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Sandy Grant 26 June 2015
WUC seeks rescue from World Bank
World Bank experts, who came through the invitation of the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, have been in the country for a week. They visited the corporation and the Ministry of Minerals Energy and Water resources to find ways on...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 26 June 2015
BONA turns to invitational tourney
BONA president, Tebogo Lebotse-Sebego, said Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania and Swaziland have confirmed their participation and join the hosts for the tournament, which ends next week Wednesday. She said the invitational tournament is a great...
Chakalisa Dube
| 26 June 2015
Curtain draws on Bolofete�s 21year journey
The 36-year-old Bolofete said he feels it’s time to leave the sport while he is still energetic. “I have been playing football at high level for a long time now and I think this is the right time to make way for upcoming players to...
Koketso Kgoboge 26 June 2015
Riders ready to roll
Jwaneng, 160 kilometers south west of Gaborone will for the second time host the desert race, commonly known as Mmantshwabise. Fans will descend on the mining town to witness drivers and riders battle for the ultimate prize of gaining automatic...
Correspondent 26 June 2015
Serowe, the cradle of football talent
The impressive form of both sides brings to four, the number of teams from the Central district that will use the Serowe stadium as their home ground. Palapye’s Motlakase Power Dynamos and BR Highlanders of Mahalapye, who complete the...
James Kgosi 26 June 2015
BVF wants dialogue over constituency league
President Ian Khama, as a mechanism to keep unemployed youth off the streets, introduced the initiative. However, the BVF argues players continue to leave mainstream volleyball in pursuit of financial gains offered by the constituency...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 26 June 2015
Tough competition expected at Desert Race
The Toyota team, which scooped the top three positions last year is expected to face tough competition from the Ford, Nissan and the BMW X3 teams. Botswana Motor Sports (BMS) president, Simon Modisaemang, said that it was hard to predict the winner...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 26 June 2015
Star fails to shine because of revenge
This has become the norm for action lovers, and also because his films are always driven by meaningful yet violent themes such as human trafficking, abuse, organised crime and so forth. He is back and this time he is driven by revenge. With regard...
Bakang Israel 26 June 2015
Health Generation � the juicy lane
From a distance juice and smoothie bar, Health Generation looks like any other goodies store, but once you move closer, everything changes. The lime green walls, fruits displayed on the counter and the fresh fruity aroma will quickly entice you to...
Dumisani Ncube 26 June 2015
La Fete de la Musique moves to Molapo Piazza
The international annual event, which is celebrated in more than 120 countries, was initiated in 1982 by French minister Jack Lang. Alliance Francaise has been organising the event in Botswana for the past 12 years. “As much as we have...
Dumisani Ncube 26 June 2015
Nigma and Ncinci serve comedy on a silver platter
The event dubbed does this taste funny to you, takes place every second Thursday of the month at Ncinci’s house in the Village. “Upon discovering that we shared the same interests, we decided that every second Thursday of every month we...
Dumisani Ncube 26 June 2015
Mob justice
Mmegi Editor 26 June 2015
Empower Dikgosi to impact change
Before him, it was Kgosi Tawana Moremi who left the House to join the ruling party Botswana Democratic Party before joining rival Botswana Movement for Democracy. A few years earlier, Kgosi Kgafela II refused to go to Ntlo ya Dikgosi on grounds that...
Mmegi Editor
| 26 June 2015
Sisters doing it for themselves
Whether as a result of divorce, death of spouse or by choice, many women are finding themselves alone without the traditional male breadwinners to take care of affairs. Besides this, the strides made by activists over the years have empowered...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 26 June 2015
The case for an official Presidential Photographer
On Tuesday, the Office of the President’s official Facebook page posted eight images of President Ian Khama’s state visit to France, where he toured the French Army Museum and Napoleon’s tomb this week. The pictures were re-shared...
Thalefang Charles
| 26 June 2015
Plight of street children haunts outgoing Council Secretary
Despite the achievements he made in implementing a number of projects, Molepolole regrets that the township is still grappling with the numbers of street children who roam the shopping complexes in search of leftover food. He said in terms of GDC...
Leinanyana Tsiane 26 June 2015
Escaping cruel irony in Ngamiland
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator, Helen Clarke came bearing gifts for the battle-weary residents of Ngamiland during her recent visit. Namely a shiny, new Sustainable Land Management (SLM) project which aims to defuse the...
Boniface Keakabetse 26 June 2015
Ntlo ya Dikgosi should be our House of Lords
We use the First-Past-the-Post electoral system, which allows the party with majority elected members to automatically take government. Assuming power is irrespective of the percentage of voters the majority party gets, as all it needs is 50...
Bame Piet 26 June 2015
Beggars on streets of diamonds
The problem of squatting has grown in leaps and bounds since the establishment of Jwaneng Township 34 years ago. Annually, hundreds of people make the pilgrimage to the mining town with hopes of securing employment at the mine or associated...
Lebogang Baingapi 26 June 2015
Khama declares drought
1. Following the Drought and Household Food Security Outlook conducted from the 23rd March to 10th April 2015, findings of the assessment indicate that there was a significant decline in the rainfall distribution. This was coupled with scorching heat...
Correspondent 26 June 2015
Debt capital markets set to gain momentum
The analyst, Ikanyeng Segonetso, said before the financial crisis, regulators moved in swiftly to draft rules and regulations intended to make the banking industry safer and more resilient to unexpected economic conditions. He stated in his research...
Isaac Pinielo 26 June 2015
BMC raises prices to boost throughput
On Monday, the abattoir issued an announcement stating that the incentive will bring more compliant cattle supply to the Lobatse plant. In an interview with BusinessWeek, public relations and communications manager, Brian Dioka said BMC currently...
