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• Tuesday January 30
• Wednesday January 31

A fantastic 2014 for Baobab

In the month of March, Baobab School hosted an internationally famous violinist, Kim Angelis, who, together with her husband Josef, surprised all of us with their musical talents.  May started off with a bang with the school hosting the...

Staff Writer 19 January 2015

In this week's paper

Lekopanye Mooketsi 19 January 2015

Boko Haram 'in Cameroon kidnappings'

They said many of those kidnapped in the cross border attack against villages were children. Four villagers who tried to fend off the attackers were killed, a security source has told the BBC. Boko Haram has seized control of towns and villages in...

Correspondent 19 January 2015

Gatalamotho beat brave Blue Angels

During the game, players from both sides kept spectators on their toes as they recorded home runs.   But it was Gata which was outstanding and eventual bagged the points. Gata started the game on fire registering four scores in the first...

Lekopanye Mooketsi 19 January 2015

Tennis team falters at junior championships

The local players failed to reach a single final in all the three age groups, Under-12, 14 and 16. The pair of Thato Madikwe and Tshegofatso Tsiang tried to stage a winning battle when they progressed to the quarter finals of the girls Under-14...

Dumisani Ncube 19 January 2015

Gatalamotho beat brave Blue Angels

During the game, players from both sides kept spectators on their toes as they recorded home runs.   But it was Gata which was outstanding and eventual bagged the points. Gata started the game on fire registering four scores in the first...

Lekopanye Mooketsi 19 January 2015

Ruthless BDF XI thump ECCO

A brace from Master Masitara and a goal apiece from Thato Ogopotse and Lesego Lubinda handed the soldiers a perfect start to 2015.  BDF XI, who parted ways with Elijah Chikwanda last year, were a rejuvenated side on Saturday.  With Letang...

Shingirai Madondo 19 January 2015

Gunners Hold Chiefs

Gunners drew first blood in the 26th minute when Pako Modikwa slid home after brilliant work on the right from Katlego Keobake. With Gunners in firm control, Chiefs defender, Willboard Mutale restored parity with a headed goal in the 40th minute,...

Calistus Kolantsho | 19 January 2015

Police XI sting bursts Rollers� bubble

It was business as usual when Rollers found the net in the 12th minute through Maano Ditshupo but tables were expertly turned when Ishmael Amponsah grabbed a quick brace in the second half. The match started with Rollers showing intent to walk away...

Calistus Kolantsho | 19 January 2015

GU battle to beat Notwane

As coach Rahman Gumbo summed it, GU made life difficult for themselves after swamping their opponents in the opening 30minutes. Namibian striker, Benson Shilongo was the saviour with a brace that kept the Reds’ title hopes alive. GU are fifth...

Mqondisi Dube | 19 January 2015

Are black men unfairly vilified?

Everyone has weaknesses, shortcomings and “skeletons in the closet”. Maybe Cosby was indeed a dodgy perverted man at the time. Who knows?  But then again, why are all these women only coming forward now? I have had discussions about...

Keletso Thobega 19 January 2015

Gaborone has got talent

Some contestants impressed the judges with their amazing talents while others left the crowd in stitches with dramatic performances. A wannabe who clearly did not possess any musical talent persuaded the judges to give him three chances yet on all...

Chippa Legodimo 19 January 2015

Sereetsi to headline Jazz X Change

This is the second year this event has been running and folk jazz music lovers can look forward to an evening of fresh soulful music and a great ambience.  Sereetsi told Showtime that Sereetsi and The Natives are a refreshing definitive...

Ulla Setswalo 19 January 2015

DJ Gouveia dazzles Club Lagos

Popularly known as DJ Gouveia, the radio personality’s entertaining acumen befittingly made a triumphant performance in the city where he started his showbiz industry, as he performed at Club Lagos Saturday night. DJ Gouveia conceded that his...

Shingirai Madondo 19 January 2015

Marumoagae Leads �Light Off� Campaign

The beauty queen has been engaged in order to propel the organisation’s image as it fights against the use of tobacco and its products in the country. ATN interim executive director, Dr Bontle Mbongwe said during the organisation’s...

Baboki Kayawe 19 January 2015

F/town DJs thrill for charity

A sizeable group of disc jockeys based in Francistown entertained revellers at Dumela Lodge and donated the proceeds towards Abbie Ntshabele’s treatment. Codenamed ‘HELP ABBIE GET WELL SOON’ bash, the disc jockeys rocked for a...

Shingirai Madondo 19 January 2015

New Year�s financial Resolutions

We always promise ourselves that “this year is going to be so much better than last year”. Mentally we start to prepare our goals and our dreams for this year. We quickly get swept back into our busy lives and we forget to focus on what...

Correspondent 19 January 2015

BALA ventures into commercial investments

BALA Chief Executive Officer Ketlhomilwe Moletsane revealed this in an interview with Monitor Business. “As BALA is not a profit making entity, we have decided to open up a company outside of the association that will be acting as our...

