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In Friday Paper

Staff Writer 16 September 2016

Botswana Tourism Industry

Mmegi Editor 16 September 2016

Protect the child, not the molester

While mother hens are still doing all, even threatening with quacking sounds to wad off threats, more and more human mothers seem to be sacrificing their children on the alter of financial muscle or the pretext of protecting the family name. ...

Mmegi Editor | 16 September 2016

Doubts over squabbling Motorsport�s AGM

“Due to some factors we need to sort in the (BMS) office we have decided to postpone the AGM that was scheduled for Saturday. We are yet to decide on a new date and we would inform our members about the postponement during the day,” BMS...

Kabelo Boranabi | 16 September 2016

Onkemetse�s dream Olympiad

By Saturday, Onkemetse was cruising with unbeaten streak and ranked amongst the top five board one players at the Olympiad, in contention for one of the three available board prize medals. She looked poised to finish the 2016 Chess Olympiad on a high...

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 16 September 2016

Decision pending on Mabote�s future

Mabote has been making the headlines for the wrong reasons after he was accused of misconduct, the most recent being at the All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville last year where the player was allegedly drunk in camp. The player was then dropped for...

Kabelo Boranabi | 16 September 2016

Half marathon gets P1.9m sponsorship

Time Shield Events managing director, Gaone Dickson told Mmegi Sport that the sponsorship is against the total budget of P2.6 million. He said as a company they were reacting to the call from the government for Batswana to assist in celebrating 50...

Calistus Kolantsho | 16 September 2016

No external training for karate team

 It has always been a norm for a team due for the WKF championship to be sent outside the country for training but that has not been the case with the present team. BOKA spokesperson, Sensei Jerry Ditlhong said they have not been able to send...

Calistus Kolantsho | 16 September 2016

Rollers meeting to endorse Shah as president

The club met in January where the executive committee led by chairperson, Walter Kgabung were mandated to change the constitution to fit in a new model as the club privatises.  “We also met in March in Francistown where we updated our...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 16 September 2016

Selebi-Phikwe�s inaugural women�s league postponed

Selebi-Phikwe Regional Football Association chairman, Barulaganye Moloi told Mmegi Sport the postponement follows a directive from the Botswana Football Association (BFA) that all the league fixtures should be suspended to enable players to freely...

Imi Mokgethi 16 September 2016

Drago signs one year deal with Sankoyo

Sankoyo communications manager, Phemelo Saleshando said they signed a one year deal to be reviewed depending on his performance at the end of the season. Team manager, Onalenna Ditlhakanyane said the performance-based contract was signed last week....

Boniface Keakabetse 16 September 2016

No special pay for Zebras in P1m match

Botswana Football Association (BFA) chief executive officer, Kitso Kemoeng had initially said it would cost the organisers P1 million to bring Angola to Botswana. But yesterday he clarified that the figure is the budget for the whole match. Zebras...

Mqondisi Dube | 16 September 2016

Khama to free prisoners

Mmegi has learnt that there are plans already underway to release the prisoners in a move that is expected to reduce overcrowding and reward good conduct in prisons. Khama‘s largest release of prisoners was in 2008 when he pardoned over 1,000...

Tefo Pheage 16 September 2016

My experience as a Chevening scholar

The day of travel came and off I was to the UK. I must admit that the first thing I did when I got into the UK was to check whether there was credit in my Chevening cash passport, and lo and behold it was indeed credited. From day one and throughout...

Correspondent 16 September 2016

Huawei P9: You gonna Leica this

The device was positioned to compete with the then industry leaders – Samsung and Apple – devices.  The phone turned out to be Huawei’s first real bite of the smartphone market share. BBC reported their 39% sales jump in the...

Thalefang Charles | 16 September 2016

Remembering beyond 9/11

On 11 September 2001, 19 young Arab militants affiliated to Al Qaeda who had received rudimentary flying instruction in the United States hijacked and flew two passenger aircraft at the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one at the...

Solly Rakgomo 16 September 2016

Extra-Parliamentary politics should intensify

The law making body, especially the 11th Parliament, has become an instrument of subjugation at the disposal of the ruling party. It is used to pass laws and policies that tyrannize the workers, students and other groups. The ruling elite, who are...