Isaac Pinielo 26 June 2015
�Things to avoid�
Hire purchase is one of the worst ways to buy anything. The only thing I can think of that’s worse is borrowing money from a money-lender in order to buy things. But hire purchase comes a close second. The biggest problem is not actually that...
Consumer Watchdog 26 June 2015
BPOPF shake -up boosts banks liquidity
Earlier in the year, the Bank of Botswana was forced to release P2.3 billion into the banking system, following a liquidity crunch caused by years of unsustainably high credit growth set against stagnant deposits growth. The BPOPF, which holds a...
Brian Benza 26 June 2015
Fifa president Blatter says he did not resign
But, according to Swiss newspaper Blick, Blatter told a party at a Fifa museum: "I did not resign. I put myself and my office in the hands of the Fifa congress." Blatter is thought to be considering standing for re-election as president. Two...
Correspondent 26 June 2015
World Bank invests $1bn in Gabs roads
The money will be used for construction of intersection roads in the city. Gaborone mayor Kagiso Thutlwe said their intention is to improve road traffic management, especially during peak hours. “The tender documents to procure the...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 26 June 2015
Mom in tears as she meets accused killer
The 50-year-old Neelo Kgosikwena yesterday came face-to-face with the man accused of killing her two children after he torched the house they were sleeping in. Several times, the Gaborone High Court Judge, Justice Sigh Walia had to adjourn...
Mpho Mokwape
| 26 June 2015
Tempers flare at public transport meeting
As public transport increasingly becomes a nightmare in the capital, characterised by congestion and daunting delays, the Ministry of Transport and Communications has engaged an international advisory urban transport consultancy firm - CPCS, in a...
Baboki Kayawe 26 June 2015
Govt �tricks� Mwale in ARV case
The appeal was made a day after the judgment. On Monday, Attorney Chuchuchu Nchunga Nchunga, wrote to prisoner Gift Mwale’s lawyers requesting a meeting, which he said, was in order for the government to comply with Judge Key Dingake judgment...
Mpho Mokwape
| 26 June 2015
Ndibi�s journey into the intricate world of investigation
She spent part of her life working in South Africa and was handed a gargantuan task when the Americans asked her to assist expose corruption at FIFA. At the centre of the investigations was the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids to Russia...
Mqondisi Dube
| 26 June 2015
Deputy head misses jail time by a whisker
Magistrate Segametsi Basinyi said that Kgosiesele saved the court time and therefore she extended mercy by being lenient on him. According to the charge sheet, Kgosiesele, 54, was arrested on the May 28, 2014 at Marakanelo Avenue in Jwaneng, driving...
Lebogang Baingapi 26 June 2015
Butale�s 100-point reform agenda for BDP
In his manifesto passed to Mmegi, Butale assured BDP members that he had a full proof plan to turnaround fortunes of the ruling party. “The BDP has arrived at a crossroads. A decision has to be made by the membership whether to reform the...
Oarabile Mosikare 26 June 2015
BDP councillor suspended for misconduct
The suspension, which was effected last Friday, paved way for internal investigations to begin. BDP secretary general Mpho Balopi confirmed the suspension. “Like any other organisation, BDP has a way of running its political...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 26 June 2015
Long live the King, long live Mogomela
Such words were relevant when taking into account the fact that he was an ailing president. Seretse dominated the news headlines on radio and the two newspapers that existed at the time in Mmegi and Daily News. He was often off sick and would dash...
Richard Moleofe 26 June 2015
The truth behind the Legend of the Minotaur
The collated story strikes right at the heart of our religiosity and resolves the enigma of why the God of Israel appeared so cruel to his Chosen, the Israelites, yet, at the same time, was lovingly called “the Merciful One”. Actually,...
L M Leteane 26 June 2015
An open letter to SAFA president
I was humbled by your humility and down-to- earth personality. I could not pick up any pomp in you, but instead saw someone who is smart and thorough in his job. It is now on record that you did an exceptional good job as chief executive...
Dennis Keagile 26 June 2015
Poetavango short story competition
They do not like the conditions that they live in, so they get busy trying to create the world that they want and I seriously respect that. This year they are taking another welcome step toward improving the situation for writers in...
Lauri Kubuitsile 26 June 2015
Mammoth task for Statutory Bodies and State Enterprise Committee
Monday before it resumes again sometimes in August. The eight member committee, chaired by Tati East Member of Parliament (MP) Guma Moyo, examined books of accounts of three parastatals; Water Utilities Corporation, Botswana Power Corporation and...
Dithapelo Keorapetse 26 June 2015
Serowe braces for art and crafts market day
The event takes place at the old Western Primary School, which has been turned into a youth centre. The event will be held at the end of every month and the organisers are hopeful that interest in the arts in the region will grow following the...
Chippa Legodimo 26 June 2015
First Division South acts after meagre gate takings
This comes after the league revealed that it had raised only P1, 300 in gate takings from all the 264 games throughout season. FDSL treasurer Thebetsile Mokgwa told Mmegi Sport that they would introduce the scheme next season with the intention to...
Calistus Kolantsho 26 June 2015
Botswana implicated in FIFA corruption
Kushatha Ndibi, an investigative journalist with e-Botswana was tasked with unearthing corruption around the two bids, which have seen the arrest of high profile former and sitting FIFA members. She was contracted over a three-year period, from 2010...
Mqondisi Dube
| 26 June 2015
New P300m Hilton hotel set for CBD
The 148-roomed hotel, that is expected to take 18 months to build, is a partnership between BPOPF, M3 (Pty) Ltd, Hilton Brand Worldwide and Fleming Asset Management. The M3 Company has developed the designs of the building while the Fleming Asset...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 26 June 2015
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