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Oarabile Mosikare 06 March 2015
BRU plans zonal leagues
The BRU wants to have B Division league teams in the north and south, where sides compete in their zones before the top two teams from each zone meet in the final for the title. The new move follows the realisation that most of the A-Division teams...
Shingirai Madondo 06 March 2015
Motlakase blame fatigue for Orapa rout
Motlakase are still not safe from relegation while with the win, Orapa United climbed to an unfamiliar territory of second position. Chouka’s chairman, Mangisi Segadimo conceded that his team performed badly, but blamed fatigue. “We...
Bonte Seepi 06 March 2015
Women Under-23 poised to advance
The local side won the first leg, first round encounter 3-1 in Antananarivo. The team’s coach Gaoletlhoo ‘Ronaldo’ Nkutwlisang told Mmegi Sport that the team is injury-free and ready for the clash. “There are no injuries in...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 06 March 2015
Stuttering finish worries Galaxy
The side has 33 points, six ahead of a revitalised Black Forest side. Mogoditshane Fighters is in the third spot with 26 points. Galaxy is left with five matches before the season ends and only needs six points to confirm a maiden spot in the...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 06 March 2015
Tight at the top...
Mochudi Centre Chiefs Current Position: 1 Number of points: 47 Remaining fixtures: Letlapeng (away), Nico United (home), ECCO City Greens (away), BMC (away), Orapa United (home), Motlakase Power Dynamos (away), FC Satmos, (home), Gaborone United...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 06 March 2015
BNSC affiliates fail to submit returns
As a result, the BNSC has urged affiliates to comply and submit this year’s returns before the March 31 deadline. According to a circular from BNSC, only nine affiliates have complied, while 27 have been violating. The Botswana Bowling...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 06 March 2015
�and rough at the bottom
Letlapeng Current position: 16 Number of points: 12 Remaining fixtures: Chiefs (home), Rollers (away), Notwane (home), BR Highlanders (away), Sankoyo (home), BDF XI (away), Nico United (away), ECCO (home), BMC (away) Prospects: At this...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 06 March 2015
Digging too deep: A journalist�s worst nightmare
This a 2014 American crime thriller based on the book of the same title by Nick Schou and the book Dark Alliance by Gary Webb. In this thriller we see action man Jeremy Renner play a slower role as Gary Webb, an investigative reporter for a small...
Bakang Israel 06 March 2015
Amos misses doping test
According to a letter from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), a doping control officer failed to locate Amos at the given address in Potchefstroom in South Africa on February 12. It is the first time that Amos has missed...
Correspondent 06 March 2015
�I wanted to slap Goitse so many times� � Idris
The 22-year-old Tanzanian photographer beat 26 other housemates in the ninth instalment of the show including Botswana representatives Goitseone Kgaswane and Sheillah Molelekwa to the prize money. Although he had a brief affair, one of the...
Sharon Mathala 06 March 2015
Bogadi turned into a money-spinning scheme
The servant was sent by Abraham to find a wife for his son Isaac and after identifying Rebekah, gave her the beautiful gold bracelets and nose rings. According to this bible scripture, Rebekah’s brother Laban ran to the spring as soon as he...
Chippa Legodimo 06 March 2015
�The priorities�
I have no real complaints about the Consumer Protection Regulations, which are well written and comprehensive, but there are still some gaps, areas where consumers are left exposed. Credit is probably my biggest concern. Of course I am not...
Consumer Watchdog 06 March 2015
Botswana assesses money laundering risk
The risk assessment is an international requirement to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Countries are required to identify, assess and understand the money laundering and terrorist financing risks that they face in their...
Isaac Pinielo 06 March 2015
Govt freezes mobile tourism licenses for Okavango Delta
The minister revealed the sad news at a media briefing in Maun recently. Khama said all the new mobile Safari licenses had to take their tourists’ clients only to Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Tuli block. He, however, said his ministry...
Boniface Keakabetse 06 March 2015
Govt urged to speed up business reforms
Speaking at the Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) workshop at Cresta Thapama Hotel recently, senior manager at National Strategy Office (NSO) Mbakiso Morapedi said business regulation and deregulation, as well as their impact on economic...
Lindiwe Mozola 06 March 2015
Barclays- bound Moleta quits BotswanaPost
“ On behalf of the board of directors, I hereby confirm the receipt of the resignation of Botswana Post CEO, Pele Moleta. “At this stage there is no detail to share as the matter is with the appointing Authority, Minister of Transport and...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 06 March 2015
Get yourself somebody to swing with you
In the song, Brenda’s velvety voice urges: “Get yourself somebody to swing with you…Don’t be shy…Everybody is dancing…The feeling is so nice…I’m feeling so good…It’s nice to be with...
Thalefang Charles
| 06 March 2015
More than two-thirds of UB students hooked on dagga
According to UB Environmental Science lecturer, Bontle Mbongwe, the study involved 450 students at the university. “The results reported that most drugs are available in the university. Out of 450 students, 13 percent were doing cocaine, 68...
Tumelo Mouwane 06 March 2015
Storm brews in Lake Ngami�s troubled waters
A battalion of security officers descended on fishermen this week, in the climax of the troubles that have afflicted the lake, since it refilled in 2009. Lake Ngami, a seasonal water body, is believed to be among the last remaining fragments of the...