Dithapelo Keorapetse 16 September 2016

China plays a role in Botswana�s anti-poaching drive

The government of Botswana’s biggest challenge in sustaining the tourism industry has always been with the problem of illegal hunting of animals and especially those valued for their horns and tusks. The rhino and the elephant are the two key...

Richard Moleofe 16 September 2016

Enki�s journey to Nibiru: the gamely excited layer

As I duly unpacked and explained the different layers of meaning in A praise-poem to Shulgi, the astute reader will have noticed the Sumerian penchant for being economical with vowels – a practice later adopted by Egyptian writing...

L M Leteane 16 September 2016

The Botswana I love, the Botswana I lost - Part ll

This is not about the people of Mapoka and neighbouring villages only. Go  anywhere in Botswana and you’ll find people have done the same things to the environment. And we call ourselves people with a culture, people with a future. Am I...

Correspondent 16 September 2016

I don�t want to die � former Lesotho PM

“I am not afraid of anyone in Lesotho except for Kamoli who wants me dead.  No one else wants me dead except him.  People don’t understand how serious it is.  “I don’t want to die.  I want to die in a...

Mbongeni Mguni | 16 September 2016

Pastor in hot soup for allegedly buying sex

Though facing a rape charge the pastor accuses the complainant of crying wolf because he could not pay for the sexual escapade.  The state alleges that Charles Thembo, 39, of the Enlightened Christian in Gathering (ECG) allegedly raped a woman...

Lebogang Mosikare | 16 September 2016

Family of six survives inferno attack

Kutlwano police station commander superintendent Neo Serumola confirmed the incident stating that investigations in the matter are still ongoing. Serumola said they received a phone call from neighbours alerting them that the house and two cars were...

Pini Bothoko | 16 September 2016

Cabinet dispatches high-powered delegation to BCL

The delegation has been tasked with investigating the copper/nickel mine operations in Selebi-Phikwe, which have left safety standards there questionable after BCL hit an all-time high number of 11 fatalities between 2014 and 2015.  The...

Ryder Gabathuse | 16 September 2016

Bus operators call for arrest of reckless bus drivers

The bus operators were speaking during a conference on the Accident Free A1 Act Now! Campaign held in Gaborone this week. Their comments followed comments by police traffic director Senior Assistant Commissioner Katlholo Mosimanegape who revealed...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 16 September 2016

BDP settles for Mbalambi as a compromise candidate

Mbalambi will take on veteran politician Madumela Matebu of the Botswana Peoples Party (BPP). The BPP will challenge for the elections under the Umbrella for Democratic (UDC) ticket as a result of a coalition it enjoys with the Botswana National...

Chakalisa Dube | 16 September 2016

Mabeo opens Francistown- Tonota dual carriage way

The Francistown-Tonota road was authorised for traffic usage during the Minister’s tour of MTC projects in Francistown. After the tour of the Francistown-Tonota dual road, Mabeo disclosed that the official opening of the road would be done...

Lesedi Mkhutshwa | 16 September 2016

No BOT50 festivities for CKGR residents

The area councillor Bashi Thiite has accused government of deliberately cutting out residents of CKGR from celebrating BOT50.  As part of government policy, residents living in settlements such as CKGR are excluded from celebrating independence...

Boniface Keakabetse 16 September 2016

Land Board, SEDC at loggerhead over settlements

Malete Land Board has taken squatters at Mojadife and Lenkwane to court seeking an eviction order.  The issue of these unrecognised settlements dates back to 2013.  The SDEC is trying to mediate between residents and Land Board as it...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 16 September 2016

A squatter�s ordeal

Mojadife is a small place, whose inhabitants are just normal villagers, struggling daily struggles of many Batswana. Even their house plans are advanced like people who know what they are doing. Of course like any other place, it has people who may...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 16 September 2016

Guma demands answers from Khama

This was after the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism (MEWT) Elias Magosi told the committee that he was not involved or privy to details of the deal, which the outgoing BTO chief executive officer (CEO) Thabo...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 16 September 2016

BPC seeks P2billion govt support

The cash injection is expected to mitigate the corporation’s financial situation for the financial year 2016/17. The corporation’s chief financial officer, Rebecca Mgadla told the Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Bodies chaired by...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 16 September 2016

Guta Ra Mwari �civil war� rages on

Guta Ra Mwari church in Botswana has now taken some of its members to court again with the intention of interdicting them from conducting themselves as members of the church. The church that was founded in 1964 in Zimbabwe and headquartered in...

