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In Tuesday Paper
23 May 2016
Pula! by Mophato Dance Theatre
The production demonstrates different rituals from Wosana, Seperu, Tsutsube with an integration of African contemporary movements. To add on ,there is an inclusion of Christianity to represent various societies that reside in Botswana. The piece is a...
23 May 2016
Nico retain Taolo as chairperson
Taolo will lead his team for the next four years after being unopposed in the Sunday election. Gaepelo Otsogile and Petrus Ditsele were elected as the vice chairpersons administration and technical respectively. Tlhalefang Bagwasi is the...
399,Staff Writer,, 23 May 2016
Makgantai deal on, Sesinyis uncertain
The two players are in the country with Makgantai training with Orapa United while Sesinyi is yet to report to the club. Orapa United spokesperson, Tebatso Hule said they are tying loose ends on Makgantai’s deal and are awaiting to learn on...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 23 May 2016
Relay team to share Choppies P75,000
Choppies chief executive officer, Ramachandran Ottapathu told Mmegi Sport the team would share the P75,000 cash incentive while hinting there might be a surprise announcement from the retail chain. Choppies had dangled a tantalizing P1million cash...
407,Mqondisi Dube,php794.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
TFly to revive his music career with new single
Looking back, TFly told Showbiz that he started music in 2013 after spending several years as a dancer. He however indicated that his upcoming single will not be his first. “I had released singles like Ikasi before but they didn’t do...
49270,Mompati Tlhankane,php2FDF.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Black Crake Books calls for manuscript
The campaign, which started on August 1, will run for a period of one year. “Our aim is to promote Botswana’s literary voice to the world and to develop local talent. It is always disheartening to see only South African, Nigerian or...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Fairhope targets youth through music
In an interview with Showbiz, Fairhope said he wants to reach the youth through their current motswako culture and music. He added that singing gospel will make it easy for him to drive the gospel messages while the youth enjoy the rhythm at the same...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Goya urges companies to utilise training levy
Goya was giving a key note address at the graduation ceremony of VeldBerry Management and Training’s recent batch of the Bullet Proof Manager course participants that was held in Gaborone recently. The minister said development challenges...
52172,Oageng Batenegi,, 23 May 2016
Local businesses urged to invest in Ghana
“We guarantee the freedom for non-Ghanaians to establish and run enterprises in potentially lucrative areas,” he said. According to Opare-Kumi, the West African country has ongoing privatisation initiatives that also open up a number of...
46073,Isaac Pinielo,php10C7.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Gaborones tallest skyscraper complete
iTowers South, which is now the tallest building in the country was built at a cost of around P200 million. With 90% of the scheme pre-sold, promoters of the project say there are only a limited number of units still available for...
399,Staff Writer,, 23 May 2016
Dithubaruba symposium billed for Thursday
The symposium is meant to unpack the concept – Dithubaruba – by presenting its various aspects such as settlement; leadership; theology; migration; missionary work; nation-building, and literature. Among ht topics to be discussed are...
475,Correspondent,, 23 May 2016
Bakgothu hold Nama cultural festival
The Nama people originally lived around the Orange River in Southern Namibia and Northern South Africa in the mid-19th century. Nama, also known as Namaqua, are any member of people of Southern Namibia who constitute by far the largest Khoekhoe...
475,Correspondent,, 23 May 2016
Stanbic Bank ideal partner for Mining and Metals sector growth
A statement from the bank read in part: “These are the sentiments reiterated by the bank at a recent engagement of Mining and Metals sector conference held last Thursday at Masa Square Hotel in Gaborone”. It further stated that the...
399,Staff Writer,, 23 May 2016
Good move on University Hospital
It will provide practical, real-time training for students in specialised health services, while simultaneously doubling as a referral facility open to the public for world-class services. Government, through the Health Ministry, is due to invest at...
450,Mmegi Editor,, 23 May 2016
Government Ngamiland
23 May 2016
Cyclists inspire Lotsane students
Speaking during the school’s MVA Fund charity cycling event over the weekend, Ditirwa revealed that the school is among the Top 10 performing schools due to the cyclists’ contribution. The event takes place annually with the aim of...
45705,Bonte Seepi,, 23 May 2016
Social club donate jerseys to pupils
Speaking during the donation, chairman of the club, George Malenje said social responsibility is in the club’s constitution therefore they are duty-bound to give back to the community they serve. “Social clubs are known for fun and...
