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Staff Writer 23 September 2016
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Mmegi Editor 23 September 2016
Parly committees doing a good job but...
However, the work of the parliamentary select committees cannot go unrecognised especially the Public Accounts Committee, and the Committee on Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises (CSBSE). Recent revelations at the aforementioned committees are a...
Mmegi Editor
| 23 September 2016
BSA host skate tournament
Judging will be based on creativity, variety of tricks, consistency and style,” BSA founding president, Thabiso Gulubane said. It will be an individual contest and depending on the number of participants the organisers will group them in age...
Dumisani Ncube 23 September 2016
Matibini: netball�s exciting prospect
After receiving the prestigious MVP award, she said her focus is now to achieve more at the 2017 youth netball world cup that Botswana will host. “It will be an overwhelming achievement to win both for the team and for myself in the home...
Koketso Kgoboge 23 September 2016
Sua Raiders return after a decade of absence
He said hosting the opening games is motivation for the club and it will also help them revive their support base in the mining town. “It’s a great move by the association to have heeded our call and brought the launch here. It will help...
Koketso Kgoboge 23 September 2016
Stage set for Lucara half marathon
The race is organised by Time Shield Event company. Managing director of Time Shield, Gaone Dickson told Mmegi Sport that the sponsorship will go a long way in making sure that they stage a successful event. The marathon is divided into three...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 September 2016
Sparks expected to fly at BSSA meeting
BSSA president, Ruth van der Merwe told Mmegi Sport yesterday that preparations for the meeting are on track. She said they are not expecting much to be discussed at the meeting. Despite that, there have been complaints heaped against BSSA. Some...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 September 2016
Premier League preview Part III
Club: Sankoyo Bush Bucks Established: 1996 Position last season: 12 Players to watch: Modiredi Matengu Home colours: Green Away colours: White Home ground: Maun Stadium Coach: Gadimang Tiiso The Maun-based side has been struggling financially...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 23 September 2016
Local boxers geared up for Namibia showdown
Speaking to Mmegi Sport yesterday, the team’s coach Lechedzani ‘Master’ Luza said despite assembling a relatively new team, he is optimistic they will put up a good fight on Saturday. “They are in good shape and they are...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 September 2016
PASSOBO admits to failing Mabote
PASSOBO secretary general, Titus Kebuileng admitted the blunder in a press conference this week. He said they could have done better to prepare the athlete for the competition. He said they bought Mabote a wrong set of shoes because they did not know...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 September 2016
The Botswana I love, the Botswana I lost Pt III
Frequent, and common experience, especially floods, droughts and other pestilential plagues, teach us we should never allow our consciousness to be invaded, filled, and entirely absorbed by careless and ruinous development projects and social...
Correspondent 23 September 2016
Inflation touches record low, outlook benign
We have maintained the view that inflation is yet to reach its trough and in the month under review, the deceleration reached 2.6%, the lowest inflation rate we have on record. This marks the eighth consecutive month that inflation came in either at...
Correspondent 23 September 2016
Assad�s Death Warrant
Mike Whitney quotes from Kennedy’s book “Secret cables and reports by the US, Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the...
Solly Rakgomo 23 September 2016
General Sechele�s docrine of war
First, it was the consolidation of his own tribe and next the alliance with other tribes which resulted in the creation of what we can comfortably call the embryonic conception of modern day Botswana. When he took over power, he was determined to...
Richard Moleofe 23 September 2016
Thumbs up� to statutory bodies committee on BTO, BDC
The Committee consist of a Chairperson and seven Members. It examines the accounts of every statutory body, ie a body set up by law to enforce legislation on behalf of the state, to be laid before Parliament. It also deals with such other accounts...
Dithapelo Keorapetse 23 September 2016
Enki�s journey to Nibiru: the bravado layer
The ‘filling’ process, however, is not random or wilful; it operates according to certain precise rules I have come to discern. Its scribes, we noted, were far more sophisticated than modern writers at cultivating different layers of...
L M Leteane 23 September 2016
�Get angry�
When something goes wrong, maybe you’re let down or mistreated in a store, being calm and tolerant is by far the best way to get the matter resolved to your satisfaction. Most service providers are reasonable people who make occasional mistakes...
Consumer Watchdog 23 September 2016
Govt launches strategy to improve trade
Investment, Trade and Industry assistant minister, Sadique Kebonang told journalists this week at the launch of the aid-for-trade strategy that Botswana’s level of integration remains quite minimal. This is despite the market access...
Isaac Pinielo 23 September 2016
BDC sees profits doubling
The corporation’s draft results for the year ended June 2016 indicate a profit before tax of P200 million, almost two-fold from P110 million in the previous year. According to documents presented to the parliamentary committee on statutory...
Isaac Pinielo 23 September 2016
Jobs for youth could boost economic growth�World Bank
Botswana’s youth unemployment rate is estimated at 33% with general unemployment rate projected at 19%. The report: Forever young? Social policies for a changing population in Southern Africa, illustrates how today’s social policies can...
Staff Writer 23 September 2016
Botswana Life plugs financial literacy gap
In an interview with BusinessWeek, Botswana Life CEO, Bilkiss Moorad said they have decided to embark on the initiative after observing that there are gaps in general knowledge and understanding of financial products and services amongst...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 23 September 2016
Stanbic coddles high net-worth clientele
BusinessWeek: Kindly expound on the Platinum Credit Card product Chijoro: Stanbic Bank has collaborated with Visa International to launch a Stanbic Bank Visa Platinum Credit Card as part of our continued efforts to meet the needs of our clientele....
