I overlooked her mentioning that it was a Birthday Cake. Honestly, I am better off not having had full awareness that it was a birthday cake. I might have chickened out of doing it. But this red velvet Inkomazi cake is fool proof. Baking is a science...
It contains the collective wisdom of every parliamentarian who's ever worn it. Or maybe just a lot of hairspray. I don’t know and frankly I don’t ever want to know. I suspect it's actually a sophisticated surveillance device. It's...
Da Rosa set the platform with a campaign changing win away to Cape Verde before he completed the double at the Obed Itani Chilume Stadium to leave the Zebras on the brink of a second AFCON finals qualification. Ramoreboli was roped in for the...
The endless white expanse stretched toward infinity, blurring the line between earth and sky. At the horizon, it rose to meet the boundless blue, while overhead, the sun—our celestial heartbeat—poured its golden light upon the frost-laced world,...
Pushing for a transformative agenda designed to upgrade a struggling school should necessarily begin from a human-centred platform. Anything short of this approach may achieve short-term gains and not necessarily accomplish a much more desired...
Digital platforms, powered by social media, satellite technology, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), have the potential to significantly enhance the AU’s ability to identify early signs of conflict, enabling swift and informed...
Some are actually unusable if you take the sad story of the Masunga Sports Complex. The Molepolole Sports Complex is also one facility that could morph into a white elephant. In fact, general stadia maintenance, including private facilities like the...
Books were more than stories; they were portals—to distant worlds, grand romances, and boundless discovery. And so, here I sat in my Grade 13 English class, dissecting the moral intricacies of The Scarlet Letter. A masterpiece of psychological...
In recent years, the impacts of climate change have emerged as a significant factor exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and fuelling conflict.This fragile region, encompassing countries such as Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, has become a...
It is important, therefore, to avoid at all costs a state where a school loses its spark and relegates to a desperate level of becoming synonymous with hopelessness. A school seeking to stay afloat and intentionally rooted on its purpose should...
It turned out he wasn’t quite into it. Imagine. After all that effort. Nobody warned us about this age, bathong! Anyhow, pumpkin is typically larger, rounder in shape, with a thicker, more ridged skin and a slightly stringier flesh compared to a...
Even the befuddled educators themselves! But the poison will soon drain out after a few weeks and then we will start accumulating the anger bundles for the next set of results. Usually this gathers momentum when PSLE results are out, JC pushes that a...
This year, sport expects to receive P160 million, a similar amount that the sport's mother body, the Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC), got in 2024. The budget, which has been around P100 million per year since 2018, only registering a...
Disease outbreaks spread very fast when medical facilities of the country are destroyed, and displaced communities struggle with non-existent access to clean water and sanitation. Without proper healthcare infrastructure, even treatable diseases...
Almost invariably, all private English Medium schools are synonymous with academic excellence. Take for example, Maruapula School. I have known and heard about the school since childhood as a top brand, rendering effective teaching and learning...
This is the unambiguous statement sent by the Botswana Football League Disciplinary Committee through a ruling handed down to Security Systems coach, David Botlhasitse, last week. The BFL prosecutor, Makungekwa Maswabi set the ball rolling by...
As I gazed at the darkening sky, I reassured myself tomorrow, the reserves would be restored, and I’d be ready to press forward once more. After an exhausting day at the University of Western Ontario’s dental clinic and an intense gym session, my...
On February 16, Djibouti’s Foreign Minister, Youssouf emerged the winner of the keenly contested election, defeating Kenya’s former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, and Madagascar’s former Foreign Minister, Richard Randriamato. It, therefore,...
Accomplishment of organisational goals takes hard work, good planning and execution. The education system is facing a very big elephant in the room, a stubborn culture of underachievement. A continuing culture of academic under achievement calls into...
I am a functional teetotaler, which means I lead a perfectly normal life without relying on alcohol. Being a teetotaler means I have mastered the art of saying ‘no’ to the ever-tempting siren song of cocktails and beers. While many are debating...
Gilbert Mangole, Botswana's High Commissioner to India including Bangladesh and other South Asian countries has just revealed that a Bangladeshi Appeals Court is yet to set a court hearing date for condemned Motswana drug mule, Lesedi Molapisi who was sentenced to death in Bangladesh last year.
Murder accused Daniel Sitwane, 34, is a free man after his prayers were answered following numerous bail applications before the Extension II Magistrates' Court recently.
BHP, the world’s largest mining group, plans to invest up to $25 million (P341 million) to earn a 75% interest in an upcoming project on the Kalahari Copperbelt, as the global race for the key mineral heats up.
Even though Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) presidential hopeful Mpho Balopi claims he never fell out with former president Mokgweetsi Masisi, the former Gaborone North legislator says he wants to apologise to people who were hard done by the past regime.
MOKGENENE: A Mokgenene Primary School caretaker has been sentenced to 22 years behind bars for indecently assaulting 16 schoolboys. Kgotlayame Peloyakgosi, who hails here from Maaloso ward, was convicted of unlawfully and indecently assaulting the boys at the school's hostels by pulling their penises backwards and forward between March 1 and 12, 2024.
As the once mighty Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) seeks to rise like a phoenix, one name that keeps popping from the red ashes is former president Ian Khama’s and the bards of the party say any mention of his name is unavoidable in the annals of history.
Zebras head coach, Morena Ramoreboli, has made a bold statement of loyalty and recognition for surprisingly including Goitseone 'Chichima' Phoko in his 26-man squad despite spending half of the 2024/ 2025 season on the sidelines due to an injury.
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Justice served, but healing must follow
His horrific actions, betraying the trust placed in him to protect children have rightly been met with the full force of the law. Whilst we commend the court’s decision, this case forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about safeguarding our children and the lifelong scars such abuse leaves.Magistrate Kefilwe Resheng’s firm sentencing sends a powerful message that those who harm children will face severe consequences. Her words rightly...