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Correspondent 25 November 2016
BDP MP, grandma in land tussle
Maphane is accusing the Boteti East legislator of trying to claim a residential plot she has been awarded since 1968, which she says is located in Letlhakane some distance away from her ploughing field that she lives on. Maphane, who...
Tefo Pheage 25 November 2016
Botswana calm as scramble for El Nino funds heats up
The United Nations Special Envoy on El Niño & Climate, Ambassador Macharia Kamau was in town recently and, as he has done elsewhere across the continent, he rang alarm bells on climate change and governments’ ability to cope. Kamau...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 25 November 2016
Only volleyball, football players get monthly allowances
Mmolotsi was making a follow-up query on an answer by Assistant Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development, Kefentse Mzwinila after Gaborone North MP, Haskins Nkaigwa had made the initial enquiry. Nkaigwa wanted to know if there is...
Oageng Batenegi 25 November 2016
Rugby body ready to host Africa
Botswana won the bid to host the assembly in 2014 ahead of Namibia, Kenya and Zimbabwe. BRU president, Dave Gilbert told a media briefing yesterday that the three countries had shown interest to host the assembly during the last...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 25 November 2016
Eventful weekend as codes conclude year
The Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) will host the Dr Marape 2016 Africa Schools championship preparatory tournament. The competition starts tomorrow and ends on Sunday at Bokamoso Junior Secondary School. The African Schools tournament will be held...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 25 November 2016
Francistown School of Tennis engages French coach
He said their mission is to evolve from just competing in local and regional tournaments to developing all round tennis professionals for the international scene. “The idea of bringing in a highly qualified coach with vast experience is to...
Koketso Kgoboge 25 November 2016
Top spot under siege in First Division North
Motlakase Power Dynamos will follow the Francistown action closely as any slip up by the leaders might see the Palapye side go top. Motlakase face Morupule Wanderers in a Palapye derby. TAFIC and Highlanders last met in the 2012/2013 season when...
Koketso Kgoboge 25 November 2016
�Is the cheapest really the cheapest?�
But what exactly is a bargain? Is the cheapest product always as cheap as you’d think? Here’s an example. Whenever you’re buying a computer in a store, please don’t ever buy the cheapest. The cheapest is going to be that way...
Consumer Watchdog 25 November 2016
Fires stoked ahead of tennis meeting
The decision was taken on Wednesday, two days before the highly anticipated meeting, which has come as a surprise to some BTA affiliates. BTA public relations officer, Shelton Benzah told Mmegi Sport yesterday that they decided to postpone the...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 25 November 2016
BNSC dissolve motorsport committee
The association held an overdue Annual General Meeting (AGM) last Saturday after failing to do so in the last two years. In September, an interim committee was set up to investigate the previous committee and to draft a new constitution. It was also...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 25 November 2016
Tshireletso, Galenamotlhale under the spotlight
Lemponye Tshireletso With results continuously refusing to come, some sections of Mochudi Centre Chiefs supporters have blamed coach Bongani Mafu for the dry spell. However, many of them equally admit their team has not been able to bolster their...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 25 November 2016
Mafu�s chance to wash away his sins
It might appear bizarre that bitter rivals, Township Rollers could actively solve Mochudi Centre Chiefs coaching dilemma when the two clash in a high octane Botswana derby at the National Stadium tomorrow night. A defeat would leave Mafu’s...
Mqondisi Dube
| 25 November 2016
Sera pushing her passion
However, due to their creativity stubbornness they continued pushing their passion. Beauty therapist, Euphemia Sera is one creative that has faced such challenges and decided to follow her heart and do what she wants. The 21-year-old beauty...
Dumisani Ncube 25 November 2016
Our Wedding Day is back
Starting from November 26, 2016 Our Wedding Day second season will air on Botswana Television (Btv) as part of Saturday’s entertainment viewing for audiences across the country. The show’s maiden run attracted massive viewership and...
Staff Writer 25 November 2016
Government monitoring impact of mines closure
Seretse assured parliamentarians this week that government is monitoring the level of economic impact on the two regional centres with a view to informing timely and appropriate response measures. “To this end, my ministry is running targeted...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 25 November 2016
BMC restructures to improve cashflow woes
In the past five years, the commission has been experiencing cash flow problems due to their two loss making abattoirs in Francistown and Maun at P170 million and P200 million respectively. Briefing parliamentarians this week, the Minister of...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 25 November 2016
Tourism land bank�s first facility nears completion
The Tourism Land Bank was set up by government to facilitate the development of the tourism sector through maintaining of an adequate and constant supply of land for tourism activities. To set up the bank, chunks of tourism sites have been...
Boniface Keakabetse 25 November 2016
Bank Gaborone bounces back to profitability
While the 45% drop in impairment charges to P21 million helped shore up profits, the bank also gained from a 30% rise in net interest income to P133 million. “Cost to income ratio reduced from 92% in June 2015 to 73% as at June 2016, mainly...
