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Staff Writer 28 August 2015

Due in Kanye: Thobo Matlhatsi and top seed Bonolo Mabote in action

Poor response to Kanye table tennis tourney

The tournament organiser, Rorisang Raesima told Mmegi Sport on Wednesday that although they had anticipated a large number of players, only 40 players had by Thursday registered for the tournament. The competition brings to the table fierce rivals...

Kabelo Boranabi | 28 August 2015

Starting as favourites: Hogs face rookies Jaguars in the final tomorrow. PIC: KABO MPAETONA

Favourites Hogs battle Jaguars in final

Jaguars defied odds in their debut season to make their way to the final. The side out-kicked and out-muscled league defending champions, UB Rhinos in the semi-final played last Friday. Hogs’ leap to the final was a walk in the park when they...

Calistus Kolantsho | 28 August 2015

Coach okays Makwala in fast and furious race

Makwala finished fifth in the race and relinquished his African record of 43:72 seconds after South African Wayne Van Niekerk clocked 43:48 to win gold. “It was one of the best races in the history of athletics, the first time we get top the...

Mqondisi Dube | 28 August 2015

BFA president Tebogo Sebego briefing members of the media on the coming game of Zebras against Burkina Faso Pic Keoagile Bonang

BFA to consider F�town stadium as Zebras� new home

Sebego was addressing a press conference here yesterday. During the briefing, Sebego announced that the national team would play Burkina Faso at the resplendent venue on September 5. The match was initially slated for the new Lobatse...

Chakalisa Dube | 28 August 2015

GU face Gunners� revitalised juggernaut

Paul arrived at Gunners in the middle of last season as an assistant to South African coach, Calvin Petersen. At the time, he was also the national Under-23 coach. Just as much as there were doubts over whether he was the right man for the Under-23...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 28 August 2015

Rollers chase revenge against Highlanders

Minnows Highlanders caused a major upset in the second round of last season when they hammered the Gaborone giants 3-1 in a thrilling Friday encounter at tonight’s venue. The loss contributed immensely to Rollers’ league title loss to...

Bonte Seepi 28 August 2015

Scramble for high-grade weapons and technology

This has become the winning storyline for most action blockbusters including The Man From U.N.C.L.E, a 2015 British American action comedy spy film directed by Guy Ritchie (the director of Sherlock Holmes (2009) and (2011). The film is...

Bakang Israel 28 August 2015

An all-star happening in the north

South African artists Bonginkosi Dlamini a.k.a Zola, Pitch Black Afro, real name Thulani Ngcobo, Mdududzi Tshabalala aka Mandoza will headline the maiden annual ‘8ta holla’ music festival, which will be held at the Selebi-Phikwe...

Lesedi Mkhutshwa | 28 August 2015

Former Miss Botswana Boingotlo Motlalekgosi (2003) rocking the Sotho hat1

Depicting culture through fashion

They are unlike most countries in southern Africa who have fully adopted the western style of dress with the youth having adopted the pop culture. Basotho are unfazed and still stick to their traditional style of wear. Basotho are easily spotted...

Dumisani Ncube 28 August 2015

�Inspired�

These were individuals who had demonstrated the highest levels of customer service over the last year. In the last year we have received about two hundred celebrations of such people. We took that list and narrowed it down to about fifty and then...

Consumer Watchdog 28 August 2015

Banks caught in liquidity, weak economy spiral

According to Bank of Botswana (BoB) figures released this week, the rate of loans uptake by both business and households dropped 45 percent in the first half of the year, from 13.5 percent in December 2014 to 7.4 percent in June 2015. The slower...

Brian Benza 28 August 2015

Premier League offers Mamelodi new contract

“The Premier League board has agreed that the CEO be offered a new contract. The only thing that is left is the approval of the new strategy which we came up with at the BPL retreat held in Mahalapye recently,” Kgabung told Mmegi...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 28 August 2015

RDC to raise P235m for regional expansion

The company this week revealed it intends to raise the capital by way of a bonus issue as well as by way of a renounceable rights offer. The price at which the new linked units will be offered will be P2.25 for both the bonus issue and the...

Isaac Pinielo 28 August 2015

The CJ and the four judges: Whose conduct is irregular

In response, the judges, through a letter dated 12th August 2015, wrote to the CJ saying “we are alarmed that a matter as internal as housing allowance, whose continued receipt at the instance of the Administration of Justice (AoJ) was never...

Correspondent 28 August 2015

All the president's men?

