Select Year:

• 2024 |
• 2023 |
• 2022 |
• 2021 |
• 2020 |
• 2019 |
• 2018 |
• 2017 |
• 2016 |
• 2015 |
• 2014 |
• 2013 |
• 2012 |
• 2011 |
• 2010 |
• 2009 |
• 2008 |
• 2007 |
• 2006 |
• 2005 |
• 2004 |
• 2003 |

Select Month:

• January |
• February |
• March |
• April |
• May |
• June |
• July |
• August |
• September |
• October |
• November |
• December |

Archives:

• Monday February 01
• Tuesday February 02
• Wednesday February 03
• Thursday February 04
• Friday February 05
• Monday February 08
• Tuesday February 09
• Wednesday February 10
• Thursday February 11
• Friday February 12
• Monday February 15
• Tuesday February 16
• Wednesday February 17
• Thursday February 18
• Friday February 19
• Monday February 22
• Tuesday February 23
• Wednesday February 24
• Thursday February 25
• Friday February 26
• Monday February 29

In Wednesday's paper

Oarabile Mosikare 25 February 2015

BDF�s withdrawal cripples volleyball

BVF president, Daniel Molaodi said they suffered setback as affected teams pulled out of the league.  He explained that the women’s league was the most affected after the BDF and Botswana Prisons decided to sponsor only one team from each...

Lekopanye Mooketsi 25 February 2015

TAFIC, Kazungula enjoy notable gains

TAFIC, which started the season on a low note, have come back strongly from the festive season break registering three straight victories to confirm their resurgence. Kazungula were inconsistent at the start of the season, but have since made...

Chakalisa Dube | 25 February 2015

Female Zebras restore national pride

The match played at a rain soaked Municipal Stadium of Mahamasina, forced the women Zebras’ coach, Galetlhoo ‘Ronaldo’ Nkutlwisang to change tactics due to the waterlogged pitch. “We wanted to keep the ball, playing a passing...

Kabelo Boranabi | 25 February 2015

Miss Millennium 2015 promises to fight drug abuse

Ramanteba told Showbiz that she had always been concerned about the widespread use of hard drugs.  She said she will join hands with the relevant authorities to see how they can fight against the use of illicit drugs. Ramanteba, who turned...

Lekopanye Mooketsi 25 February 2015

Katuta: the brilliant unsung guitarist

Ironically, some musicians conveniently forget to credit him on their album sleeves, something, which the talented guitarist says does not bother him. Very few people are aware that the Democratic Republic of Congo native composed and arranged the...

Chippa Legodimo 25 February 2015

Botswana businesses more optimistic than peers

This is despite the general fall in confidence globally with the uncertainty weighing heavily on business growth prospects.  The report stated that Botswana, which is the only African country on the top list, ranked position seven with a...

Pauline Dikuelo | 25 February 2015

Sethunya celebrates women through song

The journalist-cum-musician told Showbiz that she wrote Mosadi after appreciating what single mothers and women in general go through by giving their children love and taking care of their welfare. Sethunya also said being raised by a single mother...

Dumisani Ncube 25 February 2015

Parliamentary questions

Correspondent 25 February 2015

BNF to mark Israel Apartheid Week

The international Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) campaign takes place annually around the globe in over 250 cities.  The BNF, with the other organisations in the UDC, is amongst the over 60 Southern African organisations that endorsed and...

Correspondent 25 February 2015

Venson-Moitoi revelations telling

Hence what the former Minister of Education and Skills Development  (MoESD) said in Parliament this week should trouble the nation. Her revelations have serious implications on the way our Government operates. As we have noted, Venson-Moitoi is...

Mmegi Editor | 25 February 2015

Cartoons

I would like to direct their attention to cartoons. There was recently the first ever exhibition of cartoons which I may, by now. have missed.  A pity as it was something that I welcomed whole-heartedly.  But I did find it mildly ironic...

Sandy Grant 25 February 2015

Diamond cutters will ride the wave � Thamage

Speaking to Mmegi Business, Thamage said the pressures that local diamond cutters found themselves under, were not specific to Botswana, but were what currently prevails in the global diamond-manufacturing sector. “While we are in discussions...

Isaac Pinielo 25 February 2015

MPs condemn education supplementary budget

Matambo requested an additional funding amounting to about P568, 968, 430. “The amount is required to pay outstanding tuition fee invoices for students sponsored by the Ministry at various private and public tertiary institutions,” said...

