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Bame Piet 17 February 2016

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Mmegi Editor 17 February 2016

Labour loopholes again exposed

While the nature of their businesses vary, the common vein in both developments is the apparent unrepresentative nature of the retrenchment process. Workers in both companies are not disputing the reasons for the retrenchments. In the trucking...

Mmegi Editor | 17 February 2016

Two to slug it out for BRU presidency

Clubs are eagerly awaiting the contest after incumbent, Elijah Jones opted not to seek another term. Botho Riders’ chairperson, Simon Kanaimba said his club wants to see new leadership taking over at BRU.  He said Gilbert has a good track...

Calistus Kolantsho | 17 February 2016

Low women response for FIBA tourney

The low numbers are across all women’s age groups, with five slots still unoccupied for the women’s open. The girls Under-13, -15 and -18 have 10, nine and five vacant spots as each must have 10 teams. On the other side, there has been...

Dumisani Ncube 17 February 2016

BTTA dismiss unfair play reports

Players reportedly learnt of fixtures at the 11th hour. “They use social media to communicate, if you are not in one of those platforms you are doomed. At times, we receive calls on match day notifying us on our fixtures. This has an impact on...

Kabelo Boranabi | 17 February 2016

Highlanders sense sinister motive as players strike

Monyeki said since their sponsor, Botswana Railways (BR) has told them that there is no money, they now rely on grants from the Premiership. “I think there is more to this because we normally pay our players as late as the 15th, but they never...

Bonte Seepi 17 February 2016

Major players back Kast

Tlatsa Lebala Music Concert, formerly known as Fill Up The Stadium, is scheduled for May at the National Stadium. The 33-year-old rapper has so far received support and help from major players such as the Hamptons Jazz Festival, Urban Soul and...

Dumisani Ncube 17 February 2016

Headway in regulation of construction industry

The draft bill was initially presented to the construction industry in September 2014 following the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis’ (BIDPA) recommendations in September 2011. Speaking at the handover in Gaborone yesterday,...

Pauline Dikuelo | 17 February 2016

Garebatshabe strikes gold in the cyber space

A quick background check of this young intellectual, who is also the CEO of Intellegere Holdings, will quickly give a clear picture of who he is. Garebatshabe is the brains behind apps such as Learn Setswana, Music Anti Piracy as well as Biz...

Dumisani Ncube 17 February 2016

Rising Minestone crime vexes police

Addressing residents recently, Central Police assistant station commander, Assistant Superintendent Onias Madziba described Minestone as one of the most crime-prone spots in his policing area, adding that cases were on the march. “Minestone is...

Pini Bothoko | 17 February 2016

A re tsenya moko mo nameng ?

Ga twe kgosi o ne a lela ka gore badirela puso koo, ba dira tiro ka go itsapa; A re maphata a puso a goga dinao mo tirong; ke gore ga go dirwe tiro ka tlhoafalo.  Ga twe gone mo phuthegong eo, kgosi o ne a re, ga go a siama gore e re fa...

Sebofo Motshwane 17 February 2016

Mma Shaw � The mother of Palapye

The routine seemed to be more or less standardised. Some sort of food, although not as far as I remember a meal, tea, fat cakes, whatever, a hymn and a prayer and a handout of whatever Mma Shaw had managed to garner in the preceding days –...

Sandy Grant 17 February 2016

Judgement day for Moroka in shooting death

Nthomiwa is expected to rule on whether Moroka has a case to answer. Moroka, who is also the chairperson of the Vision 2036 presidential task team, shot the teenager dead on his farm in 2014, allegedly telling police he mistook the youngster for a...

Tumelo Mouwane 17 February 2016

How BOPEU dumped joint agreement with BOFEPUSU

Last week, the court learnt that BOPEU through its secretary general, Topias Marenga, wrote to the Director of Public Service Management, Ruth Maphorisa, requesting for the total unionised membership numbers under the employ of the DPSM. BOPEU has...

Oarabile Mosikare 17 February 2016

Govt escapes million-pula lawsuit

The Department of Roads and Transport axed the contractor, citing non-performance and delays in a P7 million project to build access roads in Mmadikola and Rakops. Shumba Projects sued, arguing that it had already spent just over P1 million in...

Mpho Mokwape | 17 February 2016

Builders World employees finally unionise

Employees had alleged that their employer was denying them unionisation in order to cover industrial wrongdoing. Management at the branch, however, denied that any effort had been made to seek recognition. BWFRWU national organising secretary,...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 17 February 2016

BMWU rejects TNMC leave offer

TNMC last week called an emergency consultative meeting with its Phoenix Mine BMWU branch and proposed that workers should apply for five days leave and the mine would offer them another five days so that they could take a two-week leave. BMWU...

Staff Writer 17 February 2016

Shock as police vehicle accidents balloon

Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that statistically, police officers are in the wrong in most of the accidents. Records show that in 2014, a total of 376-road accidents were recorded involving police motor vehicles, of which police drivers were...

Sharon Mathala 17 February 2016

�Killer BDF soldier� files insanity defence

The accused, Thebe Njavera (26), allegedly killed his two young children aged four and two at Somerset location in 2013. Defence attorney, Reneetswe Rabosotho, applied before Justice Barnabas Nyamadzabo for Njavera to be treated as a lunatic at the...

Lebogang Mosikare | 17 February 2016

We won�t spy on you, police pledge

Makgophe yesterday told a police workshop that the Safer City initiative will involve the installation of surveillance cameras in busy areas in Gaborone and other urban centres. President Ian Khama confirmed in his State Of the Nation Address that...

