Botswana Bound

London--De Beers announced that it plans to sell off its effective 70 percent share in Botswana's AK06 diamond deposit to Canada's Lucara Diamond Corp. for $49 million in cash, a decision the company says was prompted by its strategy of keeping the ...  

Edison Investment Research published a report on Botswana operating nickel and copper miner Discovery Metals, following the upgrade of the resource at its Zeta prospect at the Boseto project in northwest Botswana last month, putting its potential ...  

Nov 11, 2009 (Globes - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Wireless backhaul solutions developer Ceragon Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: CRNT; TASE:CRNT) has signed a deal with Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) for the supply of ...  

The National Aids Coordinating Agency (NACA) has refused to shed light on the P461,865 it paid to Budget Car and Van Rental for excess mileage and incidental charges. The organisation rented vehicles for the three-month Botswana AIDS Impact Survey ...  

Musician Kabo Matlho is among the 4,000 people or organisations whose funds have been abandoned in various banking vaults in Botswana. The Bank of Botswana says that the Kabo Matlho Trust funds have been lying idle at Barclays Bank while more ...  

Think of it as the 21st century's 221B Baker Street: Fans of the book series No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency have taken an interest in the country of Botswana, where the book's action takes place, thanks in part to a small-screen adaptation. The ten-book series by Alexander McCall Smith follows Precious Ramotswe, the first female Botswanan P.I., as she and her assistant Grace solve cases of missing girlfriends and blackmail, among others...  

The Botswana Football Association (BFA) has at long last confirmed Stan Tshosane as Zebras coach. We want to welcome him to the position he has been holding on a caretaker basis and wish him well. It is not an easy job coaching a football side, let ...  

Ceragon Networks Ltd., a provider of wireless backhaul products, announced that Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC), has selected Ceragon for upgrading its nationwide wireless backbone as well as the backhaul network of its cellular ...  

In Tuesday’s post about the bear that ate an aircraft in Alaska, I mentioned that some of the hazards of backcountry flying included hitting wild animals on remote African airstrips. Colliding with a giraffe on take-off in a Cessna 172 is a pretty grim experience, as this photo from Lee Ouzman attests. This sad incident [...] Related posts:Grizzly bear eats aeroplane in AlaskaBirds break aircraftAirsick: Is aircraft air a danger to your...  

The ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has replaced the three officials who resigned from the central committee last week. Lobatse deputy mayor, Malebogo Kruger has succeeded the resigned Wynter Mmolotsi as BDP deputy secretary, while ...  

Botswana's diamond exports totalled P9.3 billion year-on-year at the end of September against the current forecast of P13.9 billion and the 2008 total of P21.3 billion. According to Capital Securities Economic Review report released last Friday, this ...  

There appears to be some "Makhirikhiri"(sabotage) and "Metsametsano (fighting) between the national radio station and a leading music icon. Cultural music star Shumba Ratshega, who popularised the words, Makhirikhiri and Metsametsano, in his smash ...  

KATIMA MULILO, Namibia, Nov. 6 — Five Southern African Development Community (SADC) tourism ministers from Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe Thursday expressed satisfaction with the progress made on the proposed trans-frontier tourism ...  

"The Okavango Macbeth - based on a real life encounter Mr McCall Smith had with two primatologists in the Okavango Delta - transfers the plot of the Shakespearean tragedy to a troupe of baboons." Performances are in a converted garage outside Gaborone (the African nation's capital)....  

Exploitation of rich mineral reserves, especially diamonds, has been a significant driver behind Botswana s rapid economic growth. Notably, the mining sector of Botswana contributes in double digits in terms of percentage of the country s GDP ...