أرشيف الكاتب: PanAfrikanist

SADC Parliamentary Forum participates in second regional meeting on climate action oversight

Moses Magadza WINDHOEK, Namibia – The Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) participated in the Second Southern Africa Parliamentarian Regional Meeting in Windhoek, Namibia last week. The event, held from July 31 to August 2, brought…

16 August 2024

Award winning Al Jazeera Correspondent Youmma El-Sayed visits Botswana, recounts Israel atrocities in Gaza

The Pan Africanist Watchman An award winning journalist, who is also an Al Jazeera English Correspondent, Ms Youmma El-Sayed has surmounted courage to travel around the worlds to share the story of Gaza. El-Sayed, who…

16 August 2024

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Namibia’s Media Ombudsman condemns the publishing of photo depicting dead lion

By: Vitalio Angula The publishing of a photo depicting a lion that was tracked down and killed by rangers of Namibia’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism on Saturday 10 August (World Lion Day) on…

15 August 2024

Fidel Castro with Ghana's founding president, Kwame Nkrumah

Fidel Castro: A Lesson To African Leaders

The late Fidel Castro lent support to several African and Caribbean countries, providing medical, educational, and in some cases military, aid. Now, posits Addai Sebo, the African Union (AU), and indeed the African diaspora, must…

14 August 2024

The Olympics Glory has landed in Botswana!

Tuesday 13th August 2024 by TPA Watchman It was a scene from a fairy tale! Multitudes of Batswana flocked SSKIA, the country’s premiere airport in Gaborone on Tuesday 13th August 2024, some forming a beeline…

13 August 2024

The National Endowment for Democracy: What It Is and What It Does

Updated: August 09, 2024 10:00 August 2024 Introduction The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) acts as the US government’s “white gloves.” It has long engaged in subverting state power in other countries, meddling in other countries’ internal affairs, inciting division and…

13 August 2024

Ambassador Fan Yong presents Letters of Credence to Foreign Minister Dr Lemogang Kwape

Chinese New Ambassador Mr. Fan Yong arrives in Botswana to assume office ahead of next month’s FOCAC Summit

On August 6, 2024, His Excellency Fan Yong, the newly-appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Botswana, arrived in Gaborone to assume office.  He was warmly received…

12 August 2024

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Mao Ning

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s Remarks on August 9, 2024

RIA Novosti: The Eastern Economic Forum 2024 will be held at the campus of the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok from September 3 to 6. Does China plan to send representatives to the forum…

12 August 2024

Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya. Photo: Contributed

When writing becomes a distraction!

Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya (TNN) is one of renowned Zimbabwean writers who writes in Ndebele and English. She was born in Matebeleland South Province in Zimbabwe to a Ndebele father and Shona mother. She grew up…

11 August 2024

Secretary General of the SADC Parliamentary Forum Ms Boemo Sekgoma. Photo: Contributed

SADC PF SG urges addressing access to digital technology for the youth

By Moses Magadza WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA – As the world celebrates International Youth Day on August 12, the Secretary General of the SADC Parliamentary Forum Ms Boemo Sekgoma has highlighted the intersection of digital access and…

11 August 2024

President Duma Boko receives the Forensic Audit Report on Thursday, 30th, 2026, from the Chairman of the Project Steering Committee. Moses Pelaelo

Boko receives forensic audit report, vows to prosecute offenders

The Pan Afrikanist Watchman Gaborone – 30 April 2026 – President Advocate Duma Boko has received the long-awaited forensic audit report, marking a decisive transition from anti-corruption pledges to active enforcement. The audit, conducted by…

30 April 2026

BPS top brass, led by Commissioner Dinah Marathe, sharing insights with the Russian delegation - pic. BPS

Botswana Police Service gains forensic, cybercrime edge through Russian partnership

Gaborone, April 29, 2026 — Commissioner of Police Dinah Marathe today received a courtesy call from the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Botswana, His Excellency Andrey Kemarskiy, at Police Headquarters, reaffirming the strong institutional…

30 April 2026

Outgoing Algerian Ambassador, His Excellency Abdermark Tigharghar, paid a farewell courtesy call on President Duma Boko on April 28, 2026

O𝐮𝐭𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐨𝐤𝐨

His Excellency Abdermark Tigharghar paid a farewell courtesy call on President Duma Boko following the conclusion of his two-year tenure in Botswana. Ambassador Tigharghar expressed gratitude for the warm hospitality extended to him, describing Batswana…

28 April 2026

Portia Tremlett Curator of World Art (left) with fellow Curator Sandra Bauza Santos @ Brighton & Hove Museums packs away historical items bound for Botswana as part of the repatriations programme ****Pic by David McHugh / Brighton Pictures

Brighton & Hove Museums Return 45 Artefacts to Botswana Today

GABORONE/BRIGHTON, April 28 — Forty-five cultural artefacts collected in Botswana in the 1890s arrive in Serowe today following their repatriation from Brighton & Hove Museums in the UK. The return follows a 2022 claim by…

28 April 2026

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Orange Money Botswana Raises Transaction Limits in Digital Push

Orange Money Botswana has increased its transaction limits for their customers, a move expected to strengthen the platform’s role as a key financial inclusion tool and accelerate the shift toward digital payments. The mobile financial…

24 April 2026

Cuban Ambassador Antonio Luis Pubillones Izaguirre, signing the Document denouncing the US blockade against Cuba

Cubans in Botswana Back Revolutionary Homeland Campaign with Public Statement

GABORONE – Members of the Cuban Medical Mission in Botswana have joined the global initiative “My Signature for the Homeland”, reaffirming solidarity with their nation’s revolutionary ideals. The Statement was read in Gaborone by the…

24 April 2026