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Crackdown in Botswana reserve ‘not about Bushmen’
Botswana police say they are targeting poachers, not Bushmen, amid claims of intimidation from a Basarwa settlement in the Kgalagadi Game Reserve.
Bad Khama in Botswana’s ruling party
Botswana President Ian Khama has publicly acknowledged for the first time that his ruling Botswana Democratic Party is at war with itself.
Breakaway party to challenge Botswana’s status quo
Four MPs have broken away from Botswana’s ruling party to launch the Botswana Movement for Democracy which could radically change political landscape.
Sexy and stigma-free
Ten beauty contestants dressed in evening gowns and traditional dresses took to the catwalk to celebrate living positively with HIV in Botswana.
Hold your tongue or else
If you don’t have something nice to say about the president of Botswana, it’s best not to say anything at all, reports <i>Sello Motseta</i>
Alarm raised on ‘state-sponsored’ killings in Botswana
The Law Society of Botswana is calling on President Ian Khama to give his assurance that he does not support torture or extra-judicial killings.
Botswana’s new media law ‘repressive’
Botswana says reporters have nothing to fear from a new media law, but a journalism advocate calls it repressive and the official defence misleading.
Botswana journalists cry foul over media Bill
Journalists in Botswana are up in arms over the draft Media Practitioners Bill. Media bodies say the government seeks to impose itself on the media.
Mma R’s opera and couscous
Sello Motseta reports on the new opera house in Gaborone, a tribute to Alexander McCall Smith’s famous Mma Ramotswe.
Botswana confirms first case of XDR-TB
Health authorities on Wednesday reported the first known cases of virtually untreatable tuberculosis in Botswana. The Health Ministry said there were two cases of so-called…
Botswana president tries to bargain with Bushmen
Botswana President Festus Mogae has met with a small number of Bushmen in an effort to persuade them not to return to their life of hunting and gathering in the Central Kalahari…
Botswana govt gets tough on Bushmen returning home
Botswana’s government on Thursday grudgingly accepted a High Court order to allow the country’s last hunter-gatherers to live in their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari…
Botswana opposition slam Bushmen eviction
About 150 members of the main opposition Botswana National Front held a protest march on Saturday against government moves to relocate Bushmen from their land in the Central…
Court to rule on Bushmen case on December 13
A three-judge panel said on Friday it would rule on December 13 on a plea by the Basarwa, also known as Bushmen, to stay on ancestral homelands that also harbour vast mineral and…
Police admit using rubber bullets against Bushmen
Botswana’s police commissioner said on Tuesday that officers had fired rubber bullets to disperse a group of about 35 Bushmen protesting their eviction from ancestral lands in…