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beMobile Premiership 2015/16 - Results

399,Staff Writer,, 11 May 2016

beMobile Premiership 2015/16 - Standings

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11 May 2016

Rollers fans

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Obama admits Libya was a 'worst mistake'

Mr Obama was asked a series of questions on the highs and lows of his time in office on Fox News. He said, however, that intervening in Libya had been "the right thing to do". The US and others carried out air strikes designed to protect civilians...

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Mafika Dominates Competitive Club Tourney

Spurred on by their new technical partnership with All Kasi kit, Mafika saw all their boxers win all their bouts. The tournament attracted 66 boxers from 10 clubs across the country. The competition also featured a single exciting women’s...

49078,Tumelo Mouwane,, 11 May 2016

Setshego Bags Gaborone Karate Open

It is the third year, Setshego has gotten the better of Reed this time around after meeting him in the national team qualifications. It was not an easy win during the finals of the national team which he won by a slim margin of 2-1. Setshego...

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Titanic Clash Ends In Stalemate

It was a chaotic weekend for local football as at one stage the fixtures were in doubt following the Botswana Premier League (BPL) board meeting over clubs’ failure to comply with player qoutas. However, the Botswana National Sport Commission...

49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 11 May 2016

Black Forest Join Elite League

Odirile ‘Nigeria’ Pitso scored for Forest in the 33rd minute to send his side straight into the elite league. Forest have now accumulated 44 points. Forest went into the match as favorites after a good result in their last match which saw...

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Womens Team Go Down Fighting

The game was evenly contested right from the start with the local side giving the visiting team little respect. Captain, Bonang Otlhagile commanded the midfield and competed well against her South African opponents while Tlamelo Motlhale was solid...

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Revellers Get The Jameson Experience At The Secret Party

The event managers managed to fulfil the secret location experience because everyone had no idea where they were being taken. The bus took off from Game City and headed towards the new Lobatse road. Just when everyone was still guessing the bus...

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MAP Drama Group Adapts Frankenstein

The play is about a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, played by Ramin Sabet who was on a quest to impart life on non-living matter, which leads him to trying to wake up the dead. The dead wake up as zombies and end up terrifying the...

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Why Should Employers Provide Their Staff With Financial Education?

* Debts * Medical Aid * Funeral Cover * Housing Allowance, and * PAYE. After all of these expenses Dimpho is left with less the one thousand pula a month. With this remaining money she still has to cover all of her monthly expenses such as...

475,Correspondent,, 11 May 2016

Private Sector Urged To Invest In Domestic Economy

Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Kenneth Matambo made the call at a high level national symposium on sustainable finance that was held in Gaborone last week. He said the private sector as a potential source of capital, comprises of...

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Climbing The Ladder To Success

Born and raised in Francistown, Ricardo is the proud owner of a steadily growing Information, Communications and Technology firm called Bit-Bite Technology, located at Village Mall. The company services include, building networks for businesses,...

59078,Tlamelo Matlho,, 11 May 2016

History Made: BTCL Lists 1BN Shares

The listing followed an oversubscribed Initial Public Offer in which applications received were for a total of 776.3 million shares against the 462 million shares on offer. The IPO offered citizen applicants a 44 percent stake in the BTCL, with...

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Our Football corruption

The shocking reports allege how P6 million has disappeared even before the season had ended, with clubs unable to get their subventions. As a result of this anomaly, the Premier League offices have been put under lock and key, managers and CEO...

540,Monitor Editor,, 11 May 2016

UDC vs BDP

11 May 2016

My response To Your Inquiry

I can confirm that I own and operate a communication consultancy that amongst other things develops and delivers communication solutions and events for various clients both locally and internationally. This consultancy has been in operation for...

475,Correspondent,, 11 May 2016

The New Train - Meeting a Need. But Which Need?

