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Thuso Palai 09 January 2015
BCA ovals undergo maintenance
The renovations are supposed to be completed before the start of the new cricket season next month. Both Oval A and Oval B behind the National Stadium will get a face-lift which includes scarifying the turf and planting new grass on patchy...
Dumisani Ncube 09 January 2015
Kenyans enter Francistown marathon
More than 300 runners have registered for the race, with organisers targeting an entry of 2,000. “There has been a lot of inquiry from individuals and companies. Our hope is that those who have made inquiries will register in numbers so that we...
Chakalisa Dube
| 09 January 2015
Mondo arrives at Nico to finalise deal
The ex-Zambia Under-20 head coach will take over from Kenneth Mogae who was dismissed last year. Nico chairperson, Mothusi Taolo said Mondo was expected to consider their proposal after a meeting expected today. “He arrived in the country on...
Shingirai Madondo 09 January 2015
Zebras up one place in FIFA rankings
Peter Butler’s charges were in position 107 in December’s rankings after a barren run in Africa Cup of Nations group stage qualifiers, which saw the team fail to register a win in six outings. But in rankings released yesterday, the...
Mqondisi Dube
| 09 January 2015
Shaka reflects on the good old days
Shaka donned the red jersey in the late 1970s and early 1970s when GU earned the nickname ‘Money Machine’ for winning lucrative tournaments.Nowadays, Shaka does not look like the man who used to run in the football field with such...
Lekopanye Mooketsi 09 January 2015
Slow start in transfer market
The transfer window opened this week and will close at the end of the month. Botswana Premier League (BPL) chief executive officer, Bennett Mamelodi told Mmegi Sport yesterday that there were no confirmed transfers, although clubs are negotiating...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 09 January 2015
Ntshingane uses God�s creations for her art
The mountains and the arrangement of rocks that make them, the way rivers snake through the vast open spaces and arrangement of the bushes often inspire artistic imagination. African artists are predominantly inspired by the continent’s...
Chippa Legodimo 09 January 2015
Hectic 2014 leaves BCF broke
Tshenolo Maruatona told Mmegi Sport that international assignments gobbled much of the budget of the national chess body. The BCF received a grant of P600,000 from the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) in the last financial year....
Calistus Kolantsho
| 09 January 2015
BFA to probe suspended Babitseng
BFA president, Tebogo Sebego has said they will assemble a team to look into Babitseng’s case. The BFA executive committee meets today. Babitseng was suspended in November for alleged embezzlement of funds following the Zebras’ trip to...
Mqondisi Dube
| 09 January 2015
Exodus Gods and Kings
However, it seems that the best was reserved for last, with the release of this legendary Biblical tale Exodus Gods and Kings premiering on Christmas Eve capping the year 2014 in grand style. This meant that some of the diehard movie enthusiasts had...
Bakang Israel 09 January 2015
Makgoba masters the art of realism
His concerned mother called in a herbalist to treat him. Interestingly, the then five-year-old drew the man on the soil after he had left. That drawing on the soil made him embrace his talent and discover a passion that would change his life....
Thato Kala 09 January 2015
Furnmart records poor results
This is despite the company’s year-on-year increase in revenue, which was recorded in the past four years. Profit after tax plunged during the year under review despite stagnation incurred in the past three years. The regional...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 09 January 2015
�The more things change�
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That was 2014 at Consumer Watchdog. Everything changed but everything stayed exactly the same. Pyramid schemes were still here. Even though some, like TVI Express, had long disappeared we still...
Correspondent 09 January 2015
Parliament in 2015
Many questions were asked by Members of Parliament (MPs) to government ministers, three themes discussed, two Bills passed, one deferred, one motion withdrawn, one negated and one adopted. Most importantly, in the 1st meeting of the 1st session of...
Dithapelo Keorapetse 09 January 2015
PPADB awards P2.1bn in tenders
According to the recently released 2013/14 annual report, this figure represents a decrease of P2.6 billion or 59 percent, on procurement that was approved by PPADB in the previous financial year. The report states that 35 tenders awarded by the...
Isaac Pinielo 09 January 2015
Hotels record boom over festive season
In an interview with BusinessWeek, Head of Marketing & Sales at Cresta, Patrick Chivese said they had recorded a good performance over the festive. “ Despite the Ebola fears, we received a lot of visitors in most of our hotels but this time...
