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Inside the Beauty Reset Brunch 

In a beauty culture obsessed with the glass-skin illusion, the New Year’s Beauty Reset Brunch chose something radical: clarity, skills and intention. And the women showed up ready   GOSEGO MOTSUMI   …

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Botswana Goes Viral

Influence, Authenticity, and the Quiet Power of Being Real By Douglas Rasbash An Unscripted Digital…

 

 

Why the BPL Is Hard to Sell

This column examines how culture, brands, and markets intersect in Botswana’s economy. Each instalment explores why some of the country’s most familiar products and institutions struggle to translate relevance into real commercial…

Botswana’s Deal With The Arsonist-Firefighter

A critical examination of Botswana’s new health cooperation agreement with the United States, questioning whether urgently needed funding comes at the cost of data sovereignty and democratic oversight BRADLEY FORTUIN On 23…

Scent of a Tone-Deaf Brand

Mitchum’s recent deodorant mishap reveals how even global brands can stumble when they forget the human touch—and the local heartbeat. By PHENYO MOTLHAGODI Principal Consultant, Tennyson PR In September, Mitchum apologised in…

Can Cohabitation Create Inheritance Rights?

Understanding how Universal Partnerships may affect your estate BY BONOLO OMPHILE SELELO This is the first contribution to The Botswana Gazette by Bonolo Omphile Selelo, an attorney and founder of Botswana –…

From Grief to Action on Foreign Aid Cuts 

ANNEKE MEERKOTTER Over the past five months, important bilateral and international agencies such as USAID, PEPFAR, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNHCR, WFP, WHO and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have faced significant…

The Shifting Beauty Standards in Pageantry

Universal acceptance of diversity is a positive development because as an immensely influential platform, pageantry can now help many girls and young women realise that there is nothing wrong with the way…

Time to Take Action for An Economically Integrated Africa

Aissatou Diallo The need for an economically integrated Africa has never been more urgent. With the severe disruption of global value chains due to Covid-19 and related lockdown measures, there is no…

Well done Rakgare!

Creatives have applauded the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sports and Culture Development for extending monthly stipends to them as announced early this week but want further assessment done with their unions. GOSEGO…

Politics, Power And Sexual Misconduct

In the past decade we have seen people uniting to bring justice to victims of sexual abuse. Organizations like the #metoo movement and #esengmongwangeng movement rose to amplify the voices of the…

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