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Staff Writer 18 September 2015

Pistorius wants to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest

Oscar Pistorius parole board meets over early release

South Africa's justice minister blocked the Olympic athlete's early release in August in a surprise move. It could take months for the panel to determine if the initial decision to release him early was legal, a BBC reporter in Johannesburg...

Staff Writer 18 September 2015

Amos bags gold at All Africa debut

The 2015 Diamond League winner finished with a time of 1:50:45 in his first appearance at the AAG. In second place was Olympic 1,500m champion, Taoufik Makhloufi with a time of 1:50:72, while Kenya’s Job Kinyor finished third in...

Kabelo Boranabi | 18 September 2015

Cricket disappoints in England

Botswana was in Group A which had Suriname, Guernsey and Fiji. Botswana won against Fiji, but lost to Suriname and Guernsey. The losses meant that the team failed to qualify for Division Five. Against little known Guernsey, Botswana suffered a...

Dumisani Ncube 18 September 2015

Lack of sponsorship cripples golf

BGU vice president-south, Mpho Kelosiwang painted a gloomy picture when he said they are struggling to secure sponsorship particularly for junior development. Kelosiwang told Mmegi Sport that companies would rather sponsor a social tournament than a...

Calistus Kolantsho | 18 September 2015

Minnows look to continue good start

Sua Flamingos and Kazungula FC both recorded victories in their first games and lock horns at the Sowa ground tomorrow. Former Premiership champions, ECCO City Greens who lost their opening game 3-2 to Kazungula FC play against Tsabothe in Serowe...

Faith Siako 18 September 2015

Tse Nala vow to break Ostriches� unbeaten home run

The last time the Ostriches succumbed to a home loss was on August 23, 2014 when they lost 2-1 to the then BMC (now Gilport Lions). But Miscellaneous coach, Russia Chaba is keen to put a stop to the unbeaten run when the two meet tonight. He...

Koketso Kgoboge 18 September 2015

Premier league administrators Mamelodi and Kgabong during their press briefing at The Grand Palm.Pic.Kagiso Onkatswitse

New BPL strategy ready for implementation

Mamelodi, whose contract comes to an end in November, has been offered a new two-year contract which he is yet to sign. “We have offered him a two-year contract and we hope the issue will be concluded in a few days,” Kgabung told...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 18 September 2015

Letter to Peter Butler

I suppose I chickened out because I did not have all the facts or put in another way, had only one side of the story and needed to touch base with the other side. Peter, after your visit to Francistown I think you have been uplifted spiritually and...

Dennis Keagile 18 September 2015

Most wanted smuggler hot pursuit

Former special forces mercenary, Frank Martin, lands another tough job, when things get complicated when femme fatale, Anna and her three accomplices orchestrate a bank heist and the kidnapping of Frank’s father. It’s all part of a grand...

Bakang Israel 18 September 2015

Electronic festival for independence celebrations

The first ever electronic festival will be held at the Gaborone Cricket Club on September 30. A trial festival will be beamed in five selected districts as part of a build up to 2016. The selected areas that will be beaming the festival are Maun,...

Ulla Setswalo 18 September 2015

Writing to heal

It appears as if traumatic events in our lives, if not processed in some way, go on to cause us harm. Events such as serious illness, violence, divorce, keeping a damaging secret, and even changing home can increase our stress hormones, in particular...

Lauri Kubuitsile 18 September 2015

�Back to basics�

“Can you return furniture if you bought it cash and chose a different product within or less than 6 months after buying and reason for returning maybe that the qualities of that particular product are less than what you expected?” So...

Consumer Watchdog 18 September 2015

SATA Executive Secretary and Huawei Marketing Director Sign MOU

Huawei moves to boost ICT literacy

Through an agreement that it signed with the Southern African Telecommunications Association (SATA) in Gaborone this week, the company seeks to help develop the social-economy in Africa by expediting the digital transformation in the region. The...

