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Tsaone Basimanebotlhe 25 June 2015
Golfers line-up for Makgadikgadi Open
A strong line-up including defending champions, Peter Modise, Noah Majube, Robert Majube and Ntando Ramphethu, is expected to descend on the town for the event, which is a premier Botswana Golf Union (BGU) sanctioned tournament. Botswana Ash has...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 25 June 2015
Ntuane�s turnaround strategy for BDP garners support
Attendants who comprised delegates from Selebi-Phikwe, Bobirwa and Mmadinare constituencies said the reforms Ntuane is talking about in his campaigns are exactly what the doctor ordered for the party to survive. Delegates also pledged to support any...
Onalenna Kelebeile 25 June 2015
Softball tournament receives P50, 000 boost
The sponsorship will escalate by ten percent annually. Botsogo Metropolitan Health general manager Lesego Pule said that the company has been part of the softball extravaganza for the past two years. “Botsogo has been part of the extravaganza...
Ivy Matlho 25 June 2015
Green Lovers start top-flight preparations
Green Lovers made history by becoming the second Serowe team after Miscellaneous, to play in the Premier League. They reached their destination after beating Mogoditshane Fighters in the Premier League promotional play offs. Green Lovers president,...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 25 June 2015
The age of accountability
Presidential Affairs and Public Administration minister, Eric Molale will lay the Whistleblowing Bill before legislators, which if approved, marks a new chapter in accountability and transparency in Botswana. According to its preamble, the Bill...
Mmegi Editor
| 25 June 2015
New investment firm eyes BSE listing
The greenfield venture, which recently concluded a P90 million private placement, has already been granted regulatory approval to list 240 million ordinary shares on the Venture Capital board of the BSE. Local fund managers such as African Alliance,...
Brian Benza 25 June 2015
Motlaleng�s council seat safe
While many feared his seat may go vacant if he did not make it to this week’s Gaborone City Council full council meeting, the Council Act shows that Motlaleng can only lose his seat if he misses full council meetings three consecutive...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 25 June 2015
Olopeng urges mining companies to support youth businesses
Olopeng said this when officiating at the northern Youth Pitso at the Gerald Estate Centre for the Deaf on Tuesday. The Pitso was held under the theme, ‘Mindset Change, and a Key to a Creative Innovative and Vibrant Youth’ and was...
Pini Bothoko
| 25 June 2015
Kehetile, the reluctant politician
“I am not a career politician. It is my conviction that we are all created equal with dignity to reach our highest human potential. But too often, there are structures that make it only the few and privileged to have a good life. I am ready to...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 25 June 2015
Nkurunziza
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Creative Motswana opens online music store
Apple’s itunes store, which is probably the world’s biggest online store for digital media is globally known. It has a huge selection of music that works seamlessly with every computer or mobile phone. You can search, browse, preview,...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 25 June 2015
Police commissioner abolishes housing allowance
This follows a savingram written by Makgophe dated June 18, 2015 and addressed to the rest of the service about the implementation of the housing and upkeep allowance. The circular reads: “Reference is made to Public Service...
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Bana Ba Botswana Charitable Trust launched
Deputy Speaker and MP for Gaborone South, Kagiso Molatlhegi will officially launch the trust at their offices in Bontleng. The trust, which is run by a board of trustees consisting of seven members, was registered on November 28 last year. Chula...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 25 June 2015
Coke brings back contour bottle
The now famous Coca-Cola contour bottle was patented in 1915 by the Root Glass Company of Terre Haute, Indiana and featured in ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’ movie. Coca Cola Botswana celebrated the brand’s 100th anniversary at Kgalagadi...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 25 June 2015
Creative Motswana opens online music store
It has a huge selection of music that works seamlessly with every computer or mobile phone. You can search, browse, preview, purchase and download music through itunes. Lapisang, has invented a similar version, but this time a website specifically...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 25 June 2015
San Andreas
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his daughter.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Ted 2
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Wild Card
When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play...and it's all or nothing.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Jurassic World
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to...
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Inside Out
After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
San Andreas
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his daughter.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Ted 2
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Wild Card
When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play...and it's all or nothing.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Kgosi Tawana II portrait commissioned
The event is organised by Kgosi Tawana Moremi’s age regiment of Matsaakgang. The regiment member Chippa Mohiemang told Mmegi that the event is part of an ongoing initiative to revive the Batawana culture. He said the portrait of the Kgosi...
Boniface Keakabetse 25 June 2015
Fire scare alarms GCC
Fire alarm rang at 8:00am immediately after the employees concluded their morning prayers. The deputy mayor Kagiso Tshikega said Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) officers had managed to an identify electrical fault. “They have...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 25 June 2015
Whistleblowers� Protection Bill finally reaches parley
The main objective of the Bill, which has been gazetted, is to “provide for the manner in which a person may, in the public interest, disclose information adverse to the public interest; to provide for the manner of reporting and investigation...
Bame Piet 25 June 2015
Ted 2
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
InInside Out
After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Wild Card
When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play...and it's all or nothing.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
San Andreas
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his daughter.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Condom that changes colour when it contacts STIs invented
The so-called "S.T.EYE" condom is a conceptual design that changes color when it comes into contact with an STI such as chlamydia or syphilis. The idea is the brainchild of Muaz Nawaz, 13, Daanyaal Ali, 14, and Chirag Shah, 14, who attend the Isaac...
Correspondent 25 June 2015
Inside Out
After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
BDP Francistown region snubs Masisi
Francistown region has been openly declared pro-Masisi but Tuesday this week, things seemingly fell apart under his nose. Upon his arrival at the Francistown airport, Masisi who was acting President and enjoyed full presidential escort, got the...
Chakalisa Dube
| 25 June 2015
Jurassic World
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to...
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
Spy
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.
Staff Writer 25 June 2015
American Jazz group in Botswana for cultural exchange
The artists visit Botswana for the second time and this time around through an invitation by the United States (US) Embassy. Speaking to the music stakeholders and musicians at Old Naledi on Tuesday, the leader of the group Antony Stanco said...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 25 June 2015
Dynamites in limbo over unavailability of players
Dynamites were scheduled to play Kalavango in Molepolole on Saturday, but the game now hangs in the balance. The team’s coach, Mpho Tlhaselo, yesterday told Mmegi Sport that they are not sure if they will be ready for the match come Saturday....
Calistus Kolantsho
| 25 June 2015
Shock as minimum wage rises below 30thebe
Government has approved a six percent adjustment of minimum wage for the 2015-2016 financial period across all sectors. A majority of the industries have seen an insignificant P0.29 increment from a P4.86 basic minimum rate to P5.15 per...
Baboki Kayawe 25 June 2015
Property returns halve on softer market
According to the IPD Annual Property Consultative Index released yesterday, the total return was underpinned by a relatively stable income return of 9.4 percent while capital growth slowed significantly to 2.0 percent from 10.2 percent the year...
Isaac Pinielo 25 June 2015
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