In the boardroom of Botswana Railways on a late July afternoon, the country’s transport minister sat across from the men and women who should keep the trains running. For the workers and their union, the Botswana Transport and General Workers Union, it was supposed to be a reckoning. What it became instead was a mirror held up to an institution that has been rotting – slowly, systematically, and from the very top. Three weeks later,...
When Dr. Seima Dijeng stood before a room of pharmaceutical executives, medical-device manufacturers and industry lawyers on Wednesday, his ask was modest and, by the standards of government consultation, almost disarming: “Be blunt.” The Chief Executive Offcier (CEO) of the Botswana Medicines Regulatory Authority (BOMRA) was not there to announce a finished product. He was there to share notes on a sweeping new medicines law; the most significant overhaul of the country’s pharmaceutical regulatory framework...
When a billionaire walks through the door, a country has two choices: roll out the red carpet, or roll up its sleeves. For Botswana, the visitor was Mohammed Dewji, Tanzania’s richest man and one of Africa’s most relentless empire builders. The opportunity he dangling – manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, energy – reads like a wish list for a nation hungry to diversify beyond diamonds. The catch? Botswana’s own government concedes it can be its own worst...
The blue half of Gaborone has seen plenty of drama before, but rarely this much of it at once. Township Rollers, the 16-time Botswana Premier League champions known across southern Africa as Popa or Mapalastina, are staring down the barrel of two simultaneous FIFA disputes involving South African players; one that has already resulted in a registration ban, and another that could deepen the crisis before the month is out. The first case involves Thabiso...
Prominent businessman Bakang Seretse has called for the removal of two senior judges from a Court of Appeal case involving more than P50 million in disputed interest. On August 18, 2026, Seretse, alongside Khulaco Proprietary Limited and M&B Properties, filed an urgent application requesting that Court of Appeal Judge President Tebogo Tau and Justice of Appeal Isaac Lesetedi recuse themselves from hearing the pending appeal. The applicants contend that Tau and Lesetedi should be disqualified...
In a ruling certain to reverberate across Botswana’s legal and political topography for years to come, the High Court has delivered a sweeping and unambiguous judgment in favour of the estate of the late Isaac Seabelo Kgosi – a verdict that not only dismantles the restraining order that had frozen his properties since 2019 but also delivers a stinging rebuke to the state’s investigative apparatus and reasserts the primacy of procedural fairness in ex parte...
In a ruling certain to reverberate across Botswana’s legal and political topography for years to come, the High Court has delivered a sweeping and unambiguous judgment in favour of the estate of the late Isaac Seabelo Kgosi – a verdict that not only dismantles the restraining order that had frozen his properties since 2019 but also delivers a stinging rebuke to the state’s investigative apparatus and reasserts the primacy of procedural fairness in ex parte...
At Donga Junior Secondary School, the scaffolding is just about to be set up. Several classrooms and the school hall have been freshly renovated – fitted with better lighting, new electrical systems and proper ventilation.
The Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has completed its due diligence on an individual believed to be a prominent figure and is preparing to add him as another accused in the ongoing P1.535 billion Ghanzi-New Xade road corruption case, WeekendPost understands.
A corruption scandal tied to a P1.5 billion New Xhade road construction tender is deepening, with former Transport and Communications Minister Eric Molale now reportedly under investigation.
