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’
Some decry Botswana’s enlightened High Court judgement on gay sex. But studies show that homosexuality existed – and was tolerated – across pre-colonial Africa.
Life lessons from a year at Stanford
How being a JSK Journalism Fellow inspired personal and professional change
Botswana’s INK Centre to launch mobile and video first news platform
INK24 to translate and breakdown centre’s long-form stories into digestible chunks that could be understood by grassroots communities
Using Artificial Intelligence to hold power to account
Technology can help illuminate dark corners of political funding in Africa
LIES, LIES AND MORE MOSU LIES
… how the Ombudsman spun a web of fibs and falsehoods to protect former president Ian Khama’s Mosu project.
Could this be a cure for fake news?
How do we immunize journalism against media viruses, fake news and propaganda?
Rape as a weapon to crush dissent: Inside Zimbabwe’s brutal crackdown
“I never imagined i would be raped by the soldiers, whom we had marched side by side in the streets in a putsch to oust former president Robert Mugabe in November 2017″
Botswana arrests ex-spy boss
The once feared head of Botswana’s Directorate of Intelligence Services (DIS), Isaac Kgosi, is in police custody after his arrest at Gaborone’s Sir Seretse Khama Airport on suspicion of tax evasion.
