Middlemen not communities, benefit from trophy hunting
Why do politicians inflate the value of recreational hunting and community benefits when the economic evidence in favour of trophy hunting is thin. Asks JOEL KONOPO.
Khama builds palace in Eswatini, Botswana unhappy
After he overstayed his welcome in South Africa, former president Ian Khama is reportedly building a mansion at the luxurious Nkonyeni Golf Estate on land given to him by King Mswati of Eswatini.
State of the usual: What has Masisi and Khama been talking about
A comparative analysis of SONA speeches by presidents, Masisi and Khama give a glimpse of a long-held divergent views.
Motor Center has a history of dominating government tenders
A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed how some motor dealers in Botswana ingratiate themselves with the government by donating scores of motor vehicles to departments and making billions of Pula in return.
Masisi’s Pandora Box and his most wanted man shut inside
Tsaone Segaetsho
For almost four years former president Ian Khama and his specially handpicked successor, Mokgweetsi Masisi have been trying to settle a score in an ego trail or a power play which evidently emanated from a two-man Gentleman’s Agreement gone wrong.
‘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.
HIV+ people most vulnerable to COVID-19 – Masisi
Yaone Ntwayagae
President Mokgweetsi Masisi said people living with HIV/AIDS are amongst the most vulnerable to Covid-19 and that it is essential to ramp efforts to protect them from exposure to the Coronavirus.
Masisi awarded prime Banyana Farm
INK reporters
President Mokgweetsi Masisi has been awarded a government farm – even though his bid did not meet the brief. Masisi had been accused of acting unethically and flouting procurement rules by seeking to rent a large portion of state owned Banyana Farms.
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.