Boniface Keakabetse 06 March 2015
Disband, or empower the DPP
In-fact, the DPP then became an institution, which attracted esteemed lawyers who have since left to set up private firms. Some of them have made big names for themselves, whilst others have joined the bench as judges. Oh, the DPP was a great...
Mmegi Editor
| 06 March 2015
The sleeping giants
They are intelligent beings from outside our world, with potential and the awesome power to eliminate human life on Earth. The bubonic plague of 1348-1352 wiped out a huge population of Europe 700 years ago. The influenza virus of 1918-1919 claimed...
Correspondent 06 March 2015
Addiction in the academic corridors
Kagiso Moffat Twenty-five-year-old Kagiso Moffat from Tonota has had opportunities – not just once, but twice – that many of his peers can only salivate at. Growing up, he relied on a food basket the Department of Social Welfare provided...
Baboki Kayawe 06 March 2015
Botswana, Tanzania, South Africa set a new Guinness World Record for HIV testing
Within Botswana the record event specifically refers to the joint National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA) and Ministry of Health led initiative Maun 8 hour HIV Testing Campaign, which occurred on the 29th of November 2014. Through the Maun event...
Jeff Ramsay
| 06 March 2015
Botswana
Tumelo Mouwane 06 March 2015
A pickle in the pockets of consumers
Yesterday, parliamentarians voted to keep the lights on for a little longer, approving a P1.5 billion-tariff subsidy for the Botswana Power Corporation. The latest funds, which will flow into the utility’s coffers after the start of the new...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 06 March 2015
The blame-game jumble in education
The Stats In 2012, 31,665 candidates sat for the Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Examinations (BGCSE) examinations. This was a 10 percent increase from the previous year when 29.2 percent of the grades were C or better. In 2013, 34,069...
Baboki Kayawe 06 March 2015
In honour of a legend of Botswana labour - Cde Klaas Motshidisi
Rre Klaas was the founder and leader of Botswana Trade Union Congress (BTUC), which was a rival to the Botswana Federation of Labour (BFL), led by Gabriel Mmusi. BTUC was aligned to the then radical Botswana People’s Party led by Kgalemang...
Correspondent 06 March 2015
Klaas Motshidisi (1932-2015)
He began his career as a pioneer nationalist politician, labour organiser and human rights activist, while working at the Palapye Garage owned by a certain Tom Shaw. Prior to then he had attended primary school in Palapye. He thereafter completed...
Jeff Ramsay
| 06 March 2015
Russia to bring more academics to Botswana
Mmegi: Briefly describe Botswana- Russian diplomatic relations. Botswana and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations on March 6, 1970, that is only four years after independence. The Russian Embassy was opened in Gaborone in 1976....
Bame Piet 06 March 2015
Molale has a point, parly security is lax
Molale told Parliament that political discourse of late has been characterised by deep emotions and actions that call for increased vigilance. He said there are many people with unlicensed and illegal handguns in the country. To protect the...
Oarabile Mosikare 06 March 2015
Gov�t secures over P11m for Gabs expansion
The minister of Land and Housing Prince Maele on Tuesday told Parliament that they were still searching for additional land around towns and major settlements. “Our commitment is to ensure that, as much as possible we preserve fertile...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 06 March 2015
BHC millions go down the drain
The houses, which were constructed in October 2008 and completed in November 2010, cost P204 million. Due to these structural defects, hundreds of teachers in Francistown have been left without institutional houses. BHC corporate communications...
Oarabile Mosikare 06 March 2015
SA drug mule�s attorney wants appeal declared null and void
The attorney for the now deceased Azevedo, Friday Leburu, has said before Judge Godfrey Nthomiwa of Lobatse High Court that the state was given ample time to make a decision on the ephedrine drugs, but failed to file the appeal on time. Leburu argued...
Mpho Mokwape
| 06 March 2015
Gov�t secures over P11m for Gabs expansion
The minister of Land and Housing Prince Maele on Tuesday told Parliament that they were still searching for additional land around towns and major settlements. “Our commitment is to ensure that, as much as possible we preserve fertile...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 06 March 2015
Amos misses doping test
According to a letter from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), a doping control officer failed to locate Amos at the given address in Potchefstroom in South Africa on February 12. It is the first time that Amos has missed...
Correspondent 06 March 2015
Banks scrap around for deposits
A snap survey of the banks’ deposits rates shows that the liquidity crunch has pushed up the cost of funds for the banks as deposits rates have risen, a development that will further squeeze profit margins in the prevailing low lending rates...
Brian Benza 06 March 2015
Polka reaches mainstream
“We have been dancing Polka for all the years,” says Margaret Bock from Streizendam, near Bokspits on the southwestern tip of Botswana in the Kgalagadi District. Bock attests: “This is our culture. Our traditional dance. Every fun...
Thalefang Charles
| 06 March 2015
Ditshwanelo sues for former SA gold miners� welfare
Ditshwanelo - Botswana Centre for Human Rights has filed compensation litigation against South African gold mining companies on behalf of former Batswana mine workers affected by Silicosis. A researcher at Ditshwanelo, Kabelo Mahupela said during a...
Oarabile Mosikare 06 March 2015
Three Dikgosi Monument shows true �fake� colours
The Three-Dikgosi Monument in Central Business District (CBD) in Gaborone is embroiled in a fresh controversy. Hardly 10 years since the unveiling of the P10.5 million project, the statues of the three chiefs, Khama III, Sebele I and Bathoen I are...
Thalefang Charles
| 06 March 2015
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