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Inside Friday paper
15 May 2016
Deadly earthquake topples buildings in southern Japan
Officials say more people could be trapped under collapsed buildings. Thousands fled their homes and many people spent the night in the open in the town of Mashiki, near Kumamoto city on the island of Kyushu. Troops have been sent to the scene but...
53561,BBC.COM,php2D23.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Female Zebras less equal than others
Prior to the game, the team was beaming with confidence as they overcame a raw Mauritius side, 10-0 over two legs, the same score line the female Zebras suffered against Banyana the last time they met. The win gave the team and the nation hope the...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 15 May 2016
League descent: Rollers, Hlanders on the brink
With three games remaining for each team, log leaders, Township Rollers might be crowned champions tomorrow while BR Highlanders could join FC Satmos in the lower division. Rollers sit at the top of the league table with 61 points and take on Police...
411,Boitumelo Khutsafalo,phpCD8F.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
International basketball friendly cancelled
Duzi Royals have indicated they will not be able to travel to Botswana due to internal issues. The team finished as runners-up in the South African Basketball National League (BNL) last season. “The South African team experienced some issues...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Report card: How your code has performed
Athletics Administration: Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) suffered a destructive power struggle just a couple of years back, with the respected Moses Bantsi forced to bounce back. There has been relative calm in recent times at the...
407,Mqondisi Dube,php794.tmp.jpg,417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg,411,Boitumelo Khutsafalo,phpCD8F.tmp.jpg,49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 15 May 2016
Gunners force out ineffective members
The other two are president, Alex Masie and secretary general, Ian Kebopetswe. Chairman, Phenyo Gothaang said the club had asked the four to show reason why they should not be forced to resign as they were no longer effective in the running of the...
15 May 2016
Its Boys award again
Only Pontsho Moloi and Kabelo Seakanyeng have gate-crashed the Boy party. Calls to review the award, where supporters are given the opportunity to vote for the best player, have fallen on deaf ears with the sponsor, beMOBILE defending its format....
399,Staff Writer,, 15 May 2016
Ebat Letlhafula fest to celebrate 10 years
The festival aims to embrace the lifestyle of the northern people through promoting culture, tradition and heritage. The NLCF has over the past nine years kept its promise of promoting cultural recognisation and preservation of the indigenous tribes...
49080,Lesedi Mkhutshwa,, 15 May 2016
Royal Moscow Ballet delivers artistic charm
As part of their Southern African tour, the Royal Moscow ballet put up flamboyant choreography with special lighting. The performers, eight females and a male, lit up the stage in the first act. The first act entitled Chopiniana (Les...
49270,Mompati Tlhankane,php2FDF.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Using art as a motivational tool
Many visual artists use their talent, and skill to communicate, and the mode has been labelled as one of the most effective. George is no different as she uses her artistic skill to come up with artworks, which will not only decorate space, but also...
420,Maureen Odubeng,php85BC.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Quality sleep, hygiene, consummate effective learning
In yesterday’s edition, we carried a story revealing how students in some boarding schools sleep on the floor due to acute shortage of beds and mattresses. The report focused on three schools in the Mmathethe/Molapowabojwang constituency...
450,Mmegi Editor,, 15 May 2016
BDF plots against spys daughter Rebuttal
We wish to denounce quite vehemently the allegations carried in the story which makes a desperate link between the case of Medical Assessment on Sergeant Dzikamani Mothobi and the findings of a Medical Board on Recruit Private Tsholofelo Mothobi,...
15 May 2016
Rebuttal on Mmegi articles published by Moleofe
Catchy media headlines and opinion columns on any media platform geared towards attracting and leading the reader should never be intended to deliberately mislead, even if the author is exercising his right of opinion. This is key because truth has...
475,Correspondent,, 15 May 2016
From Cuito to Johannesburg
Driving at twilight is generally hard because visibility is bad. What is even worse, however, is arriving into an unknown, congested dark city at twilight with chaotic motorists, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians all ducking one another in a...
423,Thalefang Charles,phpAA56.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Walking the worlds richest ground, in Botswana
How far can you see? On a clear day, over flat land? How far do you reckon you could see? At Jwaneng Mine, you can see 410 metres away with sparkling clarity. From the top of the mine pit to the bottom, where rainwater collects and is coloured blue...
422,Mbongeni Mguni,php1604.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Confessions of a Gaborone stripper
Together with her clique, the young woman is frequently hired to provide entertainment at bachelor parties. Their world is highly secretive and referrals are strictly by word of mouth. What happens in the bachelor party and with whom is only known...
