The quiet contest to command Botswana’s intelligence apparatus is no longer quite so quiet. At its centre stands Deputy Commissioner of Police Busang Lesola, the man who runs Crime Intelligence at the Botswana Police Service and who is now said to be angling for one of the most opaque and potent posts in the land: Director General of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security. Should his candidacy hold, it would amount to a quiet palace...

The company created to drag Gaborone’s finances into solvency says the city it was meant to rescue is now the obstacle in its path. Allegations of a suspected criminal cartel involving political figures, council officials and a minister threaten to undermine the city’s ambitious investment plans. Information obtained by WeekendPost suggests that a network of alleged power brokers, council insiders and a minister – whose identity is known to the publication – is accused of obstructing GCIC’s...

Six senior government officials have emerged as suspected central figures in an alleged diplomatic-passport scheme involving intelligence and immigration personnel, according to information gathered by Weekend Post.

Six senior government officials have emerged as suspected central figures in an alleged diplomatic-passport scheme involving intelligence and immigration personnel, according to information gathered by Weekend Post.

For decades, Botswana’s beef has been something close to a national emblem, a product of its disease-free rangelands and the state-owned commission that carries the country’s cattle economy onto European dinner tables.

There is an old suspicion, as old as the tithe itself, that where money gathers in the name of heaven, not all of it is bound for heaven. Major General (Rtd) Pius Mokgware, Botswana’s Minister of Labour and Home Affairs and a soldier by temperament long before he was a politician by trade, has given that suspicion the weight of office.

A deepening police investigation into the alleged illegal issuance of Botswana diplomatic passports to foreign nationals is exposing uncomfortable questions about corruption inside the immigration system, and about who, among those with access to sensitive government offices, may have had a hand in it.  

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...