Stop! Venson-Moitoi!

Stop! Venson-Moitoi!

While the government of Botswana and indeed the world condemns undemocratic tendencies including limiting Freedom of Expression by the Robert Mugabe regime ...

Pinagare Great for Home Ownership

Pinagare Great for Home Ownership

The Botswana Building Society (BBS)'s recent launch of its housing loan product, otherwise known as Pinagare, is a major milestone in promoting home ...

Media Bill: A sustainable step towards the professionalisation of ...

Media Bill: A sustainable step towards the professionalisation of ...
Mmegi Online - Gaberones,Botswana
It will be a true professionalization of journalism in Botswana. The profession cannot continue to be populated by people who put the profession into ...

BTC Botswana to enhance operational and cost efficiencies with ...

BTC Botswana to enhance operational and cost efficiencies with ...

Subex Ltd, a leading global provider of Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), on July 17, 2008 announced that Botswana Telecommunications ...

China says it is committed to wildlife protection

China says it is committed to wildlife protection

China became the second country after Japan to be a licenced buyer of ivory auctioned by four southern African countries -- South Africa, Botswana, ...

Design Studio Honors USAID-Supported Botswana Furniture Maker

Design Studio Honors USAID-Supported Botswana Furniture Maker

For more information about USAID and its programs in Botswana, please visit www.usaid.gov. For more information about the Southern Africa Trade Hub, ...

Botswana plans to regulate herbal medicine

Botswana plans to regulate herbal medicine

Botswana is at an advanced stage to formulate a legislation, which will regulate traditional health practitioners. The move, according to an official from ...

Remember Tiananmen?

Remember Tiananmen?

The Ministry of Education has closed yet another institution. The Molepolole College of Education was declared out of bounds beginning Monday following a ...

UB Wins South African Debates

UB Wins South African Debates

The University of Botswana Debating Masters Association has made history by being the first Botswana debating team to win the South African championships. ...

BCP Palapye Elects 2009 Candidates

BCP Palapye Elects 2009 Candidates

Last Saturday Botswana Congress Party members in Palapye went to the polls to elect the men and women who will represent the party in the 2009 general ...

Prioritise agriculture - Debswana

Prioritise agriculture - Debswana

Challenges such as how farmers produce more in a semi-arid country like Botswana can be turned into opportunities, Kanaimba noted. "We know and acknowledge ...

Japanese preach 'cooperation'

Japanese preach 'cooperation'

The Embassy of Japan was officially opened on Monday evening and the Ambassador Ryoichi Matsuyama restated his government's commitment to help Botswana and ...

United Nations Permits Ivory Sale, Designates China as Buyer

United Nations Permits Ivory Sale, Designates China as Buyer

South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana may market 108 metric tons from their stockpiles, Geneva-based Cites said on its Web site today. ...

Level the playing field, says Botswana's minister of trade and ...

Level the playing field, says Botswana's minister of trade and ...

By Cheryl S. Ntumy (AXcess News) Washington - Agricultural subsidies provided to farmers in developed countries create an unfair advantage, Botswana's ...

Firestone Diamonds raises £5m to fund Botswana development work

Firestone Diamonds raises £5m to fund Botswana development work

The new cash will be used to accelerate evaluation work at the company's BK11, BK16 and Tsabong projects in Botswana. The move saw Firestone place 5882353 ...

FIRESTONE DIAMONDS RAISES US$10 MILLION FOR BOTSWANA PROJECTS

FIRESTONE DIAMONDS RAISES US$10 MILLION FOR BOTSWANA PROJECTS

The Tsabong kimberlite field is located in south western Botswana , approximately 280 kilometers south west of the Jwaneng mine, and contains 85 known ...

Redknee Solutions wins multi-million dollar Botswana telecoms contract

Redknee Solutions wins multi-million dollar Botswana telecoms contract

Interactive Investor Trading Limited, trading as "Interactive Investor", is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. ...