All I could find was its schedule, its charges, that it has three classes, and a buffet and that’s about it. Call that aggressive marketing if you wish, but there is so much more that competent marketing people should wish to make...

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In-laws from hell

Radio talk shows tiptoe around this issue and would rather discuss politics all day long than discuss this one issue. In-laws have been around since the first marriage (or the second nuptials since either Adam nor Eve had one when they tied the...

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The Orphan And The Ants Part 1 The Sons Of Matsieng

There is an old Setswana phrase: “BaKwena ba ga se bolaya kgosi”, that is “the BaKwena of one who kills the king”. Over the decades these words have been said with pride, shame and resignation, as a praise and a curse, about...

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Moroka Women Start Bakery To Fight Poverty

One of the group members Mariam Sinyika, 66, told The Monitor that they are currently running a backyard bakery, which they started after presenting their idea to the social worker in the village in 2014. Sinyika said that same year they were...

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Public Servants Serenade Jwaneng

Choral music was the cream of the day as Jwaneng Town Council (JTC) and Dithuso house choirs (central government) dished out marabi and theme songs that will be used in this year’s district public service day billed for April 21. JTC choir,...

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Letshego Gives Away A Moraka In A Cultural Style

Kediretswe grounds in Palapye will be a scene of a traditional festivities with members of the community participating to prepare traditional pots, among them slaughtered live cattle, as the company awards the lucky winner a...

399,Staff Writer,, 11 May 2016

Notification For Contributions And Benefits-Legal Aid Botswana

1. Contributions Legal Aid Applicants whose Calculated Monthly Income (which is the total of all sources of income and reasonable return on all valuable assets) shall be required to make a contribution to Legal Aid Botswana, in order to be assisted....

475,Correspondent,, 11 May 2016

BONELA Rescues 3-Year Old From Abusive Home

Last week, through its Save The Children project, BONELA won an urgent application for the court to order an immediate removal of the child from the custody of its mother for failing to protect her from incessant physical abuse by the...

475,Correspondent,, 11 May 2016

BOPEU Sees 3% Salary Increase As Bonus

BOPEU leadership met in Jwaneng over the weekend including all its 15 regional leadership, trustees, and the NAB. According to BOPEU General Secretary Topius Marenga, the leadership resolved that the 3% salary increase is just a bonus and that after...

399,Staff Writer,, 11 May 2016

Forty Years For Rape, But Only 10 Years To Serve

When sentencing him, Principal Magistrate Thebeetsile Mulalu ruled the sentences to run concurrently, meaning that the convict will serve an effective 10 years only. Garetshele committed the offences between 2013 and 2014 at Lekobeng cattle post near...

59072,Onneile Zibani,, 11 May 2016

Axe Murderer Gets 20 Years For Killing Girlfriend

Passing sentence, Makhwade said he took into consideration that Nsiwa pleaded guilty to the charge and did not waste the court’s precious time. “I find that there were extenuating circumstances that led the accused to commit the offence....

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Maun On A 2.5 Million Condoms Distribution Drive

The project, funded by the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA) and coordinated by Ngamiland Council for Non-Governmental Organisations) (NCONGO) and Botswana Family Welfare Association (BOFWA), will be implemented over a seven months...

433,Boniface Keakabetse,, 11 May 2016

CKGR Poachers Fail To Question Witnesses

The accused were on trial on Thursday before Magistrate Keneilwe Koobake in a case that was prosecuted by Sub-Inspector Buti Matema of Rakops Police station. State alleges that on March 7, 2015, the accused, acting jointly and in...

52150,Edward Pekenene,, 11 May 2016

My Government Is Delivering On Water

The other two are the Dikgatlhong and the Thune Dams. The Dikgatlhong and its associated infrastructure have been completed and put to beneficial use. The Thune has been constructed and currently there are various work packages for the...

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BOT50 spends P129, 000 on mascot

Today marks exactly 50 days before Botswana celebrates its golden jubilee year. She said: “We ran a competition that was open to all Batswana. The committee then chose the best design and this will be unveiled tomorrow (today).”...

