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Parliament was told yesterday that government spent P1.8 million to enable citizens living outside the country to vote in last month's general elections.
The chief executive officer of the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund (MVA), Cross Kgosidiile has said that last year, the number of people who died in road accidents went down compared to 2007.
People who commute on the Francistown-Mandunyane road may find themselves in the lurch as bus and combi drivers threaten to strike to protest the recent 'reduction' of fares by the Department of Road Transport and Safety (DRTS).
Residents of Borolong are worried by the mushrooming of churches that have turned the Shashe and Tlhalogang riverbanks into places of worship.
The Botswana National Front (BNF) has said its leadership forum (meeting) has been pushed to next year. The event was supposed to take place mid-this month.
Human health is constantly under threat which is why governments leave no stone unturned in search of ways to eradicate diseases that have for decades remained a challenge to humankind.
Troopers retained the national basketball title over the weekend after garnering an unassailable 30 to top the league standings ahead of Spartans and Police V.
BDF XI ensured that BMC remained rooted at the bottom of the be MOBILE Premier League table with a 3-2 victory in Lobatse on Sunday.
Boteti Young Fighters leaped from 14th to 12th spot in the be MOBILE Premier League standings after a 2-2 draw away to ECCO City Greens in Francistown on Sunday.
Mochudi Centre Chiefs' young goalkeeper Gontse Tlhowe put up a five-star performance to help his side to a 2-0 victory over bitter rivals Gaborone United (GU) in a be MOBILE Premier League game played before an electrifying atmosphere at UB Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Is it the world against Vusi and vise versa? Just when everybody was starting to hope that Vusi Mtokufa's problems would fade away, comes another conflict between him and his manager-producer Reuben Lekoeje.
This year's winner of the Five Roses-Thari ya Sechaba award is Shirley Madikwe, who founded and runs the Gamodubu Child Care Trust.
The decision by Gaborone United (GU) to suspend coach Mike Sithole ahead of the crucial league game against Mochudi Centre Chiefs on Sunday afternoon backfired.
World leading industrial solutions group, Atlas Copco, plans to expand its operations in Botswana, using its newly opened headquarters to penetrate the mining and construction industries.
The police have said they are still on the trail of smugglers suspected to have driven trucks loaded with high quality cigarettes into Botswana from Zimbabwe.
We understand that President Ian Khama has instructed the Minister of Local Government, Lebonaamang Mokalake, that he should ensure that Home Based Care volunteers and Ipelegeng workers in Kweneng District should be paid their dues on time.
Financial counters dominated activity on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) last week as investors continue to come back to the market.
The Group which concentrates on trophy properties in prime urban locations says it's had a watershed first year listed on AltX, outperforming market expectations despite the global financial crisis.
In the early 1980s, Zimbabwe's Magodonga Mahlangu witnessed the massacre of thousands in Matabeleland, including family members, and she decided it was intolerable that the people of Zimbabwe were forbidden to know the truth about what was happening in their country.
The City of Johannesburg is aware of an intention by certain parties to start prosecution action against it following a fire that gutted the Rissik Street Post Office building earlier this month.
Home Affairs Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, will on Wednesday address the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Executive Committee on the challenges faced by her department.
The National Compliance and Enforcement Report (NCER), which provides an overview of environmental compliance and enforcement activities in the country, is to be released on Wednesday.
UGANDANS intending to travel to Angola for the 2010 African Cup of Nations will not have to travel to Tanzania for visas following the opening of the Angolan embassy in Kampala.
There will be at least two locally-organised observer missions for these elections, in addition to expected observer teams from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), SADC Parliamentary Forum, African Union and the United Nations.
The Pan-African Parliament has selected Mr Ambrose Dery, Deputy Minority Leader of Ghana's Parliament, to lead its 36-member delegation to observe the Namibian Presidential and Parliamentary elections slated for November 27 and 29 2009.
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