The Ministry of Finance and Development Planning has engaged a consultant from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as it hammers out contentious reforms to the Income Tax Act, BusinessWeek has learnt.

The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC)'s envisioned 200-megawatt (MW) solar power station has moved to feasibility study stage, moving the groundbreaking energy project closer to development.

Global Initiatives, a Botswana-owned company headed by Mr Atang Makgekgenene and other Botswana citizens, has reached a landmark agreement with BCL after a two-year feasibility study and negotiation process.

Although a myriad of challenges remain, Southern African Customs Union (SACU)'s five members smoked the peace pipe in Pretoria last week in an atmosphere one commentator described as being characterised by "mutual respect."

Southern African Customs Union (SACU) heads of state and government have agreed that the customs union should be transformed into a vehicle for economic integration capable of promoting equitable development.

The Diamond Trading Company Botswana (DTCB) has identified the overall winner for this year's Shining Light Diamond Jewellery Design Awards competition.

SERULE: Shell Oil Botswana has distanced itself from Sunrise Filling Station in Serule. The filling station is said to be selling fuel that has not been supplied by Shell.

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Sometimes it's right to be Mr or Ms Nice Guy. When something goes wrong, when the service you get isn't quite good enough, when a product isn't up to the required standard, it's the normal thing to raise the issue in calm, measured and reasonable terms.

Debswana Mining Company is still engaged in negotiations for the construction of a tailings plant at the Jwaneng mine.

JOHANNESBURG - The diamond sector is going through a consolidation period with rough diamond prices expected to pull back between 5% and 10%, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Des Kilalea.

The US will impose new sanctions on North Korea, following the crisis over the sinking of a South Korean warship. The move was announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a visit to South Korea.

The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) warns that xenophobic attacks will continue until the government found a solution to poverty and unemployment.

US President Barack Obama warned Africans that groups like Al-Qaeda saw their "innocent" lives as cheap, in a personal challenge to extremists on the continent after the Uganda bombings.

Ken Savage says that, at first, he welcomed his wife's new interest in Facebook.

The completion of our congress marks a major turning point in the history of Botswana politics. We have in the past traversed separate paths as members of Botswana Congress Party and Botswana Alliance Movement.

Increasingly, despite its early military and political successes, Israel cannot for long endure as a colonial project. It must choose between wars -and destruction - or transition to a state for all its peoples.

Founder member of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika, has used his dogged, expressive style to ingrain himself on Zambia's political and social conscience. Now he is head of TAZARA and promising more according to KALI MULUZI & FLOLICS KASUMBALESA

Mmegi staffer EPHRAIM KEORENG sat down with BNF's longest serving central committee member, Mohammed Khan as he reflected on his preferred presidential candidate and the troubled front movement that has not known peace for a long time

BRUSSELS - Europe continues to constitute the epicenter of Act II of the global financial crisis, which has now mutated into a sovereign-debt crisis within the eurozone.