Sharon Mathala 17 February 2016

Rival BNFYL camp calls ceasefire

Mokotedi will be contesting against Khumoekae Richard for the youth league presidency in May. “Even if I know that my team cannot lose elections, we cannot have a situation where party members forget that they will need each other after...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 17 February 2016

Police grab P27m in BTCL share

The shares represent just under six percent of the total amount of the 462 million offered to Batswana. Police commissioner, Keabetswe Makgophe revealed this yesterday at the official 44th Police Senior Officers Annual Conference held at the Special...

Sharon Mathala 17 February 2016

Mmegi is non-partisan

The Editor in the eye of this storm, Mr Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe, is alleged to have, not only maligned certain political and civil society formations as well as individuals, but also threatened to attack them, while expressing his loyalty to others....

Staff Writer 17 February 2016

Liki ya CELIAT e a thuthafala

Metshameko yotlhe ea kgatlha ka go sena motshameki ope yoo batlang go salela morago ka mongwe le mongwe a itse gore Motswana a re ‘Phokoje wa morago dintsa di a mmona.’ Eleng seo go ka se nneng ope yo o ka batlang go salela morago mo...

Teichler Rankoa 17 February 2016

Buffaloes e tlhaphololela teemane menwana

Morago ga go tshameka dingwaga di le dintsi mo liking ya Debswana, kwa ebile se kileng sa gomagometsa go tlhatlogela kwa go e kgolwane ya beMOBILE, Buffaloes e ne ya rengwa botlhoko ke selepe sa magagane. Fa motho a ka botsa Buffaloes gore fa e le...

Teichler Rankoa 17 February 2016

Captain Dira o golola � Mmaarona..

Alebamo e ya ga Captain Dira, ke ya botlhano mo nokeng ya gagwe, e latela tsa gagwe tsa ntlha eleng Matalanyane, Ke ise ke je ya dipina di akaretsa Mmantwa le Shangwari, Rraagwe Software volume I le Rraagwe Software volume 2 e e neng ya tuma thata ka...

Teichler Rankoa 17 February 2016

Ba Modipane ba ipaakanyetsa BOT50

“Sa re go tswa tsatsing, se ikise moriting,” ya bo ele mafoko a ga Rre Moneedi Mokgwa, mogokaganyi wa tiro ya go aga leobo, le eleng bontlha bongwe jwa go baakanyetsa ipelelo malatsi a boipuso jwa dingwaga tse di masome a matlhano...

Leah Mataboge 17 February 2016

Banana ba gweba ka setlolo sa Zurii

Zulu o diragaditse mogopolo wa gagwe wa go dira setlolo sa Zurii, se a se dirileng ka leungo la setlhare sa Morula. A re o tletswe ke mogopolo o morago ga go lemoga fa mme mmaagwe a sokola ka go reka ditlolo tsa sefatlhego ka go farologanya mme di sa...

Leah Mataboge 17 February 2016

O ile tshekong a tagilwe

Odigetse o lebisitsweng melato ele mebedi ya go phoraphora ngwana wa sekolo wa dingwaga tse di tlwase ga lesome le borataro le go senyakaka dithoto. Kgalemo e dirilwe ke makaseterata yo mogolo, Mme Taboka Mopipi morago ga gore mosekisiwa a balelwa...

Correspondent 17 February 2016

Ba Palapye ba nyoretswe 2036

Go utlwa maikutlo a morafe ka se, Naledi ene ya ikgolaganya le bogogi jwa motse wa Palapye le morafe ka kakaretso. Bangwe ba ne ba supa fa Botswana  a fitlheletse ditoro tsa gagwe fa bangwe ba dumela gore lefatshe leno le kgakala thata le go...

Bonte Seepi 17 February 2016

Nasha ke mpho ya lerato-BOKO

Boko o ne a bua kwa phuthegong ya sepolotiki ka Sontaga ka letsatsi la baratani, fa ba ne ba amogela Ngaka Nasha semmuso kwa Maruapula.  “Molaetsa gompieno ke lorato,” ga simolola Boko, a re o itumelela gore Nasha a bo a tsile kwa...

Oageng Batenegi 17 February 2016

Motsosa o tla berekela LETSWAPO-Makgato

Makgato o boletse se ka Matlhatso kwa motseng wa Machaneng, kwa tshimolodisong ya lenaneo la ESP, a re lenaneo le letla thusa gape go agela badirelapuso ba kgaolo ya gagwe matlo a bonno a le masome a mabedi le botlhano (25). “Ditiro tsa...

Bonte Seepi 17 February 2016

Hope beckons for fashion designers

Olopeng told the designers that his ministry intends to meet local retail stores owners to find a way to sell local products in their stores. “Before we can approach the stakeholders, we need to know what you want us to tell them. We need to...

Mompati Tlhankane | 17 February 2016

BDP youths in bitter breakdown

Upon return from the weekend Mosu inaugural national youth council meet, the delegates from the Gaborone region immediately served a petition on the leadership. Nine party youths from the Gaborone region on Monday slapped the BDPNYEC with a petition...

Ryder Gabathuse | 17 February 2016

Inflation slows to all-time low

The decrease was mainly driven by the transport sector with the drop in fuel prices slowing the rate of price increases.    The December inflation is the lowest rate recorded since Botswana adopted the pula currency in 1976, with the...

Brian Benza 17 February 2016