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Tefo Pheage 02 November 2015
Ayuso Canters To Another Victory
Ayuso beat a strong pool of cyclists in the 120km race to clinch yet another local title as his dominance continues. He is expected to compete in the 19th edition of the Momentum 947 cycle challenge in South Africa later this month. Organisers had...
Staff Writer 02 November 2015
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Monitor Editor 02 November 2015
Sinai plane crash: Victims flown back to Russia
All 224 people on the Airbus 321 - most of them Russians - died when it came down over the northern Sinai peninsula. The country observed a day of mourning on Sunday after its worst air disaster. Russian Air Transport Agency head Aleksandr Neradko...
BBC.COM 02 November 2015
Gunners Salvage Draw At Itekeng Fortress
The game began at a snail pace as both teams held their cards to their chests. However, Gunners were quick to settle and as the half progressed. They began to take the game to the home side. Tshegofatso Chimuku, who found most of the ball,...
Staff Writer 02 November 2015
Rollers Outsmart Cops In Thriller
The Jungle Kings raced to an early lead, grabbing two goals inside the first 25 minutes. Tapiwa Gadibolae, on loan from Rollers, capitalised on a defensive mistake to punish his parent club. Betsho Pius beat Kabelo Dambe with a screamer from the edge...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 02 November 2015
Lions roar back to hold Chiefs
The Lions roared into a dream start when Zimbabwean, Ozias Zibande gave his side the lead firing from close range in the eighth minute. At the opposite end, Lemponye Tshireletso skied his effort when clean through. However, it did not take long for...
Mqondisi Dube
| 02 November 2015
Water supply expected on Friday
Work is on schedule and water supply in Gaborone is expected as from the November 6, 2015. Different areas will recover at different times. The shutdown affects all areas in the Greater Gaborone area. Due to the shutdown of the NSCI, all areas in...
Staff Writer 02 November 2015
Splash Show Lives Up To Expectation
Despite starting off slow, the Splash show picked pace after Matshikos took to the stage. The played songs from their 1990s albums. Hit songs such as Who Is Gonna Change This World, got revellers on the dance floor while others sang...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 02 November 2015
Anne Kansiime Twerks To Charma Gal�s Sekuta
The woman who can manage to make her audience laugh with ease, told those in attendance that she has an ambition of becoming a Motswana woman when she grows up. “Botswana women are blessed, they have big buttocks that is enough for the whole...
Dumisani Ncube 02 November 2015
Matsieng Trust Donates P180,000 To Charity
As it is the norm to donate annually, MT did the handover at Town Lodge on October 28 with the help of FNB (First National Bank) WesBank. The donations came from part of the proceeds of the show as it has been done for four years now. WBIA has earned...
Ulla Setswalo 02 November 2015
Ebola Effects Linger On In Tourism Industry
Monitor Business enquired from tourism companies in Maun to find out their performance during the current tourism peak season, which started in March and ends in November. Wilderness Safaris managing director, Woodrow Grant said the bookings for the...
Boniface Keakabetse 02 November 2015
FNBB Reboots Wealth Management Services
Wealth management is a high-level professional service that combines financial or investment advice, accounting or tax services, retirement planning and legal or estate planning for one fee. Waziba Pansiri, a wealth manager at FNBB, said wealth...
Isaac Pinielo 02 November 2015
Men found with explosives, police uniforms in court
Tebogo Tsekane (32), and Teko Sechele (34), were found in possession of explosives at Phase 4 location on June 25 in 2010, three police uniforms, two police vehicles number plates, all illegally acquired, according to the charge sheet. The accused...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 02 November 2015
Barclays Encourages Others To Follow Suit
The bank now calls on other financial institutions to follow suit and implement innovative savings models, enhanced by the latest technologies. There are currently nearly 2 billion financially excluded adults around the world. Despite the...
Staff Writer 02 November 2015
Eritrean 10 trusted Botswana government - Makgonatsotlhe
He told The Monitor that despite the global hullabaloo that ensued when a South Africa-based Eritrean Human rights NGO and local lawyer Dick Bayford applied to Court to interdict Botswana government from deporting the football players, the government...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 02 November 2015
BOPEU�s Housing Project Progressive
According to the story, the union would be building 500 units on a five-hectare plot. The agreement for BOPEU Estates has reportedly been concluded between the partners. Apparently the houses would be built at half the market price. The largest...
Monitor Editor 02 November 2015
Economic Stimulus Is A Perfect Platform For Wealth Creation For Indigenous Batswana For The Next 50 Years
What Is Wrong With Our Economy? As a nation we have we failed to create enough wealth and employment opportunities for a very long time even when our economy was at its peak. We never interrogated the real reasons. Instead we took a sugar-coated...
