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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…

Botswana govt restricts movement in reserve

Botswana’s government on Friday announced the temporary closure of southern and central parts of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, saying this is necessary to contain an…

SADC leaders urged to avert disaster in Zimbabwe

The 13-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) is facing mounting international pressure to act against Zimbabwe, where the destruction of townships and markets has…

HIV-positive women compete in beauty pageant

A dozen HIV-positive women donned flowing evening gowns and glittering jewellery in Gaborone, Botswana, on Saturday to compete in a beauty pageant aimed at fighting the stigma…