An acting paramount chief has recommended that Michael Balebetse be interdicted from his traditional duties while theft charges tied to alleged financial misconduct play out in court. By a WeekendPost Correspondent    

For more than a decade he sat at the apex of the nation’s flagship citizen-empowerment lender, dispensing public money meant to build a generation of Batswana entrepreneurs. Now a cache of investigation dockets from the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime paints Thabo Thamane, the long-serving former chief executive of the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency, as a man at the centre of a sprawling web of alleged abuse, conflict of interest and misappropriated millions. He...

A quarrel that unfolded in the shadows of Botswana’s most guarded institution broke into the open in the dying hours of Peter Magosi’s leadership, when an intelligence officer, ordered to hand over his mobile phones, is said to have fled to a police station and begged for cover. The officer was later placed under around-the-clock police protection, according to people familiar with the episode, a confrontation that allegedly drew in Magosi, the former director general...

In the shadowed world of Botswana’s intelligence apparatus, where secrets are currency and continuity is doctrine, the departure of a director general is supposed to be a ceremony of careful transfer. Peter Magosi’s was, by the accounts now circulating, something far thinner – a service pistol and a vehicle, handed over in a brisk encounter that has left the country’s most clandestine institution groping for answers.

John Thite spent years believing a certain chapter of his life was closed. The case, as he tells it, was fought, won, and buried. Then the summons arrived.

A rebellion is simmering inside the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), where a bloc of regional chairpersons has begun pressing the party’s embattled president, Mpho Balopi, to relinquish the helm while he answers to a battery of criminal charges.

It began, as these things often do, with a sealed door and a letter marked confidential. What has unfurled since is a tangled contest in which the machinery of Botswana’s state – its spies, its tax collectors and its police – stands accused of being pressed into service in a bruising commercial quarrel over tobacco. At the heart of the affair is a single document, a letter dated 7 July 2026 and bearing the signature...

For nearly sixty years, Botswana’s land boards have been the quiet arbiters of one of the nation’s most intimate assets – the ground beneath its people’s feet. Now that machinery of tribal land administration faces an uncertain reckoning, as the governing Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) weighs a sweeping redesign of how the country parcels out, oversees and safeguards its communal land. At the heart of the deliberations, according to reports reaching this publication, is...

Accused of defrauding Gov’t by winning Tutume tender on false terms They are also accused of inflating Interim Payment Certificate They purported to have done work for China State Construction & Engineering Corporation  Inside the sprawling fraud indictment that prosecutors say turned a village infrastructure project into a conduit for forged letters, inflated invoices and quietly moved millions. It began, prosecutors say, with a lie dressed in the language of credibility: references that gleamed with...

They move quietly, these grey-haired custodians of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), working the phones and the private rooms rather than the podiums. A cadre of veteran B.D.P. elders has launched a discreet, behind-the-scenes campaign to keep a simmering leadership crisis from tearing the party apart – and, at the heart of their effort, to keep one embattled man in his chair. The elders have thrown their weight behind the party president, Mpho Balopi, urging...