The Botswana Development Corporation Limited will revive the Palapye Glass Project within the next two to three months. This was confirmed by BDC Managing Director Oteng Keabetswe before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises today.
Like, where do they come from; the world asks as the Zebras stampede across the finish line’$’ one after another..! They are our pride we tell them, our boys and girls raised from the Diamond sands of Botswana. Our Botswana Diamonds we will say..! Well done Collen..!
This is history in the making and a very unfortunate time for the Motswana athlete who may have to contend with 2nd place throughout his career. This Gaut guy is much talked and younger so the only way he will be going is up and up from now onwards.
South Africa and Botswana have a history that goes beyond economic treaties & trade. The two Countries go back beyond colonial boundaries. Let’s not be surprised by the way Rre. Ramaphosa & his delegation have been receiving by our President Rre. Boko. We are neighbors like that.
President Boko has welcomed President Ramaphosa to the Office of the President for a two-day State Visit. Tomorrow, they will lead the Bi-National Commission. 🇧🇼🤝🇿🇦
Former President Kgalema Motlanthe joined mourners at the funeral today of former President of Botswana, Dr Festus Mogae. Pictured together: Former President Motlanthe and former President Festus Mogae — brothers forever, in the trenches, and the pursuit of dignity for Africa.
🔸The entire continent must learn from Botswana.
1. Power is transferred in a peaceful, orderly manner.
2. The former liberation movement does not persecute the people, kill freedoms or abduct citizens who oppose it. When they lose elections, they leave.
3. It is not a crime to oppose Govt.
4. They have many former presidents and they are widely respected.
5. Former leaders become statesmen and are buried in a dignified manner. It is a state occasion that brings the whole nation together.
We need new leaders.🇿🇼
Botswana 🇧🇼 is going through some serious global optics that are starting to get really confusing. The global eye is set on this vast land of ours populated by only a handful of us & our beautiful people, fauna and flora. This is us, this is #Botswana.
On a lighter note, this guy William Last might be onto something. He has quickly set himself apart as a true master of his art & I won’t be shocked if soon the whole world takes note of his craft. Botswana’s talent is unmatched.! A little laughter after a very stressful week. 🇧🇼
#Botswana’s former president Festus #Mogae, who led the diamond-rich nation for a decade and won praise for good governance and the fight against HIV/AIDS, has died at the age of 86 ...
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His Excellency Festus Gontebanye Mogae, Third President of the Republic of Botswana, is today laid to rest at Phomolong Memorial Park in Phakalane. He led his country from 1998 to 2008, in a decade defined by economic discipline and democratic consolidation.
Trained as an economist at the Universities of Oxford and Sussex, President Mogae served as Governor of the Bank of Botswana, as Permanent Secretary to the President, and as Minister of Finance and Development Planning before assuming the Vice Presidency in 1992 and the Presidency in 1998.
Under his leadership, Botswana became the first nation on the African continent to provide universal antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS, at a time when the country faced one of the world’s heaviest burdens from the disease.
His voluntary transfer of power at the end of his second term, in keeping with the constitutional two-term limit, and his subsequent recognition through the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership in 2008, remain among the defining markers of his public life. In the years that followed, he served as United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Change and continued to lend his voice to public health advocacy across the continent.
May he rest in peace.
🧵 2/2 - His command of words and clarity of mind when he speaks is implacable to say the least. His diction in both Setswana and English is impressively admirable and always matches the tone of the day without fault. Re le bantsi re ka ithuta go ala mafoko jaaka ene..! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
🧵 1/2 - I have no dog any political fight, nor any bone to chew with whoever, harbor no favor towards or against & honestly can’t say he is one of my favorite persons to have ever come across, so when I say Mpho Balopi is a GREAT orator I say it with almost sincerity.
In our language we call this “Botho” jwa Setswana. Very difficult to explain this word and behavior to a non-Motswana to fully understand and it’s fully understood once you live amongst us Batswana.
A true Statesman heading to his home before heading off to be placed at his final resting place tomorrow. Batswana lined up the road-way to pay their final respects. Rest Motalaote, ikhutse mmina-Pelo, ya gago tiro e wetse o e dirile ka manomtlhotlho..!