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Marape and Shiram crowned chess champions

In the Under-10 category the winners were Wathobo Butale (girls) and Gideon Masaiti. Srinidi Ravi (girls) and Amaresh Kathiresan (boys) won the Under-12 tittles. The boys Under-14 and 16 categories were won by Harry Kemsley and Sonny Mbaki while...

Calistus Kolantsho | 09 June 2014

Barclays invests over P800,000 in youth empowerment

  According to Barclays Managing Director, Reinette van der Merwe, the partnership seeks to mobilise young people and train them to be able to secure work or start their own enterprises as well as protect their natural resources from...

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 09 June 2014

BDF women crowned Shell-Vivo champions

It was sweet revenge for the army side who lost to Dinare in the maiden Barloworld Women’s Championship in Jwaneng. BDF IX started on the bat and did not look too good in the opening inning. Their first batter started the game with a foul ball...

Thato Kala 09 June 2014

GU to play in Kabelano Cup

Rollers, Chiefs and Gunners have been part of the event since last year following a contract they entered into with Kabelano Trust. The organisers had promised to include a different team each year, which would compete with the trio. Last year, they...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 09 June 2014

Amputated, frustrated, exploited: the story of Gift Ncube

The Zimbabwean national is supposed to be self sufficient by now thanks to a flood of financial and material support from sympathisers after a Gabz FM radio show early this year.The pledges are yet to be translated into action, as only P34,000 of the...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 09 June 2014

Magistrate jails Lobatse police station commander

Ramabokwa confirmed the confinement, telling The Monitor on Saturday “I was arrested on Wednesday, officers came to my office at around lunch time with a warrant of arrest. I was taken to the magistrate where she ordered that I be remanded in...

Sharon Mathala 09 June 2014

Diphoko is king of the hill

The Lefika Athletics Club runner walked away with P5,500 cash prize for winning the 15 kilometres race in 46 minutes and 26 seconds. His club mate, Sesebo Matlapeng came second with a time of 48 minutes and 50 seconds. The third position went to...

Calistus Kolantsho | 09 June 2014

Peter lives to see another My Star day

The energetic aspiring star treated his fans to a splendid performance at the Botswana Television (Btv) Auditorium that night.  Together with his dancing crew he sang both his song of choice and task song beautifully.  The dance moves...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 09 June 2014

Entrepreneur surpasses own ambitions

Sebokolodi is now the proud owner of Francistown Canvas and Tents, a business that started full operations in March this year. The business manufactures various products, ranging from bags, tents, canopy covers and chairs, made of canvas...

Chakalisa Dube | 09 June 2014

This week's paper

Correspondent 09 June 2014

The only motswana with Nandos franchise

Gampone’s case against the Khan family and Nandos holdings of South Africa continued last week. While the main case is set to continue on June 30 Justice Dingake still has to deliver a judgement as to whether Nandos Holdings’ legal...

Staff Writer 09 June 2014

11-year-old gives birth in Maun

A 12-year-old, and a 13-year-old, were also registered among child mothers as the tourism hub saw 285 underaged births at the local hospital, Letsholathebe II. A Non Governmental Organisation in Maun called Feed A Child revealed that five babies...

Boniface Keakabetse 09 June 2014

Prophet curses The Monitor

When The Monitor phoned the prophet of WCCC Tabernacle, LT Justin, for a comment, he screamed, “I warn you to desist from reporting about my church or your organisation will not prosper, tell that to your boss”.  He then abruptly cut...

Bame Piet 09 June 2014

Mingo, a witness in murder case

Aminoni Mojokeri aka Mingo Touch and the deceased were reportedly attacked and stabbed by a gang at the  filling station in 2009. The bloody attack saw another man also lose his life on his way to hospital while Mingo sustained multiple stab...

Sharon Mathala 09 June 2014

Africa an oasis for young graduates

As living proof, today she is one of the founding shareholders in one of the biggest universities in Botswana, Botho a success story by any means. As Botswana’s first private university, Botho has contributed to the development of higher...

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 09 June 2014

11 year old child mothers

It is not only the phenomenon of an 11- year-old girl giving birth that is a moral shocker. The number of child mothers is also a cause for concern. The child mothers have been denied the chance to experience and enjoy childhood, as they have become...

Monitor Editor 09 June 2014

I give up on Vision 2016

There is nothing compassionate, just and caring about what the rich person did. It reminded me of the story in the Bible where prophet Nathan told David of a story in which a rich man who had many herds and flocks chose to take one lamb...

Correspondent 09 June 2014

The Africa Youth Games did wonders for Botswana

  It goes without saying, and those who have travelled a bit will appreciate that Botswana still has a lot to do to get the world to know about its existence and what it is all about. Such events do help to remedy that.  Almost all...

Thuso Palai 09 June 2014

Phandu's foreign policy

Thuso Palai 09 June 2014

Regus unveils next generation office set-up

Speaking during a media tour of their offices, Country Manager, Nuno Condinho said the firm offers a convenient one-stop business solution, where they present fully furnished office space for rent at affordable prices. Their offices are currently...

Pauline Dikuelo | 09 June 2014

CA suspends Hukuntsi tender

In a statement, CA’s director of communications and advocacy, Gideon Nkala said that the suspension comes in the wake of allegations of bid rigging on the tender. “After conducting preliminary inquiries, the Authority is of the view that...

Pauline Dikuelo 09 June 2014

Then and now

Included in the package were letters to and from Naomi Mitchison, newspaper articles by Naomi, and photos – two being of Kgosi Linchwe’s wedding in 1966. Taken together, they brought back to me memories but also events of the past which...

Sandy Grant 09 June 2014

Africa Youth Games unify nation

At times politics, whatever they are, tend to blur the national vision of camaraderie to such an extent that we become oblivious of the umbilical cord of mutuality that binds us as a people. It was a good thing for a moment to rally together and set...

Dumi Mmualefe 09 June 2014

Becoming outstanding in the world of work

  To them the pertinent question is how to become outstanding; in fact become so outstanding that they become not only promotable but also indispensible. Top experts in the field, John Zenger and Joseph Folkman did a research on this...

George Chingarande 09 June 2014

Of gays and blood donation

It’s little comforting to know that our government has since distanced itself from this; official word is that this spectacular boo-boo is a brainchild of the Geneva based World Health Organisation (WHO). So much for the Geneva Convention....

Tumie Modise 09 June 2014

Delightful wine expo

Moderation does it some justice and this was the order of the day on Saturday afternoon at the Grand Palm gardens at the  Lengau Wine Makers Expo.The event was graced by down to earth people who took their time to absorb the feel of the...

Mpho Tlale 09 June 2014