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BISAs Great North to reward athletes

Addressing a press conference on Monday, BISA northern zone organiser, Modiri Mokobela said the P200,000 sport excellence awards will be the biggest of their three editions to date. “Our athletes outdid themselves in the competitions and it is...

47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 11 May 2016

Sebego vows to fix BPL structure

The BFA found itself clashing with its organ, the BPL on several occasions this past season, culminating in the suspension of the Premier League board. “Our BPL structure is not right. We will have to look at how it can be fixed,” Sebego...

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Tsabong stadium for NDP 11

Responding to a questionnaire, permanent secretary in the ministry of youth, sport and culture (MYSC), Kago Ramokate said the construction of an integrated stadium was considered during NDP 8 (1997 to 2003) but it did not take place with other stadia...

432,Zolani Kraai,, 11 May 2016

Chiefs take only 11players for Rollers tie

Chiefs are without substitutes and fans hope that this time the game will be concluded. Chiefs chairperson, Ernest Molome said they will just play the game for the sake of football since they have only managed to raise 11 players for the...

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Letshwiti promises 5,000 football jobs

Speaking during the launch of his manifesto at Jessy’s Bistro at the new CBD on Tuesday night, Letshwiti said football should be an industry which creates employment. “When I leave, I will have employed 5,000 people in four years,”...

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CHIPABO ropes children into Bot50 through beauty pageant

According to the association’s financier and pageant organiser, Tshepiso Ntshole, they decided to come up with the event after realising that most of the Bot50 events were adult-oriented. She said the organisation therefore decided to...

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BOMU celebrates 50-year musical journey

The awards will celebrate and reflect on the Botswana music industry’s last 50 years, which is line with the country’s golden jubilee celebrations. However this year, the musical event will change its traditional hosting venue, Gaborone...

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Lebanna to judge international pageant

The international event, which will be held in Brazil, is scheduled for November this year. Lebanna, as the director of Little Miss Universe Botswana, boasts of grooming the current Little Miss Princess of the World 2016, Tshepang...

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TNT take on Noahs Ark dance piece

Genesis becomes the second biblical account that TNT has depicted through dance after Exodus, which told the life story of Old Testament prophet and lawgiver, Moses. Genesis being the first book in the bible entails a number of stories that...

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Miss Botswana not shaken by online petition

After allegations of favouritism and breaching of the rules of the pageant, there is now an online petition with over 1,500 signatures calling for her to be stripped of her title. The online petition was set up on Monday and by Wednesday morning it...

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Statistician decries ineffective data collection

The deputy statistician general, Burton Mguni said this lack of coordination leads to shortcomings in data inter-linkages. Another related point on this challenge is the inadequacy of the coverage of statistics due to the ever-increasing costs of...

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Citizen firms eye BCL stake in Pula Steel

Speaking in an interview, Pula Steel chief executive officer, Ranvir Kumar Verma said his cash-strapped company has already applied for funding from an international financier. “We have already written a letter of intent to BCL and as one of...

403,Onalenna Kelebeile,, 11 May 2016

SA retailers urged to support local SMEs

The call was made at a workshop held by BB and retailers from the neighbouring country operating in Botswana on trade regulatory issues affecting local entrepreneurs. Briefing the media yesterday BB chief executive officer, Racious Moatshe said they...

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Trade Unionism

11 May 2016

Kapinga confirms talks with BCP

Since he quit the public service a fortnight ago Kapinga’s political affiliation has been a subject of intense speculation. “Yes I am in talks with the BCP. I cannot discuss the status of the talks at the moment. An announcement on the...

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BONELA condemns Muzilas beat them up remarks

The Mayor’s call for use of violence against sex workers comes at a time when we least expect it, when leaders around the world are strategising to combat police brutality on people in violation of their human rights, which should imperatively...

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