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In Wednesday Paper

Michael Dingake 20 April 2016

Masisi Masire

Correspondent 20 April 2016

Kgabung, Mantswe clear air on their removal

 The two were recalled last month by the BPL board whose decisions were later endorsed by the Botswana Football Association (BFA) national executive officer (NEC). The board also suspended chief executive officer (CEO), Bennett Mamelodi as well...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 20 April 2016

Tonota FC vow to appeal after fine

The First Division North Committee heard both the matters at the Kutlwano Police Station on Saturday and Monday respectively.  The team, which lost three points and two goals for each case, has vowed to appeal the TASC judgement. In the first...

Koketso Kgoboge 20 April 2016

Hogs use suspended players, coach

The players at the centre of the storm are Sean Lees and Damelin Motlogelwa and their coach, Andrew Paxinos. According to information reaching Mmegi Sport, Paxinos was supposed to serve a six-week suspension, while Motlogelwa was to sit-out four...

Calistus Kolantsho | 20 April 2016

Fed-up BFA to descend on �reckless� Butler

This follows after Butler’s latest outburst criticising BFA technical director, Ben Kgomela. Butler has consistently poured out his frustrations on social media, some critical of the association’s decisions. He has been seen as getting...

Mqondisi Dube | 20 April 2016

Butler�s patience running thin

I will speak to the relevant people,” Butler said. The coach faces censure from the BFA after his public outburst attacking technical director (TD), Ben Kgomela.  Butler accused Kgomela of trying to force Extension Gunners coach, Daniel...

Mqondisi Dube | 20 April 2016

DJ Arch Junior headlines Colour Run

DJ Arch is famously known for being the youngest spinner to ever win the SA’s Got Talent on its sixth season when he was only three-years-old last year. Currently four-years-old, DJ Arch is expected to mesmerise the event-goers with his magic...

Lesedi Mkhutshwa | 20 April 2016

Khawa Dune Challenge to set another spectacle

The event will be hosted by BTO in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture (MYSC) and Botswana Motor Sport (BMS). It will feature quad and motorbike challenges, fun camel rides, sand dunes monster trucks, and professional sky-dive...

Mompati Tlhankane | 20 April 2016

Maitisong Festival gives artists exposure

Artists such as Oscar-winning actor Presley Chweneyagae from the movie Tsotsi, American poet Miles Hodges, South African percussionist Volley Nchabeleng and Zimbabwean spoken word artist Gerald ‘Synik’ Mugwenhi were some of the...

Dumisani Ncube 20 April 2016

Marsh urges farmers to take up insurance

Speaking at the launch of a competition where eight winners will be sent to attend the annual NAMPO in South Africa, Marsh managing director, Fritzgerald Dube said the partnership will go a long way to sensetise farmers. “Farming is very...

Pauline Dikuelo | 20 April 2016

Botswana advised to develop AGOA strategy

Speaking yesterday at a seminar aimed at sensitising the business community and the civil society on the new AGOA legislation (2015-2025), Joshua Setipa, who is Lesotho’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Cooperatives and Marketing said Botswana...

Isaac Pinielo 20 April 2016

Gov�t must save BCL jobs

This comes after it was reported that nationally there has been a decline in the total number of employed by 2%. Selebi-Phikwe has in the last Census noted a decline in population growth as a result of decline in opportunities in the...

Correspondent 20 April 2016

The politics of fisticuffs

Both incidents point to a disturbing trend within local politics where intolerance has been rising on the back of increasingly acidic rhetoric and vitriol. In the aftermath of the 2014 general elections – statistically the most fiercely...

Mmegi Editor | 20 April 2016

Explosives Act set for overhaul

The first draft of the system, which would be promulgated through an amendment of the Explosives Act, was discussed during the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources (MMEWR) stakeholders’ workshop that ended in Gaborone yesterday. The...

Isaac Pinielo 20 April 2016

FPBA appeals for gov�t support

He was speaking during FPAB conference here involving a delegation from the South African Funeral Parlour Association (SAFPA) and National Funeral Directors & Morticians Association (NFDMA) from South Africa. Mosala said some of their...

Lindiwe Mozola 20 April 2016

The day UDC, BCP raided Phillip Matante East

For the first time ever since the Phillip Matante East ward was declared vacant, thousands of people thronged the UDC/BCP rally in large numbers. If the large turnout can translate into votes in the by-election, then the combined UDC/BCP poses...

Ryder Gabathuse | 20 April 2016

Mafoko ao ga a dirisiwa sentle

Re le batho, re na le diteme kana dipuo tse di farologanyeng. Ka jalo, re bitsa dilo ka go farologana, go ya ka diteme tsa rona. E re Motswana a re selo ke kgomo, yo mongwe fale ene a bitse selo seo ka leina le sele. Go bolelwa go ntse jalo le ka...

Sebofo Motshwane 20 April 2016

The Shashe wood carvers

I make the point in relation to the emergence of the new Blue Train not least because I assume that the cessation of the old mail train to Johannesburg and Cape Town brought about the immediate demise of the Shashe carvers. I would like to know if...

Sandy Grant 20 April 2016

Rari urges govt to rethink BCL retrenchments

BCL Mine has already issued its employees with letters informing them of the retrenchment exercise that will start at the end of the month.  It is reported that close to 900 employees will lose their jobs.  Speaking during a petition...

Onalenna Kelebeile 20 April 2016

Mmolotsi, Mamela set the rally alight

The similarities are traceable to the manner in which they normally package their political presentations at freedom squares. It’s common cause that in their endeavour to capture the attention of their followers, the two combine entertainment...

Ryder Gabathuse | 20 April 2016

WUC discontinues pit latrine services

Last month WUC water works engineer, Taita Tlhabologang, briefing the community leadership of Francistown during a breakfast seminar, revealed that a decision has been taken for WUC to discontinue the services on April 1st this year. WUC is currently...

