Botswana News

The African Executive, a libertarian website based in Kenya, pens an editorial : "The late Levy Mwanawasa [Zambian president who died on August 19] led the way in opening up discussion on governance issues on ...

IT was school dinner with a difference as pupils from Derby caught antelope for their breakfast.

' Francistown retailers, wholesalers and shopkeepers have welcomed the announcements that the Zimbabwean government has extended the waiver on import duty to December.

The director of extension services co-ordination in the Ministry of Agriculture, Edison Wotho, reportedly disclosed to a Kasane consultative meeting that government is negotiating with Zambezi riparian states ...

For the SADC Trade Protocol to yield the desired results competition policies must be effectively implemented by the 14-member states, a senior Botswana government official, has said.

HIV and AIDS activist Zolani Kraai of BONEPWA, says that chambermaids should have written contracts just like other workers to ensure job security.

The recent double increase in the bank rate by the Bank of Botswana is not expected to have a huge dent in First National Bank of Botswana's loan book, Chief Executive Danny Zandamela has said.

Two students of The Hill School spent part of their summer in Africa, volunteering at an orphanage and learning about AIDS in one of the world's most afflicted regions.

The challenges of HIV, AIDS and cancer in Africa may seem like a world away. But as one local nurse sees it, the people suffering there are still part of the same human race.

ZimTrade is calling on Zimbabwean exporters to participate at this year's Botswana Consumer Fair to consolidate deals clinched with foreign companies at other fairs.

The influx of Zimbabwean shoppers into Botswana is set to continue after the government there extended the waiver on import duty for basic commodities from August 10 to December 31.

The programme for Africa's renewal is not a beauty contest on the catwalks of Paris, London or New York; it's about the interest of the ordinary African man, woman and children in Dakar, Abuja, Tshwane, ...

The 28th summit of the Southern African Development Community concluded here Sunday with the launch of the Free Trade Area .

Botswana made good Friday on its threat to boycott the Southern African Development Community summit taking place on Saturday if Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is on hand, announcing that President Seretse ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called on the Zimbabwean government to lift restrictions on aid deliveries, to stop "a catastrophic humanitarian crisis". He said curbs on aid agencies imposed in June meant that less ...

In 1967, the year after Botswana gained its independence from Britain, a huge diamond mine was discovered in a remote area called Orapa, about 400km from the capital city of Gabarone.

Mutambara senior official Mr Gabriel Chaibva was on Friday deported from Botswana after being accused of being a Government sympathiser.

Controversial self-confessed Robert Mugabe mouthpiece, Caesar Zvayi, who has been hiding in Botswana, was on Friday afternoon sent back home.

Expectations are that more MPs, ministers and the Leader of the Opposition, Otsweletse Moupo, will get his chance to have his say on the Media Practitioner's Bill when Parliament resumes its sitting in the ...

HEADLINES author/source:Radio VOP "Accused me of being a government spy and their police accompanied me all the way from Gaborone to Plumtree" Bulawayo - Suspended MDC senior official Gabriel Chaibva was last ...