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Just last month, Foreign Affairs minister, Dr Lemogang Kwape told Mmegi that Botswana and South Africa relations remained strong despite differences in agreements such as the revenue distribution of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and differences on whether government should impose a trade ban on some commodities or not.
President Mokgweetsi Masisi said the offer was 'not a joke,' in response to Germany's proposed hunting trophy ban.
Trophy-hunting may not be the best way to preserve the elephants that roam the African savannah at all— and here's how ecological balance can still be preserved
Reflecting on his gambit that rattled a diamond giant, President Mokgweetsi Masisi this week while addressing Botswana envoys, lit a torch for all to see the plight Batswana endured at the hand of a secretive deal between Botswana and De Beers, expressing great descent on what he calls “a deal fraudulent and fraught with error”. Albeit praise for Botswana far and near as a diamond success story, Masisi thinks the country was duped, conned and tricked, Mmegi Staffer TIMOTHY LEWANIKA writes.
Ignoring the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at this critical stage will create a far more dire protection crisis.