Sunday Standard Headlines Today

Sunday Standard, March 15 – 21

The Telegraph March 11

New survey shows unemployment rate climbing

Debswana sales rise

First Capital Bank rolls out instant SADC payments

FNBB leans on digital push as profits hold stead

Pula weakens against Rand but gains against SDRs

Bus industry labour breaches under scrutiny

Demonising Johnson Motshwarakgole will prove counterproductive

Apex by design, misunderstood in practice: Reframing the debate on Botswana’s Quaternary Referral Hospital – SKMTH

Use technology to improve public service

Million Pula fresh, rebranded National Volleyball League resumes

Manual workers’ union accuses Boko of “arrogant and intolerant leadership”

EU, Ukraine turn up heat on Botswana over Russian war recruits

Expanding Labour Force Outpaces Hiring, New Data Shows

Study exposes hidden crisis at Marina Hospital Cancer Unit

Sunday Standard, March 8 – 14

The Telegraph March 4

Debt limit bill heads to Parley

BoB holds rates as inflation risks rise

Botswana targets agriculture-led growth at inaugural investment forum

BoB drafts emergency liquidity backstop after 2025 cash squeeze

Gov’t seeks investor to revive Masama mine

HATAB warns 3% air tax could derail tourism recovery

Empty seats, rising deficit: The cost of Parliamentary absenteeism

The bad idea of a Corporate Social Responsibility tax

Collapse of quorum at the National Assembly exposes cracks in UDC management style

De Beers in education

Beleaguered Botswana Motor Sports Internal Strife Reaches Parliament

‘It Will Help Us to Gauge Ourselves and Learn’

The limits of kindness

DCEC Bill faces autonomy test

DCEC Bill – Failure to report corruption attracts jail term

Court interdicts DIS from proceeding with Kgoadi disciplinary hearing

Government withdraws de-recognition letters against Basubiya chief

Growing old, going hungry: inside Botswana’s invisible elder-care crisis

Botswana Oil caught in a lie and a goof

Proposed Bill raises jail risk for journalists and whistle-blowers

Old Age Pension overstretched as ageing and poverty collide