662,Sharon Mathala,php6F5B.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
FMD threat: Lobatse grinds to a halt
Butcheries here are running on empty. Many have resorted to selling chicken. Some have given up and placed their fate in the hands of those at the centre of the issue. In the space of a week, the country’s oldest town, whose...
49078,Tumelo Mouwane,, 15 May 2016
New Basel proposals may help reduce banks instability analyst
Early last month, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision proposed a plan to prohibit lenders from using internal models to calculate credit risk toward financial firms, equities and large corporations. The plan calls for banks to adopt a...
46073,Isaac Pinielo,php10C7.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
BSE looks to stimulate ETFs trading
This comes on the backdrop of a 95 percent decline in ETF trading turnover in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year. According to figures provided by the BSE, the volume of ETF units traded was 58,664 in the first...
406,Brian Benza,phpE652.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
The clues are there
Our relatives, friends, colleagues and neighbours are still falling for scams that are leaving them poorer and unhappier people. A couple of weeks ago a reader contacted us saying, “I have a friend I met when I was in South Africa. We had a...
48722,Consumer Watchdog,, 15 May 2016
Nkates company wins disputed Okavango lodge
Tsaro Lodge was previously owned by the Khwai Development Trust (KDT) under the Community Based Natural Resources Programme. The lodge consists of a 16-bed facility and eight chalets on a plot abutting the northern boundary of the wildlife rich...
33193,Pauline Dikuelo,phpD7C.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Barclays renews appetite to finance diamond traders
Local diamond manufacturers bought diamonds worth $500 million from De Beers last year, which was a 46 percent decline from the 2014 supply. At least 22 sightholder firms are licensed to buy diamonds from De Beers in Gaborone for cutting and...
406,Brian Benza,, 15 May 2016
B&M Garments on the brink of closure
B&M Garments has been in existence for more than 15 years in Botswana and its shareholders are based in Mauritius. The firm’s managing director, Krishna Chinniah said since last year, the firm has been experiencing high operational costs,...
59080,Pako Makolo,, 15 May 2016
Botswana Illicit financial flows top P200bn report
IFFs are illegal movements of money or capital from one country to another. GFI classifies this movement as an illicit flow when the funds are illegally earned, transferred, and/or utilised. According to the 2015 report, between the years 2004 to...
33193,Pauline Dikuelo,phpD7C.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Three suitors bid for Mowana mine
Butler Phiri, the managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), a firm that has been appointed to coordinate the liquidation of Mowana, confirmed this in an interview early this week. Mowana was placed under liquidation in November last year...
409,Chakalisa Dube,php6867.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Kgosi Bathoens land duel reaches the Land Tribunal
The Land Board is now entangled in a bitter legal war that has reached the Land Tribunal with one Bethuel Mphafe said to be the rightful owner the land, which he bought from the bogosi. The disputed grazing land in the Papajathama location measuring...
601,Mpho Mokwape,php5B7D.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Farmers face uncertainty after suspension of EU beef exports
The Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) suspended beef exports to the EU and trading partners after a buffalo was seen, shot and killed at Moreane crush in Letlhakane East, near Kanye. Buffaloes are carriers of foot and mouth disease. The...
46073,Isaac Pinielo,php10C7.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Meat crisis looms
In Setswana culture, it is a custom for gatherers to be offered food, with beef as relish during social gatherings such as weddings, funerals and family re-unions. Meat is also eaten almost everyday in every household prepared as relish. The ban...
54598,Goitsemodimo Kaelo,php4B2C.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Police helicopter crash families succeed
Justice Abednego Tafa of the Gaborone High Court delivered the judgment yesterday. Members of the families of the three deceased police officers packed the court. The three deceased officers, air wing captain Superintendent Keokeditse Sobatha,...
662,Sharon Mathala,php6F5B.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
BNFYL still governed by old constitution
A draft constitution was promulgated by former BNFYL president, Nelson Ramaotwana in 2007, but was never adopted. Outgoing president, Kemonye Makatane confirmed yesterday that the past youth leagues never called for a constitutional congress to...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Persecution of unionists continues as Tshukudu interdicts DPSM
Tshukudu, who is also the Botswana Teachers’ Union (BTU) president, was on April 8, 2016 transferred from his position as a senior lecturer at Tlokweng College of Education to the MTC as chief administration officer (I). In his founding...
419,Oarabile Mosikare,phpEAC0.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
The dirty game that is politics
Reports that Francistown South branch chairperson, Ford Moiteela this week fought with the Francistown West MP Ignatius Moswaane at a party campaign house in Block Four shows that in politics there are no permanent friends or enemies. Until Tuesday...