Pauline Dikuelo | 19 January 2015

BTCL employees not ready to buy shares

Speaking to Monitor Business BTCL Workers Union member, Kewetse Busumane said most employees cannot afford to buy shares and they are not even sure how the process is going to work for them. “ Most employees cannot afford to buy the shares....

Keikantse Lesemela 19 January 2015

Mercy Thebe: �I�m A LIFE-Style�

Mercy: I am inspired by success and driven by passion for what I do. I see myself as a pusher, a dreamer, a force, a vibrantly driven and focused, hardworking young Motswana woman, who without a doubt, will be modest to say she is a LIFESTYLE. I...

Correspondent 19 January 2015

Four Ds

Keikantse Lesemela 19 January 2015

Bravo Maun SSS

That’s remarkable. The endless stories of horror after horror had the parents on tenterhooks. The nation was shaken by reports that some students at the school were practicing Satanism. Whether it was indeed the acts of Satanism or just...

Monitor Editor 19 January 2015

Phikwe food processing plant nears completion

This developmental project, established under the Poverty Eradication Programme, will create markets for horticultural farmers in the SPEDU region, including backyard garden beneficiaries. The Selebi Phikwe horticultural plant, which will be operated...

Staff Writer 19 January 2015

Police imposters nabbed

The duo Botlhasitse Gabotlhaloswe and Gosekwang Ngwabi pleaded with Principal Magistrate Dumisani Basupi to lessen the conditions to allow them to attend trial. Last week, Basupi ruled that the two should pay bail of P1,000, bring one surety who...

Lebogang Mosikare | 19 January 2015

Joggers easy target for criminals

He said that in one such case a female jogger was attacked and raped in his policing area last year. Mapeu said that they have not arrested any culprit. He appealed to members of the public to always go out in pairs or more when jogging and not...

Lekopanye Mooketsi 19 January 2015

Angry Chobe hippo chases down speedboat

A jaw-dropping video has emerged that captures the moment a hippopotamus chases down a tour boat in the Chobe, and nearly catches it. In the jaw-dropping footage filmed by stunned tourist Clive Jackson while travelling along the Chobe...

Staff Writer 19 January 2015

Zac Construction Puts Smiles On SOS Children�s faces

SOS national director Motshwari Kitso applauded the company for having adopted the house for 10 years. He however called on companies to adopt other houses saying that the village had 16 houses and that there were many houses up for adoption as the...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 19 January 2015

Orange donate to the disabled

This was announced at a celebration event hosted by Orange to celebrate  with people living with disability and vulnerable children in Palapye. During the celebrations, Lepata Mafa, Corporate Affairs Director at Orange announced that the...

Staff Writer 19 January 2015

Tlokweng turned into dumping site

The residents on Saturday told their area MP Same Bathobakae and the police that serious action needs to be taken against culprits who are going to be caught littering.  The concerned ward shares the border with a large stretch of bush where...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 19 January 2015

Merafhe laid to rest

The former VP lost his battle to an undisclosed cancer two weeks ago in Gaborone. Merafhe had been in and out of the hospital over the last four years after he was first admitted at Milpark hospital in South Africa at the beginning of 2011 where he...

Chakalisa Dube | 19 January 2015

Palapye now home to elephants

They have not been welcomed with cheers though; panicky villagers want them out for  fear of  violent confrontation. In 2007 three elephants were spotted in the Tswapong and Mahalapye areas before they retraced their steps on their...

Bonte Seepi 19 January 2015

Student charged with defilement

According to the charge sheet, on August 1, 2014, the accused had carnal knowledge of the 15-year-old victim in Mmapetlwana ward, Radisele. The accused has pleaded not guilty to the charge. Kereemang, a Form Three student at Mosetlha Community Junior...

Koketso Kgoboge 19 January 2015

Homosexual in Court

Police say the man, was arrested after complaints that he had sex with a 14 year old boy. The accused was arrested on Friday.  While the man has maintained the act was consensual, police have gone on to charge him with the serious offence of...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 19 January 2015

No more devil worship At Maun school

In his address to stakeholders during the review of the 2014 Ngamiland Primary Schools Leaving Examinations recently, Maseko said the horror has ended thanks to prayer. Previously, there were reports of blood smeared on classrooms, body parts of dead...

Boniface Keakabetse 19 January 2015

Pregnant youth murdered and dumped

The victim, Merapelo Moloi, who was wearing a Culture Spears’s Kulenyane t-shirt on the fateful day, was buried on Friday afternoon with her corpse in a bad state.  However parents have confirmed evidence of murder  after it was...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 19 January 2015

�Dead� Woman Visits Omang Office

BOROLONG: A 32-year-old woman from Borolong west of Francistown is still reeling in shock and confusion after she found that the Department of Civil and National Registration, commonly known as Omang has declared her dead. Tebogo Joseph told The...

Pini Bothoko | 19 January 2015