28 August 2019
Botswana Unravels: Unmasking Africa’s democracy poster child
It seemed too good to be true. A diamond-rich, corruption-free, democratic, prosperous, and peaceful African country with a tradition of peaceful transfer of presidential power (the incumbent president voluntarily leaves office a year before the next general election). It was.
BDF kills two rhino poachers
Two suspected poachers were shot and killed by Botswana Defence Force (BDF) on Sunday while tracking a rhino they had shot in Moremi Game Reserve, confirming the country’s tough anti-poaching policy.
Turmoil in Africa’s ‘model democracy’
Everywhere you look, there is back-stabbing, defections, grandstanding and chaos. Joel Konopo looks at the disjointed state of politics in Botswana as the election nears.
#MauritiusLeaks: Botswana in tax avoidance scandal
A Mauritius-based shell company existing only on paper – with no employees, office or business activity – received a substantial amount of money as payment from the government of Botswana. But how did the government pay a shell company millions of pula in what appears to be a classic case of tax avoidance?
African gay bashing ‘a colonial import’
Life lessons from a year at Stanford
Using Artificial Intelligence to hold power to account
advocacy
Break-in at INK offices
Ombudsman’s Mosu report places Khama above the law
How capital flight bleeds Africa
If crime crosses borders so must journalism
