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The Trace Awards & Summit 2025, the most prestigious musical event on the African continent, is set to electrify Zanzibar. The Trace Awards ceremony, taking place on February 26, 2025, will bring together the continent’s and diaspora’s greatest talents. Trace invites fans worldwide to actively participate by voting for their favorite artists. Voting1 will officially open on January 2 at ➡ www.traceawards.plus. Music fans, it’s your time to act! Your vote accounts for 50% of the final decision and can make the difference in choosing the winners. The other half results from the votes of an expert jury. A Celebration…

African Union Media Fellows 2.0 (AUMF 2.0), fact-checker Jibi Moses Korsuk. M, and digital journalist Maurice Thantan will facilitate a Civic Tech and Media training on the 7-8 May 2025 at Woodlane Hotel in Gaborone. Both Moses and Thantan have a decade of experience in fact-checking, digital media, data journalism, and governance. The two have collaborated with development journalist Keletso Thobega, who is also an AU media fellow, as the workshop assistant. The aim of the training is to contribute to open governance and transparency and foster media innovation in Africa. The workshop is targeted at individuals who work in…

The Summer Kids Marathon staged a successful 500 kids participants at the Three Dikgosi Monument

Stanbic Bank Botswana has appointed of Realeboga Phoi as Chief Finance and Value Management Officer (CFVMO), effective 1st July 2022 post regulatory approvals. Rea takes on the role after being with the Bank for 5 years first as Financial Controller and later as Head of Finance. Said Stanbic Bank Botswana Chief Executive, Chose Modise, “Having worked with Rea in the last few years, I can confidently say she is a truly remarkable professional and I know she will deliver well in this new role. She has demonstrated passion for clients and a good balance between profit and purpose, thinking beyond finance. This…

Reliance Infosystems has converged digital experts for a one-day seminar under the theme: “Digital leadership in a new reality’’ at Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC) in Gaborone on Thursday, 11 August 2022, to unpack and interrogate the digital era dynamics in the workplace. With operations in 4 countries in Africa and others in UAE, Pakistan, Canada, and the UK, the company fit extensively prevalent to the country’s ambitions as a knowledge-based economy. Reliance Infosystems is a Microsoft-managed gold partner with multiple accolades for its outstanding technology services. Thus, the symposium comes when the economy works towards achieving innovation, research and development capability, knowledge channels and…

Botswana’s flamboyant Weightlifting star Kgotla Kgaswane has bowed out of the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England with a new Personal Best (PB) and National Record (NR) even though he did not finish on podium. He was competing for the honours in men’s 55kg category against 11 other opponents from various nations across the world. In his second appearance at the Commonwealth games the 21-year-old gave an electrifying performance with the English crowd getting behind him as he lifted 70kg snatch and 101kg in clean and jerk for the final time with just a second left on the clock. He…

Nature is not meant to be put in order. Nature is order. Therefore, our only course of action for a survivable future is to work in unison with nature. – Wilderness Camp Manager Every year, World Nature Conservation Day is celebrated on 28 July to create awareness among people about the importance and significance of natural resources. In 1983, two young guides with one old overland vehicle decided to strike out on their own and offer authentic safaris in Botswana’s unexplored wildlife areas. Never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined what they had started. Today, thanks to their vision of creating life-changing…

The Fields Mall, a retail property of CBD Fields Holdings has opened its doors to customers effective late last month. The mall, which is located in Gaborone’s Central Building District (CBD) precinct sits on a 26 000 square meters trading space. The Property Manager of the Mall Nazly Dawood exudes with sureness that the mall will usher a new shopping experience to its customers as it is situated in between the Gaborone bus terminal and the Gaborone CBD. Aptly tagged “share the experience”, Dawood said the mall will depicts the lifestyle of both the bus terminal daily routine of passionate entrepreneurship by…

The Botswana Insurance Company (BIC) Pimp Your Ride competition which saw hundreds of entries from participants came to an exhilarating grand finale today, with four BIC customers walking away with phenomenal prizes courtesy of BIC and Cresta. Amongst the four, one lucky BIC customer, Lebogang Lesetedi won a whopping P50,000 worth of car accessories from Broadhurst 4×4 while three walked away with Cresta Pride Membership cards. The leading short-term insurer ran this competition to present customers with a more convenient way to engage with them as well as to encourage customers to utilize the company’s Customer Portal, “My BIC”, which allows existing…

MOSHUPA – Building on a longstanding passion to support communities and to wield positive impact in the education space through CSI and staff volunteerism, the Stanbic Bank Botswana team travelled to Moshupa to donate to Bakgatla Primary School. The donation comes not only as part of the Bank’s 30th anniversary activities, but as part of a dedicated focus on investment in education, being a key pillar of the Bank’s CSI efforts. This is the second wave of support from the Bank for the School and saw staff from the Commercial Clients Department raise funds which the Bank then matched to procure 64 pairs of school shoes, 36 mattresses,…