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Oarabile Mosikare 12 February 2016

BOPEU BOFEPUSU

Dithapelo Keorapetse 12 February 2016

Mexico prison riot leaves 49 dead

Nuevo Leon state Governor Jaime Rodriguez said 12 other people were injured in Topo Chico jail after prisoners fought with "sharp weapons, bats and sticks". A fire was also started in a storage room. Officials say the situation is under control and...

BBC.COM 12 February 2016

Banks credit growth dips to decade low

According to data availed by the Bank of Botswana (BoB), annual credit growth fell by nearly half from 14 percent in October 2014 to eight percent in October 2015, with decline almost entirely concentrated on corporate borrowing. Credit growth rate...

Brian Benza 12 February 2016

Molale, you ain�t our boss

Free lesson we need to give Eric Molale, that he is not our boss, he does not, and will not dictate who we listen to, who and what we investigate and what we publish. Our boss is the reader. As free and independent media we serve one boss, and that...

Mmegi Editor | 12 February 2016

Mabote optimistic of league title

“Mathematically, I’m still in the race. I just have to win all my remaining games and hope that my opponents lose,” he said. The country’s number one ranked player said it was more difficult to compete in the league than in...

Kabelo Boranabi | 12 February 2016

First Division excluded from sponsorship talks

The BFA chief executive officer, Kitso Kemoeng told Mmegi Sport yesterday the negotiations have started but was not in a position to disclose further details. He said the evaluation of the previous partnership would influence the direction of the...

Calistus Kolantsho | 12 February 2016

�Lonely� Sebego dares challengers

The BFA holds an elective general assembly between July and August and Sebego is seeking a second and ‘final’ term. Sebego said it is always difficult to prepare for an unknown opponent, even in a game of football. “It (the absence...

Mqondisi Dube | 12 February 2016

ECCO�s co-founder Sebina passes on

“James was admitted at Ngangabwe Hospital on New Year’s day after he fell ill during the holidays when he was with his family. Later, he was transferred to Bokamoso Private Hospital where he had a successful operation and stayed for...

Koketso Kgoboge 12 February 2016

Nico players boycott training again

Majombolo face a crippling financial crisis as traditional sponsors, BCL mine face challenges due to weak commodity prices. The miner has not been able to assist the club recently. Since the beginning of last week, players have refused to train...

Koketso Kgoboge 12 February 2016

Disgruntled members �directionless� Shah

May be they do not like me or my style of doing things. I don’t think my name has been dragged in the mud, it’s just a few people who are disgruntled,” Shah said when quizzed on why he has decided to stick with Rollers despite a...

Mqondisi Dube | 12 February 2016

Rollers �concerned group� vows to fight on

Led by one of the club elders, Allen Compton, the group is in the process of filing an application at the courts for contempt as well as seeking the court to render the recent annual general meeting null and void. “Let it be clear that we do...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 12 February 2016

Gunners, Chiefs fans kept apart

Gunners and Chiefs are in the middle of a transfer wrangle involving veteran striker Kekaetswe ‘Mara’ Moloi. Moloi’s move to Gunners fell through at the eleventh hour of the January transfer window and the Lobatse side has since...

Kabelo Boranabi | 12 February 2016

Political dangers of institutionalised religion

In part, this is because they free their adherents from the hard work of critical thinking. Thus, they are often held onto tenaciously. Because ideologies distort reality, they are particularly unsuited for those aspiring to power as well as their...

Correspondent 12 February 2016

LSB, Motumise case wrongly decided

Firstly, the court, did not refer to the rudimentary tenet of construction, to wit, that constitutional provisions must be given a broad, wide and generous interpretation( see the Dow Case), obviously in view of the fact that a constitution like ours...

Correspondent 12 February 2016

Privatisation: Gunners should tread carefully

As a result, the term ‘investor’ has become common in football yet the word  refers to an agreement with the financial messiah, the person who is liked for his/her money but not his ideas. Unfortunately, football is a strange...

Dennis Keagile 12 February 2016

Khama�s Neopatrimonialism: Increase of special MPs, Ministers

According to the same Gazette, “The proposed increase in the offices of Minister and Assistant Minister of the Government will enable the President to assign responsibility for the business of government by reviewing Ministries whose portfolios...