402,Ryder Gabathuse,phpF55A.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Hambira blames BDP for his 2014 loss
On Tuesday, during the BDP Council of Elders hearings into the BDP internal wars held at Maharaj conference centre, Hambira is said to have openly said he would have done well if some former central committee members had not de-campaigned...
402,Ryder Gabathuse,phpF55A.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Inside BDP dirty wars
Mmegi investigations have uncovered a litany of underhand dealings by opposing camps within the ruling party. A hearing by the Council of Elders this week exposed troubles that have bedevilled Gaborone Central, a constituency so dear to political...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
In this week's paper
15 May 2016
Masire retained as cycling president
He garnered eight votes to beat Kagiso Potongwane, who received just one vote for the position. Karabo Rasenyai (treasurer) and Tlamelo Dube (secretary general) also managed to retain their positions unopposed. After losing out on the position of...
411,Boitumelo Khutsafalo,phpCD8F.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Sibanda soothes a hurting nation
The 18-year-old Sibanda qualified for the finals with an impressive run of 44.47, which is his personal best as he finished third in his semi final. He will be the youngest competitor in the final where he faces world champion, Wayde van Niekerk of...
407,Mqondisi Dube,php794.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
TASC run riot in opening netball games
In the first game of the season, TAFIC and Sua Flamingos produced a back-and-forth affair, scoring six apiece in the opening quarter before TAFIC edged the second 13-12. In the beginning of the third quarter, TAFIC reshuffled their pack sending...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 15 May 2016
Botswana to host 2018 COSAFA Cup
“We have been in contact with COSAFA and they reminded us that the 2018 tournament will be held in Botswana. We have since started our preparations and engagements with the government are on going,” Sebego said. He further said the BFA...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 15 May 2016
Triumphant Letshwiti calls for peace
Letshwiti’s camp won five out of the seven national executive committee (NEC) posts on offer. The Sebego camp took an early lead when Susan Montsho (33) beat Tapapiwa Gaebolae (22) of Team Letshwiti and Theresa Hirschfield (5) from the Mantswe...
407,Mqondisi Dube,php794.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Assembly saves Notwane
The club was suspended for two seasons for taking football matters to court. One year of the suspension was set aside on condition Notwane did not commit a similar offence. But the sanction was nullified when the general assembly did not ratify the...
407,Mqondisi Dube,php794.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Sereetsi & The Natives launch App
The app came as a result of the partnership between the band and local company Future Sustain International (FSI). Sereetsi & The Natives app is now available for free download on Google play store. The app can be used on all Android mobile...
49270,Mompati Tlhankane,php2FDF.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Multitudes attend BCC family fun day
The event aimed to celebrate BCC’s 50 years of existence and its contribution to the country’s development. The event was full of festivities such as aerobics that was conducted by Fitness Boot Camp, three Mascot dances and interaction...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
BOT50 theme song released
The song, which is sung by 10 local artists from different music genres, had the audience talking. Most of the audience approved its melodies while a handful of the youth thought the song could have been made better considering that it was sung by...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Bona Life Opens Second Branch In F-town
Officially opening the branch, the city mayor Silvia Muzila, said the opening of the branch is a welcome development, as it will help stimulate the city’s economy. “The City of Francistown being the gateway to the rest of Africa, we...
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
RDC expands property portfolio
The construction of the P40 million ICC residential flats, which is funded by BIFM through a loan facility, has already commenced. Speaking during the RDC properties financial results announcement recently, the group chief operating officer Uzoma...
33193,Pauline Dikuelo,phpD7C.tmp.jpg, 15 May 2016
Milk Afric is not dying Kebonang
In an interview with Monitor Business this week, Kebonang revealed that despite the fact that residents have continued to discredit the project due to lack of information, the project is however on the right track. “As we speak, Lobatse Town...
49078,Tumelo Mouwane,, 15 May 2016
Mokgethisi carves a niche in IT industry
The Serowe-born technology savvy gent’s love for games made him fall head-over heel with information technology (IT), which allows him to explore the technology world to the fullest. As such he enrolled with Limkokwing University of Creative...
48624,Lindiwe Mozola,, 15 May 2016
Our Education At 50
The celebrations gathered together all the sectors of the economy that joined in their colours, proudly showing off their presence. Botswana is at the same time troubled by the common problem that is dogging the whole world, unemployment....
475,Correspondent,, 15 May 2016
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