Correspondent 02 November 2015
Back 4D Future: The Establishment Of The Protectorate (Part 22) � �The 4 Dikgosi Arrive Britain�
Also on board where their respective tribal secretaries - Stephen Lefenya, David Sebonego, Simeon Seisa and Kehutile Gohiwamang – as well as Bathoen’s brother Kwenaetsile and the Rev. W.C. Willoughby. As none of the Batswana had taken an...
Jeff Ramsay
| 02 November 2015
Cheating; An Art Or Just Mischief?
There’s no shortage of people who like to claim that they lead lives above reproach. You know the type: holier than thou, seemingly honest, quick to tell others when they’re straying off the path, certainly not likely to identify...
Tumie Modise 02 November 2015
The New Tax Form
The two have little in common. The one really amounts to little more than closing one’s eyes, taking a deep breath and in the long ago days, signing a cheque. Completing the tax return form represents something entirely different. There is...
Sandy Grant 02 November 2015
BOPEU in P30 million housing project for members
A similar project is beingmooted in Morwa, a 15 minutes drive from Gaborone on the A1 road. The P30 million project, situated on a prime space just behind Bokamoso Private hospital, will see BOPEU constructing 500 housing units on a five-hectare...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 02 November 2015
UB SRC donate house to an orphan
In 2012, through the Tonota Sub-District Council’s Social and Community Development (S&CD), the students identified a sickly and bed-ridden Lechani Edward who was epileptic and without proper accommodation and decided to construct her a...
Pini Bothoko
| 02 November 2015
I Cannot Compare With Mandela, It Was Not My Effort Alone!
However, I would like to correct the misrepresentation of fact and what I consider inappropriate and potentially misleading; It is inappropriate to compare me in any form to the great person and stature of Mandela; The achievement to promulgate...
Correspondent 02 November 2015
Police launch annual 60 days campaign
Giving a keynote address during the launch, the police commissioner, Keabetswe Makgophe, said the crime statistics have shown over the years that criminals become more active during the festive season. “As innocent citizens plan and...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 02 November 2015
Mixed luck for couple accused Of Cruelty
However as for his wife, Pelonomi Ungwang the state proved beyond reasonable doubt she cruelly assaulted her stepson as she claimed the child practised witchcraft. The court heard that on March 18, 2013 the couple who are in custody of the child,...
Lebogang Baingapi 02 November 2015
Zim man found guilty of passport fraud
Principal Magistrate Dumisani Basupi said that the state proved its case against the accused, Simbarashe Mafumo, beyond reasonable doubt. He had pleaded not guilty to the charge. Mafumo was found guilty of obtaining a passport by false pretences on...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 02 November 2015
Exam Papers Mix Up At Ledumang Senior School
The South East Region director in the Ministry of Education and Skills Development, Benson Rauwe, confirmed the incident. Rauwe said they were aware of the incident where papers, which were stored in the same area, ended up being mixed up. He however...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 02 November 2015
Palapye woman loses Nando�s franchise
The Court of Appeal (CoA) on Thursday gave Nando’s Holdings Botswana and its franchise holder, Ibrahim Khan, the Palapye outlet. Nando’s has been entangled in a war with Gampone over control of the fast food outlet. The war was over the...
Mpho Mokwape
| 02 November 2015
The BMD Has Always Been An Illusion
People have always known, only people have not been able to say such for the fear that when you tell BMD the truth, they resort to insults and playing the messenger ignoring the ball. The people can no longer fear to pronounce that this political...
Correspondent 02 November 2015
Mnike Thrills Fans At Waarwasjy Festival
Upon entry, one could feel the ambiance of the late 1990s when machesa and sdori were popular amongst Kwaito lovers. Fans did not disappoint as many came dressed to the style, giving the show that Kwaito feel. Looking the part, the appropriately...
Sharon Mathala 02 November 2015
BDF XI Claim GU�s Scalp
The game started an hour late because of the heat wave in the area. Due to the unfavourable playing conditions both teams started the game at a low pace, knocking the ball around. The first real chance of the game came in the 17th minute when...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 02 November 2015
MOH shooter served time for lover�s murder
The Investigating Officer (IO) in the matter, detective Sergeant Marapo told a shocked courtroom that after arresting Serumula on Wednesday at the Tlokweng Boarder Post as he was entering the country from South Africa, he decided to make a background...
Sharon Mathala 02 November 2015
Entrepreneur Says He Owes It All to LEA
After running the supermarket for over a decade, Jele opened up a filling station after identifying a gap in the fuel supply business along the Francistown and Nata road. According to Jele, he managed to get assistance from the Local Enterprise...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 02 November 2015
China two-child policy not valid until March, government says
On Thursday, the government announced it would relax the rules to allow all couples to have two children. It said the decision was made because of China's rapidly ageing population and to help support the economy. However, officials have stressed...
BBC.COM 02 November 2015
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