Dithapelo Keorapetse 12 February 2016

Qi flows from Beijing to Gaborone

Both African Traditional Medicine (ATM) and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have been used since medieval times and are premised on the concept of wholism, which places emphasis on the interrelation of human body and exogenous factors. However,...

Baboki Kayawe 12 February 2016

An expedition to save Africa�s last wilderness

In 2015, researcher Dr Steve Boyes of Okavango Wilderness Project (OWP) led an ambitious National Geographic research expedition travelling by mekoro from the source of Cuito River in the Angolan highlands down through the Okavango Delta to the...

Thalefang Charles | 12 February 2016

General Mokgware�s correct about the defence budget

I am challenged to write in line with what General Pius Mokgware’s persuasion is regarding this matter. While discussing the matter on Duma FM, he made it very clear that the defence budget is out of place for the needs of this nation. What...

Richard Moleofe 12 February 2016

The ancient etymology of heaps and curves (Part 2)

‘Circa’, of course, is the source of the term ‘circle’. In Setswana, ‘circa’ and the Setswana term le-seka strictly refers to a circular band, a bracelet, worn mainly around wrists or ankles. But...

L M Leteane 12 February 2016

The split that weakened the voice

FRANCISTOWN: Before Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) disaffiliated from BOFEPUSU following the trade union’s December elective congress resolution in Palapye, the power of united public employees gave the employer sleepless nights. Upon...

Ryder Gabathuse | 12 February 2016

The dying moments of Lesotho�s former commander

On the afternoon of Thursday, June 25, 2015, former Lesotho Defence Force commander, Maaparankoe Mahao was driving a light van near his farm in Ha Lekete, near Maseru.  He was in the company of two young nephews. Three double cab vehicles, two...

Mbongeni Mguni | 12 February 2016

Pulsating deadly secure operation

On February 18, 1952, a massive storm split the SS Pendleton in two, trapping more than 30 sailors inside the tanker’s sinking stern. Engineer Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck/Intersteller, 2014) bravely takes charge to organise a strategy for his...

Bakang Israel 12 February 2016

Poet on a mission

Mmakgosi ‘Anita’ Tau fell in-love with poetry at the age of 14 whilst at high school.  She has on many occasions graced different world stages.  In her early professional poetry performances, Tau shared the stage with...

Tumelo Mouwane 12 February 2016

Looking for Love in all the right books

Love is problematic and soul-damagingly painful sometimes, but only when you truly take the leap with a wide open and vulnerable heart is there the option of that incredible joy and connection that only a handful ever find. That hope lives in all of...

Lauri Kubuitsile 12 February 2016

SKY Girls on the move

The two teenagers, Whitney Letlhogela, 15, and Katlego Paakanyo, 18, were recently announced as the winners of the SKY Girls BW’s presenter search, which took place over the festive season. They had already presented in five shows and their...

Mompati Tlhankane | 12 February 2016

The enthused beadwork artist

For the better part of her life, Lerato Ramponye has watched her mother, Florah Ramponye’s enduring commitment to the art and craft of beadwork and never took it seriously until 2009. She now makes beautiful bracelets, necklaces, earrings and...

Mompati Tlhankane | 12 February 2016

EDD creates 6,000 new jobs � govt

Briefing Parliament this week, the Assistant Minister of Trade and Industry, Sadique Kebonang said companies registered under the EDD programme have shown growth over time. “To date they have employed about 41,672 people from the 1,511...

Pauline Dikuelo | 12 February 2016

Horticulture processing plant to open next month

Speaking at a press briefing here on Tuesday, Mokubung said the P6 million project, which was supposed to had started operating last year, was delayed by challenges beyond their control. He said the commissioning of the plant by suppliers from India...

Pauline Dikuelo 12 February 2016

�How to complain�

I react particularly badly when the person bossing me around is someone whose salary I’m paying. When it’s me paying the bills by spending my money in your store or with your organisation, I really dislike being told how I should or...

Consumer Watchdog 12 February 2016

Market sentiment recovers at ODC

Although the company auctioned fewer gemstones compared to the first sale of last year, appetite from buyers was much improved from the soft demand experienced in the last quarter of 2015 when the company had to cancel the last two auctions of the...

