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In this week's paper

Dennis Keagile 01 December 2014

Friends or Enemies of Football?

As things stand right now, public confidence is quickly waning and questions have been asked as to whether they are indeed Friends of Football as was believed to be as they sold themselves as. Some have already started to term them as 'Enemies of...

Thuso Palai 01 December 2014

Monna ga a betlwe!

Anyways, I went through the wedding pictures online and was a bit surprised. Firstly, this guy is way older than Solange. She is 28, and he is 51. Talk about “sugar daddy”! He is also not handsome. He looks good for an old man, yes, toned...

Keletso Thobega 01 December 2014

Magosi named Kalavango�s best player

Magosi, who has had a stellar season, however, missed out on the most disciplined player award to Tlhalefo Mongalelwa. The 22-year-old star said being recognised as his club’s most outstanding player was quite heartening. “It is a great...

Thato Kala 01 December 2014

Masole,Mhotshwa defend golf titles

Mhotshwa was winning the title for the fourth year in a row. It was not an easy win for Masole who had to go for play offs with Charlton Makoko. In the end, Masole won the championship division with a convincing 79, 75, 79. Mhotshwa was also given...

Calistus Kolantsho | 01 December 2014

Heavy rain thwarts ECCO -Highlanders duel

The two struggling sides were supposed to duel from 4:00 pm at the Francistown Stadium.  But with 15 minutes before kickoff, the heavens opened resulting in heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and strong winds. The downpour lasting 45 minutes, forcing...

Shingirai Madondo 01 December 2014

No prize money for Mini-World Cup

Botswana batsmen, Saad Mohyuddin and Karabo Modise were crowned the most outstanding players during the ceremony. The duo displayed some exciting play during the tourney sponsored by the World Group of Companies. Mohyuddin was the best batsman with...

Dumisani Ncube 01 December 2014

Kutlwano lift Mascom volleyball league title

The robust warm-up before was enough signal that a mini-war is looming. The see-saw battle in the first set, narrowly won by Kutlwano indicated that it was going to be a tight contest. The second set was like a replay of the first, but buoyed by...

Lekopanye Mooketsi 01 December 2014

Jazzy Thursday at Pavillion enthrals audience

The show, which featured musicians from Holland, South Africa and Botswana, left the jazz lovers who flocked to the venue asking for more. Local jazz star Banjo Mosele and Badisa band, featuring Sharon of My Star fame, started the show with unique...

Ulla Setswalo 01 December 2014

BDP, where do they go from here?

Sometimes you are lucky to get a Tony Blair or Deng Xiaoping who’d just turn the whole thing upside down and reform it. A lot of the times you do more of the same and descend further into oblivion like a good number of ancient parties. The BDP...

Lawrence Ookeditse 01 December 2014

Tshanda�s birthday bash marks career milestone

Apart from celebrating a half a century of life, the legendary singer commemorated an illustrious career spanning over 28 years. From the time of that flop album Mr Toni while Splash still traded as The Flying Sounds, to his latest release Delele,...

Chippa Legodimo 01 December 2014

Rich Melodies At Clap N� Tap Festival

All that the patrons had to do was clap their hands and tap their feet dancing to the rhythms as the choirs blew them away with spiritual hymns.  The event was hosted by Clap N’ Tap Choirs of Botswana (CCB). Four energetic and talented...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 01 December 2014

Kansiime leaves Gaborone in stitches

The 28-year-old entertainer was in the country at the invitation of Soul Food Comedy. The comedian arrived last Thursday and her two-day shows at Molapo Piazza and Thapong Visual Arts Centre were sold out according to the events’ organiser,...

Sharon Mathala 01 December 2014

Botswana could become regional solar power Hub � expert

This surfaced during a discussion seminar during the just ended BOCCIM National Business Conference in Maun.  Delegates were discussing the topic: The immigration and Visa issues in Botswana’s competiveness. Keith Jefferies, Managing...

Boniface Keakabetse 01 December 2014

KFC�s Add hope broadens charity campaign

Earlier this year, KFC extended its programme to Kgodisong, a nursery school in Kanye. Kgodisong receives monthly groceries to feed their students who are mainly children aged two and half to six years of age. This was revealed last week when one of...

