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Lebogang Mosikare 15 January 2016

Umbrella

Mmegi Editor 15 January 2016

Africa is ruled by multinational corporations

Out of nowhere and without consultation with the people of the African continent, the Europeans met and divided the continent among themselves in what has been termed the scramble for Africa. Through this scramble, France, Britain, Germany, Portugal,...

Solly Rakgomo 15 January 2016

Regular inspections can curb non-compliance

The officers shut down the stores so that they sort themselves out and comply. During the inspections, the officers also found that some stores were selling expired goods to their unsuspecting customers, some of whom may end up in hospital upon...

Mmegi Editor | 15 January 2016

Rugby�s old guard in comeback bid

Mmegi Sport is reliably informed that former members Dave Gilbert, Bob Lekan and Oupa Pandor are expected to challenge Elijah Jones for the presidency. Jones has indicated he is willing to continue in his position. He said he believes he has a lot...

Calistus Kolantsho | 15 January 2016

Mokgadi eyes 2017 netball masterpiece

Behind her office desk, Prisca Mokgadi eases into the topical subject; the first ever hosting of the World Youth Netball Cup in Africa next year. Botswana is organising the tournament. Mokgadi appreciates the huge task dumped on her soldiers as she...

Calistus Kolantsho | 15 January 2016

Nare pins revival on January signings

Nlu started training with the Peleng giants on Tuesday. Nare said Nlu remains an Orapa United player until negotiations are finalised. “Louw remains Orapa United player and they know that he is training with us. We will have to sit around the...

Tumelo Mouwane 15 January 2016

Seven Green Lovers players desert club

Among players who have deserted are defender Kebaabetswe Kediseng and Mpho Ramaruana, strikers, Pusoloso Samson and Doctor Radipampiri as well as midfielder, Edwin Tshimologo. “We had thought of releasing three of our players deemed surplus to...

Bonte Seepi 15 January 2016

First Division suspends Top 8

League chairperson, Sam Keitireng told Mmegi Sport yesterday the tournament has been suspended due to financial constraints. He said even the committee failed to find a sponsor and the tournament will be held some other time when the situation...

Calistus Kolantsho | 15 January 2016

BDF XI take aim at limping Nico

Majombolo will wish their last game’s misfortunes remain in the past year after their dismal 5-0 loss to table toppers, Township Rollers. Meanwhile, the mining town’s team camp is financially unsettled and their mentor Wesley Mondo has...

Koketso Kgoboge 15 January 2016

Motlakase accuse agents of causing unrest

“We have an influx of agents coercing our players and these agents choose to ignore the proper procedures. We have resolved to report the matter to the Players Status Committee. We have just resumed our preparations for the last round of...

Koketso Kgoboge 15 January 2016

Can Zapata pull GU out of the red?

Zapata played as a goalkeeper for Argentinean second division sides Huracan, Sportivo Italiano, Club Atletico San Miguel and Cipolleti de Negro. His playing career was cut short in 1995 due to niggling knee injuries. He was just 29 years at the...

Kabelo Boranabi | 15 January 2016

BFA, All Kasi reunite

The two are tying loose ends to the deal and the local company will replace Umbro. Umbro’s deal expired last year and All Kasi stepped in as interim technical sponsor. BFA chief executive officer, Kitso Kemoeng, said they will soon announce...

Staff Writer 15 January 2016

Bids breed FIFA corruption

The latest is the sacking of the organisation’s secretary general Jerome Valcke. On February 26, the organisation will hold fresh presidential election to replace Sepp Blatter who has been at the helm since 1998 when he took over from Brazilian...

Dennis Keagile 15 January 2016

National Stadium closes for P45m upgrade

The stadium will be closed before the end the month to allow work to begin. South African company, Murray & Roberts has won the tender to carry out the work which will see the north and south stands joined together. The additional stands will...

Mqondisi Dube | 15 January 2016

�New rules for 2016�

Within six hours we had over fifty suggestions. I started the discussion with one of my favourites, not actually a new idea but one that I think is becoming more and more important for certain businesses. “In 2016 customers must expect free,...

