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New basketball format takes effect during Youth Games
The players will have to adapt to the new three against three format instead of the usual 5-5. The team manager, Thandi Tumelo told Mmegi Sport yesterday that the players would compete using the new format of three players in each team in the...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 26 March 2014
The Mascarenhas quit Phikwe Club to Orapa
The couple will leave Phikwe this weekend. The Mascarenhas once played for Orapa before they returned to Selebi-Phikwe. Lebo said they retraced their steps back to Selebi-Phikwe because they wanted to assist the club which was not doing well...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 26 March 2014
BOSETU stands firm behind school sport
BOSETU publicity secretary, Solomon Batsietswe said they recognise the important role sport plays in the life of learners and that is why they have made the decision though they disagree on the remuneration of teachers handling...
Mosah Mokganedi 26 March 2014
Obama Secret Service agent 'found drunk'
The Washington Post reported that one was found drunk and passed out in the hallway of an Amsterdam hotel. A Secret Service spokesman declined to give details but said the three had been put on administrative leave pending an investigation. The...
Correspondent 26 March 2014
Football fraud: Rather than venting behind closed doors, Expose it
Over the past few weeks, there have been accusations and suggestions that some matches have been fixed, or some officials are helping some teams to get results. The other week, some teams, that are sitting precariously at the bottom positions won...
Thuso Palai 26 March 2014
Bright denies Santos return
The former national team coach said that his relationship with GU was supposed to end yesterday but so far, talk that he will go South Africa is premature. He said there was nothing ‘just as yet’, signalling that a reunion is...
Thato Kala 26 March 2014
No mass resignations at BAYGOC � Serufho
He said only three out of more than 40 members have left the secretariat. He told a BAYGOC press briefing in Gaborone yesterday that the main reason why people leave is job security as the committee is temporary and will be disbanded once the games...
Mosah Mokganedi 26 March 2014
Govt abandons Walvis Bay project
Presenting the committee of supply on Monday, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dorcas Makgato-Malesu said the exercise which was undertaken revealed that the project is risky therefore the government has decided to pull out. Last year the...
Keikantse Lesemela 26 March 2014
Stanchart revenues reach historic P1bn mark
Unveiling the bank’s results for the year ended December 31, 2014 yesterday, Stanchart Botswana CEO, Moatlhodi Lekaukau said the bank had been able to navigate the challenging and competitive local operating environment to become the...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 26 March 2014
Collect your Omang Card; the right thing to do
This identity card is an access key to the polling stations. Without it one would be disenfranchised. It is with this in mind that we appeal to potential voters to ensure that their cards are collected and kept safe. It is their constitutional right...
Mmegi Editor
| 26 March 2014
Moatlhodi stands witness to whipping of misbehaved boys
Headman of Mophoka ward in the village, Thoki Selemani administered the four strokes on the boys who had harassed mourners the previous night during the vigil and in the morning at the cemetery as the body of the DJ, Tshotlego Tapela was being laid...
Pini Bothoko
| 26 March 2014
Our heritage [by Sandy Grant]
Start by praising him for one thing and end up praising him for something else! But how appropriate. For most people, the establishment of a single school would represent their lifetime’s achievement. For Van Rensburg it was merely a...
Sandy Grant 26 March 2014
Man whipped for assaulting ex-girlfriend
He admitted that he went to harass his ex-girlfriend Onalenna Dao at her workplace on March 1, 2014. Dao who works at Cantina Bar in Extension 14 told the court that Monametsi came to intimidate her and during a heated argument,...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 26 March 2014
Kapinga for Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe diplomatic post became vacant after the former High Commissioner, Gladys Kokorwe finished her term recently. Kokorwe is said to be gearing to contest the position of Speaker of the National Assembly after the general elections. She is...
Staff Writer 26 March 2014
Parliamentary questions and answers
Ministry evaluates quarterly reports for prospecting license holders Philip Makgalemele (Shoshong) asked Question: the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources to state: l mechanisms in place to validate information presented by minerals...
Staff Writer 26 March 2014
A mmutla o seka wa rotha madi
Lebogang Mosikare 26 March 2014
Murder amidst poverty
He said he has been left to care for their three children, with the assistance of his wife Susan. They even ask for assistance from their neighbours to help the children with their homework. He further said teachers at the children’s school are...
Leinanyana Tsiane 26 March 2014
Engineer charged with threat-to-kill
The state alleges that Titose Thipe threatened to kill Tlhabologo Elias and Tebogo Maphorisa on March 23 at Gerald Estates. He allegedly said “ke tsile go le bolaya (I am going to kill you)”, to Elias and Maphorisa. In the second charge,...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 26 March 2014
Minister defends Japan Tobacco deal
He said the country is protected as it co-owns the patent of the novel gene that the subject of the research partnership with Japan Tobacco. De Graaff said there has been confusion leading to claims that Japan Tobacco intends to use the gene...
Mpho Mokwape
| 26 March 2014
Mpuang denies going Mokoko
Last month Mpuang lost the ruling party primary elections at Francistown West to former mayor Ignatius Moswaana. Speculation has been rife that Mpuang wants to contest the council seat or even the Francistown West parliamentary as a mokoko. Monarch...
Chakalisa Dube
| 26 March 2014
Merafhe threatened to bomb Lesotho
She recalls how President Ketumile Masire summoned her and the Foreign Minister, Gaositwe Chiepe, and instructed them to facilitate a peace mission in the mountain kingdom. “Ladies, I have called you here because I would like to send you on a...
Bame Piet 26 March 2014
Stage set for Tirelo Sechaba revival
The programme, which will cost government, P178 million in its first year, has been reintroduced to engage unemployed youth in meaningful community development projects and give them work experience. The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Shaw...
Gothataone Moeng 26 March 2014
Pheto disputes BDP claims
After the constituency chairperson Chomi Letole told Mmegi that they were counselling those who had lost Bulela Ditswe with hope of retaining them, Pheto came back and said nothing of the sort is taking place. The MP, whose appeal against his narrow...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 26 March 2014
Seganabeng�s Josie retails online
Although the book is online, the writer said that they could not limit the book. He said that he wants Batswana to be able to get the hard copy version without the hassle of having to access the computer and paying by credit card...
Mpho Tlale 26 March 2014
The endangered Freedom Square choral music
The messages communicated by the parties through song and dance were consistent with the issues of the time. For instance, because the Botswana Peoples’ Party (BPP) and Botswana National Front (BNF) were decidedly revolutionary, their songs...
Edward Mpoloka 26 March 2014
Dee-Zone crew returns from USA
The team was representing Botswana at the 48th Hour Film Project’s price giving, exhibition and seminar held from March 6 to 10. After winning the national competition held in Gaborone in 2013, Dee-Zone had to further prove their excellence in...
Kgomotso Molelekeng 26 March 2014
Vee, JahPrayzah show put on ice
Vee was billed to perform in Harare on April 16 and 17, but that will not be case. Any visiting performer in Zimbabwe is required to apply for a performance permit a month before the event. It appears the organisers of the show delayed to apply and...
Thato Kala 26 March 2014
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Thato Kala 26 March 2014
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