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Victoria Seiketso Sethibe 11 August 2016

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).”...

Sharon Mathala 11 August 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...

Mqondisi Dube | 11 August 2016

BISA�s �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...

Koketso Kgoboge 11 August 2016

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...

Zolani Kraai 11 August 2016

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...

Sharon Mathala 11 August 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...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 11 August 2016

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,”...

Mqondisi Dube | 11 August 2016

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...

Dumisani Ncube 11 August 2016

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...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 11 August 2016

Trade Unionism

Pauline Dikuelo 11 August 2016

TNT take on Noah�s 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...

Dumisani Ncube 11 August 2016

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...

Isaac Pinielo 11 August 2016

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...

Onalenna Kelebeile 11 August 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...

Chakalisa Dube | 11 August 2016

BONELA condemns Muzila�s �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...

Staff Writer 11 August 2016

Police brutality knows no bounds

Under previous police commissioners, among them Edwin Batshu, and Thebeyame Tsimako, the police made strides in building a good relationship with the communities they serve. The police engaged with citizens irrespective of their economic status, or...

Mmegi Editor | 11 August 2016

Water regulatory body in the offing

Repeated calls for the body’s existence have been echoed with the Gaborone-Bonnigton South MP Ndaba Gaolathe at the forefront of this reform. His motion on the matter was this week passed by Parliament. On the other hand, government made...

Baboki Kayawe 11 August 2016

Italian plans to change plight of children

Massimiliani, whose organisation currently runs from his country of birth, Italy, says the organisation will be running in a couple of countries in the next few months, further adding that what should excite Batswana is that while most international...

Tefo Pheage 11 August 2016

Fraudulent chief convicted

Delivering the judgement on Monday Magistrate Odirile Mokgatle noted that the 58-year-old sold the cows in question bearing his brand mark, the district mark and the RADP brand mark and he was paid a sum of P20,000. The five cows and a bull were...

Lebogang Baingapi 11 August 2016

BDP Cllr sees unemployment solution in factories

The youthful Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) councillor raised this concern during the previous full council meeting of the Francistown City Council (FCC). Kwambala told Mmegi that government is wasting money by funding citizen owned businesses...

Pini Bothoko | 11 August 2016

Bogus petition Cllr reported to Masisi

Masisi, who is also the country’s Vice President, will be officiating at the Francistown region fund raising dinner at Tati River Lodge the same day. But prior to that he will be engaged in a closed door meeting with leaders from various...

Chakalisa Dube | 11 August 2016

BCC celebrates 50 years

BCC general secretary Rev. Mosweu Simane told a media briefing on Tuesday that the Golden Jubilee celebrations would be held at Kagisong Centre in Mogoditshane, where testimonies would be shared, chronicling the achievements of the organisation in...

Zolani Kraai 11 August 2016

Longhurst seeks vindication from counterfeits case

The company is engaged in a legal tussle with HP South Africa for allegedly selling counterfeit products branded with the latter’s logo. On Tuesday Longhurst made the application for absolution on grounds that HP had failed to prove their case...

Mpho Mokwape | 11 August 2016

Poison trap for lions kills 119 vultures in Maun

Yesterday, Birdlife Botswana director, Kabelo Senyatso told Mmegi the incident was the latest in a string of poisonings involving the endangered birds. Numbers of the ecologically important birds have been on the decline for years in Botswana, with...

Mbongeni Mguni | 11 August 2016

Sjamboked job seekers vow to do it again

Botswana National Front Youth League president Khumoekae Richard and three members of the movement spent a night in police custody, while riot police sjamboked several other members on Monday following their picketing at Parliament premises. The...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 11 August 2016

Advancement through timely effort

For young people, preparing to achieve end of year goals can be a nightmare, especially if the preparations were left for the eleventh hour. Making the greatest possible success of anything requires concentration of entire thoughts on the set goals...

Victoria Seiketso Sethibe 11 August 2016

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...

Sharon Mathala 11 August 2016

Kapinga was pushed out

Quizzed about what pushed him out of the public service, former Botswana ambassador to Zimbabwe responded: “Now, that the employer, the Botswana government, did not seem to have respect and confidence in me, I had no choice but to quit the...

Ryder Gabathuse | 11 August 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...

Pauline Dikuelo | 11 August 2016

Zambia votes in tight presidential poll between Lungu and Hichilema

It is expected to be a tight race between President Edgar Lungu's governing PF party and the opposition UPND led by Hakainde Hichilema. For the first time, a presidential candidate must win more than 50% of the vote to avoid a run-off. Mr Lungu won...

BBC.COM 11 August 2016