Inside Lesotho dirty battles with SADC
Heated correspondence shows the scale at which Lesotho and Southern African Development Committee (SADC) are determined to fight over the assassination of a Lesotho army general, JOEL KONOPO.
Khama’s ESP breaks no new ground
Government plans to create over 27 000 jobs and allocate 34 000 plots as part of its expansionary fiscal Economic Stimulus Package (ESP) in the 2015/16 financial year to revitalise an ailing economy reliant on diamond revenue, a provisional report seen by INK Centre for Investigative Journalism shows.
ESP Projects awarded while Botswana is still arguing
While Botswana is still debating President Lt Gen Ian Khama’s Economic Stimulus Package, Sunday Standard has raised documents revealing that the stimulus programme has already started and has been running for months – some projects under the programme have already been completed while others have been put out to tender.
Bigger vision or nightmare
When the Australian mining company came to the three villages in the heart of Ngamiland, in the north west location of Botswana, it seemed at first like some kind of salvation from the heavens.
Who’s who of Botswana linked to supermarket chain
Choppies retail giant denies using ‘soft power’ to secure privileges and dispense benefits.
