Junior explorer to start production at Botswana mine

Junior explorer to start production at Botswana mine
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly - Garden View,South Africa
Base-metals exploration company African Copper on Friday said its Mowana mine, in Botswana, would start production in the second quarter of this year, ...

Big day out for Swaziland and Botswana

Big day out for Swaziland and Botswana
IRB - Dublin,Ireland
Swaziland play Botswana in Gabarone at the weekend, the prize a place in Pool 4 of this year's Africa Cup alongside Uganda and Madagascar, and a priceless ...

Botswana commits to EPA

Botswana commits to EPA
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
He said the outcome of trade terms was a great success as Botswana and other SADC states now had duty free and quota free access to all production, ...

Botswana scoops awards at Indaba

Botswana scoops awards at Indaba
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
The Chief Executive Officer of Botswana Tourism Board, Ms Myra Sekgororoane said: This is a great honour and privilege and highlights that Botswana has ...

Botswana April inflation quickens to 11.1%

Botswana April inflation quickens to 11.1%
Financial Express - Bombay,India
Johannesburg, May 16: Botswana's consumer price inflation rate quickened to 11.1 percent year-on-year in April from 9.8 percent in March, ...

Alfred and Emily, by Doris Lessing Twenty Chickens for a Saddle ...

Alfred and Emily, by Doris Lessing Twenty Chickens for a Saddle ...
Independent - London,England,UK
By contrast with Lessing's book, it is not about colonial, but post-colonial Africa – in this case, Botswana, which borders Zimbabwe. ...

Botswana women not a bad team - Mphukuthi

Botswana women not a bad team - Mphukuthi
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
Botswana Football Association (BFA) development officer Tshepo Mphukuthi says the senior women football team can match any Southern African team in terms of ...

China Touchroad Group wants Africa industrial parks

China Touchroad Group wants Africa industrial parks
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
He said construction on the industrial park -- estimated to be worth a total $200 million -- situated on a 5 square kilometre site in Botswana's capital, ...

Zambia: Flood Victims Get More Donations

Zambia: Flood Victims Get More Donations
AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
He was speaking in Lusaka yesterday when he received donations from India, Botswana, US and Tazama Pipelines Limited. The donations were made at the ...

South Africa: Country's Own 'Branson' is Painting the Continent Blue

South Africa: Country's Own 'Branson' is Painting the Continent Blue
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
And today Blue Financial Services will be dual listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange, earning yet another first for Van Niekerk. Botswana was the first ...

BOTSWANA DIAMOND DISCOVERER, DR GAVIN THOMAS LAMONT, PASSES AWAY

BOTSWANA DIAMOND DISCOVERER, DR GAVIN THOMAS LAMONT, PASSES AWAY
Tacy - Ramat Gan,Israel
Dr Gavin 'Doc’ Lamont, the geologist who led the decade long search for the diamond mines of Botswana , died last month. His leadership, tenacity and deep ...

Botswana to Boost Cuban Collaboration

Botswana to Boost Cuban Collaboration

Gaborone, May 15 (Prensa Latina) The Minister of Education and Professional Development in Botswana, Jacob Nkate revealed Thursday that his government expects to obtain more collaboration from Cuba.

Nkate emphasized that more perspectives of collaboration have been opened between the two countries after the visit of President Seretse Khama Ian Khama to the island.

The also general secretary of the Botswana Democratic Party (government) referred possibilities of increasing the number of students from his country to the Caribbean nation, among other objectives.

The leader was interested in having young fellow citizens being trained in higher-education in the Antilles nation, especially in health technologies.

According to Cuban ambassador here Jorge Luis Lopez, all those preoccupations will find a respond at the Tenth Session of the Intergovernmental Mixed Commission that will be held in this capital.

Lopez also gave Botswana's minister an invitation from the Cuban Communist Party to join a working visit to the Caribbean nation.

HIV/AIDS challenge is huge, long-term and worsening

HIV/AIDS challenge is huge, long-term and worsening
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
The prevalence of HIV/AIDS exceeds 15 per cent in at least eight countries — Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, ...

Botswana may play home fixtures away

Botswana may play home fixtures away
BBC Sport - UK
By Tshepho Bogosing Botswana may be forced to play some of their joint 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in neighbouring South Africa. ...

South Africa: Nelson Mandela Children's Fund to Honour Madiba

South Africa: Nelson Mandela Children's Fund to Honour Madiba
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The national series will start in Lesotho on 8 June 2008 and ends in Botswana on 22 June 2008, whilst the regional leg including SADC region countries will ...

Botswana's Inflation Accelerates to 21-Month High (Update1)

Botswana's Inflation Accelerates to 21-Month High (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
By Antony Sguazzin May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Botswana's inflation rate climbed to 11.1 percent in April, the highest in almost two years on higher transport ...

SADC advised to market itself despite package

SADC advised to market itself despite package
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
DURBAN:South African Tourism has advised SADC countries, including Botswana, to do their own marketing despite the fact that tourism is now marketed as a ...

Reserve open to tourists while Bushmen walk 400km for water

Reserve open to tourists while Bushmen walk 400km for water
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
Botswana's government is this week promoting the Central Kalahari Game Reserve as a top tourist destination, but it has banned the reserve's Bushmen from ...

Good news as Eskom suspends load shedding

Good news as Eskom suspends load shedding
Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
The South African power utility, Eskom, last week made the Botswana business community happy when it announced that it was suspending its periodic load ...

Attract foreign direct investment Swartz

Attract foreign direct investment Swartz
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
GHANZI - The increasing number of mobile phone operators in Botswana gives an assurance that governments initiative to liberalise and therefore develop the ...

Botswana and Zimbabwe: A Tale of Two Countries

Botswana and Zimbabwe: A Tale of Two Countries
AMERICAN.COM - Washington,DC,USA
“We used to look at Botswana as our poor cousin, but now we do all of our shopping there,” said David Coltart, an opposition member of the Zimbabwean ...

Two Stabbed to Death

Two Stabbed to Death
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
In just a matter of days, two people were stabbed to death in different instances of bloodshed in the Phase IV area in Francistown. Thirty-three-year-old ...

Criminals Target Barclays Bank

Criminals Target Barclays Bank
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
More than P988 000 has been stolen from Barclays Bank in Kasane area through the use of different MasterCards and Visa cards. According to Police deputy ...

BDF Major Accused of Applying Military Type Confession ...

BDF Major Accused of Applying Military Type Confession ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The alleged torture at the hands of Major Keratwaemang Mike Solomon of the Botswana Defence Force left a struggling security guard and part-time gardener in ...

Changing Times - A World View!

Changing Times - A World View!
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Concerns about this are already noticeable in Botswana since only this morning I was listening to a debate on the radio about such issues and their impact ...

Botswana: Zebra's 6 Points Up

Botswana: Zebra's 6 Points Up
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Botswana senior national team, Zebras, may have six points credited into their account as the World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations kick start. ...

Where are our sons?

Where are our sons?
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
By Shaun Smillie That is what Joe Mamasela, a police informer, probably found in 1985 when he convinced 10 youths to cross the border into Botswana to join ...

Zimbabwe: Landlords Charging Tenants in Forex

Zimbabwe: Landlords Charging Tenants in Forex
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
MOST landlords in Bulawayo's western suburbs are charging their tenants in South African Rand and Botswana Pula, citing the depreciation of the local ...