Botswana’s multi-billion-pula lucrative liquor industry will from Monday start trading again following the lifting of a ban on sale of liquor by President Mokgweetsi Masisi. Masisi announced during the national address Friday evening that alcohol sales will now be allowed on a take away basis. “The ban on the sale…
Botswana poultry farmers Association has indicated that the suspected pathogenic bird flu in Bokaa village in the Kgatleng district could regress industry gains. In a statement released on August 30, the ministry of agricultural development and food security said that the movement of live poultry and their products (fresh meat,…
As more vaccines arrive in the country, some Batswana have lost faith in the country’s vaccine rollout plans resorting to get their jabs in neighbouring South Africa. All this is done behind the Ministry of Health and Wellness’s back (MOHW) as they are not aware of these extremes Batswana are…
A robust debate is alleged to have taken place within the Botswana Football Association (BFA) National Executive Committee (NEC) as members finally took the association’s Emergency Committee (EC) to task over its disregard for the constitution. Concerned with what they felt was the BFA EC’s inclination to usurp power of…
The recent sacking of COSAFA/CAF referees’ instructor and match commissioner Sebaetseng Glenda Mokokwe from the just ended COSAFA women championship 2021 qualifiers is allegedly regarded as a staged witch hunt against the Botswana official. Mokokwe was taken off the officiating list in a decision COSAFA indicated was based on performance.…
The Department of Meteorological Services (DMS) has forecast normal to above normal rainfall in the coming 2021 – 2022 cropping season over most parts of the country. The rainfall season starts in a few weeks in October and will end in March 2022. According to the DMS, the first half…
If we are to imagine the quintessential modern Motswana man, we must firstly start with his sense of style. It is usually a man who carries himself in trimmed fashion, has a polished air to his walk and certainly a man who commands the attention of any room he enters.…
Tonota Sub-District Chairperson Chrisitian Machokoto is worried by the rise in human wildlife conflict cases in the area. Addressing a full council meeting, which was held virtually, last week he emphasized that the conflict is a result of incompatible land use emanating from competition between humans and wild animals. “The…
Scores on investors who were hoping to benefit from recent reforms aimed at facilitating the ease of doing business in the country have become the biggest losers as officials flip-flopped on amended investment and trade laws, a new report by Business Botswana has revealed. The report shows that government introduced…
The Law Society of Botswana (LSB) may have put itself in a difficult position by calling for the resignation of the Director of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Tiroyakgosi, from office. The Society now has to investigate the same Tiroyakgosi and possibly recommend punitive action whose net effect might…