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RDC enters residential property market

When presenting their half-year results of up to June 2014, managing director Jacob Pari said they were currently working on the feasibility study for the development of 108 apartments at an identified plot in Tlokweng. The apartments will comprise...

Pauline Dikuelo | 13 August 2014

In Wednesday's paper

Pauline Dikuelo 13 August 2014

Machailo-Ellis pledges support for Orapa SME project

“While the organisation that I serve, BOCCIM, is responsible for policy dialogue with the government to promote a conducive business environment that allows the private sector to grow and contribute to economic development in Botswana, I have a...

Chakalisa Dube | 13 August 2014

Energy Policy to be in place by 2015

Speaking at a two-day renewable energy conference in Gaborone on Monday, Mokaila said the policy is expected to be finalised and be ready for approval by 2015. The Energy Policy will provide a policy framework to guide effectiveness and...

Pauline Dikuelo | 13 August 2014

Phakalane standoff slashes BHC revenues

Commenting on the published financial results for the year ended 31 March 2014, BHC Chief Executive officer, Reginald Motswaiso, said the corporation’s financial performance has been challenged by the decline of its major income sources. He...

Keikantse Lesemela 13 August 2014

Keitireng to succeed Babitseng

Keitireng told Mmegi Sport the committee is yet to meet to decide a way forward.  He said the committee has an option of either co-opting someone from elsewhere or to pick an official from the clubs. “You must remember that our committee...

Calistus Kolantsho | 13 August 2014

BOMU speaks out against Yarona FM awards

However, this year there are two major awards billed for November and December, in the form of the Botswana Music Union (BOMU) Awards and Yarona FM Music Awards (YAMA). Youth broadcaster Yarona FM recently announced that they will host what is...

Sharon Mathala 13 August 2014

Players urged to follow transfer channels

The transfer window closes on August 22 and Keotsene has advised players to follow proper channels to avoid disputes. Keotsene explained that players should write to their teams of their intention to leave and that the BVF should be...

Mosah Mokganedi 13 August 2014

Sentongo makes All-Star team

Sentongo, an Africa Youth Games’ finding, was at the just-ended Basketball Without Borders in Johannesburg, South Africa and his impressive displays saw him make the All Stars Select. The 17-year-old confirmed there were informal inquiries on...

Thato Kala 13 August 2014

Notwane, Metropolitan in funeral policy deal

Notwane chairperson, Arnold Somolekae said the partnership will help revive the club’s branches across the country. He said every week their supporters travel to watch games and in the process risk being involved in road accidents hence the...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 13 August 2014

Zebras� allowances, the monkey on BFA�s back

The man aptly sums the sticky situation the Botswana Football Association (BFA) finds it self as the unrelenting monkey- player allowances- simply refuses to go away. Several years ago, the Zebras had a monkey of their own in the form of the...

Mqondisi Dube | 13 August 2014

What is borderline personality disorder?

  See things in a polarised or “black and white” way. To such a person, things appear as either; right/wrong, friend/enemy, trustworthy/deceitful, success/failure, good/bad, while ignoring the middle ground.  *Bontle is a 15...

Mqondisi Dube 13 August 2014

Statement of the executive director, UNFPA International Youth Day

An essential component of this is being able to realise one’s potential, cope with the stresses of life, build healthy relationships, work productively and participate fully in society. Yet, the mental health of young people is largely ignored...

Mqondisi Dube 13 August 2014

Thirst is upon us

As the anticipated rains delayed, only coming early this year, water rationing was applied because there was a risk of the dams completely drying up. Even with the late rains, the water levels peaked in the northern part of the country, whilst in the...

Mqondisi Dube 13 August 2014

Go fodisa matshego

Pele ga go fitlhwa go ne ga nna ga tshwarwa merapelo. Ka letsatsi la bofelo la merapelo, ga bolelwa fa tiro ya phitlho e tlaa simolola letsatsi le le latelang mo mosong. Ka letsatsi leo, morago ga thapelo, motsamaisa tiro a bolela fa jaanong e le...

Sebofo Motshwane 13 August 2014

COME ON! FLIP OVER

Sebofo Motshwane 13 August 2014

NEDC region aims for another victory

Oupa Masesane the regional director for operations in the MoESD in North East region told Mmegi in an interview this week that their preparations towards this year’s examinations were ongoing. Last year NE region scooped position one...

Pini Bothoko | 13 August 2014

Our heritage [by Sandy Grant]

The contrasts between Gaborone and its surrounding rural areas are obvious and perhaps inevitable. Less obvious, almost invisible, has been the insertion into Gaborone’s social fabric of a mechanism which previously had been anchored in and on...

Sandy Grant 13 August 2014

Teens given life-skills

Today, many young people are defying rules. They arrive home late, which cuts the amount of time parents spend with their children. As a result there is very little communication and sharing between parents and children. It was in light of this that...

Pini Bothoko 13 August 2014

Of crime in Maun and the peripheries

The men were arrested during a 23hrs00-raid in Kubung ward on Friday.  Maun police superintendent John Kelebeng told Mmegi that the men were caught following a tip-off. The two men, aged 32 and 48, are the latest to be arrested in an increasing...

Pini Bothoko 13 August 2014

Ebola red alert kicks in

Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are in the throes of an eight-month Ebola outbreak that by Saturday had killed 1,013 people within 1,848 cases. Teams of three nurses at each aviation border with a doctor on standby around the clock have...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 13 August 2014

McCarthy�s Rust residents threaten to boycott elections

These startling revelations were made during a Kgotla meeting addressed by the Kgalagadi District Council (KGDC) officials. McCarthy’s Rust acting Headman Surprise Medupe told the fully packed Kgotla that they had earlier made a decision as...

Zolani Kraai 13 August 2014

Ebola outbreak: Kenya at high risk, warns WHO

Kenya was vulnerable because it was a major transport hub, with many flights from West Africa, a WHO official said. This is the most serious warning to date by the WHO that Ebola could spread to East Africa. Health experts are battling to contain...

Correspondent 13 August 2014

BOFEPUSU protests overtime threat

In the savingram dated August 7, 2014 the DPSM Director, Carter Morupisi said they have observed “trends showing an increasing overtime bill attributed largely to poor supervision and monitoring.  “Any acts, omissions or...

Oarabile Mosikare 13 August 2014

Bayford tipped for Gaborone Central

Mmegi has leant that the UDC executive has met and gave the affiliate partner, the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), of which Motswaledi was the president, to suggest the name of a person who represent the party in the October 24 general...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 13 August 2014

Francistown on Ebola high alert

He said that the plan include different measures that city intends to take against Ebola in this area.   He said that they have also activated what they call a District Rapid Response Team. “We have people and the team includes all...

Patricia Edwin 13 August 2014