19 April 2021
Forced marriage threatens teenager’s education
Mosidi Mokaeya
Ragele Karosa* (16) of Ngami Junior Secondary School has a passion for success. She values school more so because she has dropped out twice due to pregnancy. Her premature motherhood has become a financial burden to her unemployed parents who were already struggling to make ends meet. The youngster says that she regrets her pregnancies because they have cemented her parents’ belief that by now she should be a wife. Now, the Herero born student of Semboyo village in Ngamiland fears that she will soon be forced to become a child bride.
‘Magosi behind secret recording’
Calistus Bosaletswe
Botswana’s head of intelligence, Brigadier Peter Fana Magosi, arranged to secretly record the meeting where top spies, detectives and prosecutors discussed the investigation of former president Ian Khama’s alleged involvement in large-scale corruption and money-laundering, allege two well-placed sources.
No escape for trafficked Mogobane girls
Mosidi Mokaeya
Fifteen-year-old Lesedi Mmopi and her 16 year old sister Grace Mmopi have been waking up at 4.30 am every morning. Instead of rising early to prepare for school, the youngsters have been forced into a different world.
Recording sheds light on P100 billion investigation
A leaked audio has revealed Botswana’s top spies, detectives and prosecutors huddled together in a meeting to strategies for an investigation into how former president Ian Khama and his ‘enforcer’ Isaac Kgosi may have instructed the Bank of Botswana to shift funds raised from government bonds during Khama’s term in office
The muffled cry of a mother who lost her son
BTV head in dodgy tender deals
‘Gold rush’ as Botswana meets appetite for lion goods
Perils of sex workers in Botswana
advocacy
President Masisi and the illusion of change
Break-in at INK offices
Ombudsman’s Mosu report places Khama above the law
How capital flight bleeds Africa
