THE BOTSWANA GAZETTE

11/11/2025

🎉 14th Annual IIAB Conference 2025

We’re excited to announce our Keynote Speaker — Hon. Maipelo B. Mophuting, Assistant Minister for State President & MP for Gaborone Bonnington North! 🇧🇼

Join IIAB as she shares powerful insights on Leadership, Governance, and National Development, inspiring a shift from Hindsight to Foresight.

🎯 Theme: Mitigating Tomorrow’s Risk – The Shift from Hindsight to Foresight
📅 12–14 November 2025
📍 Phakalane Golf Estate & Convention Centre

Don’t miss this premier leadership and governance event!
👉 Register now: https://forms.office.com/e/myJJgT7t17?origin=lprLink

📞 +267 3902006 / +267 72329331
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11/11/2025

Two weeks after warnings were issued, the forecast has turned into reality — heavy rains are now pounding southern Botswana. Roads are already beginning to get waterlogged, and anxious residents are bracing for the worst. Yet, the same question persists: have authorities truly learned from past disasters, or is history repeating itself?

https://www.thegazette.news/news/flood-warning-same-problems/

10/11/2025

Minister of Sport and Arts, Jacob Kelebeng, is pictured here with Micky Jnr African Football Journalist, a renowned football journalist from Ghana, at the State of the Nation Address.

10/11/2025

President Duma Boko has arrived for the State of the Nation Address.

10/11/2025

“Resources for funding the social welfare systems are non-existent or very little”

President Duma Boko warns of the looming end to decades of state-funded welfare and energy subsidies as government plans new cost-recovery reforms   GAZETTE REPORTER   President Duma Boko has warned Batswana to prepare for the eventual end of decades of state-funded subsidies, saying the country c...

10/11/2025

Former Vice President Slumber Tsogwane has also arrived for the State of the Nation Address.

10/11/2025

Assistant Minister of Health, Lawrence Ookeditse, and Mephato Reatile are pictured together arriving for the State of the Nation Address.

10/11/2025

Leader of the Opposition, Dumelang Saleshando, has also arrived for the State of the Nation Address.

10/11/2025

Former President Festus Mogae has arrived for the State of the Nation Address.

10/11/2025

SONA Arrivals

10/11/2025

SONA ARRIVALS

10/11/2025

The judgment of the Appeals Court meant that there should be no hunting in NG13 pending arbitration

Former Justice Minister Shamukuni’s company claims it lawfully purchased the NG13 concession, but the authorities halted hunting licences, citing ongoing disputes with another company   GAZETTE REPORTER   Former Minister of Justice Ronald Machana Shamukuni is embroiled in a high-stakes legal bat...