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Festive Hits to Look Out For

Collabo amapiano anthem “Biri Marung” is up there at the top of this season’s charts that are also rich in Afro culture GOSEGO MOTSUMI The festive season is in full swing, and…

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GMO Debate in Africa: Why Botswana Needs a Nuanced Approach

What Botswana needs is not more polarisation but thoughtful deliberation – a commitment to evidence-based decision-making that puts the well-being of its people first. Special Correspondent DOUGLAS RASBASH discusses the matter in…

Swipe Left on Leaders Who Disregard the People

By Bradley Fortuin In today’s world, we use apps for almost everything—ordering food, paying bills, sending money, and even dating. On dating platforms, swiping left means rejecting a profile, while swiping right…

eMobility in Botswana: Big Ambitions, Bigger Questions

On August 1st, The Gazette published an article titled The Electric Revolution: Transforming Transport and Boosting Botswana’s Economy, shedding light on the nation’s ambition to establish an electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing facility.…

Letsile Tebogo: A New Chapter in African Success

Douglas Rasbash Letsile Tebogo’s historic achievement as the first native African to win an Olympic sprint title marks not just a personal triumph but a symbol of Africa’s potential on the global…

Are There Limits to Pragmatism? 

It Seems Anything Goes in Botswana’s Agricultural Sector Whatever we do in the name of pragmatism and deregulation, it should not come at the expense of long-term sustainability and food security, writes…

The Shifting Beauty Standards in Pageantry

Universal acceptance of diversity is a positive development because as an immensely influential platform, pageantry can now help many girls and young women realise that there is nothing wrong with the way…

Time to Take Action for An Economically Integrated Africa

Aissatou Diallo The need for an economically integrated Africa has never been more urgent. With the severe disruption of global value chains due to Covid-19 and related lockdown measures, there is no…

Well done Rakgare!

Creatives have applauded the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sports and Culture Development for extending monthly stipends to them as announced early this week but want further assessment done with their unions. GOSEGO…

Politics, Power And Sexual Misconduct

In the past decade we have seen people uniting to bring justice to victims of sexual abuse. Organizations like the #metoo movement and #esengmongwangeng movement rose to amplify the voices of the…

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