Consumer Watchdog 15 January 2016

Tough market forces ODC 2015 sales down by 45%

Established as part of the 2011 renewal of a sales agreement between De Beers and government, Okavango in 2015 was entitled to purchase 14 percent of  Debswana’s production and independently auction it. Contractually, the figure rises to...

Mbongeni Mguni | 15 January 2016

Local AGOA textile exports drop 11%

The figures indicate that local textile exports to the U.S have again turned south, after a recovery in 2014, when they jumped 61 percent to $9.5 million (P110 million) at current rates. Sam Lin, director at Carapparel Botswana – the...

Mbongeni Mguni | 15 January 2016

Analyst issues �strong buy� recommendation for BTCL

According to a research note issued yesterday, Motswedi Securities analysts estimate that the current offer price of P1 represents an 80 percent discount on the upside potential of the shares. “We strongly recommend investors to buy the stock...

Mbongeni Mguni | 15 January 2016

STI�s in Gaborone on the rise

Tebogo Tshoswane, the council’s principal economist, told the council meeting this week that the growing number of sexually transmitted infections was inconsistent with the number of condoms that were distributed. “We need to do a...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 15 January 2016

Dawn finally breaks over troubled CAAB

A telling moment in the troubled short life of the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB) came last year when a parliamentary committee slammed the six-year-old entity as an “organisation in the ICU”.  One legislator said it was...

Mbongeni Mguni | 15 January 2016

Matambo gives Pula room to escalate

A statement yesterday indicates that minister Kenneth Matambo had recommended that the weights in the basket of currencies through which the Pula is valued, remain the same, while the rate of crawl is adjusted marginally. The recommendations were...

Mbongeni Mguni | 15 January 2016

Cultural appropriation and writers

Baartman was a Khoi woman who was taken from South Africa in the early 1800s to be shown in circus acts and other such places and eventually died in France. Her remains were put on show in a museum there until Nelson Mandela demanded they be...

Lauri Kubuitsile 15 January 2016

Meet the biggest film of 2015

This film is a 2015 American sci-fi film and it is the seventh instalment in the main Star Wars film series. This blockbuster is a retcon edition (thus it has new twists tailored to alter the original storyline events for the continuity of the...

Bakang Israel 15 January 2016

Gare returns as a sculptor

Having achieved many things as a painter the artist evolved and grew his craft to become contemporary sculptures artist who has exhibited his works in different parts of the world. The self-taught artist is one of the first residence artists at...

Dumisani Ncube 15 January 2016

Monsieur Collections: Gentleman�s image, lifestyle on their sleeve

A gentleman is  unique, classic, with a timeless image and lifestyle that he  constantly projects. When they opened their up-market boutique located in the CBD, Monsieur Collections,  it was the start of a crusade to enhance this image...

Dumisani Ncube 15 January 2016

Botswana�s national monuments and protected areas

Old Palapye was gazetted as a National Monument in 1938, and falls under the jurisdiction of the National Museum and Monuments. Old Palapye is located within the Tswapong region in the Central District. The settlement is 20 kilometres to the east of...

Correspondent 15 January 2016

Inside Old Naledi�s malnutrition epidemic

Earlier this week, a full Gaborone City Council session was stunned to hear that of the city’s 15 clinics, Old Naledi Clinic consistently had malnutrition cases above the three percent target set by the Ministry of Health. The percentage refers...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 15 January 2016

A nation that celebrates rapists

Did you hear the good news? Two famous musicians were released from jail recently before they completed their prison sentence. Many Batswana were ecstatic about the pardoning of these highly brilliant musicians and could not wait to hear their new...

Thalefang Charles | 15 January 2016

BOFEPUSU ready to march on without BOPEU

The 2016/17 wage negotiations between the public sector employer and the trade unions will commence on Monday. The Public Service Bargaining Council (PSBC) is set to convene and commence negotiations in the absence of BOPEU, after the latter...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 15 January 2016

BDP battles for survival

The BDP lost all the six by-elections held including the highly contested Goodhope-Mabule parliamentary by-election where the President Ian Khama’s right hand man, Eric Molale, lost dismally to the Umbrella for Democratic Change’s...