Pini Bothoko | 20 April 2016

Debswana injects millions into education

The programme, a partnership between the Mine and government, focused on enhancement of leadership and supervisory skills. Experts were dispatched to assist schools in fields such as Science, English and Mathematics.  The Jwaneng Mine general...

Lebogang Baingapi 20 April 2016

Senior lawyer in fraud charges

In the Deed of Transfer No. 1965/2006 dated August 18, 2006, Molatlhegi is stated as having acted as a conveyancer, with power of attorney granted to him by the applicant Kaone Molapo on August 14, 2006. In the deal it was stated that Molapo had sold...

Oarabile Mosikare 20 April 2016

Land Boards dragged into Batlokwa, Bakgatla feud

Bakgatla and Batlokwa royals are battling each other over the Oodi chieftaincy, which is reported to have originally alternated between the two tribes following Batlokwa’s arrival in Oodi after fleeing tribal wars in Kweneng. The issue is so...

Tefo Pheage 20 April 2016

Black Forest e baya Mmankgodi mmepeng

Mme erile go goroga mogolwane wa sone, Mompati Ditiro, a bolela fa se sa tla go tshameka, mme se tsile go tshameka ka tlhwaafalo go tlhatlogela kwa liking e kgolwane ya be MOBILE. A re ba ba e nyatsang ba dire jalo fela ka go rata ga bone. Fela, a re...

Teichler Rankoa 20 April 2016

Ping Pong e tshwara dithuto � Motswagole

Gompieno ba BTTA ba tlisitse mmantswitswidi wa Ping Pong go tswa kwa moseja. Fa a bua le Naledi mabapi le dithuto tsa mafatshefatshe tsa motshameko wa Ping Pong tse di tshegeditsweng ke BTTA kwa holong ya yunibesithi ya temothuo kwa Sebele bosheng,...

Teichler Rankoa 20 April 2016

White Diamonds ke mmampodi

Ga bo go le thata e e robang dimapo kwa lebaleng legolo la metshameko lwa Letlhakane, fa ditlhopha tsoo pedi di ne di kgarametsanya jaaka badisa ba leruo ba lwela mafudiso, mme White Diamonds ya fetoga mmampodi ka maneelo a dikonyana. Ditlhopha tseo...

Edward Pekenene 20 April 2016

Ba tshwaretswe go thopa batho

Bagolwane ba bare go ne go dirisiwa mengwe melao e e teng mme go sa lekana. Ba tswelela ka gore go tlhomiwa ga molao o go ne ga gwetlha le gore bana-le-seabe ba bangwe jaaka ba tlhokomelo melelwane le sepodisi,ba rutuntshiwe ka molao o, le go ba fa...

Oageng Batenegi 20 April 2016

Mafura a a siametse mebele ya rona

Gore re nne le botsogo jo bo botoka, baitsaanape ba dijo le dikotla tse di siametseng mebele ya rona, ba re gakolola gore re je dijo tse di nang le mafura a a lekanetseng mebele ya rona. Ba re gakolola jalo gore mafura a mantsi a rotloetsa makowa ka...

Tebo Maseko 20 April 2016

O sekela go betelela monnawe

Lechaena o lebisitswe melato e morago ga go betelela monnawe wa dingwaga tse di kwa tlase ga lesome le borataro. Ya re Tsheko e ise e ye gope, mosekisiwa a bolela fa atla ipatlela mmueledi mo tshekong. Go ya ka mokwalo wa bosekisi wa melato, gatwe...

Bonte Seepi 20 April 2016

Nare e ka se latlhise Batswana nama

Bangwe ba ne ba e eja go fitlha e ba tsenya bolwetse jwa go ruruga maoto, mme ba kopiwa ke bongaka gore a emisie go eja. Ba le supa le lefa, ba re eseng go emisa nama go ja nama ya kgomo. Beke e e fetileng ga goroga nare e le yone e pateletsa puso...

Teichler Rankoa 20 April 2016

Ba Gabane ba tlaa akola ESP

Sibisibi o buile se kwa phuthegong ya kgotla bosheng fa a ne a lekodisa morafe wa Gabane ka kago ya maemelo a dipalamo tsa sechaba le ditsela tsa mekgwatlha tse di tlaa agiwang kwa motseng oo mo bogaufing. Sibisibi are ditogamaano di setse di...

Leah Mataboge 20 April 2016

Maun o mo lenyoreng

Banni ba motse ba tlhaloseditse Naledi mo potsolotsong bosheng fa seemo se se sa ba jese diwelang. Ba re e sale ngongola ba bo ba wela ke seru sa letlhoko la metsi mme matshelo a bone a simolola reketla.  Ba boletse fa ngogola seemo se ne sele...

Keagisitswe Dioka 20 April 2016

The apartheid impact in Botswana

On Saturday evening the Company@ Maitisong theatre crew staged a poignant apartheid era story titled Born Around Here at Maitisong Theatre. South Africa-based playwright Phala Ookeditse Phala directed the theatrical play. On an improvised stage sat...

Dumisani Ncube 20 April 2016

DIS, DCEC, police sued over lawyers harassment

The case emanates from an incident in which a Gaborone lawyer, Gabriel Kanjabanga was barred from discharging his professional duties as an attorney to consult and represent his clients. His lawyer Colleen Mudara has issued the three organs with a 30...

Tefo Pheage 20 April 2016

Scrap metal shortage hits Pula Steel

The company’s corporate services director, Brian Mosenene has said in an interview that they have been experienced a serious shortage for the past two weeks ago. “We are now operating with only one furnace because we do not have enough...

Onalenna Kelebeile 20 April 2016