Brian Benza 12 February 2016

SPEDU avails land for entrepreneurs

The plots, which were owned by the Selebi- Phikwe Town Council (SPTC), were last August handed over to SPEDU to spur the economic diversification of the region. SPEDU CEO, Mokubung Mokubung said they have 74 light industrial plots that are currently...

Faith Siako 12 February 2016

BSE moves to attract more listings

The conference, which has attracted 120 private companies, intends to bring together the business community, private and listed companies, and experts in the capital market to discuss the value added by listing on the stock exchange. The one-day...

Pauline Dikuelo | 12 February 2016

Economy on recession cliff edge

BusinessWeek: Quarter on quarter GDP figures show that the economy is in a technical recession. Do these figures portray the true state of the Botswana economy?  Sebabole: The technical recession is a true reflection of the economy...

Brian Benza 12 February 2016

Law Society hammers Kirby

Kirby launched a vitriol attack on Lecha during his address at the closing session of the CoA last week. This was after Lecha had delivered a speech at the Opening of the Legal Year. “As has been said before, the address does not represent the...

Oarabile Mosikare 12 February 2016

P40,000 bail for murder accused

The trio Trevour Vandirayi, Tawanda Makufara and Augastine Tembo are alleged to have on August 5, 2014 stabbed Elisha Eyitato with a sharp object before charging on his father at Village, Gaborone, in a violent robbery. The trio on several occasions...

Tumelo Mouwane 12 February 2016

Stay of execution fails in P1.9M suit

The retired William was charged with 38 counts of stealing by a person employed in the public service and ordered to pay back the money following an order issued against him by Broadhurst Principal Magistrate, Munashe Ndlovu on November 9, 2015. His...

Mpho Mokwape | 12 February 2016

Kgosi Sebina�s contract extended

Kgosi Sebina’s five-year term at a kgotla known as BB1 in Sebina village under the control of the Bamangwato tribe from Serowe ended last year September. The end of the contract caused a dispute as jostling for his position intensified,...

Pini Bothoko | 12 February 2016

Builders World blocks employees from unionizing

According to BWFRWU national organising secretary, Quanch Kewagamang, they registered almost all of the more than 40 employees at the company but the company is refusing to recognise them. “I wrote to them in October and took the letter to...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 12 February 2016

Man gets 10 years for motor vehicle theft

During sentencing, Motsamai said she considered several factors including the seriousness of the offence that Maswabi was convicted of. She explained that vehicle theft carries a punishment of not less than 10 years imprisonment and not more than 15...

Bonte Seepi 12 February 2016

Death row convict buys time

Through a letter dated February 5, 2016 addressed to the Attorney General (AG), Athalia Molokomme, Gabaakanye has requested the AG to conduct or facilitate an independent assessment on his mental health and intellectual functioning. He contends that...

Mpho Mokwape | 12 February 2016

Crash report can�t be shared with litigious families � attorney

Superintendent Keokeditswe Sobatha from Molepolole, Assistant Superintendent Shepherd Ntobezi from Kalakamati and Inspector Ricardo Modiri Mabotho from Lekgoloboto lost their lives in the accident in April 2014. State lawyer, Charles Gulubane told...

Sharon Mathala 12 February 2016

Molale warns DIS chief

Isaac Kgosi reportedly said that MP for Gaborone Central, Phenyo Butale and Gabane-Mmankgodi legislator Pius Mokgware were talking nonsense. The utterances were allegedly made during a meeting to discuss the allleged assassination plot against...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 12 February 2016

Presidential race for BDP intensifies

Some of the BDP Gaborone youth members are agitating for the move.  Much of the debate at the Mosu conference will centre around the suggestions that the presidential election be moved to 2017 from 2019, in order to allow time to campaign and...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 12 February 2016

BDP presidential race, a doubtful starter, but...

This change of guard, to usher in the fifth President, will in the scheme of things, be chiefly for the purposes of consolidating Masisi’s position ahead of his possible two-five year terms in office. Those seeking to challenge Masisi in an...

Ryder Gabathuse | 12 February 2016