Botswana News

Hana Mining Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has completed the non-brokered private placement announced on June 26, 2009 for proceeds of $500,000. The private placement consisted of 2,000,000 units at a price of $0.25 per Unit.

Kolari Private Limited trading as Independent Management Consultants has announced that it has been selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards finalist in Networking Infrastructure Solutions.

Debswana has secured a P750 million loan facility from local financial institutions to help it sail through a cash drought brought about by the sharp decline in diamond sales.

Australia-based A-Cap Resources is hoping to commission its uranium project in Letlhakane in 2011 at a time when a growing number of countries accept the use of the silver-grey mineral for power generation and are downscaling their proliferation policies, propelling its price up.

Destined at one point to have been the capital city of Botswana, Lobatse has suffered so much government neglect that it is on the brink of bankruptcy and collapse.

The National Off-Road Racing series has reached the halfway mark with the Toyota Desert Race that took place near Gaborone in Botswana.

In yesterday's edition, Mmegi carried the story of our photographer based in our Francistown office, Moreri Sejakgomo.

Backed by good service delivery and a pedigree of being part of an international brand, Standard Chartered Bank Botswana was once the leading bank in the country.

The Botswana Daily News of Thursday June 18 ran a screaming headline that "the Gaborone City Council is corrupt". To most people, that was no revelation.

Lack of coordination between urban and rural land authorities hampers land management in Botswana, according to a Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis study that has been gathering dust on office shelves since it was released some years ago.

Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Security, Robert Molefhabangwe, has suggested that Selebi-Phikwe should be given special dispensation.

Shortage of Infant Formula milk still has been a problem in Francistown since last year, it was revealed at an AIDs workshop Tuesday.

The Tuesday Essay A novelist's notes on the sub-Saharan HIV/AIDS pandemic Allan Stratton lived through the agony of the AIDS epidemic in New York City; he knew it would be even worse in African countries, so he went to see for himself Allan Stratton Tuesday, Jun.

Francistown West MP, Tshelang Masisi, who is also a member of the Foreign Affairs Trade and Security parliamentary committee has congratulated BCL mine for recently paying out P29 million in taxes to the Botswana Unified Revenue Services.

Bank Gaborone is officially opening its newest branch in Botswana in Francistown today.

The University of Iowa Alumni Association will present Distinguished Alumni Awards to 12 notable alumni and friends of the University of Iowa at a luncheon to be held from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 13, in the UI's Levitt Center.

The All Whites have avoided picking up any major injuries during their nil-all draw with Botswana on a substandard pitch in Gaborone.

Debswana, the joint venture between De Beers and the Botswana government, reopened three of its four mines, including the Orapa Mine pictured here, in mid April following a 50-day hiatus in production.

Fears that accession to an economic partnership agreement in Southern Africa will destroy regional integration seem to be coming true after Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland ignored a key provision of the Southern African Customs Union when they initialled their trade deal with the European Union last week.

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Neo Moroka was yesterday expected to sign an interim trade pact with the European Union following Botswana's decision, alongside Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique to go that route without regional power South Africa, ending stalemated talks.