Letlhafula Was a Huge Success - Groth

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AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The Botswana Marketing Craft courtyard where this year's annual cultural event letlhafula took place was turned into a "village" on Saturday. ...

Vigil in the Courtroom

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AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
As the plaintiff and the respondents' attorneys made their submissions before Justice Moses Chinhengo in the wee hours of Saturday, it was apparent that the ...

Khama's Prison Gesture in Context

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AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
According to a report in yesterday's edition of the Monitor, President Ian Khama will release a number of prisoners serving minor sentences and reduce the ...

BDP Supporters Disrupt BNF Rally

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AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
About 40 Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) supporters invaded a Botswana National Front (BNF) rally held at the Shell freedom square, heckling the speakers ...

De Beers moves diamond sorting from London

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Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Philip Aldrick London is to lose an association with diamonds that stretches back 80 years as De Beers moves its central sorting operations to Botswana. ...

CIC Energy warns of further delays to Botswana power project

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Creamer Media's Mining Weekly - Garden View, South Africa
Toronto- and Botswana-listed CIC Energy declined 13,4% on Monday, after the company said that new negotiations with electricity offtakers for its Mmamabula ...

Death toll climbs in SA violence

Death toll climbs in SA violence
BBC News - UK
Aid agencies say large numbers of Zimbabweans have been leaving for Zambia, with others heading for Mozambique and Botswana. On Sunday, South African ...

Botswana: Business As Usual At the Border

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AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
The xenophobic attacks in South Africa reached Mmega village near Ramatlabama border post last Friday where a Botswana Railways train was attacked by a mob. ...

Botswana Central Bank Raises Key Rate by Half Point (Update1)

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Bloomberg - USA
By Nasreen Seria May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Botswana's central bank raised its benchmark lending rate by half a percentage point, the first adjustment in almost ...

INFLATION WATCH

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Mmegi - Gaborone, Botswana
Although high food prices in SA have not been fully passed on to Botswana, the impact is already felt, with the increase in imported tradeables inflation ...

BLUE LISTING WILL BOOST

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The Voice Online - Gaborone, Southern Africa, Botswana
Heunes told The Voice after the company listed on BSE last Friday that the Botswana listing has two-fold benefits for Batswana. First, Blue has wealth of ...

Young Indian Billionaire Courts Botswana

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Mmegi - Gaborone, Botswana
By Wanetsha Mosinyi India's youngest self-made billionaire, Jignesh Shah, was in Botswana last week on a fact finding mission to "revolutionalise the way ...

25000 Zimbabweans in South Africa heading for Zambia: Red Cross

Image by . SantiMB . (too busy) via Flickr25000 Zimbabweans in South Africa heading for Zambia: Red Cross
Africasia - London, United Kingdom
"At least 5500 Zimbabweans have had assistiance to Mozambique," she added, and 342 had been received in centres near the border with Botswana. ...

Area residents donate 1500 books for Botswana schools

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Addison County Independent - Middlebury, VT, USA
By MEGAN JAMES VERGENNES — After a week visiting friends in Addison County, Pam Shelton is headed back to Botswana, where she lives six months of the year, ...

Illegal taxi driver arrested in North West

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Independent Online - Cape Town, South Africa
... suspected the man had been colluding with officials at the Kopfontein border post while operating his taxi between Botswana and Rustenburg every day. ...

PAN AFRICAN COMMODITIES EXCHANGE LAUNCHED IN BOTSWANA

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Tacy - Ramat Gan, Israel
Mompati Merafhe, the Vice President of Botswana, has launched the Multi-Commodities Exchange (MCX) for Africa under the International Financial Services ...

Botswana: Patients' chair at Nata village

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Global Voices Online - Cambridge, MA, USA
by Ndesanjo Macha Nata village clinic has news chairs: “Before we show you the new chairs that arrived today at Nata Clinic we wanted you to see one of the ...

Bahamas Cricket Versus Botswana - ICC World League Match

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The Bahama Journal - Nassau, Bahamas
The Bahamian team will play Botswana today. They will face Afghanistan on Saturday May 24, Jersey on Monday May 26, and Singapore on Tuesday May 27. ...

Botswana Commodity Bourse to Boost Economy, President Says

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Bloomberg - USA
By Joseph Balise May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Botswana's new pan-African commodities and derivatives exchange will boost the development of the southern African ...

Botswana needs science teachers

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Gaborone, Botswana
Mrs Zuze said graduates from the University of Botswana were far from satisfying qualifications for the vacant posts. The hard-hit subjects are biology, ...

Botswana, Cuba good friends VP

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Gaborone, Botswana
He said the Cuban government will continue to support Botswana in all its needs, citing the new university as one area they could help with personnel. ...

Botswana must reinvent itself

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Gaborone, Botswana
Since the discovery of diamonds, Botswana has lived in a comfort zone, focusing more on wealth distribution rather than wealth creation, and the country ...

Botswana to attend climate convention

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Gaborone, Botswana
GABORONE - Botswana will participate in an international convention aimed at curtailing the impacts of climate changes caused by emissions from ...

Zimbabwe: RBZ Suspends Fungibility of Shares

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Washington, USA
The exchange rate would be calculated by dividing the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange price of the counters by the London Stock Exchange or Botswana Stock Exchange ...

Shooting predators in hi-def

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Malaysia Star - Malaysia
The high-definition documentary shot entirely on location in Botswana was produced in co-operation with Samsung Asia. It provides a valuable insight into ...

Protests disrupt traffic between SA and Botswana

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SABC News - Johannesburg,South Africa
Traffic between Botswana and South Africa was severely disrupted last night at Ramatlabama border post near Mafikeng in North West Province, when a group of ...