48624,Lindiwe Mozola,, 23 May 2016
Who should take credit for the development of Botswana?
The country had literally no economy and relied very much on agriculture. By then, the Europeans thought that Botswana was just a desert, which offered nothing economic to their interests, especially minerals that they were exploring in Africa at...
475,Correspondent,, 23 May 2016
Tsogwane calls for revival of spirit of self-reliance
Tsogwane said this when officiating at the international forum for Botswana Homeless and Poor People Federation held at Adansonia Hotel recently. The forum was held under the theme, ‘Community Participation for Sustainable...
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Members are free to resign BLLAHWU
Motshegwa, who was addressing a press conference yesterday, refuted allegations made by a breakaway union, the Botswana Progressive Workers Union recently that BLLAHWU is refusing to let some members who have resigned from the union to...
54598,Goitsemodimo Kaelo,php4B2C.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Ditimamodimo may be a thing of the past
The residents petitioned the GCC complaining about the naming of their location Ditimamodimo as they felt that it was associated with evil and bad luck. The council advised them to bring forward a list of three names from which they will vote. ...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
We will deport you for calling us kaffirs Batshu
Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Edwin Batshu warned when addressing tourism workers in Maun today (Monday) that any foreign national who uses the F-word or kaffirs when addressing Batswana working in the tourism sector will be...
433,Boniface Keakabetse,, 23 May 2016
BIUST urged to educate the community on technology
Mooko was speaking recently at BIUST campus during the unveiling of the projects that are secured and installed through the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Interferometry dishes. He stated that it is important to communicate and educate the community...
45705,Bonte Seepi,, 23 May 2016
BDP, UDC prepare for Kalakamati seat
The by-election comes in the wake of the recent death of BDP councillor Israel Samu, who was laid to rest last Saturday. Traditionally, the ward was the stronghold of UDC coalition partner party, the Botswana People’s Party (BPP) The BDP...
409,Chakalisa Dube,php6867.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
BNF wants unofficial social media disbanded
The BNF central committee resolved that all social media platforms used in the build up to the congress should immediately be disbanded. “If administrators of those accounts do not do so, then stern action will be taken against them by party...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Triple murderer sentenced to 27 years in jail
Mugundu Mushongo, 40, shot and killed Muzulu Jackson and his wife, Kathiko Jackson, and their nephew, Kaikura Kebonyekgosi, at Chikumuchu village near Shakawe in April, 2009. Mushongo’s sentences were backdated to August, 2009 when he was...
442,Lebogang Mosikare,php369F.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
UB hospital to operate as a parastatal
In a communiqué published in the Daily News, government says given the level of national investment in the teaching hospital and the anticipated high running costs of such a hospital, it was important to ensure it has an “effective...
412,Baboki Kayawe,php195E.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Remembering Kemmonye Molly Mobita
Born to Thapelo and Gobuamang Peloyang who both hailed from Kumakwane, she was the 5th born of seven children. Her siblings were Goitsemodimo, Koobame, Keakae, Thoromo, Peloyang and Goitsemang. Angelinah was raised in Kumakwane at Botshabelo ward,...
475,Correspondent,, 23 May 2016
The 2019 Botswana general elections, early arrival!
Since former commander of BDF swopped his military fatigues for the Dirty Game team jersey, he has played the dirty game with vigour and unusual skill. He has scored numerous goals including own goals in the process: Nonetheless, all said and...
2208,Michael Dingake,phpFF67.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Happy Christmas, Goledzwa!
Everybody is in rush the world over as people are preparing for a well-deserved break from hardwork. Botswana is not an exception and as majority of our people are Christians, they will join their fellow Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus...
450,Mmegi Editor,, 23 May 2016
IAAF World championships preparations get underway
Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) is in the process of drawing up a training plan for the qualifiers. BAA spokesperson, Roland Masalila told Mmegi Sport yesterday that they have programmes that are meant to give the athletes an opportunity to...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Fair draw for Rollers, Orapa United
Rollers have been pitted against Madagascar’s Caisse Nationale de Prevoynace Socaile (CNaPS) Sport while Orapa United will face Mbabane Swallows of Swaziland. CNaPS do not have much of a continental football history, but they are the...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 23 May 2016
In Friday Paper
23 May 2016
A bad year for Botswana sport
Ofentse Nato Saga Botswana football suffered a huge dent this year with the protests and appeals surrounding the registration of Zebras midfielder, Ofentse Nato by Township Rollers. What started as a mere protest spiralled out of control...
