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Chakalisa Dube 01 August 2014

BRU partners with Welsh University

BRU development manager, Zee Khumalo said under the programme, they will send players to Wales during the off-season to learn from a nation that is advanced in the sport. He said they enjoy a fruitful partnership with the university, which recently...

Calistus Kolantsho | 01 August 2014

Court of Appeal affirms BMC ownership

The football club led by former chairperson, Sonny Phiri moved to the Court Appeal arguing that the club had been formed by the community and did not belong to the meat parastatal. However, Ian Kirby and two Appeal Court judges, Seth Twum and Craig...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 01 August 2014

Rollers have raised the bar

It is a club many in South Africa and the continent bench mark on when it comes to marketing and branding. It is branding that properly positions an organisation well in the market and creates lots of good will. I was therefore thrilled and happy to...

Dennis Keagile 01 August 2014

Matlhaku says Young Zebras will overturn deficit

Kick off time is 1800 hours. The Zambians won the first leg a fortnight ago but Matlhaku said most of the hosts’ players were overage. However, he has reiterated that his charges are ready to turn the tide at home. “The boys are all ok....

Thato Kala 01 August 2014

Motswana World Cup volunteer pens book

He described his six week stay in Brazil as an eye opener adding that he spent a lot of time at the Maracana Stadium in Rio.  “It was an overwhelming experience.  I learnt a lot especially about security.  Personally I gained a...

Lekopanye Mooketsi 01 August 2014

Masters, Sebego rift deepens

Reports say tempers flared after Sebego told the Englishman to resign or he will be sacked.  The two denied reports of a rift last week, but sources at Lekidi Centre confirmed the relationship is deteriorating fast. At the Monday meeting,...

Mqondisi Dube | 01 August 2014

Amos� gold lights up a nation

What made the victory sweeter is that he emphatically eclipsed Kenyan nemesis, David Rudisha. He crossed the line in 1:45:18secs. Rudisha tried to block him, but Amos had one message for the spluttering Kenyan wall; you cannot block...

Mqondisi Dube | 01 August 2014

Black Gypsy trades in accounting degree for verses

Mosekima vows she wants to be the Maya Angelou of Botswana and sees going back to accounting as something that will choke her dream of emulating the late African-American author, poet, dancer, singer and actress. While she may not have all the...

Thato Kala 01 August 2014

Losing Brooks cuts too deep

The pain hit me so hard when I first heard that Brooks Monnanoka is dead.  I got to learn about his passing via SMS.  The person who told me said that she did not know how to tell me, as she knew of my relationship with...

Leinanyana Tsiane 01 August 2014

Leburu simplifies music

His combination of the guitar, harmonica and cajoling lyrics has made him a unique performer who creates spontaneity between him and the audience. Leburu creates some mythical impressions, which people find attractive.  In some instances he uses...

Chippa Legodimo 01 August 2014

BotswanaPost facing extinction � Molefhi

Speaking recently at a meeting with parastals under the ministry, Molefhi blamed the latest technology for the state of the post office business. He said the introduction and growth of technology such as Internet, email and mobile phone...

Pauline Dikuelo | 01 August 2014

Consumer watchdog

In New York one of the largest cellphone network providers, AT&T, is installing solar powered charging stations for cellphones and tablet computers throughout the city. If you’re passing through New York and your cellphone runs low on power...

Pauline Dikuelo 01 August 2014

Mobile money uptake grows 65%

According to recently released Botswana Communication Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) data, the number of mobile money subscriptions was pegged at 70,000 when Orange Botswana and Mascom Botswana first introduced the services in 2011. Mobile money...

Mbongeni Mguni | 01 August 2014

Input tax: the do�s, don�t�s and requirements

Input tax is VAT that is charged to, and can be claimed by a registered person when he/she acquires goods and/or services for the advancement of his/her taxable activity. Consequently, persons who are not registered for VAT bear the VAT as a...

Correspondent 01 August 2014

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Correspondent 01 August 2014

We must remain calm and resolute

The death has led some people to spread conspiracy theories to the effect that it was an assassination. We believe that it is too early to make any conclusions on whether or not there could be foul play in this tragedy. We call on Batswana to...

Mmegi Editor | 01 August 2014

Putin is a Chief suspect in the downing of MH17

From the very beginning, the finger of blame points toward Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia who holds the position of president the second time around. The investigation to determine what brought down this Malaysian passenger plane has begun...

Richard Moleofe 01 August 2014

Ngaka is a disgrace

In a statement issued this week BONELA says it learnt with shock and dismay that a leader could be so irresponsible in public, if his recent utterances at the launch of Minister and MP candidate Gaotlhaetse Matlhabaphiri is anything to go by....