Pauline Dikuelo
| 23 September 2016
Misery in the midst of plenty
For many underprivileged people, the mild winter was a relief, as their meagre possessions meant they stayed generally warm through the season. Temperatures did not plummet as deep as they did in the winter of 2015 and the season itself was...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 23 September 2016
Inside the agony of gender variance in Botswana
From a high profile career as an Olympic paralympian, Tshotlego Morama’s career went down spectacularly following allegations in 2007 that “she” fathered a child. The Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) pulled her out of active...
Baboki Kayawe 23 September 2016
Tshotlego Morama, now legally Paul Morama
Paul says last February the High Court ruled that he could officially transition into a man, putting to rest a lifelong struggle with his gender expression.“I am currently in the process of changing all my identity documents. People used to...
Baboki Kayawe 23 September 2016
What Mandoza meant to us
The Chinese had just arrived and it was before Senyaka and Kamazu ‘Chinesed’ their cheap products with that hit song Fong-Kong. We bought green bootleg cassettes and occasional CDs from those Chinese shops. The year, 1999 was a glorious...
Thalefang Charles
| 23 September 2016
New Duncan Senyatso songs to mark golden jubilee
Duncan Senyatso, who passed away in 2006, (vocally) returns on a new limited edition CD to coincide with Botswana’s 50th anniversary of independence celebrations. ‘Five songs’, recorded in Scotland during his last visit to the UK...
Staff Writer 23 September 2016
Poetess� manuscripts of reality published
The book has a collection of poems that touches on different themes and topics; life struggles, identity, travel, Botswana, death and AIDS. The book comprises of close to 50 poems that Poetess Phopho has written over the years. It carries...
Dumisani Ncube 23 September 2016
Eternalising millennium years of art
India is a country with a plurality of its culture and diversity of art, therefore the Indian Embassy managed to bring one of their largest collections to Botswana for both inspiration and education. There is a lot to learn from these artworks in...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 23 September 2016
African writers you should know: Zukiswa Wanner
Her novels include The Madams, Men of the South, Behind Every Successful Man, and her most recent, London Cape Town, Joburg, which won the K Sello Duiker Prize. She’s also written two children’s books: Jama Loves Bananas and...
Lauri Kubuitsile 23 September 2016
Cabinet reshuffle: factors that could influence Khama
He may however, consider other diverse factors as he battles to re-build his party whose fortunes have been experiencing a decline in recent years. Khama recently signed into law, bills seeking to increase the number of substantive state ministers by...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 23 September 2016
Local AIDS �cure� to test on Batswana
The herbal concoction manufactured by Palapye herbalist, Gladys Malebo made headlines more than two years ago due to its claimed anti-HIV properties. Marobela’s research team is now documenting patients’ experiences with the...
Baboki Kayawe 23 September 2016
Okavango sabotage - Showdown in the Delta
The Okavango River basin, stretching from the Angolan highlands through Namibia and on to Botswana is facing an unprecedented disaster, with some environmental analysts already warning that the Okavango Delta is dying. Reports from the tourism...
Boniface Keakabetse 23 September 2016
Khama strikes Mugabe, put silencers on NGOs
A group of NGOs say they wanted to march on September 16, 2016 but were denied permits by the Officer Commanding of No. 3 District at Broadhurst Police Station on the grounds that the march was “likely to cause or lead to a breach of...
Tefo Pheage 23 September 2016
Gangs terrorise Moshupa Senior School
Late last year, government took the initiative to sponsor the notorious gang members to a rehabilitation trip to the Okavango were each were to pocket close to P700. According to the Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture, Thapelo Olopeng, this was...
Sharon Mathala 23 September 2016
Suspended judges tighten noose against Registrar
In an urgent application argued yesterday, Justices, Key Dingake, Mercy Garekwe, Modiri Letsididi, Ranier Busang are seeking for the Registrar to be compelled to comply with rules of the High Court and provide all the records. The judges deem the...
Mpho Mokwape
| 23 September 2016
ICJ calls for independence of Judiciary in Botswana
The four judges; justices Key Dingake, Modiri Letsididi, Ranier Busang and Mercy Garekwe, were suspended on allegations of misconduct and bringing the name of the judiciary into disrepute. The ICJ, a non-governmental organisation comprises up to 60...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 23 September 2016
Thamaga Cllr crashes council vehicle
It emerged during a full council meeting that councillor Palelo Motaosane had an accident in a council vehicle (Isuzu), which he was driving without authority. The Kweneng District Council chairperson, Jeffery Sibisibi confirmed the alleged...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 23 September 2016
Air Botswana in P81 million illegal contract
The committee on Tuesday learnt from Air Botswana acting general manager, Agnes Khunwane that shortly after Minister for Transport and Communications (MTC) Tshenolo Mabeo dissolved the board, his Permanent Secretary (PS) Neil Fitt approved a request...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 23 September 2016
Opposition talks almost done
According to sources, the talks started last year and all the committees tasked with the talks will be making final submissions next month. However, the critical one that might take time for the parties is the constituency and ward allocation one....
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 23 September 2016
Liquidator handpicks Mowana mine buyer
However, officials at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) who have been appointed to facilitate the liquidation process have said the name of the company that has won a bid to buy the mine will only be announced on or after October 7. “Our preferred...
Chakalisa Dube
| 23 September 2016
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