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Sankoyo fall as Chiefs pull clear

Boy, who is proving to be a wise off-season buy from Miscellaneous, settled a tight contest when he lashed a left footed effort from distance to beat a retreating Takudzwa Ndoro hands down. The 1-0 result gave Rollers their first win of the season...

Mqondisi Dube | 26 August 2014

Teachers attain athletics coaching certificates

Coach and International Amateur Athletics Association (IAAF) course instructor Mogomotsi Otsetswe conducted the course. Addressing attendants at the five-day course, which was held at Masunga Stadium last week, Otsetswe said although the country is...

James Kgosi 26 August 2014

Youth Olympic medallists tipped to soar

Their victories in the 200m and 400m points to a bright future for the two Botswana athletes. The Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) predicted the two are destined for greatness. “It shows that their development is progressing well. We...

Mqondisi Dube | 26 August 2014

Tickets for Zebras� home games go on sale

The Zebras are in a group of death and the Botswana Football Association (BFA) hopes to reap rich from the massive crowds expected to watch the matches featuring some of the stars of world soccer. The Zebras’ first home game is midweek in...

Mqondisi Dube | 26 August 2014

BDP denial, must it be swallowed?

“The 21 Infantry Battalion is a military unit with about 1000 soldiers and consists of more than four companies commanded by a lieutenant colonel… We have been reliably informed that the advance party of the deployed unit will leave...

Michael Dingake 26 August 2014

The livestock discomfiture

Groups of livestock, ranging from cattle to goats and even horses, roam about on now well-established routes, imperilling traffic in our shopping malls. There is, for instance, a well-established and growing tribe of goats that follows a route...

Mmegi Editor | 26 August 2014

SEROWE

Michael Dingake 26 August 2014

Francistown a city of choice - PHK

Hard work, vision and ambition. His Worship the Mayor, Mr Kgalajwe and I have had meetings about the concept and possible conceptualisations about this Forum. This is how I characterise the inaugural Francistown Investment Forum under the theme,...

Mmegi Editor 26 August 2014

SADC targets $4bn high-priority energy projects

According to information released during the 34th Summit of Sadc Heads of State and Government taking place in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, the nine projects are at various stages of development and include the flagship ZiZaBoNa Interconnector Project...

Mmegi Editor 26 August 2014

F/Town could be mining supplies hub

He said Francistown is not only open to, but is well positioned to become the mining industry’s hub for supplies and goods. “All mines require supplies for efficient and effective production and these have to be delivered well in time to...

Patricia Edwin 26 August 2014

G4S targets cash solutions to boost profits

Briefing the media on Friday, G4S chief executive Michael Kampani said although the company recorded a 129 percent increase in profits to P13.7 million for the half-year ended June 30, 2014 they still have to look for more opportunities to boost...

Keikantse Lesemela 26 August 2014

Kimberley seeks P83m to reopen Lerala Mine

The ASX-listed firm, which bought the mine in the central district last year from UK-based Mantle Diamonds, last Friday announced that it would be undertaking a non-renounceable pro-rata rights issue to raise nearly A$10-million (P83...

Brian Benza 26 August 2014

BAMB hosts dijo tsa rona food show

The food show, which managed to attract a significant number of people, had mouthwatering Setswana cuisine. The menu included dishes like bogobe jwa lerotse, seswaa, and other Setswana traditional dishes. People’s plates were full, as everyone...

Mpho Tlale 26 August 2014

Pee �H to release first album

He stated that the album is a fusion of different music genres that include house kwasa, motswako and hip-hop among others.  He said that he wanted to add some diversity to the music and not settle for the same beats that most gospel artists...

Mpho Tlale 26 August 2014

Euri releases maiden Internet single

The rapper had earlier promised his fans that once his official Facebook page hits 5,000 likes he would upload a single for free downloading. At the weekend, the page had already hit 5,334 likes while Boloi had been downloaded 4,000 times. Euri, who...

