President Mokgweetsi Masisi invested considerable political capital in the venture and brushed aside criticisms that HB was not big enough to take on the vast increase in scale the new supplies from Botswana would entail...
MASISI SISTER'S CHINA CONNEXION President Mokgweetsi Masisi is facing reputational challenges from a court case scheduled for next month which claims the 'first family' is excessively influenced by Chinese business interests...
The ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has never been the same since President Mokgweetsi Masisi fell out with his mentor ex-President Ian Khama who had hand-picked him as his successor with no notion they would soon become deadly foes (AC Vol 59 No 6 A well-scripted succession)...
If President Mokgweetsi Masisi has got it right the new agreement Botswana has struck with its dominant economic partner De Beers – to sell half of its rough diamonds in 10 years' time – could make the difference between staying in power and becoming the first president since independence to be defeated at the polls...
President Mokgweetsi Masisi insists his renegotiation of terms with De Beers is a huge victory while others say it was the world's biggest diamond producer that came out on top in the deal reached on 30 June...
Launching HB Antwerp's Botswana factory on 27 March President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced the equity deal which will see the Belgian company getting its pick of rough diamonds from the state-owned Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) over five years...
After five years of negotiations over revenues and production at the world's biggest diamond mine Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi and the De Beers conglomerate are at loggerheads...
Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi is happy to call himself one of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa few friends abroad...
President Mokgweetsi Masisi's supporters in his bitter struggle with former mentor and predecessor Ian Khama are congratulating themselves following a court ruling that has neutered Khama's plans to return to politics...
The independence of Botswana's judiciary is in the spotlight following accusations by a tribal chief that President Mokgweetsi Masisi told her he would direct judges on how to rule in a case in which her Balete tribe is fighting the government over land...
Khama and Bridgette have previously been accused by Botswana of trying to overthrow his successor President Mokgweetsi Masisi and of involvement in money laundering (AC Vol 60 No 7 Stumbles at the falls)...
