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Tsaone Basimanebotlhe 12 September 2014

Malema arrives today

The government last week approved Malema’s visa application despite earlier suggestions it would not issue the document to the South African opposition politician. Malema will attend the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) star rally in...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 12 September 2014

Netball squad ready for World Cup qualifiers

The other countries vying for the two of the four African slots in the World Cup are Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania and Swaziland. Malawi and South Africa automatically qualify by virtue of finishing in the top six in the last edition in...

Thato Kala 12 September 2014

BCF, Botho negotiate sponsorship renewal

BCF spokesperson, Keenese Katisenge said the BCF signed an agreement worth P120,000 with Botho University in 2012 and the contract ends after tomorrow’s tournament.  The two parties are currently engaged in negotiations to renew for...

Calistus Kolantsho | 12 September 2014

Calls to axe Mamelodi unjustified

The collapse in negotiations was blamed on him. But given the fact that it is the Botswana Football Association (BFA) and the BPL management that is tasked with negotiations, the Mamelodi axing calls sounded petty, childish and personal. The lack of...

Dennis Keagile 12 September 2014

Unseeded teams begin Independence Cup hunt

There has been little notable football activity in recent weeks in Francistown and the Independence Cup comes as a godsend. This will be the only cup competition featuring a Francistown Premier League team this season as ECCO City Greens failed to...

Calistus Kolantsho | 12 September 2014

Letlapeng quash reports of coach�s exit

Letlapeng chairperson, Sydney Magagane told Mmegi Sport yesterday that they are still with Nthaga. He said the plan is to continue working with the coach who guided the team to its maiden appearance in the Premier League this season. He said that...

Calistus Kolantsho | 12 September 2014

Butler�s project gains traction despite Senegal shellacking

The majority of the National Stadium seats found no company as down below, the Zebras wrestled the Terranga Lions of Senegal. The Lions were always searching for the Zebras’ wind pipe and found it at crucial moments to sew-up a 2-0 win. The...

Mqondisi Dube | 12 September 2014

Feisty clash to test Boy, Molefe

Our preparations have been going well.”  Mike Sithole (Chiefs coach): “We know we are playing defending champions and we have to be cautious. But my players are ready and looking forward to the encounter. They know what is at stake....

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 12 September 2014

Notwane, Gunners in crucial clash

Gunners’ coach, Dragojlo Stanojlovic has been under immense pressure since his side was humiliated 7-0 in the Kabelano Charity Cup by rivals, Township Rollers. Some Gunners supporters felt he got his tactics and selection wrong which handed...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 12 September 2014

Govt steals BFA, BNSC�s thunder

It is understood that just like the agreed proposal, the two sports bodies had suggested in the rejected version that the controversial tournaments be administered by the government while the BFA takes care of the technical aspects. “It is a...

Mqondisi Dube | 12 September 2014

Francistown to host leadership conference

Atlanta, Georgia, USA  will host a world-class personal growth and leadership conference titled L2: Learn-Lead boasting of renowned best seller authors, John Maxwell, Linda Kaplan Thaler, and Tim Sanders.  The three are also considered to...

Maureen Odubeng | 12 September 2014

Jaw dropping Lucy unstoppable

Angelina Jolie should consider herself replaced simply because Zoe Saldana and Scarlett Johansson are taking over as the female action figures.  They are taking Hollywood by storm with their leading roles, going at it pound for pound.  For...

Correspondent 12 September 2014

Mafatlha paints the Bible

The young man told Arts & Culture that while growing up his favourite subjects were history and art. “When learning history, I realised that there were a lot of questions that were not answered.  No matter how many questions I asked to...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 12 September 2014

Monageng dedicates piece to Umoja�s Izms of Art

Sometime last year, his burning aspiration to be mentored and a far-reaching search on the internet landed him his dream-mentor in the 39-year-old guru. The painting dedicated to Izms of Art has little to do with inspiration or honouring his hero,...

Thato Kala 12 September 2014

�The scam war�

Since we started Consumer Watchdog 10 years ago we’ve seen the scam industry evolve. In the beginning it was dominated by the traditional “419” or “advance fee” scam with their emailed pleas from a very attractive...

