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The Botswana Railways (BR) mall project in Francistown, heralded as a beacon of economic revitalization, finds itself mired in uncertainty amidst a landscape

In a notable shift for Botswana's transportation landscape, plans are underway to resurrect passenger train services, dormant since November 2019. The

The government's stance on returning the passenger train popularly known as the Blue train hasn’t changed as the latter is not expected to hit the rail line anytime soon.

The Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) says settlement has finally been reached in a 20-year old dispute involving the Botswana Unified Revenue Services and Botswana Railways over land on which the procurement agency’s headquarters sit in Gaborone.

BR came into the picture (or “mugshot” considering the police were involved) in March last year when Mathiba noticed that Borehole No. Z8594 had been

The fog of war surrounding the construction of a railway line between Botswana and South Africa is set to get denser with former Transnet official warning that political will to bring the project to life remains lacking from Pretoria.

The Mmamabula-Lephalale link will run 113 kilometers (70 miles) and have a capacity of 24 million tons a year.

State-owned rail companies from Botswana and South Africa are seeking funding for a 3-billion pula (R4.1bn) railway line between the two countries to transport commodities including coal.