Redknee Solutions wins multi-million dollar Botswana telecoms contract

Redknee Solutions wins multi-million dollar Botswana telecoms contract

Interactive Investor Trading Limited, trading as "Interactive Investor", is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. ...

Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Signs Multi-Million Dollar ...

Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Signs Multi-Million Dollar ...

Botswana is experiencing tremendous growth in both the wireless and Internet arenas. According to the Botswana Telecommunications Authority, ...

UN body lets China import African ivory

UN body lets China import African ivory

Last year, CITES authorized Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe to make a second sale of 108 tons of government stocks. ...

SIM card registration to aid crime fighting in Botswana

Image via WikipediaSIM card registration to aid crime fighting in Botswana

In order to more easily track those who use their mobile phones to commit crimes, the Botswana ...

Why Botswana shines in Africa

Why Botswana shines in Africa

Seretse Khama built Botswana’s foundation by not engaging in the politics of tribalism and division. July 16, 2008: This was the thinking of the World Bank, ...

Botswana's Inflation Rate Jumps to 3 1/2-Year High (Update1)

Botswana's Inflation Rate Jumps to 3 1/2-Year High (Update1)

By Nasreen Seria July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Botswana's inflation accelerated to an annual 14.5 percent in June, the fastest pace in at least 3 1/2 years, ...

Congratulations to Draaihoek / Makopong residents

Congratulations to Draaihoek / Makopong residents

I would like to take this golden opportunity to congratulate the residents of Draaihoek/Makopong ward for voting Botswana National Front contender Comrade ...

Moroka Open To SA In SADC-EPA Deal

Moroka Open To SA In SADC-EPA Deal

Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland signed the interim EPA with the European Commission at the end of 2007 to allow smooth flow of trade, ...

Community Centres Must Be for Youth Development - Not ...

Community Centres Must Be for Youth Development - Not ...

What the nation of Botswana must appreciate is that the capitalist path of development has only helped to advance the entertainment interests of the upper ...

Ex-BCP Councillor's Dual Membership

Ex-BCP Councillor's Dual Membership

A former Botswana Congress Party (BCP) councillor who recently registered to contest the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) primary elections in Motlhabaneng ...

Chairman says UB poised to re-position Botswana

Chairman says UB poised to re-position Botswana

Mr Dada with Minister of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, Mr Kitso Mokaila at the University of Botswana Foundation annual fundraising dinner dance on ...

Whither Mr Botswana pageant

Whither Mr Botswana pageant

License holder for Mr Botswana Jeff Malaba says no pageant has been held yet as they have not found a reliable and better offer ...

UB Pursues Global Excellence

UB Pursues Global Excellence

The chairman of the University of Botswana (UB) Foundation, Satar Dada, says after 25 years of existence, UB is well poised to ...

Botswana, UK Want Fruits Of EPAs

Botswana, UK Want Fruits Of EPAs

Botswana and Britain wish to see the successful conclusion of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently being negotiated between ...

Botswana cheer for Discovery Metals

Botswana cheer for Discovery Metals

Discovery Metals says it has extended its Plutus copper project in Botswana by 1000 metres and found high grades. Brisbane-based Discovery, set up five ...

Botswana Officials Meet To Discuss HIV Prevention Plan

Botswana Officials Meet To Discuss HIV Prevention Plan

Delegates from the northern part of Botswana met last week to discuss ways to implement an HIV prevention plan created by the National AIDS Coordinating ...

Zimbabwe political crisis to weight heavily on Botswana’s budget ...

Zimbabwe political crisis to weight heavily on Botswana’s budget ...

The Zimbabwe political crisis is expected to over-stretch Botswana’s budget as the country is positioning itself to receive thousands of political refugees ...

Tebogo is Botswana Pop Star

Tebogo is Botswana Pop Star

Tebogo receiving his P15 000 first prize from Pop Star Botswana organiser, Master Dee (dread lock) at the grand finale in Gaborone on Friday. ...

