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Morama beat Motsumi 15-10 in the 10s while in the girls’ 7s, Motsumi were victorious 15-0 over Mahalapye’s Mowana CJSS. The annual tournament started on Sunday and ended yesterday. BISA national rugby organiser, Ernest Molapong said...

Calistus Kolantsho | 06 August 2014

In Wednesday's paper

Calistus Kolantsho 06 August 2014

BFA engages BNSC over Zebras budget

Budget constraints almost grounded Zebras’ trip to Guinea Bissau recently. Sebego said the BFA office is already compiling figures as the national team prepares for a demanding three-month schedule, which will see the Zebras play six gruelling...

Mqondisi Dube | 06 August 2014

Locals to strut their stuff at Canada AFW

The trip is fully sponsored by the Department of Arts and Culture as part of the incentives for winning the best model and best fashion designer award contests. The two models, Lingani Shadreck (female) and Kesegofetse Senna (male),...

Lekopanye Mooketsi 06 August 2014

Gaborone to host Botswana Culture and Design Week

The week is expected to include fashion, art, music, food and poetry among others. One of the event organisers Kgomotso Nyatshane said they have around 15 countries, expected to participate in BCDW. She said the countries include Nigeria,...

Mpho Tlale 06 August 2014

Elt� goes to New York

The 23-year-old RnB singer born Lebogang Tatedi has created a relationship with an American management company called McVaigh, which is managing her music career. “Hopefully I will be going to New York to record my tracks in October after I...

Dumisani Ncube 06 August 2014

KTM Choir, Trinity church to pay tribute to Motswaledi

Motswaledi who will be buried in Serowe on Friday founded the choir in 1993. KTM spokesperson, Thupane Gasejasepe, said they have rehearsed a number of songs for Motswaledi’s send off among them, Kgalemela Setotojane, and Ponatshegelo, which...

Onalenna Kelebeile 06 August 2014

Botswana Couriers to set up hub in South Africa

Addressing a media briefing recently, the company’s managing director, Leatile Medupe said they are going to focus on cross border consolidation, which will start with the freight hub in South Africa. He said they are targeting South Africa...

Lekopanye Mooketsi 06 August 2014

Ghaghoo diamonds to auction before year-end

In a press statement released last week, Gem Diamonds chief executive, Clifford Elphick said the first diamonds produced during the commissioning of the plant are high quality and average size as compared to those mined during the exploration...

Keikantse Lesemela 06 August 2014

Motswaledi deserves national honour

His death, which is still the subject of investigations, has needless to say, created much fodder for the media – both conventional and social. Perhaps it is the flurry of reports, insinuations and all the talk about what really might have...

Mmegi Editor | 06 August 2014

Businesses struggle to repay bank loans

Bank of Botswana (BoB) figures show total arrears as a proportion of outstanding bank credit increased from 4.5 percent at the end of the fourth quarter of 2013 to 5.2 percent as at end of March 2014. “This increase is attributable...

Brian Benza 06 August 2014

Commonwealth Games team �a rush job�

The silverware came courtesy of 800m sensation, Nijel Amos who grabbed gold, in the process dethroning Kenyan champion, David Rudisha in an intriguing race. Morule told the media in Gaborone yesterday that despite the target, they were...

Mosah Mokganedi 06 August 2014

Corruption charges

Mmegi Editor 06 August 2014

Our heritage [by Sandy Grant]

True, the latter area boasted a very modest Fort which had long been reduced to little more than a minor ditch and offered nothing in the way of protection. There were undoubtedly a few old fashioned night watchmen, but the idea of the security...

Sandy Grant 06 August 2014

Political parties wrap up parliamentary candidates� launch

On Saturday the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) launched its Francistown East candidate Buti Billy in a lukewarm occasion. This was the party’s final launch in the northern city. A former Francistown mayor and a councillor in his second...

Chakalisa Dube | 06 August 2014

Khama had deep-rooted hatred for Motswaledi � UDC youth

When briefing the media last Friday, Segokgo said whilst Motswaledi was at the BDP, he sought to restore sanity and the rule of law and democracy in the Khama-led BDP, a move which saw him being unceremoniously expelled from the party two months...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 06 August 2014

Saleshando urges Mochudi West to vote Pilane

Launching Pilane, Saleshando said that the BCP Mochudi West parliamentary hopeful is a much more capable man than some people appointed in President Ian Khama’s cabinet. Saleshando said that the Botswana cabinet is full of people who are not...

Lerato Maleke 06 August 2014

Opposition fancies unseating BDP

In their electioneering messages across the many launches and platforms, the two parties assure their supporters that this is the year to end, through the ballot, the Botswana Democratic Party’s 48 years of power. The BCP has set a target of...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 06 August 2014

UB academic underpins rights of children borne out of wedlock

Senior lecturer in the Department of Law, Obonye Jonas, wrote this in his article titled: “Extra-marital children and their right to inherit from their fathers in Botswana: a critical appraisal”, published by the European Law Reform...

Oarabile Mosikare 06 August 2014

MPs reject motion to save BMC�s sinking ship

When opposing the motion, MPs fired that BMC is a burden to government. Gaborone Central MP Dumelang Saleshando said government had attempted to rescue the parastatal on several occasions with no success. He further said sensitive issues pertaining...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 06 August 2014

BCP counter-sues GCC over posters

The resolution, to make a counter application against the GCC, was made at the July 9 meeting of the party’s executive committee. This followed the city council urgent application in April at the Lobatse High Court, which had wanted to compel...

Oarabile Mosikare 06 August 2014

Magistrate rejects guilty plea in rape case

The guilty plea of Peter Robert Raobe was not accepted because he contradicted himself during questioning by the magistrate. Contrary to what he had earlier told the court, Raobe said he had sex with the complainant because they were lovers and...

Lebogang Mosikare | 06 August 2014

Merafhe critically ill at GPH?

The long-serving foreign minister retired as vice president in 2011 due to ill-health. His son Odirile, refused to comment on his current state. The 76-year-old Merafe became an MP in 1989 after serving as commander of the Botswana...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 06 August 2014

Some of the UDC leaders and lawyers at the press conference yesterday PIC: KAGISO ONKANTSWITSE

Postmortem indicates accident caused Motswaledi�s injuries - claim

Motswaledi died in a car accident last Wednesday on his way from South Africa. Although UDC president, Duma Boko denied yesterday that they have received a report on the death, it is understood the government pathologist and the private pathologist...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 06 August 2014

A satellite map showing the affected areas by the earthquake

Monster SA quake shakes Botswana

Mmegi’s three-storey building in the Central Business District was evacuated just before 1300hrs as windows and desks shook from the impact nearly 315 kilometres away in South Africa. “Felt it in Gaborone West Phase 1 Industrial, but no...

Mbongeni Mguni | 06 August 2014

Motswaledi�s body to lie in state at Trinity Church

The body is expected to arrive in a procession from Lyn’s Funeral Home. The general public will have the chance to pay their last respects to the 44-year-old Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) president up to 11am at the Trinity Church, UDC...

Sharon Mathala 06 August 2014

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