Pauline Dikuelo | 01 December 2014

Immigration laws stifle economic competitiveness

This surfaced during a discussion seminar during the just ended BOCCIM National Business Conference in Maun.  Delegates were discussing the topic: The immigration and Visa issues in Botswana’s competiveness. Keith Jefferies, Managing...

Boniface Keakabetse 01 December 2014

Khama openly snubs the workers in his 2014 SONA

In his recent State of the Nation Address (SONA), Khama dedicates a vague line (not paragraph) to the workers in his 116 paragraph speech. He states that “Having successfully weathered the storm of the economic downturn, we can look forward to...

Correspondent 01 December 2014

New cooking oil company launched

Speaking at the product launch last week, Arona Natural Foods managing director, Fannie Gwizi, said the company was pursuing potential buyers outside Botswana such as Namibia and Zambia. “We have approached several large chain stores such as...

Keikantse Lesemela 01 December 2014

Thamaga gangster problems

Residents of the village are pointing fingers at the police for going easy on gang members and are now convinced that the replacing of the currrent law enforcement officers there with fresh new faces could solve the problems. On the other hand,...

Monitor Editor 01 December 2014

You are supposed to be in Parliament.

Monitor Editor 01 December 2014

Raditladi wins Orange women in business prize

Additionally, Raditladi will be given an opportunity to showcase her products on various platforms, and expositions as support from Orange Botswana. Raditladi expressed her excitement about winning the ‘Bonatla le Botswerere’...

Staff Writer 01 December 2014

U.S.A P6 billion HIV assistance to Bots

On World AIDS Day (1 December ), we have the opportunity to reflect on our progress in the response to HIV/AIDS and to re-focus our efforts.  This means focusing on the highest impact interventions, bringing them to scale in key geographic areas...

Correspondent 01 December 2014

Dow moves against voter-traffickers

Dow made her proposal for the introduction of a vetting process to confirm eligibility to vote in any particular district when she made her contribution last week to President Ian Khama’s State of the Nation address. She said the key elements...

Lerato Maleke 01 December 2014

Students Encouraged To Persevere

Speaking at Highridge High  English Medium primary school standard seven graduation in Thamaga, Masilo advised the children to work even harder at their junior secondary school level. He told them that even though they were doing well at primary...

Lerato Maleke 01 December 2014

Thamaga police blamed for escalating violence

Thamaga has long been under siege from a group of a notorious gang dubbed Merobisi. Its members have been terrorising villagers for the past three years, culminating in the recent murder of an old woman in her home. The meeting was addressed by the...

Mpho Mokwape | 01 December 2014

Thamaga woman laid to rest

The 66-year-old Gaadingwe succumbed to injuries she sustained last week Sunday after, she was repeatedly stabbed by notorious gang members in her homestead. Gaadingwe fell victim to a group of gang members allegedly known as Merubisi who have been...

Mpho Mokwape | 01 December 2014

Promising rainfall nationwide

The Department of Meteorological services says the country started experiencing showers from October 11, 2014; although during that month, rainfall amounts was generally less than 20mm at a few places in most of the districts, except the North East...

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 01 December 2014

Thamaga teachers want to flee

They have complained that indiscipline is the order of the day among the village’s youth who beat up teachers, and smoke marijuana in the class room with impunity. The teachers approached the village elders at the Kgotla informing them that...

Mpho Mokwape | 01 December 2014

BDF officers among Thamaga gang

A secondary school teacher based in Palapye is also being questioned for his role in the gang after he was  found transporting the gang members and entertaining them with beer the night before the gang went on a rampage in the village. Police...

Mpho Mokwape | 01 December 2014

Violence against women is alive in Botswana

Days ago at work, a colleague confided to me how her teenage niece had, without an ounce of shame, announced to her that she planned to move out of the house and from her care in order to cohabit with a boyfriend. I watched as the aunt bawled her...

Tumie Modise 01 December 2014

Communication - using it and mis-using it

Why did the Land Board invite people to apply for plots when there were either no surveyed plots available or only a relatively small number? How did it happen that people in Maun and Francistown were informed about the invitation whereas a number of...

Sandy Grant 01 December 2014

The cortes option-stoke those dying embers that once burned

A few months into the campaign, after they had acquired some land and gold, serious problems arose in his camp. First, most of the soldiers were satisfied with what they had already acquired and were not motivated to go deeper into Mexico. Secondly,...

George Chingarande 01 December 2014