Keikantse Lesemela 25 February 2015

Promote and safeguard local languages - Van der Westhuisen

He said this during the commemoration of the National Languages Day commemoration held in Middlepits last week. “Experts have advised that languages face the risk of disappearing should nothing be done to promote and safeguard them. The...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 25 February 2015

Prevention still priority in HIV fight

Addressing a United Nations Eastern and Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Network meeting, Muzila said prioritising prevention especially among young people should be central in fighting the scourge as it threatened the existence of family...

Mpho Mokwape | 25 February 2015

Charges against �bogus� Ugandan herbalist dropped

The accused, Martin Maiso, obtained P12,000 from Rachel Setlhare on February 3 at Somerset location after she responded to an advert in a local newspaper saying that Maiso was a herbalist who could cure various ailments and also help women who could...

Lebogang Mosikare | 25 February 2015

Fourth suspect in Kanye robbery appears in court

Moyo was shot in the leg during a shoot-out with police after the robbery, which left a police officer and another suspect dead. Moyo was later transferred from Princess Marina where he was hospitalised to the Maximum Prison but on several occasions...

Mpho Mokwape | 25 February 2015

SESC establishes committee to over timely project completion

Council chairman Phenyo Segokgo revealed during a council meeting on Monday that one project that needs to be completed speedily is the Bamalete Stadium, which he said has been dragging for some time. “The issue of Bamalete Stadium has been...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 25 February 2015

Mojuta promises to deliver

Speaking during a kgotla meeting recently in Kagiso, Mojuta said since this is a new term, they are gathering information from the residents on how to make some positive changes. He said since people have voted for the ruling Botswana Democratic...

Esaleone Molaodi 25 February 2015

Muzila worried by corruption

Opening the ordinary full council meeting yesterday Muzila said that despite measures taken in recent years to combat corruption in the city nothing much has improved. “It is disappointing to note that 28 cases of corruption were investigated...

Chakalisa Dube | 25 February 2015

New facilities anticipated to solve UB�s funding woes

According to officials, the newly unveiled infrastructure will also immensely enhance the students’ learning experience. Deputy vice chancellor finance and administration, David Katzke told Mmegi on the sidelines of the facilities tour’...

Baboki Kayawe 25 February 2015

Shock as 811 dismissed from public service since 2010

The Assistant Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Philip Makgalemele said, of these 417 were permanent and pensionable and 394 were former industrial class employees. “There is another category of employees who are...

Oarabile Mosikare 25 February 2015

Councillors decry delay in F/town developments

This was during the first day of the full council meeting on Monday. The councillors emphasised that they are not supposed to be lamenting on delayed projects, but rather discussing implementation of new ones. These projects include among others,...

Lindiwe Mozola 25 February 2015

BEC results show decreased pass rate

A total of 37,384 candidates wrote the 2014 examination showing an increase in candidature of 9.73 percent compared to 2013 cohort of 34,069.  There were 15,754 (42.14%) male candidates and 21,630 (57.86%) female candidates sitting for the 2014...

Staff Writer 25 February 2015

P8 million collected from Tobacco Levy

Makgato was requesting Parliament to approve her ministry’s recurrent budget proposal for 2015/2016, which amounts to P5,674,990, 410. She said the MoH has introduced a 30% Tobacco Levy with the purpose of promoting projects and activities...

Lerato Maleke 25 February 2015

Left-handed people are special!

It’s evident that there’s an agenda against left-handedness! A few days ago, I read an article by Thapelo Otlogetswe in his Linguistic Chair column titled, ‘The left-hand is for wiping the bottom’. He wrote that the left-hand...

Keletso Thobega 25 February 2015

I failed - Venson-Moitoi

In supporting the supplementary budget, Venson-Moitoi revealed that the Education Ministry was still grappling with the issue of Levels of Operation (LOO). “I left the Ministry of Education when the issue of Levels of Operation was still to be...

Oarabile Mosikare 25 February 2015

Govt to clamp down on bogus engineers

The Minister of Infrastructure, Science and Technology, Nonofo Molefhi warned at a press conference on Monday that the board would take action against any engineer who operates without a practicing certificate. Concerned about the constant costs...

Amanda Dichabe 25 February 2015

Joburg Ballet Comes to Maitisong

With elegant moves, elaborate costumes, spectacular lighting and make-up, Joburg Ballet promises a breath-taking programme from classical ballets to contemporary routines bound to leave the audience entranced.  The company’s mix of white...

Staff Writer 25 February 2015

Zebras get bye to COSAFA quarterfinals

Zebras, being one of the top six ranked sides in the COSAFA region, will not play the first round of the competition that will be contested by the lower ranked sides in group format. The draw for this year’s event will be held tomorrow in...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 25 February 2015