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Staff Writer 04 December 2015

Fake accident

Kabo Mpaetona 04 December 2015

Fuel prices go down - press release

The price adjustments are as follows: 1. Retail prices for unleaded Petrol 93 will decrease by 17 thebe per litre; 2. Retail prices for unleaded Petrol 95 will decrease by 16 thebe per litre; 3. Retail prices for Diesel 500 ppm will decrease by 14...

Staff Writer 04 December 2015

Botswana Games facilities ready

The games run until December 13 and will be held at various facilities in Francistown, Tonota and Shashe; attracting 2,607 athletes, 250 officials and 500 volunteers in 13 sporting codes. LOC chairperson, Bobby Gaseitsiwe said preparations are in...

Koketso Kgoboge 04 December 2015

Lobelo ends motor season on a high

Lobelo vice president, Lola Berrie said the race attracted 30 entries from different parts of the country and neighbouring countries. The race, held at the Dumela track, had two novice classes, one for the senior riders and another for the junior...

Lesedi Mkhutshwa | 04 December 2015

Fashion meets festive

While there are no rules on how to wear in this busy time of the year, one upcoming fashion designer, Waabo Anwar, has decided to go all out and build fashion under a simple concept of skull art. Skull art however is not a new culture. For...

Mompati Tlhankane | 04 December 2015

The multi creative house of Xita

As for multi-talented One Rapelana, art comes naturally as she juggles it with jewellery making, graphic design and music production. She trades as Xita (pronounced as Zeeta). The creative artist has a jewellery line where she designs and crafts out...

Dumisani Ncube 04 December 2015

Botswana through to cricket final

Pakistan managed 117 from their allotted 20 overs before Botswana notched 121 in the 20th over. Botswana skipper, Karabo Motlhanka scored 53 runs and the ‘hosts’ now face Zimbabwe in the final tonight at the BCA Oval. Pakistan had a...

Dumisani Ncube 04 December 2015

Meet the award winning art of TAYA 2015

This year has seen growth in the number of participants from last year and more young artists dominated the submitted works. With more than P390,000 invested towards the awards, a total of eight artists walked away with decorations including the most...

Mompati Tlhankane | 04 December 2015

Funeral scheme torches fierce karate exchanges

Former BOKA vice president (administration), Lere Basupang now treasurer, has weighed in the raging exchange, saying the scheme is still at consultation level. Basupang told Mmegi Sport yesterday that BOKA held a meeting with instructors and...

Calistus Kolantsho | 04 December 2015

Troubled BMS to set AGM date

“We will have a meeting next week to discuss among other issues, the date of our AGM, where we will discuss the issues concerning the association.  That’s all I can say now,” Mash told Mmegi Sport yesterday. The AGM is seen as...

Kabelo Boranabi | 04 December 2015

Depth has kept Rollers� season ticking

While Orapa United use their homeground advantage very well, Rollers have the arsenal; at least on paper to break the hosts’ unbeaten home run. Rollers main strength has been their depth in every department.  They have the best strike...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 04 December 2015

Premier League inches closer to autonomy

The BFA would remain as the supreme body but with autonomy, the BPL would be able to negotiate its contracts and run independently unlike the current arrangement where the mother body enters into contract negotiations on behalf of the league. BPL...

Mqondisi Dube | 04 December 2015

Teamwork behind Ostriches� home run

Orapa United are on a 20 game unbeaten run at home, which backdates to 23 August 2014 when they lost 2-1 to then BMC (now Gilport Lions). In the off-season, the Ostriches lost talisman Hendrick Moyo to Gaborone United, but bought wisely. ...

Koketso Kgoboge 04 December 2015

Rollers, Orapa: Who blinks first?

With Rollers’ traditional sparring partners, Mochudi Centre Chiefs languishing in third and other attractive options, Gaborone United and Extension Gunners enduring a nightmarish start to the season, it has been left to unfashionable Orapa...

Mqondisi Dube | 04 December 2015

Fifa crisis: 16 more officials charged after earlier arrests

The new indictment, released by the Department of Justice in Washington, came hours after the arrest of two Fifa vice-presidents in Zurich on Thursday. Former Brazil football federation chief Ricardo Teixeira was among those accused of being...

