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Bame Piet 13 December 2013

F/town club introduces children golf programme

“As of January next year, the Francistown Golf Club would be inviting young children to train as future golfers,” said Tebogo Toteng, the competition secretary at the club. He explained that the envisaged programme is part of the...

Shingirai Madondo 13 December 2013

Young Masole plans to up his golf

The only distinctive difference about him is that he is the winner of the 2013 Orange Classics Golf Championships. The 23-year-old golfer became involved in the sport in 2007 through his cousin, Christopher Masole in Sowa Town. Masole is now a...

Calistus Kolantsho | 13 December 2013

Kamogenge - the man who hates to lose

This is despite the fact that the 20-year-old’s ascent to stardom has been made relatively smooth because of good role models around him. He trains with the seasoned Viki Majama while Zamani Makhulela, a female karateka, is his...

Thato Kala 13 December 2013

Three clubs dominate volleyball awards

The three clubs won four awards each at the event. BDF’s Agisanyang Kurwana and Kutlwano’s Karabo Molefha were the main attraction of the night, winning the Most Valuable Player (MVP) and best receiver awards. The...

Mosah Mokganedi 13 December 2013

Boxing coaches graduate from AIBA course

The course was held under the aegis of Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA) with funds sourced by the Botswana National Olympic Committee from the Olympic Solidarity Funding. The course attracted coaches from clubs and national...

Teichler Rankoa 13 December 2013

Vilakazi threatens to rough up Mogapi

In fact, Vilakazi confirmed this week that he never received a salary from Notwane throughout his short stay at the club before terminating his deal and joining BMC. In an exclusive interview, Vilakazi told Mmegi Sport that efforts...

Thato Kala 13 December 2013

Mosquito vow to bounce back

Speaking to Mmegi Sport, Matsapa refuted the demise of the Selebi-Phikwe team and expressed confidence it was headed for the first division. “We played in the premier league and did not last. From there we dropped to the third division where...

Kevin Obotseng 13 December 2013

Botswana football union welcomes computerised player transfers

“I think it’s good for football because sometimes the move won’t happen because the agent feels he won’t make money. The basic principle is to make sure the player plays football,” FUB spokesperson...

Thato Kala 13 December 2013

High-riding Highlanders eye elite league return

The team is currently perched at the top of the Debswana First Division North League with 20 points from nine games after winning six, drawing two and losing one. They rattled the net 14 times and conceded six goals. The teams’...

Shingirai Madondo 13 December 2013

Premier League season reaches halfway mark

Exciting left back, Otlantshekela Mooketsi and Francis Kanda’s goals ensured that Matebele open a five-point gap at the top of the league table. The victory against BMC means BDF XI will finish the first round perched at the summit of the log...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 13 December 2013

Committee working hard to turn Notwane around

Former club owner Mogapi had not paid players for three months which resulted in some of them being thrown out of their lodgings for failing to pay rent. Since then the team has been struggling and is currently languishing at the bottom of the...

Lekopanye Mooketsi 13 December 2013

Buccaneers set to snare Ngele

However, former Pirates star Benedict Vilakazi warns such a move would be suicidal. Ngele’s brace last Saturday sunk the Buccaneers in the Telkom Knockout final, further increasing interest in the former Santos and Township Rollers star. The...

Thato Kala 13 December 2013

Of cattle and chickens

“To what extent does the dream reflect the character and the suppressed desires of a dreamer? Does the dreamer choose his dreams, or the dreams choose him? In other words, if I had the same dream, would it mean the same thing?”...

Barolong Seboni 13 December 2013

Message to BLLAWU congress

We are proud and happy as a political party that strives for the rights of workers, the poor and the downtrodden to be here to deliver this solidarity message. As a progressive popular Democratic movement which was launched in 1966...

Correspondent 13 December 2013

Repose in God�s hands, Tata

Regrettably, the 20th Century was similarly robbed of the fullness of Mandela’s contribution to civilisation, thanks to his incarceration for arguably under a system steeped in inequity as it was in iniquity. Aged 46 when he was...

Staff Writer 13 December 2013

It should be allowed

Staff Writer 13 December 2013

Was Setswana originally an ancient Sumerian language? (Part II)

Last week I discussed just a few examples out of the nearly three hundred terms that populate my still-expanding Dictionary of Protolanguage Terms. In that article, I demonstrated that it is premature to conclude that the Indo-European...

L M Leteane 13 December 2013

Their countries hurt them, creating a force field of grief

Ghana Must Go is a brilliant first novel by Taiye Selasi, a Ghanaian-Nigerian writer now living in Rome, Italy, and with maturing roots in New England in the United States. Her parents were medical doctors, Juliette Tuakli (to whom the book...

Correspondent 13 December 2013

Such a crazy life

If you want a fast moving, yet light and silly entertainment it is worth watching. It is another cop duo comedy; this time set in Boston, Massachusetts, and filmed there over nine weeks starting in July 2012. Sandra Bullock is great,...

Correspondent 13 December 2013

Mantlwaneng showcases beauty and beast

Director Aldo Brincat has taken himself and his team to task to stage the play at Westwood’s Mantlwaneng. With the play, Brincat has managed to keep its plot intact. Instead his modifications have been fused to accommodate...

Mpho Tlale 13 December 2013

Organisers fail WKCA, disappoint fans

The event would have 16 communities taking part in such a grand display of art and culture of the surviving first inhabitants of this mighty desert. Picture hosting the event at Kang a popular pit stop on the Tropic of Capricorn along the...