Pauline Dikuelo | 18 September 2015

Travel Lodge expands to Kasane and Ghanzi

The three-star lodge’s first franchise, Kasane Travel Lodge is expected to be complete in three months and will have 150 rooms, a restaurant, pool, bar and 200-seater conference centre. The lodge will be open for business by early next...

Pauline Dikuelo | 18 September 2015

Banks warm up to Basel II

Basel II attempts to integrate Basel capital standards with national regulations, by setting the minimum capital requirements of financial institutions with the goal of ensuring institutional liquidity. In preparation for the implementation of the...

Isaac Pinielo 18 September 2015

Beef export competitiveness deteriorates � BIDPA study

In a recent working paper titled ‘Export Competitiveness of Botswana’s Beef Industry’ published by the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA), the researchers stated that despite its deteriorating...

Isaac Pinielo 18 September 2015

Maun airport expansion on track-Mabeo

The airport, which services Maun and the northern tourism destinations, is expected to continue to receive increased local and international travellers coming to the Okavango Delta and Maun itself. The airport design, according to officials, will...

Boniface Keakabetse 18 September 2015

Uptake of renewable energy technologies low � Expert

Ackim Zulu of the University of Zambia said at an international conference on clean energy for sustainable growth in developing countries here on Wednesday that barriers that impeded the development of renewable energy technology are...

Onalenna Kelebeile 18 September 2015

Cleaners at Sekgoma Hospital down tools

The 52 employees’ are protesting against low salaries, poor working conditions and being made to work without contracts, among other qualms. According to one employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, on behalf of the cleaners on strike,...

Koketso Kgoboge 18 September 2015

Peace and unity as JWs �Imitate Jesus�

Many expressed their appreciation for what they learned from the Bible about Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and were looking forward to the benefits of applying this in their lives. Titus Mbuya, a spokesman for the convention programme, commented:...

Staff Writer 18 September 2015

Duo cleared of murder charge

The state alleged that Mosimanegape Tuna Mohlohlwa and Oupa Thuso ‘Top Dog’ Solomon acting together with another person not before court killed a Zimbabwean man, Peace Nyoni at Satellite location on August 21, 2009. However, Justice...

Lebogang Mosikare | 18 September 2015

Rural women drilled on solar electrification

It is believed that with these skills, the women will be in a better position to tackle the prevailing power woes, and most critically, light up their villages, which are currently outside the electricity grid. The women, who range from illiterate...

Baboki Kayawe 18 September 2015

Mall management and hawkers in space tussle

The company had ordered that they vacate their premises but the hawkers have stubbornly refused to leave citing that they have nowhere else to go. About two months ago, Advent Enterprises, represented by Thabiso Tafila, issued the informal traders...

Lebogang Baingapi 18 September 2015

Judges pocketed close to P1m

The report, titled: ‘Interim Internal Audit Report – Honourable Judges’ Housing Allowance’, was prepared by the Senior Internal Auditor, Maria Mokgwathi, and was reviewed by acting deputy director, (Internal Audit), Chazha...

Oarabile Mosikare 18 September 2015

Khama during his inauguration as President.Pic.Kagiso Onkatswitse

Khama not budging on judges

The suspended judges, Key Dingake, Modiri Letsididi, Mercy Garekwe and Ranier Busang recently filed an urgent application to interdict the sitting of the tribunal. They also want their suspensions set aside. Khama’s affidavit reads; “I...

Mpho Mokwape | 18 September 2015

Politicians should set their priorities right

Ipopeng ward councillor Gaone Majere of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) had tabled an unsuccessful motion to topple Muzila. What is shocking and disappointing is that the mover of the motion could not raise pertinent Standing Orders...

Mmegi Editor | 18 September 2015

Refugee crisis of imperialism

The real tragedy is the refusal of Western leaders to acknowledge the cause of the refugee crisis: Western imperialism’s genocidal and never ending wars on the people of the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa. There are now more...

Solly Rakgomo 18 September 2015

Business, BOFEPUSU

Mmegi Editor 18 September 2015

Anti-corruption: How to tackle economic and financial crimes - Botswana has an important role to play

Even paying a “dowry” can be seen as part of a corrupt system. But, in the twenty-first century, we cannot turn our backs to such practices, as one form of corruption leads to another. Corruption is bad for the economy, undermines...

