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Chakalisa Dube 07 August 2015
Ndawana, Oatlhotse square up in �Who�s Who?� chess battle
Ndawana lost to Oatlhotse at the Tsogo Millionaire chess tournament held in Johannesburg and now is eager for revenge. He told Mmegi Sport that he has long prepared for the tournament, as he does not expect a walk in the park when facing...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 07 August 2015
Spruced up Premiership explodes into life
Club: Mochudi Centre Chiefs Established: 1972 Position last season: Champions Players to watch: Kekaetswe Moloi, Lesego Galenamotlhale Home colours: Black and white Away Colours: White Home ground: National Stadium Coach: Mike Sithole Mochudi...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 07 August 2015
New look GU adds six new players
The Reds signed Botlhe Rakaki from Oodi Fast XI, Katlego Keobake and Tshepo Maikano, both from Extension Gunners, Andrew Shadrack from Pandamatenga, Hendrick Moyo from Orapa United, Thato Ogopotse from BDF XI and Ghanaian defender, Godwin Bonsu. GU...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 07 August 2015
Ants, ex- cons, thieves save the world
Marvel Comics is a comic book publishing house famous for creating most notable superhero characters such as Spiderman, Thor, Captain America, Batman, the Hulk, Ironman and the X-Men. We have watched some of the trusted superheroes save the world...
Bakang Israel 07 August 2015
Six years later, F/town Stadium finally opens
It was handed over by The Minister of Infrastructure Science and Technology (MIST), Nonofo Molefhi to the Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture (MYSC), Thapelo Olopeng yesterday. The stadium, which cost nearly P300 million, though it was...
Chakalisa Dube
| 07 August 2015
BOMU holds AGM tomorrow
Tempers are expected to flare as the local musician mouthpiece votes for its new president, if at all there will be change from its current leadership. Other positions up for grabs are of vice president, finance, research, and executive...
Sharon Mathala 07 August 2015
Subiey: The master of ululation
If wishes were horses, she would use her God-given talent to entertain the first citizen wherever he goes and be rewarded for it. Subiey, as she is affectionately called, says she began ululating as a young girl, while she was a member of...
James Kgosi 07 August 2015
Viva to the African woman
How true! This is a message that is so relevant today as we observe the month of August, the 30 days dedicated to the emancipation of women of Africa. This is the time set aside to recognise women of all walks of life, and remember and honour their...
Mmegi Editor
| 07 August 2015
How Obama failed Africa
Through this assessment, it is sadly plain to see that Obama’s policies have not helped the vast majority of Africans. Instead, the policies have allowed the suppression of the African people’s hoped-for democratic reforms while...
Solly Rakgomo 07 August 2015
Women and the political glass ceiling
Botswana prides itself as a beacon of peace and democracy in Africa, and is ranked well relative to most nations globally. As a result, the landlocked country continues to be highly regarded by the international community. Despite strides in...
Baboki Kayawe 07 August 2015
Top 10 women newsmakers
Dorcas Makgato The Minister of Health and Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) women’s wing chair has an illustrious past in the higher echelons of the private sector as well as the sporting fraternity. Makgato burst into cabinet in October 2009 as...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 07 August 2015
Social media policy, a necessary evil
Worriedly, some elements within the media fraternity have been found wanting in the manner in which they use the social media space to communicate their opinions on a plethora of issues. This has prompted unavoidable debate that the social media...
Chakalisa Dube
| 07 August 2015
Of self interest and vultures
Sometime in June 2000 at a seminar at Botswana National Productivity Centre, President Ian Khama, then vice president, angered Members of Parliament (MPs) across the political divide after likening them to vultures that were all out to loot the...
Ntibinyane Ntibinyane 07 August 2015
The dust not yet settled
The wrangle over the naming of the village dates as far back as 1979 when residents found themselves bitterly divided between Lesenepole and Matolwane. While those in favour of Lesenepole as the name of their village are still in a celebratory mood...
Onalenna Kelebeile 07 August 2015
NBFIRA�s proposal stifles domestic capital markets � PwC
Due to a thin local capital market, regulators currently allow fund managers to invest up to 70 percent of their funds offshore. The Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) however, hopes to change the law to 70% domestic and...
Brian Benza 07 August 2015
Postal sector urged to keep up with ICT changes
The Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA), Mphoeng Tamasiga said this at the 14th annual Southern African Postal Operations Association (SAPOA) General Meeting this week. Tamasiga said the...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 07 August 2015
BoB cuts rate to spur weak credit growth
With credit growth currently at a four-year low due, in part, to tight liquidity in the market, a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held yesterday decided to reduce the cost of borrowing to drive spending by both businesses and...
