Maun – YourBotswana

Perenti’s training commitment to Botswana

In June 2019, diversified mining services company, Perenti announced that its subsidiary, leading hard-rock underground miner, Barminco, had been awarded…

Maun Airport makeover complete

The P120.7 million Maun Airport Terminal Renovation project, which started in April 2019, will be completed by the end of…

CemAir eyes Africa

Johannesburg-based CemAir has applied for a licence to operate scheduled flights between Johannesburg and Lagos, Luanda, Lusaka, Ndola, Lubumbashi, Dar…

Maun Pop-up Experiences: Revolutionising the Botswana dining experience

A great many of us can agree that 2020 has been a year of trials and tribulations the likes of…

YM Online: redefining the Botswana shopping experience

Ever since the COVID pandemic hit, President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s 4th Industrial Revolution aspirations for Botswana appear to have accelerated. As…

Maun Waste Warriors: waging war against litter

There’s no doubt that Botswana has a litter problem. Right across the length and breadth of the country, the streets…

Maria, Co-founder of Naletsana Charity Organization needs your help

There’s no doubt that 2020 is the year that people the world over will forever remember for the dark time…

Fresh, local food in Botswana: “We are ready to meet this demand.”

UNDP, with financing from the Global Environment Facility, is providing technical and financial support to the Permanent Okavango River Basin…

Botswana elephant sanctuary owner, Doug Groves killed by wild elephant

Living with Elephants founder and owner, Doug Groves has been tragically killed by a wild elephant in the Okavango Delta.…

Botswana’s Mack Air sets sights on scheduled pax ops

Mack Air (MKB, Maun) is planning to enter Botswana’s scheduled passenger services market and would have done so earlier this…

Consultations to begin on the transformation of Maun Educational Park into a science park

Stakeholder consultations regarding Maun Educational Park are on the horizon, the spokesperson for Kgosi Tawana age regiment, Douglas Mokenane has…

Memories of 1960s Maun: a boat regatta in the Swamps

The attached video is of some self-organised entertainment for the Maun resident’s, a boat regatta in the Swamps. There was…

Spotlight on new camp, Nokanyana

Nokanyana, or Little River in English, overlooks the confluence where the Khwai and Mababe Rivers meet, creating a beautiful environment…

Memories of 1960s Botswana: Leaving Paradise

On the way home for one holiday, we were close to the border on the South African side when we…

Challenges of life in 1960s Maun

There were many other challenges to living in Maun, probably best summed up by the neighbour who came around with…

Visiting Maun? 10 pointers you might find useful

Maun is a former dusty outpost for intrepid travellers and old-school hunting outfits. Today Maun is the centre of Botswana’s…

No story about Ngamiland is complete without a snake or crocodile story

The images attached are of snakes that were found in the garden; there is a long fat one and a…

Kenson Kgaga – Botswana’s founding father of the popular Mokoro ride

The Mokoro (dugout canoe) excursion in the Okavango Delta has become one of the most sought-after travel experiences for local…

Do you remember a time when Maun’s popular hangout spot, Backpackers had resident cheetahs?

This week, Ian Brooks, a resident of Maun for a time the 1960s, shares with us a memory of a…

Development in Maun has to start in 2020

It was 2006 when I first visited Maun, it was my first time visiting Botswana. All I knew about Botswana…

Frantic San gentleman braves days’ journey on foot through a route fraught with danger to seek medical assistance for sick wife

The photograph is of a San gentleman. My father won an award for this photograph; he chose to develop it…

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