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Han C Returns with Mahalapye Spring Fest

The multiple award-winning artist has turned this festival into a hallmark of Botswana’s music calendar where local talent thrives GOSEGO MOTSUMI  As the Springtime renewal of life returns, so too does one…

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Trade Wars Loom (Part Two) 

Alternative Strategies to Protectionism for Stimulating Food Production in Botswana   Instead of implementing protectionist…

 

 

Letsile Tebogo: A New Chapter in African Success

Douglas Rasbash Letsile Tebogo’s historic achievement as the first native African to win an Olympic sprint title marks not just a personal triumph but a symbol of Africa’s potential on the global…

Are There Limits to Pragmatism? 

It Seems Anything Goes in Botswana’s Agricultural Sector Whatever we do in the name of pragmatism and deregulation, it should not come at the expense of long-term sustainability and food security, writes…

Labour Wins But Democracy Loses 

The inequities of first-past-the-post: Lessons for Botswana in considering proportional representation (BLURB) DOUGLAS RASBASH Special Correspondent The recent landslide victory of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, winning 412 of the…

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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