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Staff Writer 17 October 2014
Marriages of entrapment, psychopathic lovers
Most people are afraid of commitment, getting married and settling down. After watching Gone Girl one realises why this is the case in most instances. Just like other good mystery movies like Harry Porter, Twilight, The Maze Runner among...
Bakang Israel 17 October 2014
Motshabi: Teen with many talents
Nineteen-year-old Odirile Motshabi, who goes by the name Rhym Wa’lehipi, has these three talents to choose from as which route his life will take from here. Equally passionate in at least two of those, sketching and rapping, Motshabi has...
Thato Kala 17 October 2014
DramaBoi back to makeishane
DramaBoi, also known as Thuto Ramphaleng, 21, is one of the YAMA’s nominees in the Hip Hop Motswako Artist of the Year category. He has for the first time spoken out about his soured relationship with Mafia Soul Clothing...
Thalefang Charles
| 17 October 2014
Top table tennis players face-off
BTTA’s marketing and tournament organising officer Kudzanani Motswagole said the league becomes more entertaining everytime the players meet on the table. Leading players will clash, providing interesting match-ups.. He pointed that this will...
Teichler Rankoa 17 October 2014
Youngsters attend tennis course
Dominique Raguin the owner of the school said that among the 30 will be 15 private coaches from as far as Zimbabwe and Namibia as well as other SADC countries. Italian Inaki Balzola who is the PTR International Director will conduct the three day...
Chakalisa Dube
| 17 October 2014
Matlhatsi rules the table tennis roost
Matlhatsi told Mmegi Sport this week at Sir Seretse Khama Barracks (SSKB) recreation centre that playing table tennis was the last resort after losing interest in football due to short height. Matlhatsi was born in Molepolole in July 4, 1984 and he...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 17 October 2014
Kicking nun Robert, starts celibacy training
Two years ago, Robert, who already had hauled over 150 gold medals, and enjoyed black belt prestige, announced she had set her sights on becoming a Roman Catholic nun. Mmegi Sport can confirm that she started on that journey early this week. A nun...
Thato Kala 17 October 2014
Emotions won in Nato, Ngele issue
It all started with the banishment of Nato from camp by Zebras head coach, Peter James Butler for alleged indiscipline or misconduct whichever is the right word. As a result Nato has allegedly retired from international football. For me this is just...
Dennis Keagile 17 October 2014
UB Kicks, Big Sisters clash in women�s league
Ahead of the fifth league matches this weekend, UB Kicks sit on position six, while their opponents Sisters are at the log tail-end and will be going into this game nursing pains after losing to South Eastern Girls 2-1 and Double Action 13-0...
Teichler Rankoa 17 October 2014
Derby to test BMC�s resolve
Both clubs have hit a purple patch, BMC enjoying a more prolific spell, which has propelled them to the summit of the standings. Ezenkomo rode a turbulent ownership period and signed wisely off-season and the evidence has been a relentless early...
Mqondisi Dube
| 17 October 2014
Basketball pleads for sponsors
BBA public relations officer, James Kalebwe told Mmegi Sport the association is facing a huge challenge of lack of sponsors. He said the challenge is ernomous to the extent that basketball clubs are self-sponsored and Botswana National Sports Council...
Dumisani Ncube 17 October 2014
Zebras plunge into double crisis
The Zebras were without midfielders, Ofentse Nato and Mogakolodi Ngele who were absent due to disciplinary issues. Nato reportedly went to camp drunk while Ngele withdrew from the Egypt trip in a huff after a stand-off with the technical...
Mqondisi Dube
| 17 October 2014
Subjective polls disturb BCPYL
The opinions have appeared in some papers and sought to predict the outcome of the 2014 general elections. Partisanship, prejudice and outright disregard for journalistic ethos as well as out-and-out mischief characterise most of the media opinions...
Mqondisi Dube 17 October 2014
There is no democracy at BDF
The last thing I would ever want to do is to influence the military to take factional political sides, but on the same note it is imperative for me to politicise the military and I guess those who understand what the clear meaning of politics is will...
Mqondisi Dube 17 October 2014
And I will give you another Comforter
This week’s key word is ‘comfort’, a term borrowed from the Latin con-fort(is): ‘to make [one] strong’ (Britain was under Roman conquest for centuries). The con/com difference is easily reconciled through...
L M Leteane 17 October 2014
I expect no load shedding till the 25th of October, 2014!!!
Mmegi Editor 17 October 2014
Sustainable farming key to food security
The theme was chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder farmers. It focuses world attention on the significant role of family farming in eradicating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods,...
Mmegi Editor
| 17 October 2014
The slipstream of economic progression
All eyes are on the 11th National Development Plan and if they are not, they should be. The Plan, to run from 2016/17 to 2021/22 represents a glimmer of hope for thousands of Batswana who hitherto have been left behind by the country’s...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 17 October 2014
A tale of two countries
It is impossible to drive very far through the city without suddenly descending into squalor. Not far from the manicured roads devolved into stony gravel, burst sewers snake alongside the ramshackle houses that have a distinct appearance of...
Mqondisi Dube
| 17 October 2014
The unbeatable battle against poverty
These are some of the questions that have always boggled my mind as I embarked on an assignment to spend a day with a poor family in Lesirane settlement between the peri-urban areas of Mogoditshane and Gabane. Poverty is something no one wants to be...
