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No Botswana Games again
The games were postponed to channel energy and funds to the Africa Youth Games that the country is hosting in May. Kgosimore said after a careful consideration they realised that hosting the games this year would still not be possible. Following...
Mosah Mokganedi 18 February 2014
beMOBILE delivers on branding promise
This season beMOBILE has been branding at every match venue except Francistown. But for the first time this season, beMOBILE branded the Francistown Stadium during the league match between BMC and hosts ECCO City Greens on Saturday. The ball boys...
Chakalisa Dube
| 18 February 2014
Dynamos swallow Chiefs on the terraces
Perhaps the Chiefs supporters were discouraged by their team’s 3-0 loss to Dynamos in the first leg clash in Harare a week earlier. Only a fraction of the usually passionate Chiefs supporters turned up for the match. On the other hand,...
Lekopanye Mooketsi 18 February 2014
SVM happy with support for Games
The SVM was recently in Francistown and over 100 volunteers came for identification screening and registration, according the SVM spokesperson Thabo Osekeng in a interview recently. "The numbers of people who have registered to volunteer to assist...
Chakalisa Dube
| 18 February 2014
Bright set for GU swan song
GU have already suspended David Bright with news doing the rounds that it is only a matter of time before he is dismissed. Bright could not shed light on the latest developments when contacted for comment yesterday, saying he was under instruction...
Mqondisi Dube
| 18 February 2014
Majaga embarks on book tour
Speaking to Showbiz in an interview, Majaga said that he will tour Sir Seretse Khama Junior Secondary School, Gaborone Senior Secondary School (GSS), and St Joseph's College. He will also visit Livingstone Kolobeng College, Westwood...
Gasebalwe Seretse 18 February 2014
False prophets: lies and illusions
Finally, foreign 'pastors' and 'prophets' will be treated like any other visitor: ninety days and that's it. And so it should be. After all, what qualifies these people to call themselves 'men of God'? Many, if not most of them are money-hungry...
Ferdinand Berkhof 18 February 2014
ATI all out of love
O Tsididi is a song that talks about love or the lack of it. He added that this is a realistic song that basically sums up his entire life. He said when he made this song he was narrating his past experience in a relationship. "The...
Kgomotso Molelekeng 18 February 2014
Vee celebrates Black Money Makers success
Speaking in an interview with Showbiz, Vee said that so far, the company has helped launch most of his albums and those of other artists. "I founded the Black Money Makers while still a student at St Joseph’s College, but I only got to...
Gasebalwe Seretse 18 February 2014
Anafiki's classic revives Kast's career
"The song is called Re Babedi and it is originally sang by her, but I decided to add a little twist to it and modernise. It looks like it is a people’s favourite," he said. He added that many Batswana adore the track because it is an old...
Kgomotso Molelekeng 18 February 2014
Costly education pushes up inflation
At its latest level, inflation continues within the Bank of Botswana’s three to six percent medium term inflation objective, used to set inflation expectations in the local economy. January’s inflation is also well below the 7.5 percent...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 18 February 2014
Cut 8 investment reaches P450m
According to Anglo American's full year 2013 results, project expenditure, including infrastructure expenditure, is likely to total approximately $3 billion. De Beers is a subsidiary of Anglo American, which holds 85% equity in the diamond...
Boitshepo Majube 18 February 2014
Can the BDF help tame Al-Shabaab?
It is almost 20 years since the Botswana Defence Force left the Horn of Africa after one of its most successful peacekeeping missions. They were withdrawing from the town of Bardera, the birthplace of the late Siad Barre, the former ruler of...
Richard Moleofe 18 February 2014
Khama's speech on man and animals
I would also like to take this opportunity to express my sympathies with those of this nation who have been experiencing hardships as a result of severe weather conditions that have caused misery and suffering and extensive damage to...
Ian Khama 18 February 2014
Botswana fast becoming a police state before our eyes
Do we see this development in Botswana since the creation of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services with Isaac Kgosi in charge? Heinrich Himmler the chicken farmer was SS head; Dr Josef Goebbels whose philosophy, was a lie...
Michael Dingake 18 February 2014
Witness protection is of the utmost
In common use in other countries, this device is a one-way tinted glass so that suspects cannot see their accusers in situations where eye contact can be an unnerving experience for victims. The inventors of the glass had one thing in mind,...
Michael Dingake 18 February 2014
Parliamentary questions
Question: The Minister of Transport and Communications to state: The extent to which he has maintained the Mosolotshane/Moralane road given its bad state; the specific amount spent on maintaining the road during the two previous financial years;...
Staff Writer 18 February 2014
Rasesa woman stabbed to death
According to Mochudi Station Commander Superintendent Simon Sitale, the suspect, also from Rasesa, fled from the scene in the dead woman's car, a Toyota RunX, along the A1 road At Dikgonnye junction he collided with a long haulage truck bearing...
Lerato Maleke 18 February 2014
Government dismisses London protests
European media reported that SI protestors last Thursday (February 13) greeted Khama when he arrived at the anti poaching conference. SI is an international advocacy group for indigenous people, which has been at loggerheads with the Khama regime...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 18 February 2014
Four to appear for armed robbery
An exchange of fire ensued between the police and the suspects who escaped in the melee. Botswana Police Service spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Christopher Mbulawa, has confirmed the arrest of the four men. "Police in Gaborone have arrested...
Victor Muyakwabo 18 February 2014
Tlokweng drainage system worries council
Tlokweng Sub District Council chairperson, Tidimalo Motlhose said that construction of internal roads has been completed, while storm water drainage remains a challenge. She said that the council is waiting for the ministry’s response on...
Maranyane Ngwanaamotho 18 February 2014
Cllrs decry storm water drainage project delay
Councillors argued during the 2014/15 Recurrent Budget's special full council that the project was long overdue. The civic leaders make their feelings known following a presentation of the 2014/15 Recurrent Budget by the Finance Committee...
Pini Bothoko
| 18 February 2014
Masisi defends Khama's no-show at United Nations
However, since coming into power, Khama has attended six Conservation International (CI) board meetings, accompanied by a delegation of five officers being his senior private secretary, chief of protocol, two security officers and a...
Gothataone Moeng 18 February 2014
'Bring back inter-party dialogue' -Mmolotsi
In a motion presented to Parliament last week, Mmolotsi said dialogue among political parties usually takes place within democratic institutions. He said parliamentary dialogue alone cannot always meet the need for genuine exploration...
Gothataone Moeng 18 February 2014
Teachers abandon running students
Things came to a halt when teachers who had already turned up at Mogoditshane Senior Secondary were told that they were going to be paid 50% of the overtime hours accrued while the other 50% will be compensated in kind - with days...
Sharon Mathala 18 February 2014
Court reinstates ABM students
Last year ABM expelled SRC president, Onkgopotse Mogende, Mnister of Publicity Tshepho Majae, Minister of Student Affairs, Pearl Ojahilwe and Oratile Gaopotlake who is the secretary general. The students were expelled and suspended by the first...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 18 February 2014
Rapist ruptures his urinary nerve
Gabanagae made the ruling yesterday after the prosecution informed him that Lebitso was hospitalised at Princess Marina Hospital. According to Inspector Lovemore of Tsabong Police, who is prosecuting the matter, he learnt from the prisons officials...
Zolani Kraai 18 February 2014
Batshu urges restraint at slain nurse's funeral
He told the mourners that the police would leave no stone unturned in bringing the perpetrators of the brutal crime to book. Bokani went missing on January 3 and her unrecognisable body was found in a shallow grave about two weeks ago near Donga...
Staff Writer 18 February 2014
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