Brian Benza 25 November 2016
Francistown, a city of shattered dreams
In particular, the recent abrupt closure of the Tati Nickel Mining Company (TNMC)’s Phoenix Mine, which was placed under provisional liquidation as part of the BCL Group, came as the final blow. It’s true that the unexpected closure of...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 25 November 2016
Parley orders forensic audit on Botswana Railways
This came out Wednesday after the committee found that the corporation’s finance and procurement controls are generally ineffective. Appearing before the committee, the parastatal’s chief executive officer, Dominic Ntwaagae together with...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 25 November 2016
Mbaakanyi leaves WIBA a gratified leader
BusinessWeek: When did you assume your position as the president of WIBA? Mbaakanyi: I have run two 2-year terms as WIBA president after being voted in, together with my EXCO, by WIBA members in 2012 and then in 2014, at the organisation’s...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 25 November 2016
Public assets looted
Those connected to government would then make requests for special allocations with a view to rehabilitate the land. It is this kind of fraud that appears to have escalated to other sectors of the economy. Today public enterprises are deliberately...
Correspondent 25 November 2016
Stop behaving like a scoundrel
The leadership is failing to manage this country. They are obsessed with implementing programmes haphazardly. Take for instance,the Target 20,000 programme. It was clear from the word go that this populist programme like many others before it...
Mmegi Editor
| 25 November 2016
Dear men, it�s OK to cry sometimes
Earlier in the week, the front page of a local publication carried the graphic pictures and story of a man who apparently hung himself in Old Naledi, leaving behind mystified friends and neighbours. The victim in that case was just one of the many...
Tumelo Mouwane 25 November 2016
Smoke free public places
Ekse Sestere! Ga ware ' Skeyf!
Correspondent 25 November 2016
The beautiful agony of motherhood
Worldwide, it is estimated 15 million babies are born preterm each year, with at least one million of those dying annually due to the inherent complications of prematurity. At Princess Marina Hospital, the public health sector’s main referral...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 25 November 2016
The BDF�s Romeo and Juliet escape tragedy
It was impossible not to draw parallels between Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and the military couple on trial in the High Court to defend their right to have a relationship, in spite of the army’s fraternisation rules. Romeo and Juliet...
Mpho Mokwape
| 25 November 2016
Royal tension brewing over Montshioa�s presidential award
The widow of the late Barolong tribal leader in South Africa, Neonyana Montshioa, says she has never received or heard anything official in relation to the award given to his late husband by President Ian Khama. Kgosi Montshioa was one of the 75...
Tefo Pheage 25 November 2016
Mohohlo urges Phikwe residents to remain hopeful
Speaking at the commemoration of the Africa Industrialisation Day and Business Forum on Tuesday, Mohohlo shared her success story with the attendants as a way of motivating them in their time of economic struggle following the closure of the BCL...
Imi Mokgethi 25 November 2016
Lamentations of jobseekers
But just as they seek heat refuge under the trees, they emerge like a colony of bees when a vehicle enters the labour offices yard. Mainly youthful jobseekers crowd around it in search of what they call mowelo in the street lingo. Mowelo means any...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 25 November 2016
The pain in parastatals
Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) The BPC’s well-chronicled troubles stem from the failure of Morupule B to fully function, which in turn has resulted in huge operational losses as a result of increasingly expensive imports and non-cost...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 25 November 2016
Panic sets in as economy bleeds jobs
The list of entities shedding jobs includes BCL and Tati Nickel mines, Air Botswana, Banyana Farms, Botswana Housing Corporation (BHC), Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) and the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC). Those...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 25 November 2016
From globalisation to universal slavery
If only the desire to dominate others were not the prime motivations for the global elite on top of the human food chain, we could all have our respective modest slice of happiness on this planet. The utopia of globalisation through...
Solly Rakgomo 25 November 2016
Gov�t unaccountable to Parley on BCL closure
There was a back-and-forth exchange between the opposition MPs and the minister with the former pressing for answers with probing questions and the latter being evasive and or euphemistic. There are other ordinary questions being asked in this...
Dithapelo Keorapetse 25 November 2016
An evening with Sergio Codenyer
Sergio Codenyer, like his European forebears of the 19th century, has identified Africa as a place with vast potential for trade. But whereas the men of the Scramble years had descended upon the continent in search of raw materials, which were...
Staff Writer 25 November 2016
The lifeblood of war: Logistics in armed conflict
Thompson had written this book right after the end of the Falklands War of 1982. In this conflict, he commanded an infantry brigade. Nonetheless, he has done a sterling work in putting together a book of this magnitude. Magnitude because he has...
Richard Moleofe 25 November 2016
Legend of Godumo-dumo: a myth unpacked (Part I)
However, a fearless boy called Mosimane wa Sankatane (‘Boy Who Does Not Retreat’ i.e. fearless boy) immobilised it from inside with his spear, split its belly, and managed to free everyone. Now, is this mere myth, nonsense? What we...
L M Leteane 25 November 2016
Kenosi ready to battle for Miss World title
Kenosi will battle it out with other beauty queens from different countries around the world. The Miss World 2016 process starts month end as the models will be assessed by different experts up until the grand...
Dumisani Ncube 25 November 2016
Taxman cleans Guma of over P33m
After a High Court ruling against the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) a fortnight ago, Mmegi has it in good authority that the Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) has now instructed Guma to pay all tax owed. According to...
Sharon Mathala 25 November 2016
SA firm buys Mowana mine
The two mines, which are owned by Johannesburg Stock Exchange -listed ZCI Investments through its operating subsidiary Messina Copper Botswana (MCB), were placed under provisional liquidation twelve months ago after failing to pay creditors. Holding...
Brian Benza 25 November 2016
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