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In Wednesday Paper
20 May 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...
411,Boitumelo Khutsafalo,phpCD8F.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 20 May 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...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
407,Mqondisi Dube,php794.tmp.jpg, 20 May 2016
Butlers 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...
407,Mqondisi Dube,php794.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
49080,Lesedi Mkhutshwa,, 20 May 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...
49270,Mompati Tlhankane,php2FDF.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
33193,Pauline Dikuelo,phpD7C.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
46073,Isaac Pinielo,php10C7.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
403,Onalenna Kelebeile,, 20 May 2016
Govt 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...
475,Correspondent,, 20 May 2016
Masisi Masire
20 May 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...
450,Mmegi Editor,, 20 May 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...
46073,Isaac Pinielo,php10C7.tmp.jpg, 20 May 2016
FPBA appeals for govt 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...
48624,Lindiwe Mozola,, 20 May 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...
2805,Sebofo Motshwane,php5705.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
2709,Sandy Grant,php13A2.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
402,Ryder Gabathuse,phpF55A.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
403,Onalenna Kelebeile,, 20 May 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...
402,Ryder Gabathuse,phpF55A.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
46713,Lebogang Baingapi,phpCC5C.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
419,Oarabile Mosikare,phpEAC0.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
54922,Tefo Pheage,phpBCC.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
54922,Tefo Pheage,phpBCC.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
440,Teichler Rankoa,, 20 May 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,...
440,Teichler Rankoa,, 20 May 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...
52150,Edward Pekenene,, 20 May 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...
52172,Oageng Batenegi,, 20 May 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...
52164,Tebo Maseko,php1141.tmp.jpg, 20 May 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...
45705,Bonte Seepi,, 20 May 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...
440,Teichler Rankoa,, 20 May 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...
57663,Leah Mataboge,, 20 May 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...
59077,Keagisitswe Dioka,, 20 May 2016
In Tuesday paper
20 May 2016
Donald Trump wins electoral college vote
Six weeks after winning the polls, the Republican has secured the 270 votes needed to formalise his victory. Reacting to his win, Mr Trump promised to "work hard to unite our country and be the president of all Americans". Electors had been flooded...
53561,BBC.COM,php2D23.tmp.jpg, 20 May 2016
BAA accept Dubes resignation
Dube submitted his resignation letter to BAA at the beginning of this month. He was serving as the BAA vice president. BAA public relations officer, Roland Masalila told Mmegi Sport that the executive committee of the association held a meeting with...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 20 May 2016
TAFIC end the year at the top
It took TAFIC a stifling one hour and 15 minutes to open the score sheet in a frantic derby that was crammed with crunchy tackles. GNT took the game to TAFIC but wasted numerous chances in front of goals. A brace from Kemoreng Batisani and a cheeky...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 20 May 2016
Police, Mafolofolo are Zone VI champions
Mafolofolo successfully defended the title they won last year. The championships were attended by Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Swaziland and Lesotho. South Africa competed in the women’s category. Police have been competing in the championship...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 20 May 2016
Galaxy turn fortunes around
A brace from Thero Setsile and a goal each from defender, Isaac Paeye and Thabang Sesinyi saw them dispatch Gunners who have been blowing hot and cold in their own backyard. The victory against Gunners moved them to position four on the log...
411,Boitumelo Khutsafalo,phpCD8F.tmp.jpg, 20 May 2016
Absolut Gaborone welcomes New Year in style
Renowned for not to be missed and never to be forgotten events, the venue is set to host another blazing hot Absolut New Year’s Eve Party. This year, Absolut brings a truly summeresque foam party on December 31, kicking off 2017 in true...
399,Staff Writer,, 20 May 2016
Trompies, Vee, Dr Malinga headline Ga-maila festival
The SA entertainers need no introduction. Trompies entered into the music scenes in the mid 1990s and they have since secured a place in the hearts of many Batswana with songs such as Bengimngaka and Mmadibuseng. Dr Malinga is also expected to rock...
65243,Tlotlo Kebinakgabo,, 20 May 2016
Borwa leaves audience impressed
Borwa is inspired by the labour migration in the 1960s when men in societies such as Bakwena, Bangwaketse, Bakgatla, Batlokwa and Balete would leave their homesteads to work in the South African mines. The action is depicted through dance with...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 20 May 2016
Sereetsi and The Natives to set Palapye alight
Goldies on the Eve show is set to offer a priceless experience to bid 2016 farewell and usher in 2017 in grand style. The show, which will be on new years’ eve is expected to offer a mature and professional space for jazz enthusiasts to cross...
49080,Lesedi Mkhutshwa,, 20 May 2016
Thata Kenosi misses out on Miss World
Stephanie Del Valle from Puerto Rico walked away as the winner of this year’s Miss World and succeeded Mireia Lalaguna Royo of Spain. Despite being a favourite to win The Great Pageant Community (TGPC) Miss Popularity, where she was on...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 20 May 2016
Turnstar records strong growth despite challenges
Revenue for the year ended January 31, 2016 grew by five percent from the prior year to P247.6 million, while operating profit increased by 23% from the prior year to P182.7 million in the period under review. Commenting in the group’s annual...
46073,Isaac Pinielo,php10C7.tmp.jpg, 20 May 2016
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