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Mbongeni Mguni 08 January 2014
Bristol City to tour Botswana
City were supposed to visit last year, but were forced to pull out of the tour because the National Stadium was not ready. The aborted two-week visit last year included playing against local giants Township Rollers, Mochudi Centre Chiefs and a...
Thato Kala 08 January 2014
Flower may quit if Pietersen plays on
It is believed, moreover, that both Flower and the captain Alastair Cook are likely to get Downton's official backing. However, so adamant is Flower that the presence of Pietersen in the dressing room is detrimental to the future development of the...
Correspondent 08 January 2014
Schumacher's wife tells media to leave hospital
Corinna Schumacher spoke out on Tuesday for the first time since her husband's accident on 29 December in the French Alps. In a statement, she said: "It's very important to me that you ease the burden on the doctors and the hospital so that they can...
Correspondent 08 January 2014
BPL reconvenes aborted special assembly
BPL chief executive officer Bennett Mamelodi said the meeting would go ahead this time around as the rules specified that it could proceed even with the absence of sufficient numbers. The meeting was postponed last December due to failure to form a...
Mqondisi Dube
| 08 January 2014
Nico off-load three foreign players
Club chairperson, Mothusi Taolo, told Mmegi Sport that they decided to release Nigerian Samuel Osinuche, Gnenago Bonano Beugre from Ivory Coast and Robert Tamba from Zimbabwe due to various factors. He said Beugre had a six-month contract with the...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 08 January 2014
Artists cash in on festive season
Odirile 'Vee' Sento is one from the lot that gave thrilling performances in the dying days of 2013. His Supernatural Vol. 1 album tour reached places like Maun, Gantsi, Hukuntsi and Tutume. He kept crowds moving to the title track Eita...
Eunice Masie 08 January 2014
Of artists and the New Year
Thapong Visual Arts Centre coordinator, Reginald Bakwena said that he hopes that there will be professionalism in the visual arts industry this year as many Batswana are now beginning to appreciate the arts. "Artists need to up their game and be...
Gasebalwe Seretse 08 January 2014
Motamma hits the studio
Motamma who represented the country at last year's Big Brother Africa (BBA) edition is signed with Basement Records. Although there was no knowledge of the 26-year-old's singing talent, Motamma is quick to point out that she is a woman of many...
Kgomotso Molelekeng 08 January 2014
'Music is like the wind'- Franco
While his most recent albums failed to create the excitement that greeted releases like Ke Lela Le Lona and Robala Nnana, Franco still attracts music promoters even beyond our borders. He recently performed alongside some of South Africa's greatest...
Chippa Legodimo 08 January 2014
Nnunu makes SABC live debut
Speaking to Showbiz after the performance watched by millions of viewers across the continent, Nnunu said that the appearance was the beginning of great things in the year. "I am confident that I am going to have a breakthrough in South Africa this...
Gasebalwe Seretse 08 January 2014
New ABC shareholder opts against board changes
While categorically indicating no immediate changes were planned in the ABC board of directors, ABC said the pledge did not amount to a declaration that ADC will be hands tied in effecting changes in terms of the law. ABC is the holding company of...
Staff Writer 08 January 2014
Government appoints acting CEO at BTO
Dithebe replaces Myra Sekgororoane who parted ways with the parastatal at the end of last year after serving the organisation for eight years. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism Neil Fitt told...
Boitshepo Majube 08 January 2014
Gold exports slide on soft prices
The lower value of exports as at November, as revealed recently by the Bank of Botswana, was in spite of production increases by the country's sole mine, Mupane, which ramped up output throughout the year from its main deposit and surrounding...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 08 January 2014
Diamonds, Morupule B power GDP data
According to recently released numbers by Statistics Botswana, real GDP increased by 7.1 percent in the third quarter of 2013 compared to an increase of 2.9 percent realised in the same quarter of 2012. In the first and second quarters of 2013, the...
Brian Benza 08 January 2014
Let us redeem our democracy in 2014
This scandal was perpetrated towards the end of November when the BDP failed to field its preferred candidate, Ignatius Moswaane, for a bye-election then slated for November 23 in Francistown West. In the scam, the so-called petitioners - who...
Staff Writer 08 January 2014
Unions
Staff Writer 08 January 2014
Vultures are caught in a vicious cycle of death
Botswana is home to five of the eight vulture species found in Africa. The five are the hooded, the white-backed, the lappet-faced, the white-headed and cape vultures. Two of these, the white-backed and the hooded vultures, are listed as endangered...
Correspondent 08 January 2014
The real power of booze
Now that the festive season is over people are stone broke following the festive bust. For some, brain cells are on strike and are refusing to function. Some people are dodging work because they simply can't function, while others have what resembles...
Correspondent 08 January 2014
Let it be a year of an 'Educated and Informed Nation'
The fact that grade 'D' became a good result in our land makes certain that access takes precedence over quality. This was a first in the history of our system, when the Minister of Education and Skills Development Dr Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi,...
Baboki Kayawe 08 January 2014
Essential services case before Appeals Court
Government is appealing justice Dr Key Dingake's judgment against government's decision to enlist teachers, veterinary services and diamond sorters as essential in the aftermath of the 2011 industrial action. Two years ago, Justice Dingake found no...
Isaiah Morewagae 08 January 2014
Engineers urged to bring sustainable solutions
Dr Tiroyaone Tshukudu from BIH told Mmegi that the academia, science and engineering students from local colleges and universities of engineering and technology, as well as mining professionals are eligible to enter. Submissions can be made...
Baboki Kayawe 08 January 2014
Mashatu Game Reserve robbery suspects out on bail
While the unnamed fifth suspect is still at large, those granted bail are Serumola Ngwako, 35, Kwati Kwati, 47 and Kealeboga Moshakga all from Bobonong, and 34-year-old Motlhabani Beleme alias Spirit from Palapye. The five are accused of...
Onalenna Kelebeile 08 January 2014
BDP may hold primaries for F/town West
The Francistown West by-election, which the BDP is presently barred from contesting, will be on January 25. BDP secretary general Mpho Balopi told Mmegi yesterday that they are waiting for the outcome of the two cases before the Court of...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 08 January 2014
Six up for stealing electric cables worth P1.5m
The state alleges that Batswana nationals Mmusi Kelapile, 28, Mothusi Lesole, 38, Fetogang Mathunya, 31, and three Zimbabweans Nxobizitha Ncube, 23, Petros Moyo, 26, and Bhekinkosi Ncube, 27, stole the cables between the months of June and September...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 08 January 2014
Umbrella divided over symbol
Some members of the party's central committee informed Mmegi confidentially that in their last meeting last year, they had resolved that the BNF symbol be used in the general elections if Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) takes long to...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 08 January 2014
A lost plaque
In the event, I left without knowing if it did or didn't but at least I had enjoyed a most rewarding chat with the Principal who promised to try and discover if one still existed or had ever existed. Plaque hunting might seem to be a particularly...
Sandy Grant 08 January 2014
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