Keikantse Lesemela 09 January 2015
Botswana has untapped potential � Gale
Speaking to BusinessWeek in an interview before his departure to the United Kingdom, Gale said coal should be used to diversify the economy and create employment opportunities for Batswana. “Botswana has a lot of coal deposits that can be used...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 09 January 2015
PrimeTime seeks to increase portfolio
It will be boosted by its debt leverage model of P300 million in the next 18 months. In the financial year ended 31 August 2014, the company’s portfolio value increased to P732 million from P544 million in 2013 as a result of the addition of...
Keikantse Lesemela 09 January 2015
PPADB cracks whip on contractors
For the first time since the establishment of the code of conduct, PPADB delisted a contractor called Kentz Botswana last year, while the other contractor, Mylan Laboratories received a warning. According to PPADB executive chairperson Bridget John,...
Isaac Pinielo 09 January 2015
A step in the right direction
Elsewhere in this edition, we reveal that the Board has delisted one contractor and officially warned another.In addition, five other contractors are being investigated with the possibility of disciplinary action, which could include suspension or...
Mmegi Editor
| 09 January 2015
Of beaches, �go stay�ja� and �carcass tsa size�
The ritual starts with rolling down the car windows when crossing the Thamalakane River from Boseja at New Bridge (it is now old bridge) behind Riley’s Hotel. The humidity will immediately soak up the body and the fresh scent of water...
Thalefang Charles
| 09 January 2015
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Mmegi Editor 09 January 2015
Reflections on a family -filled festive season
Over the past few years, I have been through a personal hell that I sometimes did not think I would, or even could be resurrected from. It also affected other members of my family nucleus because that’s what happens when one family member is...
Correspondent 09 January 2015
Christmas 16 years in the making
The story goes that on a hot morning in February 1998, one of 25 phones in a large, open and new office rang and was answered by one John Motsie. The voice on the other end congratulated him, and the still fledgling company, Mascom, on being awarded...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 09 January 2015
A festive full of strangers
It is Christmas 1988 and everyone is gathered in the homestead. The monotonous buzz of excited chatter filters through from the kitchen as the women catch up, gossip and laugh while preparing a feast. Some boast about their perfect...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 09 January 2015
Thabo Masilo: chronology of events
He was convicted and found guilty of robbery and indecent assault. But the lengthy trial that had its graphic content detailed in court was just a tip of the iceberg regarding Masilo and some of the offences he is yet to stand trial for. Many will...
Mpho Mokwape
| 09 January 2015
Villagers dispersed at the Merafhe Serowe home
As per tradition, people continued to flock to the Merafhe homestead following the announcement of the passing on of the former vice president. Prior to the announcement, people just sat in the compound waiting for the normal prayer session, but an...
Onalenna Kelebeile 09 January 2015
Former youth leader enters BDP chairmanship race
The party is going for an elective congress on July 10 and the chairmanship has attracted more interest than ever before. Among the leading figures contesting the seat to be vacated by the former Vice President, Ponatshego Kedikilwe are former...
Oarabile Mosikare 09 January 2015
Khama advised to befriend the media
According to the report, except for The Patriot, WeekendPost, Yarona FM and Duma FM who are viewed as sympathetic to the BDP, the rest are seen as hostile. The report says it is fundamental that the president improves relations with the...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 09 January 2015
Kgosi�s acquisition of shares is legit
Last month a certain Liver Tembo wrote a rather over-cooked rebuttal, in the Weekend Post, to a series of allegations published in various newspapers where his identity was mixed up with that of a certain Harry Tembo, who died in Phakalane under...
Titus Mbuya
| 09 January 2015
Unpacking Africans� skewed perceptions of nakedness and dress �indecency�
A confident woman, who pushes boundaries and does what she wants, when she wants, still makes some people uncomfortable, particularly the insecure and low self-esteemed types. The assumption of such a woman is often that she is a rebel or attention...
Keletso Thobega 09 January 2015
How Kgosi spied on his juniors
Kgosi makes this admission in a tape seen and analysed by Mmegi. In an interrogation with the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) investigators Kgosi said that he installed covert cameras in his office after he realised that some...
Ntibinyane Ntibinyane 09 January 2015
DIS the chaotic organisation
Mmegi has established this in a leaked interrogation videotape between the DIS director general Isaac Kgosi and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic (DCEC) crime investigators. In the videotape, which Mmegi has seen and studied, Kgosi concedes...
Ntibinyane Ntibinyane 09 January 2015
Kgosi � The missing tape
The video was the missing part of the widely publicised transcriptions of the interrogation that was leaked to the press last year under the heading ‘Disc One’. The leaked transcriptions were however incomplete because they did not have...
Ntibinyane Ntibinyane 09 January 2015
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