deserves a bit of response.
Regulatory failure has allowed the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DIS) Director General, Isaac Kgosi and his inner circle to divert millions of Pula to a slush fund that push their snout into the trough.
The case in which property and media moghul Sayed Jamali is suing the state for P30 million has branched off into a fresh controversy that threatens to open a can of worms as the businessmen demands access to the presiding judge’s phone records.
Jamali also wants Judge Gaopalelwe Ketlogetswe to recuse himself from the case, citing a conflict of interest.
As Botswana prepares to buy electronic voting machines from India, it has emerged that the same machines were apparently hacked ahead of an upcoming election in the EVM-exporting country.
A whistle blower who was fired from her job for uncovering corruption at Statistics Botswana may have been sold out by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC).
The one reason that former president Festus Mogae felt bold enough to publicly tongue-lash the current “regime” was because he thought himself to have been a better leader than President Ian Khama. Is it so or did the kettle delude itself by accusatively calling the pot black?