Botswana
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Kelebogile Marope sees the stories we leave
Kelebogile Marope, the 2026 FNB Art Prize winner, shares her disbelief and profound insights into her art practice. From Botswana, she discusses her work which excavates memory…
Conservation drive crosses borders
An EU-funded initiative has been launched in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, shared by South Africa and Botswana and one of southern Africa’s most important ecosystems
Freedom in South Africa is incomplete until all SADC nations achieve genuine democracy
If we are to honour our freedom, we must also stand in sympathy with our neighbours, whose struggles remind us that democracy is never guaranteed. Their pain must be felt as our…
The challenge of regional agricultural trade
Within the SACU region, there is supposed to be free movement of agricultural goods, with a few exceptions, including national security and when there are crop and animal diseases
Editorial: Tongaat Hulett must be saved
At a time when rampant unemployment — one of the country’s biggest crises and a national emergency — takes root, the looming jobs bloodbath will decimate not only the sugar…
Let the people decide who becomes President
For decades, South Africans have longed for a deeper expression of popular agency, not just through protests but by choosing the person who occupies the country’s highest office
To render mining valuable, time horizons must shift
The annual Mining Indaba in Cape Town this week again shines a spotlight on the importance of institutions and incentives if mining is to yield broad-based development across…
Two giants lead Africa’s mining agenda
Botswana and Ghana have become emblematic of policies and strategies designed to strengthen the mining industry by building national participation, diversifying away from…
Botswana nominates its finest jurist as judge of International Court of Justice
The Office of Botswana’s Ambassador to the United Nations recently announced that Botswana has nominated renowned jurist and scholar, Justice Oagile Bethuel Key Dingake, to run…
Botswana faces new HIV scare as shortage of medicines deepens
The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/Aids says the crisis is not an isolated supply-chain issue but a ‘systemic failure’ that demands urgent government intervention
Commonwealth says Botswana’s 2024 elections were broadly credible
The Commonwealth Expert Team however flagged flags gaps in the country’s electoral system, with a central concern being the state of voter education and registration
San people still ‘invisible, voiceless in their homeland’
The indigenous people in Botswana want recognition and be allowed to be self-reliant to restore their dignity
Tribute to Sir Ketumile Quett Joni Masire, a founder of Botswana, on his centennial birthday
Masire is an unassuming leader who deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest African pioneers of post-colonial history
Botswana can escape the hangman
The new president, a human rights lawyer, has the opportunity to abolish the death penalty
The African Union has a poor record of protecting democracy. 2024 was no different
Whenever its resolve to protect democracy has been tested, the continental body has fallen short