Botswana’s media is in crisis
/ 29 January 2020

Botswana’s media is in crisis

COMMENT We live in a divided political environment and amid radical economic disparities. But there is one thing on which virtually everyone in Botswana agrees: most of the news and information we are fed is biased.  There are constant complaints about bias, from readers and politicians alike. These complaints are not groundless. As director of […]

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/ 1 April 2008

Botswana marks peaceful transfer of power

Seretse Khama Ian Khama was inaugurated as Botswana’s President on Tuesday, inheriting a rare political and economic success story. Just next door, millions of Zimbabweans desperate to end economic misery anxiously awaited results of an election in which President Robert Mugabe faced the biggest challenge in 28 years of iron-fisted rule.