BBC.COM 04 December 2015

Govt, EU to the rescue

His remarks, made recently at the NGO Council’s inaugural stakeholders forum, come as the sector struggles to stay afloat due to poor funding and internal governance issues. Batshu said a programme has been developed, in collaboration with the...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 04 December 2015

�The Facebook blessing�

However, like all developments there is a downside. If you’ve never seen it, watch Inherit The Wind, a film from 1960 loosely based on the so-called “Scopes Monkey Trial” in 1925 when a biology teacher in Tennessee was prosecuted...

Consumer Watchdog 04 December 2015

Botswana National Monuments and protected areas

Bokaa Dam Situated in the Kgatleng District, about 30 kilometres north of Gaborone on the road to Francistown, Bokaa Dam was constructed in 1990 by damming the Metsimotlhabe River just south of Bokaa village. The body of open water stretches for...

Correspondent 04 December 2015

Competition affects all of us � Kaira

Speaking at the commemoration of the World Competition Day this week, Competition Authority (CA) chief executive officer, Thula Kaira said competition should be of concern the same way as levels of corruption and fair public procurement processes...

Isaac Pinielo 04 December 2015

BOCRA receives 12 complaints in Q2 of 2015/16

Ten of them were resolved while two are still pending. According to BOCRA deputy director of corporate communications, Aaron Nyelesi the escalated reports were restricted to telecom and value-added network service providers. Nyelesi said the...

Pauline Dikuelo | 04 December 2015

BPOPF eyes Tirelo House

According to a statement from the Competition Authority  (CA), BPOPF notified them on the proposed acquisition of Lot 1140-1145. “The CA has received a merger notification for the proposed acquisition of Tirelo House from Mall Properties...

Pauline Dikuelo | 04 December 2015

SB adopts framework to guide sectors generate statistics

The framework is expected to promote generation and use of statistics for decision making across sectors. Statistician general, Anna Majelantle stated that SB will provide the necessary technical backstopping to ensure that processes to generate...

Isaac Pinielo 04 December 2015

Analyst predicts bear market for festive period

In an interview with BusinessWeek, researcher Tlotlo Ramalepa said the reason for the downtrend was because the blue chips would be heading for their year-ends and half-year end periods. Blue chips are stocks in a company with a national reputation...

Isaac Pinielo 04 December 2015

Yuan�s SDR admission to nudge Pula downwards

At an executive board meeting in Washington D.C. on Monday, the IMF determined the Yuan to be now a freely usable currency and will, effective October 2016, be included in the SDR basket as a fifth currency, along with the U.S. dollar, the Euro, the...

Brian Benza 04 December 2015

HIV/AIDS hardest hit in NGO collapse

At the beginning of the 21st century, the HIV/AIDS NGO sector was vibrant and active, a critical contributor to the grassroots’ socio-economy.  It has since faded and only a few still anxiously wait for help from nowhere. The intensity of...

Zolani Kraai 04 December 2015

The death of civil society

The major driver of the demise, according to many, has been funding. Botswana was upgraded from a lower to an upper middle income country in 1991 and while the new status highlighted its economic miracle from one of the poorest in the world, it also...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 04 December 2015

Illegal immigrants haunt North East District

Botswana and Zimbabwe share a long border with villages in the NED where the influx of illegal immigrants is said to be on the increase and so does its terrible twin of crime, especially committed by some of the arrivals. Although the country ensures...

Pini Bothoko | 04 December 2015

Decolonising education

Last week, in Oxford, a demonstration of around 200 students were also demanding that Britain ‘move on’ from its colonial past – not by forgetting about it, but precisely the opposite – by acknowledging the damage done and...

Solly Rakgomo 04 December 2015

BOPEU may join BFTU

Motsamai got 220 votes against Sikalame Seitiso’s 146 votes.  Although careful not to disclose details, he said in an interview that they will first scrutinise BFTU to see if it does not have the same characteristics that forced them...

Bonte Seepi 04 December 2015

Divided they fall

Perhaps it is an appropriate time to revisit this slogan by Marx following the divisions that currently bedevil the labour movement in Botswana. It is common knowledge that the powerful labour federation Botswana Federation of Public Service Unions...