Thalefang Charles | 13 December 2013

Auto-shop drags Competition Commission to High Court

Early last month, the Commission ruled against four companies' challenge that it was structurally indistinguishable from the Competition Authority, which is prosecuting the price fixing case. The Commission gave the companies four weeks to appeal...

Mbongeni Mguni | 13 December 2013

BPC costs drive P2bn supplementary budget

Supplementary Finance Paper No. 1 of 2013/14 was due to be discussed and passed before Parliament's closure today (Friday). By Wednesday, Parliament's Finance and Estimates Committee was still conducting meetings with the ministries seeking...

Mbongeni Mguni | 13 December 2013

BoB to introduce new family of coins

According to the Government Gazette, most features of the new coins will largely remain unchanged for the current seven denominations in circulation, except for the P2 coin. The new P2 coin will have a brown centre piece along a...

Brian Benza 13 December 2013

Diamonds - A very rough trade

In 2012, total world diamond production of mined diamonds stood at some 128 million carats of diamonds at a value of US14.5 billion. But total imports of diamonds as recorded by all countries in the Kimberly Process, which exists to regulate...

Roman Grynberg 13 December 2013

Govt to establish roads authority

"We are moving towards establishing a roads authority so that they can go into the markets and borrow funds to finance roads infrastructure and maintenance," said Minister of Transport and Communications Nonofo Molefhi at the recently ended HATAB...

Boitshepo Majube 13 December 2013

DTC relocation - a golden era for national development

The first part of this article is written for the benefit of those who have been pushing me to share a bit of information on what motivated me to embark a diamond beneficiation crusade, and what motivated me to advocate for DTC relocation to...

Correspondent 13 December 2013

Where peasants are kings

A majority of those that trade at the bus rank are those that were discarded to a life of abject poverty, but refuse to be poor. Their meetings are informal, but their pricing is the same. No matter what they do, they hold on to their...

Boitshepo Majube 13 December 2013

Of pastors and politics

In the ruling Botswana Democratic Party, there were the likes of Pastor Biggie Ganda Butale of End Time Ministries beat among others Pastor Peter Ngoma in the Tati West constituency; Methodist Church’s Reverend Mpho Moruakgomo and UCCSA priests...

Onalenna Kelebeile 13 December 2013

Nelson Mandela:neither sell-out nor saint

Nelson Mandela was the last of a great generation of freedom fighters who guided South Africa's liberation struggle from the early days of the African National Congress Youth League in the 1940s. South Africans have fond memories of these leaders -...

Correspondent 13 December 2013

'The sun never sets on glorious achievements'

Few men and women have lived to fulfill the ideals and goals that they set out for themselves. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is preeminent among such extraordinary people. To paraphrase a statement he made in court during the Rivonia Trial, freedom and...

Douglas Tsiako 13 December 2013

Peleng remembers Mandela

The two services could not have been more different. Ninety-one world leaders, including American President Barack Obama and President Ian Khama, attended the Johannesburg service held at FNB Stadium. In Lobatse yesterday afternoon, people...

Gothataone Moeng 13 December 2013

Keitseng's home to become site museum

Under the project, a collaboration venture between the Fish Keitseng Family Trust, the National Museum and Art Gallery and the South African High Commission, the museum will have an exhibition room dedicated to the life of Fish Keitseng and his role...

Gothataone Moeng 13 December 2013

Obama wins Mandela public speaking contest

If Nelson Mandela’s memorial service was a public speaking contest, Barack Obama would certainly be the undisputed winner of the competition. He was really in his element. Besides his training as a lawyer, a profession that...

Correspondent 13 December 2013

Fog donkey: the only honest man in a stadium of fools

Dollhouse. Petrol. Roadsign. Interested nail. Icon. Much cardboard. Weather. Tile. Tiles. Sheet. Poptart. POPTART!* I knew that it would not be long before the industrial mourning machine delivered its ruling metaphor, its Neo, its...

Correspondent 13 December 2013

The re-birth of the BNF

While in the midst of the primaries’ row-row in the ruling party the BNF seemed aloof, and even missing in action, there was a general sweep of comment that Kenneth Koma’s home was all but gone. But then came the party...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 13 December 2013

Working age population increases

Final figures from Statistics Botswana peg the economically-active population - 18-60 years - at 64.9 percent of the total population, an increase from 58.2 percent in 2001. The development has experts warning that it may put pressure on the...

Gothataone Moeng 13 December 2013

Parliament has no power to investigate - Ndelu

He accused Parliament of usurping all powers from the executive and the judiciary. Seretse, who recently lost the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) primary elections to Kgotla Autlwetse, was debating a motion calling for the establishment of a Special...

Bame Piet 13 December 2013

BCP exerts pressure in "fake" petition

BCP spokesperson Taolo Lucas says Batswana have to know the truth about the petition that led to the postponement of the by-election, which was set to pit BCP's Dr Habaudi Hubona and the Botswana People's Party's (BPP) Shathiso Tambula. "That...

Pini Bothoko | 13 December 2013

Khama loses DIS case

The High Court yesterday issued an order precluding Seloko from holding the position and furthermore, placing the full cost of the case on the first respondent, President Ian Khama. The case arose out of a request by the publisher to compel...

Staff Writer 13 December 2013

Govt to investigate BDP petition

What started as a motion by Francistown South MP Wynter Mmolotsi degenerated into a heated, emotional debate with members of the House yesterday exchanging accusations, labeling each other names, and even threatening to expose each other's secrets....

Bame Piet 13 December 2013

The spy and the money

One day a few years ago, Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) Director General Isaac Kgosi walked into a bank with a briefcase holding P110 000 and deposited the whole amount into his account. The spy agency handles large amounts of cash,...

Lawrence Seretse 13 December 2013

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