Mpho Mokwape | 16 September 2016

Police, politics and policing in Lesotho

Recent developments in Lesotho about actions of police have brought focus on the state of policing in democratic societies. We have been witnesses to a police force which has no capacity to investigate political crimes ending up virtually...

Correspondent 16 September 2016

Guma doubts viability of SPEDU projects

SPEDU chief executive officer (CEO), Mokubung Mokubung appeared before the committee on Tuesday where he presented the company’s projects. Guma questioned how the regional agency could help the deteriorating economic situation of the...

Oageng Batenegi 16 September 2016

Engineers drag feet on registration

The ERB stated on Tuesday that the majority of engineering professionals eligible are yet to register, with less than half of them doing so in its first year of operation. Figures released this week by the board revealed that only 2,239, or 41%, of...

Isaac Pinielo 16 September 2016

�Dangerous Ignorance�

It would be ridiculous for me to attempt to do such a thing. I also know nothing about horse-racing so don’t ever ask me which horse you should bet on. My advice would be worthless and I wouldn’t dare offer it. I know I’m ignorant...

Consumer Watchdog 16 September 2016

BMC�s turnaround requires P2bn � consultant

Appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Bodies and Public Enterprises this week, BMC CEO, Akolang Tombale said despite the suggestion, they have not yet approached the government, who has been bailing them out with...

Pauline Dikuelo | 16 September 2016

NDB seeks P400m cash injection

In a presentation to the Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Bodies and Pubic Enterprises, NDB chief executive officer, Lorato Morapedi said due to the macro and micro economic effects, 38% of the bank’s loan book fell into non-performing...

Isaac Pinielo 16 September 2016

Rolling P24bn budget deficits until 2020

Largely due to a P4 billion rise in development expenditure, government’s spending is expected to outweigh revenues in the 2017-2018 financial year by P6.8 billion or -4.1% of the GDP. Deficits of similar magnitudes are seen until 2019 before...

Brian Benza 16 September 2016

Power sector can create more jobs � RMB

Head of coverage Africa at Rand Merchant Bank, who is based in South Africa, Tshipidi Moremong said this in a presentation at the just-ended 14th National Business Conference (NBC) organised by Business Botswana. “Top five countries that...

Chakalisa Dube | 16 September 2016

Mosienyane, Ebrahim differ on NBC�s feats

He was elated that the just-ended three-day NBC had brought most government ministers and key permanent secretaries, and the private sector’s top echelons under one roof to discuss pertinent issues, albeit mainly during the opening on...

Chakalisa Dube | 16 September 2016

Untold stories of Rwanda

Last Tuesday the Maitisong Theatre saw theatre ensemble Mama Theatre staging Shuttered Dreams, a play that depicted how the Tutsi minority suffered from military and torture attacks. Shuttered Dreams was centred on Domitille Juliet Nyamwasa, played...

Dumisani Ncube 16 September 2016

Fruits of the womb

This film is a 2016 romantic drama based on the 2012 novel of the same name by M. L. Stedman. The movie has moral dilemma as the main focal area of attention that has the protagonist and antagonist battling conflicting emotions. This uplifting...

Bakang Israel 16 September 2016

Bakwena murals, an epitome of culture, history

Chosen by MYSC, the seven artists are Tlholego Radikolana, Mmoloki Timpa, Mmoloki Matlale, Tumelo Thuthuka, Vincent Moiteelasilo, Sylvester Koweno and Koketso Mosarwa. This year marks 50 years since Botswana gained independence and it also marks 124...

Mompati Tlhankane | 16 September 2016

Writers, mark your calendars!

If you are serious about Botswana literature, reading, writing and getting published you need to pay close attention. This Sunday, the Bessie Head Heritage Trust (BHHT) is celebrating the wonderful little bite-sized fiction format— the short...

Lauri Kubuitsile 16 September 2016

Mabeo�s Brazil trip raises eyebrows

Appearing before committee members Samson Moyo Guma, Pius Mokgware and Phenyo Butale, acting general manager Agnes Khunwane told the committee that the Board and herself distanced themselves from the trip which also had representatives from...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 16 September 2016

BTO�s UK office in shambles

According to a report presented to a Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Bodies and Public Enterprises this week, a BTO representative at the office works under an inconsistent employment contract while she has also undertaken some significant...

Pauline Dikuelo | 16 September 2016