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BSE ESTABLISHES SME BOARD
GABORONE 10 March 2016, (Pic:MONIRUL BHUIYAN/PRESS PHOTO) The Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) is in the process of establishing a fresh separate board for Small Medium Enterprises (SME), named ‘Tshipidi...
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More shenanigans in BMC privatisation
LOBATSE, BOTSWANA, APRIL 15,2011, Botswana meat commission (BMC) (Pic: Press Photo) In parliament this week, junior minister for Agricultural Development and Food Security, Kgotla Autlwetse avoided...
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MIXED RESULTS FOR FOUR DEPARTING GOVERNMENT CEOS
This year only four CEOs of the top government parastatals have not had their employment contracts renewed, making contract renewals the most effective way of showing someone the door. BOTSWANA...
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Mozambique: Letshego’s problem child
Being a man who has headed institutions like the mighty Goldman Sachs, Low is unfazed by the Mozambican currency translation losses. He says it is just beyond his control, adding however that his...
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THE TROUBLE WITH TSHETLHA: Inside Khama’s Eurocentric, Afro-sceptic Psyche...
(Pic: Pressphoto) Khama is a man who understands the power of whiteness, the privilege of being an African monarch and how to lead a people like Batswana, a people completely unaware of the effect of...
View ArticleStanchart may appoint a foreign CEO-sources
In the sprint for the post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Standard Chartered Bank Botswana, The Business Weekly & Review has established that major shareholders at Standard Chartered PLC in...
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Banks run under poor risk management – BoB
Bank of Botswana Governor Moses Dinekere Pelaelo(Pic:MONIRUL BHUIYAN/PRESS PHOTO) Bank of Botswana (BOB) governor Moses Pelaelo says banking systems ought to invest more in risk management...
View ArticleThe creation of a behemoth asset manager
In less than five years, Kgori Capital Botswana (formerly Afena Capital Botswana) has grown to manage assets of approximately P7 billion. In an interview with Managing Director (MD) BAKANG SERETSE,...
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RDC PROJECTS SUCCESS IN AFRICAN ADVENTURE
Group Managing Director (MD) Guido Giachetti welcomed guests to the swanky Masa Centre with clear message that the group would hit the ground running regionally in Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa....
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THE TROUBLE WITH TSHETLHA: The Genesis of a Savior Complex (part 2)
In this second part of the series, staff writer TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA explores Ian Khama’s childhood as a basis of the military heroism and savior complex which later had a dominant influence in his...
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THE TROUBLE WITH TSHETLHA: The Genesis of a Savior Complex (part 2)
President Ian Khama likes to hang around Batswana he calls the less fortunate – the rural poor and urban township dwellers. He enjoys it when he happens upon an unsuspecting street hawker and she...
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THE TROUBLE WITH TSHETLHA: How the son became the opposite of the father...
Before President Ian Khama was inaugurated into the State House, just before his predecessor Festus Mogae ended his ten-year tenure, he sought to have something innocuous but somewhat emotionally...
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OLD MUTUAL: SWIMMING WITH THE BIG “SHARKS”
TBWR: Old Mutual Life was granted a life insurance license during the first quarter of 2016 (Q1 2016). With only a couple of months operating, how would you describe the appetite of the market for your...
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THE TROUBLE WITH TSHETLHA: Tshekedi and all the President’s Men (part 4)
There is a video circulating on Facebook in which Minister of Wildlife Tshekedi Khama and recently deposed Minister of Minerals Kitso Mokaila, do a little hip hop dance for journalists, perhaps to...
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WANTED – MOLEFE – ALIVE AND AMENABLE
Molefe (Pic:Taelo Maphorisa/BWR) Boitumelo Molefe is a wanted woman, the “price on her head” is comply or go. You One wouldn’t tell by her looks, but the baby-faced CEO is at the center of a tussle for...
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THE MAN WHO UNMADE A SOCIETY: The trouble with Tshetlha (final
President Ian Khama has a sharp memory. Sharper than the elephants he so adores. Khama collects memories for future reference, and can often recall the finer details of things past, specifically, what...
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LUCARA ROYALTY PAYMENTS INCREASE
Lesedi la Rona Diamond (Pic:robbreport.com) Lucara Diamond Corporation, the owners of Karowe Diamond Mine has revealed in its latest consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31,...
View ArticleTO THE COURT OF APPEAL – REMOVE THE VEIL OF DARKNESS IN APPOINTING JUDGES
When an institution declines to abide by basic dictates of fairness, good governance and transparency, and instead insists on operating under a veil of darkness, like a wicked society, supplying no...
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OF MASCOM AND ITS POLITICAL IMMUNITY
There are characteristics of blanket immunity that can discerned from the Mascom Wireless/ BOCRA dispute. The largest private telecommunications company in Botswana has an air ofbeing untouchable as...
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A NEW (LEGITIMATE) PEOPLES’S CONSTITUTION IS AN IMPERATIVE OF OUR TIME
I have been asked by Tshireletso Motlogelwa, the Editor of the Business Weekly & Review, to write a guest column on “the future of the constitution” for the publication as part of the 50th...
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