INVESTEC, RMB ACQUIRE CHOPPIES DISTRIBUTOR
The Private Equity arms of Investec Asset Management and RMB Ventures have acquired a 72 percent stake in Kamoso Distributor (Pty) Ltd, an umbrella company to ten companies that distributes to Choppies...
View ArticleTURNSTAR FACE OFF TANZANIA AUTHORITIES ON WITHHOLDING TAX
Property titan, Turnstar Holdings Limited may soon be engaged in a tussle with the Tanzania Revenue Authority over claims of withheld tax, the company has announced in its latest annual report....
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NIGEL’S P100 000/DAY ENQUIRY
• Provisional liquidator fees average half a million a week • Legal fees so far more than P4m • Mining experts also engaged to probe BCL The wheels of the BCL enquiry grind slowly, and at around P100...
View ArticleMILLIONAIRES MYNHARDTS FAMILY EXTEND NAP’S LEAD
Bullish counter, New African Properties (NAP) has emerged as the most liquid property company on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) – the third quarter of 2017, helped by one off shareholder...
View ArticleLIBERTY LIFE JOINS THE FIGHT FOR FINANCIAL LITERACY
Liberty Life Botswana has introduced a new financial literacy program named Mind My Money. According to a communique from the life insurer, the program aims to empower its participants to achieve...
View ArticleWORLD BANK PROJECTS INCREASED GDP GROWTH
World Bank Lead Economist, Punam Chuhan-Pole says domestic output in Botswana is projected to grow at around 4.5 percent in 2017, almost double the 2.9 percent in 2016, driven by a rebound in commodity...
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MPHATHI’S LAST FLIGHT TO SUA PAN: HOW MPHATHI WAS DETHRONED
On Wednesday morning or at least before afternoon, one of the most successful parastatal CEOs in the history of the country, Botswana Ash’s no-nonsense man Montwedi Mpathi was inside the Botswana Ash...
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THE MYSTERY OF TSHEKEDI’S MISSING FILES
Deputy Clerk of the Parliamentary Tutu Tsiang has struggled to explain to the Committee on Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises how a Parliamentary report on Minister of Environment, Natural...
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ETUDIANT: PROFITING FROM STUDENT MEDICAL AID
Until recently no medical aid cover existed in Botswana that was specifically designed to cater for students. After going through a traumatizing experience of falling ill whilst still a student owner...
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Delays in BPOPF P1.5 billion kitty Allocation
It has emerged that, faced with scandals in the management of billions belonging to pensioners, the Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOPF) is yet to make a decision on the P1.5 billion...
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DIS AGENTS AND DRAMA AT BAKANG HEARING
Bakang Seretse Not since former Debswana MD Louis Nchindo was brought before Judge Lott Moroka, has a case been so swathed in drama as the Bakang Seretse saga currently unfolding through the judicial...
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SUCCESSION IN CONSTITIONAL CRISIS?
Masisi’ swearing in and inaguration Botswana is accelerating towards a constitutional crisis, with a complete shutdown of Parliament, if the interpretation of the Constitution, by some legal minds...
View ArticleSUCCESSION IN CONSTITIONAL CRISIS?
Botswana is accelerating towards a constitutional crisis, with a complete shutdown of Parliament, if the interpretation of the Constitution, by some legal minds about the ascendance of President...
View ArticleKGOSI WAS KING
Staff writer TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA reviews the performance of the PAC members as they encounter Directorate of Intelligence and Security Isaac Kgosi The PAC as a committee Watching the Public Accounts...
View ArticleLOST GRIP – THE END OF THE GRIPEN FIGHTER JET
The last two weeks of the Khama presidency was characterized by frantic backroom negotiations, as friends of the Gripen fighter jet deal fought to save it. Botswana Defence Force insiders reveal...
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