Mmegi Editor | 04 December 2015

BMWU suspends members

Nine BMWU members were last week slapped with suspension letters pending disciplinary hearing. The members who took the union to court include Marius Kruger, Granny Kanyeto, Boikego Langwane and Baphuthi Goshetwang.  The suspended members took...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 04 December 2015

Batswana no longer fear HIV/AIDS � activist

Prior to their introduction nearly 21,000 people in the country were dying yearly as a result of the AIDS epidemic which threatened to wipe out the entire nation. Now HIV/AIDS accounts for nearly 6,000 deaths in Botswana, a decline resulting from the...

Chakalisa Dube | 04 December 2015

Stakeholders urged to disseminate information on child laws

Speaking during stakeholders’ workshop on child laws held here on Wednesday, Modimoopelo said stakeholders should ensure that people were aware of child laws and follow them.  He said by doing so, it would ensure that people had relevant...

Ivy Matlho 04 December 2015

Analysing the etymology of the term �cha�

I consider a term to be ‘universal’ if there is evidence that it was, and still is, widely used across language families that are not supposed to be ‘genetically’ related. My formal name for such a term is...

L M Leteane 04 December 2015

Gov�t misfires on Zim situation

Botswana had a keen interest in the Zimbabwean situation after the country recorded a record-breaking number of migrants in the 2008 disputed elections. Mmegi investigations have revealed that the said facility behind Sebele Mall which has been...

Tefo Pheage 04 December 2015

Does Botswana need a standing army? (Part 2)

Botswana already has a standing army with an assortment of infrastructure that needs maintenance. Botswana Defence Force (BDF) has had five different Commanders so far, and for every one of them including the current one, they have requested their...

Richard Moleofe 04 December 2015

We will appoint BDP members to senior Govt posts � Khama

“In other countries, not so far from ours we see their governments handing top post to their party members. We do not do that here, that is why only in Botswana you find a PS (Permanent Secretary) from an opposition party. We do not want...

Sharon Mathala 04 December 2015

High rape cases worry police

“Kweneng District is plagued by a high number of rape incidents,” he said. “The past month alone registered 14 cases of rape. The number might increase because November and December are the months when many criminal activities take...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 04 December 2015

Unions should help Parliament, aid change

The government has abetted this state of affairs; it appointed activists into political and other positions to silence them, enacted unfriendly laws which inhibit freedom of expression and the rights to assemble, protest and petition and the...

Dithapelo Keorapetse 04 December 2015

BFA NEC at war with itself, again

Although there have been the regular expected mishap and bad call, the general outlook and well-being of the BFA has been improving. To some extent, the BFA have over the past few months regained some credibility among many, as they have improved...

Thuso Palai 04 December 2015

Anti-smoking group warns against British America Tobacco

Anti Tobacco Network (ATN) has condemned partnerships between BAT and key stakeholders in the wake of bribery revelations in African states with the intention of opposing the passage of anti-tobacco legislature. The revelations were made this week...

Baboki Kayawe 04 December 2015

Botswana�s fight against HIV/AIDS declining

While the Vice President, Mokgweetsi Masisi hailed the Botswana government progress in bringing down the infection and death incidence, activists were singing from a different song.They are seeing regress in the fight against the epidemic. Globally,...

Chakalisa Dube | 04 December 2015

Moswaane, Kokorwe lock horns again

This comes a day after the Botswana Democratic Party Member of Parliament (MP) burst into tears while pleading for the same motion on water to go through. Yesterday, the unstoppable parliamentarian vowed to speak on the matter until a solution was...

Baboki Kayawe 04 December 2015

Bleak Christmas for Mowana�s forgotten workers

The Cuprum Curse, or the tendency by fledgling copper mines to collapse due to the mineral’s inherently fickle price, has visited African Copper’s Mowana Mine, nine months after erasing 800 jobs at Boseto Mine in Ngamiland. With copper...

Mbongeni Mguni | 04 December 2015

BDP backbench disgruntled with ministers

In an unprecedented move, the BDP backbench hinted that should the current socio-economic climate in Botswana continue, it is likely to force them to disassociate with the ruling party to protect their personal integrity. Legislator Ignatius...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 04 December 2015

World Bank avails P3bn envelope of loans to Botswana

Under a 2016-2020 Country Partnership Framework (CPF), the World Bank has proposed a developmental lending pipeline of US$270 million (P2.9 billion) to finance developmental operations in the first two years of the programme, up to 2018. According...

Brian Benza 04 December 2015