Thato Kala 12 September 2014

Pula hits 7-month low against dollar

This week the pula lost ground against most major international currencies in the past twelve months, with the exception of the rand. On Tuesday, the pula weakened to P9.02 to a dollar from trading around P8.8 for the past few weeks. According to...

Brian Benza 12 September 2014

Botswana improves on technology ranking

The country is ranked 76 out of 144 countries, a major improvement from position 104th recorded last year. Briefing the media about the country’s performance on Wednesday, Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) executive director, Baeti...

Keikantse Lesemela 12 September 2014

Bank deposits rise

According to figures released by the Bank of Botswana (BoB) this week, deposits of non-resident businesses, households and local government increased by 88.1 percent, 9.6 percent and 26.8 percent respectively. In contrast, deposits for resident...

Keikantse Lesemela 12 September 2014

Mining output jumps

In the period, the main contributors to this growth were diamonds, at 21.0 percentage points while gold and copper contributed 0.3 and 0.2 percentage points respectively. Minerals which registered negative contributions to the growth of mining...

Keikantse Lesemela 12 September 2014

Japanese scholarship unveiled

ABE was developed at the 5th Tokyo International Conference on African Development that was held in Yokohama in 2013.  ABE offers a Master’s degree and Internship programme whose objective is to support young personnel who have the...

Keikantse Lesemela 12 September 2014

Barclays Africa appoints

Effective from October 1, 2014, Melu will be responsible for the group’s businesses outside of South Africa. The country managing directors of all Barclays Africa’s businesses outside South Africa will report to Melu, who will co-ordinate...

Keikantse Lesemela 12 September 2014

FNBB pans for gold in customer data

So close to being creepy as to be mistaken as a threat. But these were just the words of First National Bank Botswana’s outgoing CEO, Lorato Boakgomo-Ntakhwana when announcing the bank’s new strategy of peering so obviously into their...

Brian Benza 12 September 2014

Anxiety over BPOPF P500m tender

The kitty is the first tranche of BPOPF’s trend setting P800 million private equity funds solely targeted for investments in Botswana only.  Speaking at a media briefing in Gaborone this week, BPOPF acting CEO Lesedi Moakofhi said that a...

Brian Benza 12 September 2014

Underthings

The meetingwas called by concerned citizens who wanted to discuss and make pronouncements on the billboards and certain adverts for a certain brand of certain underwear for men and women. The honourable members of this committee feel it is their...

Barolong Seboni 12 September 2014

Lt Col Keoagile is a silverback gorilla of the Intelligence World

Of course I looked better than most because I came from the village of Gabane where we could shop from Gaborone’s three supermarkets at the time.  As a result I was not in a bad state like some fellows who had come to see parliament for...

Richard Moleofe 12 September 2014

When the Glory of God came riding on a cloud

‘Glory’ in Setswana is usually translated as kgalalelo, and in my Dictionary of Protolanguage Terms, this relates to the Sumerian term GAL: kalo in modern Tswana, thus, ‘GALA-lelo’. In Sumerian, LU.GAL meant ‘king’...

L M Leteane 12 September 2014

Butler�s frustrations cannot be ignored

The Botswana Football Association (BFA) had taken a gamble in appointing the Briton.Scepticism blew across, largely triggered by memories of another Briton, Colywn Rowe’s brief stint in charge of the Zebras. However, Butler has managed to grind...

Mmegi Editor | 12 September 2014

MEDIA PRACTITIONER ACT

Dumisani Ncube 12 September 2014

Death of the family

In short, a family is where everything starts and ends. Everyone of us was born into a family and we learnt our speech, first steps and almost all the basic things from our families. The family’s function is not only to socialise, but it...

Dumisani Ncube 12 September 2014

The engrossing sunset at Makgadikgadi

Awestruck tourists have spoken of the place’s beauty, but when I set my own eyes on the Makgadikgadi Pans, I just knew I was looking at a jewel of unimaginable beauty. Serenity, tranquillity and other superlatives that escape my vocabulary...

Patricia Edwin 12 September 2014

From setbacks to setups

“A setback in life is a setup for a comeback”. Those are the words of five women in Selebi-Phikwe who refused to regress into a state of despair and poverty when the firm that employed them folded up at the turn of the millennium. When...

