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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

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

The new president-elect of Botswana is human rights lawyer Duma Boko.  (Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images For 2nd CGDC Annual Meeting 2012)

Six decades of liberation party rule in Botswana end in shock

The Botswana Democratic Party suffered a humiliating defeat in last week’s parliamentary elections

Constraints: A health worker gives a man a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in Francistown, Botswana, in March 2021. Photo: Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP/Getty Images

Botswana: ‘Masisi is mismanaging Covid-19’

Six months into Botswana’s vaccine roll-out, only 5% of the population has been vaccinated

Road work team, 1976 (Judy Seidman)

Towards reclaiming our culture of the liberation struggle

Judy Seidman responds to Athi Mongelezi Joja’s expanded assessment of her ‘Drawn Lines’ exhibition

Choppies, which began as a general dealer called Wayside Supermarket in Botswana, has grown into a major retailer in seven other Southern Africa countries, including in Zeerust,
South Africa. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Rise and stall of Southern Africa’s remarkable supermarket chain

Choppies began life as a struggling general dealer in Botswana and now consists of about 250 stores in eight countries

President Mokgweetsi Masisi (pictured) is squaring off against an ex-foreign minister, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, who is backed by Masisi’s predecessor and rival, Ian Khama. (Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP)

Botswana’s governing party braces for high-stakes congress

For the first time in the history of one of Africa’s most stable democracies, the ruling BDP will see a genuine fight for the top job

“I have my days where I just rock a skirt or dress to school

Botswana’s queer creatives push for change

‘The thing is, most people here grow up believing that a man should be with a woman and a woman only; that there is no other way of existing’

Bargains galore: A customer at a jewellery store in Xijiao market

Pearls of wisdom hide ugly truths

A study of pink plastic pearls shows that Africa will have to make big sacrifices if its children are to be employed

Across the globe at present we are in a world structured by self-devouring growth. (Photo: Philip Mostert)

Botswana’s policy will spur economic growth, says central bank

Botswana’s central bank will continue to try to boost economic growth by keeping its repo rate at 7.5%.

Back to work or no talks, Botswana tells strikers

The Botswana government is refusing to negotiate with striking civil servants who want a 16% pay hike until they return to their jobs.

Public service strike exposes chinks in Botswana’s armour

Almost 100 000 public servants have been on strike in Botswana since Monday last week, in an unprecedented display of popular militancy.

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.

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 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…

Business as usual, says new Botswana president

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…