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14 Mar 2016
As a deeply worrying sign of the times, family members of MPs have become fair game in the floor bickerings between political opponents. This past week, tempers got so frayed that moments after referring to her “beautiful” daughter, the Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Botlogile Tshireletso mentioned an opposition MP’s mother in negative terms.
10 Mar 2016
The script is written all over in electronic and print media. Both formal and informal conversations are pregnant with discussions across the political divide on what political parties are doing to woo voters and win their confidence ahead of the 2019 general election.
10 Mar 2016
A few days ago, the Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Philip Makgalemele confirmed to parliament that money which was intended for the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) was used to establish the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DISS).
03 Mar 2016
Botswana’s two biggest political parties, the BDP and UDC, are crafting manifestos to win the hearts of voters in the 2019 election. Like in most African countries, bread and butter issues and “politics of the stomach” will undoubtedly be key factors in determining the outcome of the polls.
29 Feb 2016
There is little joy in Phikwe nowadays. The mood is sombre and every random person you encounter wears a worried look that seems to sense things can only get worse before they get better. If they ever do. Long time natives, the ones who are now ancestors because they never left town say queues are shorter in supermarkets and punters spend less time and money in pubs.
29 Feb 2016
President Ian Khama would have a very good reason to be worried about Donald Trump becoming United States president because of what the latter has vowed to do.
25 Feb 2016
For a party that has never witnessed so many presidential candidates ahead of a general election since formation, the race overcrowding shows that as president, Ian Khama dismally failed to rule by consensus around the many appointments he was vested with as his prerogative to make, much to the chagrin of many party members.
25 Feb 2016
The MoU that was signed by UDC President Duma Boko and BCP President Dumelang Saleshando states that the two parties are desirous of building a stronger foundation as opposition parties in all future by elections.
22 Feb 2016
Officially Botswana has two houses of parliament: Ntlo ya Dikgosi, the lower house and the upper house which for some reason is just called “Parliament.” Unofficially and realistically though, there are three houses of parliament.
22 Feb 2016
Jumanda Gakelebone’s recollection is that at the age of eight, his male relatives started teaching him how to track wild animals. While his father and uncle also provided such instruction, it was the feet of his grandfather that he sat the longest, drinking from the old man’s deep well of traditional knowledge.
18 Feb 2016
During the 26th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union which was held in Ethiopia on January 31st, the Union adopted the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 2016-2025) as the framework for transformative education and training system in Africa. The strategy has so much relevance than ever to the development of Botswana.
18 Feb 2016
Some environmentalists argue that the best thing the world could do to effectively tackle climate change would be to elect more women into positions of leadership where decision are made. The proponents of this argument is women are better environmentalists than men and therefore having many of them as legislators would see more environment protecting laws being passed.
15 Feb 2016
There is a famous story within the legal fraternity of a wrestling match that unfolded between Mpaphi Phumaphi and a former Chief Justice during the opening of the legal year back in the day. Phumaphi, now a former High Court Judge, was by then a fiery young attorney who also led the Law society of Botswana (LSB) as Chairman.
15 Feb 2016
From what Councillor Jumanda Gakelebone says, there is no cast-iron guarantee that the rapprochement between the government and the First People of the Kalahari will hold eternally. Beginning late last year, the government began a process to restore essential services to people inside the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve whom it had denied such services for a decade.
12 Feb 2016
In his inauguration speech, Khama quoted Mogae’s last State of the Nation Address in which the former president had stated that he had not allowed political expediency and the pursuit of populism to cloud his judgment and service to the nation as the road to political expediency and populism could be lined with lined with cheering crowds.
12 Feb 2016
Botswana is eons behind in the development of a true research philosophy. Although the challenge of turning research into commercial products is an arduous and multiplex road with many drawbacks, this is nonetheless a worthy priority of the Botswana Government's innovation agenda.
08 Feb 2016
Courtesy of an in-store bush-telegraph, it soon becomes apparent that the loud pack clogging the check-out aisle and holding up a long queue at a Block 9 grocery store in Gaborone is a middle class family collecting monthly food rations for a “destitute” relative.
04 Feb 2016
Because of the vastness of the district, I would say the torch spent more days here than any other district in the country. Having spent close to a week or so in the Okavango sub district, another three days in Ngami and finally a week in Maun alone is indeed a long period of time. People in nearby settlements also benefited, as some were seeing it for the very first time in their lives.
28 Jan 2016
In their private conversations outside their parties’ formal structures, opposition political activists are already vying for a united single political formation that can easily pool its scarce resources financial and human resources to attain state power.