Brian Benza 07 August 2015
BSE eyes automated trading of bonds
It is understood that the issue has become a key priority at the local bourse, considering that worldwide bond markets are being automated. BSE’s deputy Chief Executive Officer, Thapelo Tsheole told journalists at a business seminar yesterday...
Isaac Pinielo 07 August 2015
The irks and pros of promotional SMSs
Each day, mobile phone users are bombarded with multitudes of promotional Short Message Services (SMSs) from their operators ranging from promotions, quizzes to alerts. While the majority of these unsolicited SMSs turn out to be something that...
Isaac Pinielo 07 August 2015
OP buys Orapa House for P88.4M
The Assistant Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administrations Phillip Makgalemele said they were under pressure to buy the building because some of their offices are housed all over by different departments of government. The issue arose...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 07 August 2015
Water contamination alert at Letsholathebe Hospital
Ngamiland District Health Team head Dr. Christopher Chembe told a press conference on Wednesday that at least 12 wards at the hospital are affected as their water is polluted with faecal streptococci. He said only five wards have safe water for...
Boniface Keakabetse 07 August 2015
BOPEU changes BURS strike tactics to go-slow
Briefing the media on Wednesday, the BOPEU president, Andrew Motsamai announced that BOPEU met and consulted with the striking workers and agreed on a change of tactics. “Going forward, we intend to embark on an action short of a strike...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 07 August 2015
How spy agency froze Guma�s account
The FIA played a key and leading role in the investigation and subsequent freezing of an account belonging to IRB Transport, a company supposedly co-owned by Samson Moyo Guma and the Minister of Youth Sports and Culture, Thapelo Olopeng, court...
Sharon Mathala 07 August 2015
Livestock farmers disapprove discriminatory schemes
Speaking during the official opening of the show yesterday, the Kweneng district farmer, who has been a member of this committee since 1988, bemoaned that that livestock farmers did not benefit from the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme...
Baboki Kayawe 07 August 2015
The tragic side of some women's empowerment
Sharon Mathala 07 August 2015
Upsurge in foreign coaches regressive
This is quite a regressive development. What it essentially means is that the growth and empowerment of local technicians has taken an extremely backward trend. And, as the Premiership grows, chances are that the top four teams will always go for...
Dennis Keagile 07 August 2015
Quorum of the National Assembly
The Speaker of the National Assembly has recently sternly rebuked Members of Parliament (MPs) for failing to quorate and in particular criticised those who sit for a few minutes and leave just to mark themselves present and get sitting allowance....
Dithapelo Keorapetse 07 August 2015
Can Botswana export its labour again?
This country has been twisted in the last fifty years because at the time of independence we were largely a labour exporting country to South Africa and on the same vein it was a nett exporter of grain and other agricultural products. Of course we...
Richard Moleofe 07 August 2015
Setswana in the very roots of mankind (Part 1)
It all began with the Anunnaki. Nobody knows how old these beings of antiquity truly are. Traces of their unbelievable sophistication have been unearthed in fossils as old as 300 million years or more. One thing we can be assured of is that,...
L M Leteane 07 August 2015
Hoping for an all-action; gibberish free season
Last season ended on a sour note with boardroom meetings, indecisiveness, controversy, with football matters eventually reaching the courts of Law, something that FIFA abhors. Not to sound like aim scratching a healing wound, the end of season off...
Thuso Palai 07 August 2015
From humble beginnings to stardom
The 23-year-old burst into the entertainment scene late last year as a TV host for one of the most watched programmes on Botswana television, Pula Power. She came as an underdog, and many people did not know her, but she quickly got a lot of...
Dumisani Ncube 07 August 2015
Disgruntled Rollers members win court battle
Rollers’ chairman, Walter Kgabung representing the respondents told Mmegi Sport that they are yet to make a decision on the next step. “We have to first read and understand the judgement that is when we will decide on the way...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 07 August 2015
Carnage in diamond cutting industry
According to information reaching BusinessWeek, another local cutting and polishing company, Diacore has retrenched 50 employees taking the total number of affected workers in the industry to around 1,000 in the past year. At its peak, the industry...
Brian Benza 07 August 2015
Olopeng �dumps� Guma
Olopeng and Guma are currently fighting off allegations of bribery and corrupt dealings by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC). In his answering affidavit before the Village Magistrate court, Olopeng who is also an MP for Tonota...
Oarabile Mosikare 07 August 2015
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