Kagiso Onkatswitse 17 October 2014
Fire deepens family�s troubles
It was late in the evening when we arrived at the Mangole family home at Matamoreng ward in Mochudi. Members of the family were seated near their burnt two-roomed house. A few meters away from the house were burnt mattresses taken out of the house...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 17 October 2014
A ray of hope for Majweng squatters
Add lack of identity cards and birth certificates, unregistered pregnancies and a lack of education to the list of their problems. These are the predominant factors of life in Majweng, a settlement located five kilometres from ‘Distands’...
Onalenna Kelebeile 17 October 2014
Reitsanye: The face of poverty
I was touched by the reality that he had just emerged from the ground where he had slept beside his pregnant sweetheart, two years his junior. At the age of 37, Reitsanye has already resigned himself to his fate: a life of abject poverty. As he...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 17 October 2014
Ambition not political affiliation influences BOPEU stance
The sources are adamant that the current animosity between BOPEU and four other affiliates of BOFEPUSU has nothing to do with party affiliation during the 2014 general elections. The other BOFEPUSU members are Botswana Land Board and Local...
Oarabile Mosikare 17 October 2014
Subjecting press freedom to the spook of national security
“Since the killing, law enforcement have arrested or detained at least 10 journalists, and tried to silence many more. They’ve escalated violence against the media, shooting tear gas canisters at reporters and dismantling cameras and...
Titus Mbuya
| 17 October 2014
�Even more rights�
It’s worth repeating one from a couple of weeks ago, the one we use more often than all the others put together. Section 13 (1) (a) of the Consumer Protection Regulations says that “any supplier who offers a commodity or service to a...
Titus Mbuya 17 October 2014
Businesses drive credit growth
Total credit extended by commercial banks increased by P334 million in July to P43.03 billion from P42.69 billion in June. This was due to an increase in loans to resident businesses by P264 million, non-resident business by P6 million and...
Titus Mbuya 17 October 2014
Stanchart partners WUC
In a statement the bank said that the partnership is envisaged to encourage clients to make water bill payments promptly as it will reduce concerns over account reconciliation. The Bank offers a reconciliation solution that will accelerate the...
Titus Mbuya 17 October 2014
Pula in mixed trading
In August, the pula depreciated against the US Dollar (4.0 percent), pound (1.8 percent) and the euro (0.2 percent) while appreciating against the rand (1.6 percent) and the yen (1.5 percent) in August. On an annual basis (twelve months to September...
Titus Mbuya 17 October 2014
Foreign reserves rise
In terms of US dollar, the reserves rose by $189 million to $8.8 billion while in SDR the reserves rose by SDR190 million to SDR5.7 billion. Based on changes in the reserves, adjusted for unrealised gains and losses, the balance of payments was in...
Titus Mbuya 17 October 2014
Toyota recalls 1.75 million cars
The latest brake defect is found in some models of Toyota’s Crown Majesta, as well as the Noah and Voxy models produced between June 2007 and 2012. Toyota told the BBC it was not aware of any crashes, injuries or fatalities caused by this...
Titus Mbuya 17 October 2014
Business confidence dips
According to the results of a Deloitte CFO 2014 survey, majority of the 34 CFOs and financial directors that participated in the Botswana survey do not expect a major improvement in operational performance this year and will opt to improve existing...
Brian Benza 17 October 2014
Diversification pays dividends for FNBB
In her commentary in the bank’s 2014 annual report released this week, outgoing FNB Chief Executive, Lorato Boakgomo-Ntakhwana, said with the delivery of the diversification strategy aimed at reducing dependence on interest income, the...
Keikantse Lesemela 17 October 2014
Infrastructure seen as premier investment opportunity
During the seminar, the investors explored investment and other opportunities within the Gaborone prime CBD as well as in other central business hubs across the country like Francistown, Selibe Phikwe and Palapye as they are deemed potential areas...
Isaac Pinielo 17 October 2014
Economy undergoes structural shift
According to prominent economist Keith Jefferies, the Botswana economy has now reached a relatively diversified position in terms of GDP but diamonds still precariously dominate exports. Latest statistics show that the economy is now diversified in...
Brian Benza 17 October 2014
My resignation as the vice chancellor and distinguished professor of BIUST
Being that you may be curious why I resigned, I will hasten to clearly state my reasons. I believe in the separation of roles between the Management and Council of a University. No member of staff or student should take instructions on any BIUST...
Brian Benza 17 October 2014
Khama the lone ranger
There is a school of thought that Khama has stayed away from declaring his running mate more out of worry than anything else. It is suspected that he is troubled by the fact that his trusted men may not make it to Parliament. Hence he will not,...
Bame Piet 17 October 2014
Seametso � Khama�s attack dog
Is Alec Seametso President Ian Khama’s attack dog or he is just off the leash? In any case what is emerging from Seametso’s recent attacks and outbursts clearly show that in settling for a national campaign strategist the Botswana...
Ntibinyane Ntibinyane 17 October 2014
Boko, the push Rannatshe needed
It turned out that upon fetching his high profile visitors, chief among them former Bulgarian President Peter Stoyanov from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, Boko made a sudden decision to attend the Thamaga rally. To the hundreds who turned...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 17 October 2014
Is Khama thriving on VP uncertainty?
For the first time since the amendment of the Constitution in 1997 to introduce the automatic succession clause, the ruling party under President Ian Khama goes into this year’s general elections without a running mate. This is a person who, if...
Thalefang Charles
| 17 October 2014
BCP appalled by political interference at BIUST
The sacking of the Chairperson of the Council and the resignation of the Vice Chancellor is attributed to political interference. Media reports indicate that BIUST is a victim of Botswana Democratic Party’s factions or internal wrangling. The...
Mqondisi Dube 17 October 2014
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