Chakalisa Dube | 15 January 2016

Mojuta warns women against cohabitation

Speaking during a meeting held at Botshabelo kgotla on Wednesday Mojuta encouraged women to stop cohabiting stating that it encourages men to delay marriage processes as they enjoy the privileges given to them by these women. She said that it is...

Ivy Matlho 15 January 2016

Accused person implicates another person

According to the first accused Keagile Sekwati, despite informing the police about the involvement of the individual the man has not been brought to court. He alleges that this is despite the fact that the police had earlier informed him that the man...

Sharon Mathala 15 January 2016

State refuses to pay victim

Konyango successfully sued government and was awarded P75,000 for unlawful arrest and detention, but the government argues that the amount was excessive despite the plaintiff’s details of harrowing experience of being behind bars at Maximum...

Mpho Mokwape | 15 January 2016

Police, wildlife officers implicated in illegal fishing

Illegal fishing has become rampant in the lake since government instituted a fishing ban to curb rampant pollution at the fishermen’s camps. In March 2015, government announced the suspension of fishing at Lake Ngami up to February 28,...

Boniface Keakabetse 15 January 2016

Legal guard taken to court

One client, Onkemetse Medupe, through a legal suit has accused the legal insurance company for breaching the legal expenses insurance contract alleging they refused him to engage his own legal representation away from the one provided by the company...

Mpho Mokwape | 15 January 2016

Police investigate �hit man�

Kgotlhang has since told Mmegi that for ‘knowing too much’ the DIS is now after his head. He alleged that the DIS dumped him without paying him his dues after he failed to assassinate Gabane-Mmankgodi Member of Parliament, Pius...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 15 January 2016

Kgotlhang: behind the story

He was coming from the Universal Church in the Main Mall, a few metres from Mmegi offices. Fed up. Revengeful. Scared. He had a story to tell and was looking to hide in public. During the week Mmegi newsroom is usually busy in the afternoons (except...

Staff Writer 15 January 2016

Gay Pride

Thalefang Charles | 15 January 2016

How Nyalala and Kgafela lost

History indicates that Kgamanyane’s son, Ramono Kgamanyane Pilane, who is referred to as Ramono I was the first Kgosi of the tribe in Moruleng. That is why the eldest son of Ramono I, Tidimane Ramono’s (claimant’s father) was...

Zolani Kraai 15 January 2016

What�s next for Kgafela?

His relocation to Moruleng, South Africa, came at the time when he was facing charges of illegally flogging some of his subjects. Government had treated Kgafela as a fugitive ever since.  It was not before long in Moruleng that Kgafela and his...

Tefo Pheage 15 January 2016

The etymology of dimensions: para, peri and circa

As regards Europe, for a long time the ‘classic’ study of Greek was compulsory at universities, and Greek philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers are revered to this day throughout the world.  But all indications are that the...

L M Leteane 15 January 2016

Parliamentary Budget Office is needed now

Is Botswana Parliament active in budgetary matters? These are fundamental questions which when frankly answered can provide an idea of what obtains in Botswana in respect of the budget and oversight. The legislative authority of Botswana vests in...

Dithapelo Keorapetse 15 January 2016

Soldiers must remember their first oath

The fellow was in pains trying to explain, but at the end of it all, I could surmise that the president is the embodiment of the whole citizenry. I became very curious because we had taken an oath four days after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and...

Richard Moleofe 15 January 2016

Kgafela, Pilane lose big

The North West Provincial Commitee appointed by the North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo to investigate the Moruleng chieftainship dispute has ruled that both Kgafela and his royal uncle Pilane have no legitimate claim over the chieftainship of...

Tefo Pheage 15 January 2016

BCL secures govt guarantee for bail-out

Addressing residents here on Wednesday, Selebi-Phikwe East legislator, Nonofo Molefhi revealed that government had written to banks asking them to bail out BCL Mine. Declining to reveal the amount the company had asked from government, Molefhi, who...

Ivy Matlho 15 January 2016