Law Society to meet over Collins Newman & Co lawyers’ conduct
The Law Society Botswana, an independent body tasked with monitoring legal professionals will meet sometime next week to decide on the disciplinary measures they may take against Collins Newman &...
View ArticleJwaneng Mine has a long bright future – GM
• Central pipeline produces high value stones Diamond Trading Company Botswana (DTCB) might not have reached maximum sorting and valuing capacity due to low diamond produce brought on its plants by...
View ArticlePoliticians should desist from meddling in individuals’ entities
It seems like politicians have a tendency of fiddling with people’s private finances as if the taxes extracted from members of the public are not enough. Individuals decide how best to spend their...
View ArticleOf delayed trains and syphilis infection – which boss messed the most
In what is a huge blow and embarrassment to the government, the eagerly anticipated BR Express failed take to the railway line on time, causing multitudes of Batswana to wait in the cold for hours....
View ArticleMatambo’s budget – a BNF perspective Part 2
In his budget speech Minister Kenneth Mat ambo says: “Government will continue to implement public sector reforms” (page 6). While he does not elaborate on “public sector reforms” we know that this...
View ArticlePurpose is recipe for a longer life
It is said that the angel of death visited a very wealthy merchant one calm Sunday morning. Upon realising that death had come for him the man immediately jumped on his horse and fled to a faraway...
View ArticleDon’t stoop so low to become a commodity
Human beings are supposed to be in charge of commodities and not vice versa. Google defines a commodity as a basic good used in the field of commerce that is interchangeable with other commodities of...
View Articlekgosi’s new headache
As Outsa Mokone and Sonny Serite arrest show, the hunt for sources is on in this country. In the week in which investigative journalists released stories from the biggest leak of the century, Panama...
View ArticleRDC raises P231m and bubbles with ideas
• Acquires property in Cape Town • Company eyes African expansion • Property portfolio grows to P1 billion A Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) listed property firm, RDC properties, has announced it...
View ArticleShenanigans cloud the BR Express
• Rail coaches ordered on Minister Mabeo’s whim • Water instead of diesel in jinxed train The new model of BR Express coaches procured by Botswana Railways from Transnet was actually an...
View ArticleMercedes gives BMW’s 100 anniversary a cheeky nod
Anyone who has watched the animation movie Megamind will know about the rivalry between the villain and the protector. There is a particular part in the movie where the good guy actually tires of...
View ArticleScramble for corporate banking
• Stanbic still strong in corporate banking • Barclays on a quest to take lead • Banks take advantage of companies’ expansion plans • Stanchart on a slide but remains optimistic With too much...
View ArticleTafa and Kgosi – How the twin towers of the Khama presidency collapsed
The High Court has cast a shadow over a law firm whose name once had the hallowed ring of being beyond the realm of fallibility. On the other hand, the name of the powerful spy chief Isaac Kgosi has...
View ArticleHarsh climate to curtail development
• La Nina to wreck havock The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which works in nearly 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty and the reduction of...
View ArticleKgosi’s new headache
As Outsa Mokone and Sonny Serite arrest show, the hunt for sources is on in this country. In the week in which investigative journalists released stories from the biggest leak of the century, Panama...
View ArticleBancABC impairments down 95 percent
• Profit lifts to 68 percent BancABC Botswana, a unit of the Atlas Mara Group, has seen its impairments decrease 95 percent for the full year ending December 31, 2015 from the prior corresponding...
View ArticlePanama Papers & the case for tax avoidance
The release of the so called Panama papers this past week has once again shown how society always seeks to demonise the wealthy and in so doing overlook the teething problem. The fact that Panama is a...
View ArticleA tax haven, a judge and the image of the judiciary
Our Judiciary is going to need the stoutest antibiotic on earth, and to those who obtain comfort from invisible but supposedly invisible authorities, a praise song and little prayer. The cumulative...
View ArticleHow to evade the start-up failure trap
It is never easy to get a business off the ground. In fact most businesses die in their infancy, the mortality rate for businesses is quiet high. Chances are high that as much as eighty five percent of...
View ArticleInnovation is lacking
Botswana business is suffering, foreign companies are coming and getting large share of our business space because we lack innovation. Local companies and individual entrepreneurs have turned into copy...
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