Consumer Watchdog 28 August 2015

Moody�s sees a wider budget deficit for Botswana

The 2016-2017 Budget Strategy Paper (BSP) released by the finance ministry last week, estimates the economy to grow by 2.6 percent while the budget balance is now seen posting a deficit of P4.03 billion or 2.6 percent of GDP. In February, finance...

Brian Benza 28 August 2015

How to survive the editing process

You created that world, that story, those characters – who is this person wanting to step-in and change the furniture around? That person is an editor, and despite cursory observations, they really are on your...

Lauri Kubuitsile 28 August 2015

Taboo: Society increasingly frowns upon all form of gender abuse

Gender violence thriving on women�s economic status

Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Botswana is increasingly becoming a monster that competes for resources against noble needs such as health, education and food. It is hindering developmental prospects for women and instead breeding a cycle of economic...

Baboki Kayawe 28 August 2015

Ravaged: FMD has breached Hainaveldt farms

Conspiracies swirl around Ngamiland�s fresh FMD outbreak

Hainaveld Farms, situated on the northern border of the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve, has been the mainstay of beef production in Ngamiland. Hainaveld Farms were renowned as a safe haven against spates of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), which has...

Boniface Keakabetse 28 August 2015

UDC�s Mathokgwane gambit

Around 4pm on the Goodhope/Mabule by-election day, a group of journalists gathered outside Dinatshana Primary School polling station. They had picked up a tip-off that James Mathokgwane, the man that caused the by-election after his mysterious and...

Thalefang Charles | 28 August 2015

Equality in combat: Women were admitted to the army in 2007

Men come to the gender equality party

While gender issues and women empowerment are often considered to be female-only terrain, more men are coming out to publicly support women’s efforts for equality and opportunities. Post-millennium, it appears many organisations and individuals...

Keletso Thobega 28 August 2015

The hurdle for SMMEs to grow past infancy

Though various sectors have their own definition of SMME, it usually refers to a business that has a turnover that ranges between a pula to P10 million. Most of these businesses are highly concentrated in supplies and service industries and...

Pauline Dikuelo | 28 August 2015

Endorsed: Masire- Mwamba is looking forward to November. PIC: KABO MPAETONA

Gunning to make world history

Simple beginnings “I was born in Kanye and grew up in Gaborone. My education was in Gaborone up until I went to the United Kingdom for my first degree. I come from a family of six, three boys and three girls. Because we grew up at a time when...

Mbongeni Mguni | 28 August 2015

Court nullifies BURS �commitment letters�

Judge Tapiwa Marumo yesterday granted the Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) an interim interdict to suspend the ‘commitment letters’ that the union had alleged were forced on its members to intimidate them to abandon the strike and...

Mpho Mokwape | 28 August 2015

Variables on BDF leadership expansion

I have had varied responses from serving and retired members of the BDF regarding the topic I discussed which was on the size of the leadership at the barracks. What is interesting is that serving members only confront me as and when we meet while...

Richard Moleofe 28 August 2015

MPs should boycott useless Parliamentary Committees

Standing Committees which are created for the life of a Parliament, Sessional Select Committees which stand dissolved at the end of each and every Parliamentary session, Special Select Committees which are constituted when the need arises to...

Dithapelo Keorapetse 28 August 2015

Setswana in the very roots of mankind (Part 3)

Yet, because ancient names tended to reveal much, we saw Setswana shed good light even on this. In the course of that exercise we pitted the biblical version of events against much older sources like the Atra-Hasis and found the latter to be much...

L M Leteane 28 August 2015

The amazing Moratiwa

She has done live performances, fine art, music, photography, creative directing and lecturing. Moratiwa has, over the years, created and presented amazing works in different forms of art. She has worked on a number of Maitisong Festival...

Dumisani Ncube 28 August 2015

Players want cash not airtime- FUB

Spokespersons of influential teams like Extension Gunners, Township Rollers and Gaborone United also expressed ignorance of the complaints. Under the newly introduced ‘beplayer of the month award’, players will receive airtime worth...

Mompati Tlhankane | 28 August 2015

Guma�s bluff

Despite his recent pronouncement to quit politics before end of his term in 2019, Tati East legislator Samson Moyo Guma is yet to make good on his exit, despite the media publicity it attracted. Was Guma bluffing? Guma made the shocking...

Chakalisa Dube | 28 August 2015

Choppies� bosses in P450m payout

Choppies directors Ramachandran Ottapathu and Farouk Ismail are in line for a bumper P452 million pay cheque from the disposal of their shareholding in nine companies related to the listed retail giant. In a transaction currently being...

Brian Benza 28 August 2015

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