Botswana to benefit from SADC EPA

Botswana to benefit from SADC EPA

The British Under Secretary of Trade and Development, Mr Gareth Thomas says Botswana will benefit from the SADC Economic ...

Miracle in Botswana

Miracle in Botswana

This time around, Botswana's number one – and indeed only – detective, Mma Precious Ramotswe, finds herself investigating the heritage of a lady who was ...

SOLAR SOUND SUPPORT

SOLAR SOUND SUPPORT

When Howard Weinstein went to Botswana in 2001, his goal was to build a company that could produce affordable hearing aids for Africans. ...

Media 'should abide by laws'

Media 'should abide by laws'

Johannesburg - Journalists in Botswana are up in arms over a draft Media Practitioners Bill, which gives the government greater control over the media, ...

Botswana's Zim Diamonds

Botswana's Zim Diamonds

Settling in Botswana and the sadness of leaving family, friends and an ailing country, they carried extra pain: leaving rugby- a sport they grew up with ...

Bank Supports Botswana’s Efforts to Fight HIV/AIDS

Bank Supports Botswana’s Efforts to Fight HIV/AIDS

The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a loan of US$50 million over five years to the Government of Botswana to assist ...

Fear surrounds Botswana Sim-card registration

Fear surrounds Botswana Sim-card registration

afrol News, 11 July - Amid mounting fears of phone surveillance by state security agents, Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA) remains adamant with ...

Botswana police choose Sagem Securite's new-generation AFIS

Botswana police choose Sagem Securite's new-generation AFIS

Sagem Sécurité, part of the SAFRAN Group, announced today that it has been chosen by the Botswana Police Service (BPS), following an international call for ...

Botswana journalists cry foul over media Bill

Botswana journalists cry foul over media Bill

Journalists in Botswana are up in arms over the draft Media Practitioners Bill. Quietly published in the Government Gazette on June 27, the Bill would give ...

Botswana to start sim card registrations

Botswana to start sim card registrations

The Botswana Telecommunications Authority has announced that it will begin registration of all prepaid mobile phone sim cards on 15 September. ...

South Africans up for murder in Botswana

South Africans up for murder in Botswana

The trial of two South Africans and a Botswana citizen accused of murder and armed robbery is expected to resume in the Lobatse High Court in Botswana on ...

Children in Botswana and Swaziland Latest to Benefit from THRASS ...

Children in Botswana and Swaziland Latest to Benefit from THRASS ...

Now children in Botswana and Swaziland are to be the latest to benefit from this amazing programme. (PRWEB) July 11, 2008 -- The THRASS synthetic phonics ...

World Bank Supports Botswana’s Efforts to Fight HIV/AIDS

World Bank Supports Botswana’s Efforts to Fight HIV/AIDS

The World Bank Board of Directors on July 10 approved a loan of US$50 million over five years to the Government of Botswana to assist the ...

UK could add 11 countries to required visitor visa list

UK could add 11 countries to required visitor visa list

The 11 countries are: Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. ...

Botswana National HIV/AIDS Prevention Su...

Botswana National HIV/AIDS Prevention Su...

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Project aims to increase the coverage, efficiency, and sustainability of targeted and evidence-based HIV/AIDS interventions. ...

Food Shortage Worrisome - De Graaf

Food Shortage Worrisome - De Graaf

Launching a collaboration recipe competition by the Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board (BAMB) and Heart Foundation Botswna on Tuesday evening, ...

Mine Employees Cry Foul

Mine Employees Cry Foul

Some employees of the mining company Blasting and Excavating Botswana (B&E) are crying foul as they say management has reneged on their word. ...

Post Strikes Orange Deal

Post Strikes Orange Deal

Orange and Botswana Post have now ventured into this merger and saw it fit to enhance awareness through a promotion which entitles winners to great prizes ...

BoBA defends Swazi record

BoBA defends Swazi record

Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA) spokesperson Willough Kemoen says that despite the low turn out at the just ended Zone VI competition in Swaziland, ...

