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/ 14 October 2009
Botswana’s President Ian Khama faces criticism over his military-style leadership ahead of elections on Friday.
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/ 23 September 2009
De Beers is concerned about what it calls a ”distorted” and ”inaccurate” depiction of the diamond industry in Botswana, it said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 September 2009
The slump triggered by the fall of Lehman Brothers a year ago has turned Gracious Oageng’s career dreams to dust.
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/ 5 September 2009
The build-up to the Botswana election has been a peaceful one in a country that has won international recognition for upholding democratic values.
Botswana’s president has moved against a rival in his party, exposing an internal split with only months to go before elections.
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 has distanced itself from a decision to ignore the International Criminal Court order to extradite Sudan’s President Omar al-Bhashir.
Botswana’s new alcohol tax — introduced as a measure to promote health and safety — is driving locals to drink, writes Oarabile Mosikare.
Residents of Miga village near Mafikeng in North West have called off an election day protest against delays in electrifying their homes.
There’s nothing like a downpour to bring out the sunny side of Gaborone, writes Wame Molefhe.
The referee’s gone off for a smoke, the players are drunk again and the kit needs washing. It’s no joke
owning a football team…
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/ 24 February 2009
The world’s diamond giant is halting mining in Botswana for the next seven weeks as the global recession takes it toll on gem demand.
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/ 22 February 2009
One of the world’s largest game parks located in Botswana may soon host mining activities, officials said on Saturday.
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/ 23 January 2009
Botswana says reporters have nothing to fear from a new media law, but a journalism advocate calls it repressive and the official defence misleading.
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/ 16 December 2008
Botswana’s government on Tuesday denied accusations by Zimbabwe that it was backing a plot to overthrow President Robert Mugabe.
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/ 12 December 2008
The global economic crisis has started to affect Botswana’s output, and will hit the mineral sector hardest, Finance Minister Baledzi Gaolathe says.
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/ 12 December 2008
Patricia Maganu uses journalistic subterfuge to allay her fears for her son’s health.
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/ 26 October 2008
Zambians vote on Thursday to name a successor to the late president Levy Mwanawasa, in a contest between a retired diplomat and a populist.
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/ 20 October 2008
Botswana’s former president Festus Mogae won the -million Mo Ibrahim Prize for African leadership on Monday.
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/ 16 October 2008
Prospective husbands who can’t afford the dowry are paying for their brides in instalments, writes Keletso Thobega.
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/ 25 September 2008
Oarabile Rops Mosikare attempts a 30km charity walk in Francistown, Botswana. But he struggles to
keep up with the elderly vice-president.
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/ 18 September 2008
More than 80% of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana, the world’s largest wildlife park, has been destroyed by fires.
The Botswana justice department has honoured an agreement not to sentence two South Africans to death, SABC news reported on Tuesday.
Botswana boycotted the SADC summit last weekend when President Seretse Khama Ian Khama did not take his place at the heads of government meeting.
According to African tradition women are emotionally weak — tears are not only okay, they are expected.
Botswana’s government will next month raise alcohol prices by 70% in a bid to curb alcoholism, the office of President Ian Khama said on Thursday.
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.
Sello Motseta reports on the new opera house in Gaborone, a tribute to Alexander McCall Smith’s famous Mma Ramotswe.
Botswana has criticised a weekend newspaper report that it was ”at the centre of war talk as the Zimbabwean crisis escalates”.
Canadian company CIC Energy has rubbished reports that it is to scrap a multibillion-dollar Southern African energy project in Botswana.
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.
The new president of Botswana pledged on Tuesday that there would be no radical change in policy as he took the oath of office at a ceremony in Gaborone. A former army chief whose father was the country’s first post-independence president, Seretse Khama Ian Khama promised to uphold democracy for which his country has been known since independence.