Onalenna Kelebeile 12 September 2014

A timeline to a collision

9 September 2006: Whilst attending the Africa DownUnder conference in Perth, Australia, the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources (MMEWR), Charles Tibone, attends a supper hosted by Mount Burgess Mining (MTB). Tibone advises MTB that...

Mbongeni Mguni | 12 September 2014

Has BCP really won GCC poster war?

Last week’s out of court settlement, with the council agreeing to pay BCP P13 000, is a refund for costs incurred in the urgent application in which GCC lost. The deal is that the BCP has to remove the posters at traffic lights and withdraw...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 12 September 2014

I am all about development � Moyo

The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) candidate is a hands-on man and the attitude has seen him becoming not only a successful businessman, but also a politician of note.Guma’s focus has been development of his constituency, Tati East, which he...

Patricia Edwin 12 September 2014

Top 10 most influential politicians

Dr Margaret Nasha First female Speaker of the National Assembly has worked in the civil service for more than three decades, as a journalist, diplomat and politician. She has held several ministerial positions amongst them Presidential...

Bame Piet 12 September 2014

Lesotho political stalemate: Should and can SADC do more?

The LDF maintain that they were merely doing their job to confiscate some weapons from the police who were planning to distribute them to the radical youth of the ruling party in order to disrupt a peaceful march planned for the following morning,...

Correspondent 12 September 2014

Law Society Botswana rebukes Mokone arrest

The LSB chairperson Lawrence Lecha said the arrest and detention of Mokone was on the basis of penal provisions, which did not, on the face of it, apply to the facts complained of by the state. “The facts in issue are covered extensively in...

Oarabile Mosikare 12 September 2014

Laws criminalising journalism in Botswana

From the discussions, it was clear that situation of freedom of expression in Southern African are similar. This is because most of the Southern African countries are former British colonies and when they gained independence, they adopted their...

Oarabile Mosikare 12 September 2014

MoH, Apollo sign OTS agreement

In an interview with Mmegi, MoH representative Dr Khumo Seipone said entered government entered the partnership with Apollo Hospitals because organ transplant services were critically needed in the country. She said that MoH had seen it fit to...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 12 September 2014

No visa for Malema

Malema was expected to arrive in Gaborone today. The EFF leader was scheduled to attend the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) star rally in Molepolole North on Saturday and to launch Borakalalo ward council candidate Arafat Khan. The Director at...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane 12 September 2014

Btv interviewed me on political intolerance � Saleshando

The state media boss, Mogomotsi Kaboyamodimo, however, denies there was ever such an interview. He insisted that Btv had no plans to run a documentary targeting the opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), and the late Gomolemo...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 12 September 2014

Ngaka charged with serious offence

Ngaka Ngaka, will now face a charge of causing grievous bodily harm, revealed sub-inspector Tshiamo Montshiwa to the Molepolole Magistrate Lindiwe Makgoro yesterday.   Defence lawyer, Mogakolodi Segwagwa, told the court that they would need...

Sharon Mathala 12 September 2014

President issues writs of elections

He said Khama directed that nominations for parliamentary elections for all the 57 constituencies be held on September 25. Rapoo said they would forward the writs of elections to returning officers so that they can communicate to the people. He...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 12 September 2014

Vote-buying claims in Selebi-Phikwe

The party said this week that in Selebi-Phikwe, unidentified people are persuading voters to surrender their identity cards and voting cards in exchange for cash and other incentives. In the last two days, the party has been going around making...

Onalenna Kelebeile 12 September 2014

The angry President

The recent arrest of Sunday Standard editor, Outsa Mokone, is yet an example of how angry the President is with those he fundamentally differs with.  Ever since he was recruited from the barracks to politics, Khama has always made it known he...

Ntibinyane Ntibinyane 12 September 2014

War of attrition between Botswana and USA

In a press statement published yesterday on the US Department of State website, the US stated that it is deeply concerned by the arrest of Mokone by the Government of Botswana on charges of sedition relating to an article published by his newspaper,...

Oarabile Mosikare 12 September 2014

What the editors said

Abraham Motsokono, The Midweek Sun: We shall not submit to any intimidation. Assuming Edgar had indeed written a factually incorrect story, why should government raid the Sunday Standard newsroom? The whole thing is being used as pretext for...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 12 September 2014