Correspondent 18 September 2015

Culture celebrated: Scenes from the anniversary

Tshekedi Khama: No axes to grind

The commemoration of Kgosi Tshekedi Khama’s 110th anniversary in Pilikwe last Saturday was quite some spectacle. It drew people by the hundreds from all over the country and the region, perhaps the most conspicuous being the flamboyant...

Methaetsile Leepile 18 September 2015

History in ashes: One of the burnt rooms at Tshwaragano Hotel

Reminiscing from TH

The sunset still looks great from here. The clear sky is slowly transforming from bright orange to dull sepia as the sun dips over Palamaokuwe. The crows fly past, silhouetted and singing, cackling melodies as they head to their nests. The...

Thalefang Charles | 18 September 2015

Loadshedding: Interval or end of all?

And they can hardly be blamed. In the seven years since loadshedding first breached local shores, set up shop and began retailing despair to unsuspecting consumers, cynicism has grown over any purported ‘solution’. A series of setbacks...

Mbongeni Mguni | 18 September 2015

Championing the war against hunger

Nearly 800 million people in the world are hungry. This translates to one in every nine people go without enough to eat. As it is, hunger and malnutrition are the number one risks to health globally with each year seeing the death toll...

Correspondent 18 September 2015

What are we doing to advance the contours of democracy in Botswana?�

The 2015 International Day of Democracy’s theme is “Space for Civil Society”. Civil society refers to the wide array of non-governmental and not-for-profit organisations that have a presence in public life, expressing the interests...

Correspondent 18 September 2015

Civil servants hold the key in Boswelatlou

Campaigns between the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) have heightened in recent weeks ahead of the election day, which will be on October 3. Boswelatlou ward has high numbers of civil servants. In particular...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 18 September 2015

Dealing with authoritarianism: The people and the President

While other African countries abandoned democratic constitutions written to them by their former colonial masters in favour of undemocratic alternatives such as one party states, military dictatorships and kleptocracies etcetera, Botswana held...

Dithapelo Keorapetse 18 September 2015

Botswana needs a new National Security Strategy (Part 2)

This is not a hypothetical question; it is a question that demands real answers because as a country we are at what I would regard a turning point of not only Botswana Defence Force, but the rest of all our security apparatuses. I should not only be...

Richard Moleofe 18 September 2015

Unmasking the real identity of King David

This week, we aim to unmask in more detail this historically elusive character…elusive because scholars and historians have seriously considered expunging the entire history of the Jews from Abraham to David himself. Why? No archaeological...

L M Leteane 18 September 2015

Seretse Khama with his wife Ruth, and their daughter Jacquline and baby son Ian on 1953

The remake of Seretse and Ruth�s �forbidden� love

According to its directors, A United Kingdom is the gripping interracial love story that changed the epitome of the British establishment. History tells us that in 1947 Sir Seretse Khama, who was later to become the first president of the Republic...

Sharon Mathala 18 September 2015

Gunners, Chiefs take rivalry to new turf

Gunners coach, Pio Paul hopes the shift would break Mapantsula’s poor record against the defending beMOBILE Premiership champions, Chiefs. Gunners, are the hosts and are likely to reap rich from the turnstiles. Statistics show that Gunners...

Chakalisa Dube | 18 September 2015

Thieves � Dibotelo calls suspended judges

In his answering affidavit to the urgent application by the quartet before the Lobatse High Court, Dibotelo said the point that the suspended judges received allowances not due to them was an act of theft. “That act prima facie constitutes an...

Oarabile Mosikare 18 September 2015

BoB suffers setback in P28m legal dispute

The fraud charges stem from allegations that after the default judgment was issued on the basis that a notice to defend the matter was not filed on time, Collins Newman & Co then allegedly went on to forge court stamps to make it appear as if...

Mpho Mokwape | 18 September 2015

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