BCL dismiss sacked workers’ appeal
FRANCISTOWN: The BCL mine management has dismissed an appeal by three of the four union leaders seeking to be re-instated back to their jobs at the mine. Golekanye Mogende, Kabelo Oitsile and Kealeboga Keakantse failed in their bid to get back their jobs while the case of Abel Bukha is still pending.

Panic as pupils miss Form One places
A number of parents are in a panic after their children missed out in the Form One admissions. The parents have been paying frequent visits to the South Central Regional Education Office at the National Development Building in the Gaborone Main Mall since last week.

High-speed compassion in a wired world
Two-year-old girl from Francistown gets treatment in Canada for rare eye cancer No one knows better than Salome Poonyane that high-speed compassion is alive and well in the global village.

Taking the headache out of weddings
Winning catering tenders with their homemade pasta salads, Ontlametse Moitse and Letlhogonolo Malunga came to appreciate the problems that emanate from the lack of organisation and coordination at a lot of events, especially weddings.

Livingstone is dead, long live Livingstone
A town in Zambia named for a Scottish missionary-explorer is preparing for its centenary anniversary – and it promises to be a party with a difference. SANDY GRANT reports