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Opposition Will Never Achieve Anything- Nkaigwa Breaking News Former Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) Member of Parliament for Gaborone North, Haskins Nkaigwa has confirmed his departure from opposition fold to re-join the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). Nkaigwa said opposition is extremely divided and the leadership not in talking terms.  “They are planning evil against each other. Nothing much will be achieved,” Nkaigwa told WeekendPost. “I believe my time in the opposition has come to an end. It’s time to be of value to rebuilding our nation and economy of the country...

Botswana benefits over P100 million in grants from Japan Breaking News Botswana has received assistance worth over P100 million from Japanese government since 2019, making the latter of the largest donors to Botswana in recent years. The assistance include relatively large-scale grant aid programmes such as the COVID-19 programme (to provide medical equipment; P34 million), the digital terrestrial television programme (to distribute receivers to the underprivileged, P17 million), the agriculture promotion programme (to provide agricultural machinery and equipment, P53million). “As 2020 was ...

18th February 2021 Botswana’s Negotiator at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Professor Julius Atlhopheng has said that funding mechanisms remain a major challenge for countries with low economies to implement their pledges for the Paris Agreement of 2015. During the Conference of Parties (COP21), also Paris Agreement, countries pledged to reduce their emission of Green House Gases (GHG) so that they reduce the rise of global temperature by 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030.   In an interview with this publication at his office at the Department of Environmental...

Plant to fully function by 2023 Finally, there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel at Morupule B Power Plant. Remedial work on the plant’s Unit 4, which started back in June 2019, is nearing completion, with the unit expected to be fully functional by the end of April. The remaining three units are forecast to be refurbished and up-and-running by 2023, at which time the plant will have the capacity to provide 600 Megawatts (MW) a day. Briefing members of the media recently, BPC Chairperson, Professor Oboetswe Motsamai revealed all boiler re-construction work at Unit 4 is complete...

The sad reality is that the world is governed by politicians who are sensitive to the electorate when seeking political power but immediately turn grossly insensitive to the same after assuming it. The world witnessed in utter disbelieve when the disgraced 45 th former President of the United States of America Donald Trump directed his supporters to invade and trash the seat of US political establishment, The Capitol. This because he conveniently believed without evidence that the very same electoral process that propelled him to the White House in 2016 was flawed when it determined to remov...