Family demands answers after near-fatal DIS shooting
Calistus Bosaletswe
Three Botswana teenagers allege were shot at – and one was hit in the leg and the side – after they unwittingly parked outside the home of Peter Fana Magosi, the head of the country’s feared spy agency, the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DIS).
Lesotho PM charged with murder, retires
Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will formally be charged with murder when he appears before the Lesotho High Court in Maseru tomorrow, according to the deputy police commissioner’s announcement today.
Doubts over Botswana’s preparedness for corona virus
Botswana may be dangerously unprepared and incapable of wadding off the deadly coronavirus if an outbreak reaches the country.
Journalism needs to rethink ethics
The general election provided a litmus test of Botswana’s media, showing that is not independent of financial and political influence. JOEL KONOPO* analyses the country’ ailing media sector.
UB rot sparks row
A furious row has erupted at the cash-strapped University of Botswana over the vice -chancellor, Professor David Norris, who is accused of purging staff “who differ with him” and riding roughshod over tender procedures.
SA businessman says Botswana intelligence trying to frame him
INK reporters
A South African businessman accused by Botswana prosecutors of allegedly funneling tax-payers money out of the country’s central bank to offshore banks said he is being framed by a country that has turned into a banana republic.
Khama allegedly moved millions of dollars from Central Bank, court documents
Kago Komane and Joel Konopo
Papers filed in the Botswana High Court make the startling allegation that former Botswana president Ian Khama instructed the country’s central bank to shift over $200-million (P2.2-billion) to secret accounts and later moved the funds to several offshore companies and banks.
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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.