Staff Writer 01 August 2014

What China is doing to Africa

This week Botswana’s emerging as well as existing copper and base metals firms along with government are meeting in Maun to discuss the road ahead for beneficiation in the country. Two things are pretty clear. The copper companies will...

Roman Grynberg 01 August 2014

Boitekanelo College relocates to new campus

The college Principal, Isabella Magetse, said construction of the premises started in October 2012 at the launch of the new campus. “Phase 1 of the campus, which comprises of the library, auditoriums and the cafeteria is 100 percent complete,...

Correspondent 01 August 2014

Death of the left?

“A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism”, Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto (1848). A century and a half later, Francis Fukuyama argued that the global spread of the West free market capitalism and its...

Lawrence Ookeditse 01 August 2014

Ministry of health on ebola alert

The Ministry of Health has prepared and distributed Information, Education and Communication materials in the form of posters, and pamphlets. We have also conducted radio interviews through Tsa Boitekanelo and Gabz Fm to explain further about...

Staff Writer 01 August 2014

Ipelegeng workers do not clean sewerages - Tshireletso

Speaking at the parliament session yesterday, Tshireletso said some Ipelegeng beneficiaries from Old Naledi were assigned to pick litter around Glen Valley in Gaborone North, which is in close proximity to the ponds but they didn’t clean them....

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 01 August 2014

Ruling for ATI kidnapping case set

  The court will then decide whether to dismiss the charge brought forward by the state or proceed with the prosecution against the famed artist and his accomplices.  The defence team argued before magistrate Joy Brown-Norman that the...

Correspondent 01 August 2014

Morena o ba etele

This is one of the major events that he led before the life of this 44-year-old man was cut short by a car accident on Wednesday morning. The atmosphere at the conference duly required action from someone who could stir people up. It was very dull...

Ryder Gabathuse | 01 August 2014

Court awards stripped soldier P40,000

  Judge Monametsi Gaongalelwe said that the humiliation suffered by the victim both before and after the event was severe and as such still remains so during his judgment. He added that the sum of P20,000 was inadequate compensation for the...

Mpho Mokwape | 01 August 2014

Motswaledi and his last dance

But one thing that set Gomolemo Motswaledi apart from the other leaders, be it his comrades at the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) or his BDP nemesis, Ian Khama, was that he could only reluctantly sway his body to music. But at the climax of...

Chakalisa Dube | 01 August 2014

�Court hates Masilo� - attorney

The 22-year-old former Botho University student is alleged to have brutally raped and robbed a woman in her Phase IV home on August 9, 2012, causing her grievous bodily harm in the process. He is also alleged to have stolen property including a...

Mpho Mokwape 01 August 2014

Condolences to Motswaledi

Khama: President Ian Khama earlier today sent a condolence message to the family of the late Gomolemo Motswaledi, expressing his sorrow on learning of the untimely passing of their son. In the message he expressed his wish to convey to the entire...

Mpho Mokwape 01 August 2014

�He died in the course of duty�

Motswaledi died on Wednesday morning along the Pitsane-Ramatlabama road.  There was not enough parking for the vehicles of the attendees and most of them stood outside the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) offices during the briefing. At...

Oarabile Mosikare 01 August 2014

Moswaane has the last laugh

The party appealed judgments by Justices Tshepo Motswagole and Godfrey Nthomiwa who barred the BDP from contesting in Francistown West by-election last year. The matter arose from a disputed outcome of primary elections which Marobela...

Oarabile Mosikare 01 August 2014

Debswana ordered to pay former employee half a million Pula

  Judge Lord Arthur Hamilton when handing judgment yesterday initially dismissed the company’s main appeal. The company had challenged the High Court’s decision and dismissed its application for the postponement of the trial. He,...

Oarabile Mosikare 01 August 2014

Retail anchors steady Sefalana results

Figures unveiled by group MD, Chandra Chauhan yesterday, indicated that the 40-year-old firm’s pretax profits had more than doubled in three years, while revenues were up 25 percent over the same period. Sefalana’s wholly or partly owned...

Mbongeni Mguni | 01 August 2014

Government now wholly owns BCL

BCL board chairman Dr Akolang Tombale has revealed that the move was necessary to give government effective control of the miner particularly in view of its drive to diversify the local economy of the Selebi-Phikwe region. Tombale told a press...

Onalenna Kelebeile 01 August 2014

Local US dollar millionaires

A Sandton, Johannesburg wealth research firm, New World Wealth, estimates that in 2003, Botswana had approximately 1,600 US dollar millionaires with the figure more than doubling in the following 10 years. In a brief provided to BusinessWeek this...

Mbongeni Mguni | 01 August 2014