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‘Ministry of Youth collaborates with Celebrities to Tackle GBV’

The Ministry of Youth and Gender Affairs held a ‘Breakfast Meeting’ hosted by Minister, Ms. Lesego Chombo, who invited the creative industry to address the scourge of gender-based violence (GBV).

Segokgo officially launches Youth Elev8 Botswana

Youth Elev8 Botswana was today unveiled by stakeholders as a fresh and innovative approach to youth empowerment because it goes beyond identifying problems — it creates pathways. It does not treat young people merely as beneficiaries, but as partners in development.

BTC sponsors World Athletics Relays

Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited (BTC) has been unveiled as a sponsor of the World Athletics Relays Gaborone 2026 to be held in Gaborone, Botswana on the 2nd and 3rd May 2026 at an event organised to reveal and honour the founding sponsors.

‘BDC supports commercialization of traditional music’

Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) has launched a pilot initiative designed to capacitate and support the commercialisation of traditional cultural performance through the professional production of a studio album by Mafitlhakgosi Traditional Dance Group, in partnership with Eric Ramco Music and Film.

Botswana to host G2 Series event in Gaborone

Excitement is building ahead of a G2 series event including Porsche, Lamborghini’s and Ferrari’s along the streets of the capital city Gaborone scheduled for May 2026, called the Posh Race Africa Gaborone CBD Circuit, a planned annual luxury motorsport and lifestyle event hosted by Posh Inc. (Pty)Ltd.

Bots should review Death Penalty – Many innocent people have been executed

There has been parliamentary talk about the review of the constitution most notably the issue of the death penalty.

‘Stakeholders discuss revising SMME Definition to boost SMME Growth’

The Local Enterprise Authority (LEA), along with the Ministry of Trade and Entrepreneurship is leading a nationwide stakeholder consultation process to gazette an updated and legally binding definition for Small, Micro, and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs).

‘Boko lambasts Media and promises to Deliver’

A buoyant President Advocate Duma Gideon Boko used the State of Nation Adress Monday to remind Batswana that the Umbrella for Democratic Change(UDC) government had entered office with strained fiscus, depleted coffers, employees owed, contractors owed, farmers owed, a debt of hope to the people, and resentment by its defeated rivals.

EXPERTS call for African Unity at ‘1st AFRICA BIODIVERSITY SUMMIT’

Botswana is hosting the ‘1st Africa Biodiversity Summit,’ which is themed “leveraging, biodiversity for prosperity” at Arirang Conference Centre in Tlokweng.

Central Bank Governor cautions commercial banks

Commercial Banks in Botswana have been instructed by the Central Bank today not to increase their current Prime Lending Rate’s(PLR) after it increased the Monetary Policy Rate (MoPR) by 160 basis points from 1.9 percent to 3.5 percent.

Bots appeals to sponsors for 2026 World Athletics Relay Championships

Botswana’s World Relay personnel have hit the road running following the Local Olympic Committees appointment on 28th July 2025. I caught up with the busy Chief Executive officer, Moses Bantsi, to follow up on the progress, committee objectives and impact of the Games.

BOTSWANA LAUNCHES ELECTRICITY ENERGY IMPACT PROGRAM

Botswana launched the Energy Compact program at Hotel 4:30 in the new CBD, Gaborone, Botswana.

FAIRGROUND HOLDINGS and MEAT ON FIRE partner

Fairground Holdings has announced a three-year strategic partnership with Meat on Fire, under which Fairground Holdings will serve as the official venue partner for Meat on Fire’s Beast on Fire – Botswana’s premier all-you-can-eat carnivore experience.

Boko extols Bots aim of achieving export led growth

President Duma Boko today officially opened 2025 Pula Global Expo, held under the theme “Unlocking Botswana’s Potential: Partnership for Sustainable Growth,” reaffirming his publicly stated ambitions to transform the country into "a high-income, digitally enabled, export-driven, and people-centered nation."

‘Bots Oil bolsters efforts to further CEEP’

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