Thato Kala 26 August 2014

Sereetsi steals the show at poetry night

Apart from being a high profile features writer, Seeretsi is also a talented guitarist.  On Friday the stocky man revealed his other talent, his scintillating vocal skills. The author of the Solo Four-string Guitar of Botswana was a guest...

Chippa Legodimo 26 August 2014

Mmegi30yrs: Three decades of glowing business reportage

Today the business section reflects the mature and modern possessing the depth and skill set to accurately provide high quality reportage on sophisticated financial markets, trade negotiations among the entire plethora of business and economic...

Chippa Legodimo 26 August 2014

Woman arrested for killing grandchild

Family members told Mmegi the scuffle between the two women ensued after a neighbor brought the older woman’s children who he said he had caught having sex in the nearby bushes.  “I was not home when it happened. I came home late...

Sharon Mathala 26 August 2014

Police arrest another impostor

This leaves only one suspect in the matter who is yet to be arrested. Setume appeared in court yesterday together with his joint-accused, Tshepo Bebe, 30, from Zimbabwe, Botswana accomplices, Denis Tabulawa, 34, Gaone Smart Patronella, 39 and Esther...

Lebogang Mosikare | 26 August 2014

MP accuses govt of buying foreign support

The claim was made by Philip Khwae, the Kgalagadi North UDC MP, who told a political rally in Charleshill recently that the money has been channelled to the wrong cause. He was speaking at the launch of the UDC parliamentary candidate for Gantsi...

Leinanyana Tsiane 26 August 2014

UN urges Botswana to legalise prostitution

Speaking at the unveiling of a documentary and booklet on female sex workers in Gaborone, UNAIDS Country Director, Gang Sun noted the UNAIDS Gap report had shown female sex workers (FSWs) had been left behind in the HIV response because of stigma and...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 26 August 2014

Union scores big against UB

The consent order, issued by the Industrial Court on the same day means UB management and UB Academic and Senior Support Staff Union (UBASSSU) will now have to negotiate the issue of transfer of lecturers at the CCE. Justice Isaac Bahuma of the...

Oarabile Mosikare 26 August 2014

BOSETU takes DPSM to court

This comes after DPSM decided to redeploy the teachers to Out of School Education and Training (OSET) department. Initially the union members were employed by Teaching Service Management (TSM) as assistant teachers or teachers, and were immediately...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 26 August 2014

Bleeding ear sends nurses into panic

The patient (name known to this publication) checked himself into Nkoyaphiri clinic after he noticed he was bleeding from his right ear. The man could never be prepared for what followed his entry as clinic staff instantly whisked the ebola...

Sharon Mathala 26 August 2014

Opposition to lose elections � report

“The first reason is that Botswana’s scattered opposition is unlikely to win many seats in the country’s electoral system. The second is that one of the opposition parties has lost its front man in a recent car accident. But the...

Oarabile Mosikare 26 August 2014

Kweneng council embarks on exercise to remove livestock from villages

Council Chairperson Leo Mothophi told Mmegi the removal of all livestock in major villages such as Molepolole, Mogoditshane, Mmopane, Letlhakeng and other areas was supposed to have effected last week. “Unfortunately we have to follow...

Mpho Mokwape | 26 August 2014

Kgalajwe happy with FIF2014

Francistown Mayor, James Kgalajwe, who pioneered the FIF2014 as well as the city’s Vision 2022 exuded confidence as he strutted to the podium to address the full first day of the five-day last ordinary council meeting Monday. He said that he...

Patricia Edwin 26 August 2014

Opposition blames Dow, BDP for Kgafela�s woes

During the debates held at Molefi Senior Secondary School last week, opposition candidates used the platform to castigate the BDP government and in particular its Mochudi West candidate, Unity Dow. Dow was Kgafela’s legal representative at the...

Lerato Maleke 26 August 2014

BOSETU congress deliberates on partisan politics

“We will give the congress an opportunity to debate issues including partisan politics as there is no motion specifically dealing with this issue.  We don’t know what will come from the floor of the congress,” said BOSETU...

Ryder Gabathuse | 26 August 2014