411,Boitumelo Khutsafalo,phpCD8F.tmp.jpg,417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
2016 state of the arts
BOT50’s missed opportunity The BOT50 organising committee was placed under the then Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture under the helm of Thapelo Olopeng – the Minister who loves entertainment since he juggles as a DJ and loves...
423,Thalefang Charles,phpAA56.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
The good, the bad and the ugly entertainers
Flops BOMU awards Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU) held their eighth annual awards on November 5 under the theme ‘Best of all times’ and the whole thing was a flop from the beginning to the end. If it was a competition this one will...
49270,Mompati Tlhankane,php2FDF.tmp.jpg,8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
BDP terrorised workers in 2016
The Public Service Trade Unions The government intention of destroying the public sector trade unions is now crystal clear. The government is not doing anything to improve the labour relations but is all out to close down the unions, especially...
475,Correspondent,, 23 May 2016
Botswana and the military industrial complex
This industry of profit through military might is called the Military Industrial Complex. This is a phrase coined by former US president Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell address to the US people in 1961 when he warned of a close relationship between...
53170,Solly Rakgomo,, 23 May 2016
Legend of badimo: a myth unraveled (Part 2)
Indeed, the latest finding I am aware of is an intricate gear-train – that is, a device on which gears travel – made of pure aluminium, found embedded and fossilised in a piece of coal 310 million years old. But, up to the early 1800s,...
2213,L M Leteane,phpFA0D.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Goodbye 2016, hello 2017
In all cases, the ruling party caucus instructed its MPs on how to deal with issues and used its majority to rubber stamp executive policy and law decisions. The opposition has tried everything possible with little or no success in preventing...
47877,Dithapelo Keorapetse,phpDED0.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Can BDF Commander be jailed?
What was trending in the social media revealed that a lot of our people still don’t understand our new man at the helm of the defence force. I have avoided writing about Lieutenant General Placid Diratsagae Segokgo because he is a very private...
481,Richard Moleofe,phpE31.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Next years mistakes
Despite the lessons we should have learnt over the last few years, people continue to fall for the nonsense peddled by the proponents of various Get Rich Quick schemes. You might think that with the memory of Eurextrade fresh in our minds, people...
48722,Consumer Watchdog,, 23 May 2016
Alecto Minerals to buy Mowana for P89.7m
The AIM-listed company will pay £1-m in cash and the rest with the issue of 8.79m shares of 0.01p at 0.065p each, that will represent 60% of the issued share capital of Alecto, which in total amounts to about £6.72m. The proposed...
399,Staff Writer,, 23 May 2016
CA records slight decrease in mergers
In its latest annual report, the Authority stated that a total of 33 merger notifications were handled in the 2015/16 financial year, a slight decrease from mergers handled in the previous year. “Out of the 29 mergers finalised during the...
399,Staff Writer,, 23 May 2016
Drivers warned to avoid rain-soaked border post
Mabolwe border post immigration officer Dennis Kaelo told Mmegi in an interview yesterday that the road to the border from Mabolwe village is currently in a bad state, adding that the crossing points where the road intersects with the rivers have...
61634,Imi Mokgethi,, 23 May 2016
Spaghetti nears Completion
It would be an injustice to end the year without writing something about the Thapama Interchange, popularly known as the ‘Spaghetti road’ in the roads engineering lingua franca. The Spaghetti Road would be completed next year February,...
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
How to move out of SAs shadow
Any talk of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and industrialisation in Botswana inevitably touches on the events of Wednesday January 12, 2000 when 900 citizen jobs were thrown onto the street after the inglorious closure of the Hyundai assembly plant...
422,Mbongeni Mguni,php1604.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
Dark clouds engulf miners in the north
The incessantly falling metal prices led to the closure of mines here and other areas in the northern part of the country, resulting in massive job losses. It would be an understatement to say that the advent of mines anywhere in Botswana brought...
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg,442,Lebogang Mosikare,php369F.tmp.jpg,47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 23 May 2016
Weakened judiciary spoils Xmas mood
This year alone it has been no different with tensions rising further between the government and the Law Society of Botswana (LSB) regarding the judicial independence and its ability to administer justice independently without any interference from...
601,Mpho Mokwape,php5B7D.tmp.jpg, 23 May 2016
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