Capital Resources brings mining giants to Gaborone

Capital Resources brings mining giants to Gaborone

After hosting the first ever Botswana Economic Forum (BEF) last month, Capital Resources is bringing captains of the mining industry to Gaborone for the ...

Zimbabwe rebukes Botswana's stand on elections

Zimbabwe rebukes Botswana's stand on elections

Zimbabwe's Minister of Information and Publicity, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, says his country will not be moved by criticism from Botswana, saying President ...

The Botswana government is seeking to recruit about 150 science ...

The Botswana government is seeking to recruit about 150 science ...

Botswana is offering about $1000 a month for the teachers, among other benefits. According to an advertisement that appeared in The Citizen yesterday, ...

Delays in College Construction Irk Phikwe Cllrs

Delays in College Construction Irk Phikwe Cllrs

Councillors have called on the government to expedite the construction of a college of applied arts and technology whose work was supposed to start two ...

BCP Central Committee Position on Zimbabwe

BCP Central Committee Position on Zimbabwe

The Central Committee of the Botswana Congress Party convened on 5 July, discussed among other things, the political developments in Zimbabwe. ...

Fridge Firm Ordered to Pay Ex-Employee P11,730

Fridge Firm Ordered to Pay Ex-Employee P11,730

The Industrial Court has ordered Gaborone Refrigeration (GR) to pay P11,730 to Tapela Kelebetse as his severance benefit for the 129 months he worked for ...

Stop Excuses And Start Delivering

Stop Excuses And Start Delivering

It was with a twist of irony that the minister responsible for finance and development planning, Baledzi Gaolathe was confronted with the perennial problems ...

Response to 'BDP, BNF, BCP got it wrong'

Response to 'BDP, BNF, BCP got it wrong'

He mentions that after the March elections in Zimbabwe, he and his organization called on the Botswana government to use its influence and exert pressure on ...

Expert doubts Botswana economic growth Mmegi Online - Gaberones,Botswana Botswana's economic growth

Expert doubts Botswana economic growth

Botswana's economic growth does not seem to have been badly affected by the international slowdown but this may not last, an economist has said. ...

IPI Calls on Botswana’s Parliament to Reject the 2008 Media ...

IPI Calls on Botswana’s Parliament to Reject the 2008 Media ...

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, calls on Botswana’s ...

Impact buys remaining 15% stake in Botswana uranium project

Impact buys remaining 15% stake in Botswana uranium project

Australian explorer Impact Minerals has acquired the remaining 15% shareholding in its uranium prospecting licences in Botswana and now owned 100% of the ...

San Elderly Yearn for Botswana

San Elderly Yearn for Botswana

In his view, Namibia does not provide for the likes of him, unlike Botswana. “Survival in Namibia is very difficult. We live on the mercy of God,” laments ...

The Social Values Committee Lacks Credibility

The Social Values Committee Lacks Credibility

We wonder if the highest office in the country overlooked the fact that Botswana is a secular state? In fact, it is questionable whether the BCC is a proper ...

Hana Mining Appoints Country Advisor in Botswana

Hana Mining Appoints Country Advisor in Botswana

A successful businessman who has founded, directed and managed a number of major Botswana companies in the mining, manufacturing and agricultural sectors, ...

Hana Mining Appoints Country Advisor in Botswana

Hana Mining Appoints Country Advisor in Botswana

Hana Mining Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:HMG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kgosiemang Keith Molosiwa to the position of country advisor in Botswana. ...

Country, Zim Still Friends Indeed - Skelemani

Country, Zim Still Friends Indeed - Skelemani

Although government does not recognise Robert Mugabe as head of state, Botswana will continue to work closely with Zimbabwean authorities on issues ...

Speedy Logistics Chief Calls for Support

Speedy Logistics Chief Calls for Support

Lack of adequate infrastructure and trained manpower has continued to impede the growth of the logistics industry in Botswana. The problem is compounded by ...

Botswana retains crown

Botswana retains crown

The Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA) had sent a team of seven boxers to the regional competition. However, out of the 10 countries that make the Zone VI ...