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Pool association back in action
According to the spokesperson for the association, Marang Morolong they want to hit the ground running. He said they did not have a proper organisation between 2002 and 2016 and it made it difficult for them to be taken seriously. He said being...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 16 December 2016
Unyielding Crosbie overcomes hurdles to fulfil childhood dream
Crosbie says it all started out as childhood dream he shared with his late father to take part at the world’s biggest motorsport event. “My biggest influence in my riding career has been my father, Noel. Sadly he passed away when I was...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 16 December 2016
BDF Commander to be arrested
Segokgo was found to be in contempt after failing to reinstate the BDF “love birds” (Thabang Tlhapisang and Kozondu Cisquo Uariaua) as per the Court’s decision of November 18, 2016. “The said Lieutenant General Placid Segokgo...
Staff Writer 16 December 2016
FDN powerhouses in early three-horse race
The three teams have fought bitterly since the beginning of the season and have kept swapping positions at the top with the fourth-placed Sua Flamingoes toiling seven points adrift of Chouka. Current league leaders, BR Highlanders have enjoyed a span...
Koketso Kgoboge 16 December 2016
Team Botswana shines at AUSC games
At the time of going to press yesterday, Botswana had accumulated 12 gold medals in different categories. The gold medals came through Karabo Sibanda in the 400m, Galefele Moroko in the women’s 400m, Katlego Matutu in the T12 400m, 200m and...
Tlotlo Kebinakgabo 16 December 2016
Beleaguered Lions enter Ostriches� fortress
Lions are still dealing with issues of transition of ownership from the current owner, Kelesitse Gilika to the former owners, BMC committee, which has adversely affected on field matters. The team has thus far missed two league games. First a home...
Koketso Kgoboge 16 December 2016
Mwanga calls for revision of national team selection
Mwanga was reacting to the dismal performance of the Under-20 team at the COSAFA championship in South Africa. Botswana was eliminated from the tournament after losing all their matches, conceding four goals without finding the back of the net in...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 16 December 2016
No special dispensation for Rollers, Orapa
The teams were required to register a maximum of 25 players for the local competition whilst CAF requests a maximum of 30 players. The BFA Play Rules and Regulations, which caused a furore last season, require local teams to register only 25 players...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 16 December 2016
Fighters eye Premier League return
The team currently tops the Debswana First Division South log with 20 points followed by Sharps Electrical with 18 and Notwane in the third spot with 16 points. Fighters started showing their intentions by making changes to their technical team...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 16 December 2016
Lions� ownership issue continues to haunt league
When quizzed if the team will honour the fixture, Gilport Holdings’ Kelesitse Gilika directed Mmegi Sport to Sonny Phiri. “If you want to know anything about that team you must go to (Sonny) Phiri or (Tumo) Mpatane of Botswana Football...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 16 December 2016
BFA, Kemoeng part ways
He was appointed last year replacing Keith Masters who has since returned to his home country, England. “The Botswana Football Association informs its partners, the football fraternity, all stakeholders and general public that Kitso Kemoeng...
Staff Writer 16 December 2016
Military swagger is back with a bang!
When we think of the military, our first thoughts probably turn to battle hardened solders, cocky pilots, guns and men willing to put their lives on the line to protect their nation’s interests. However, it is unlikely that the idea of fashion...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 16 December 2016
Most Karowe Mine workers to keep jobs
Lucara’s subsidiary Boteti Mining, which owns the high-value diamond project, is finalising a deal with a new contractor following the termination of its agreement with Eqstra Botswana. The move only impacts mining staff responsible for the...
Staff Writer 16 December 2016
BOSETU host cultural night
In an interview with Showbiz, BOSETU Publicity Secretary Edwin Maitshoko said the event would be hosted for the sixth year. He promised that just like the previous cultural events, this year’s event would be more thrilling. He added that since...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 16 December 2016
�Evolving scams�
There are still people receiving the traditional “419” scam which usually starts with a plea for assistance from a young woman in West Africa who tells a sad story about being orphaned and alone, sometimes in a refugee camp, but who has a...
Consumer Watchdog 16 December 2016
Metal Tiger raises cash for Botswana projects
Metal Tiger owns a copper exploration project in the Kalahari Copperbelt. Investors paid 1.5 pence – the going rate for the stock at the time of the placing – for each of the 106-million shares. One warrant, with an exercise price of two...
Staff Writer 16 December 2016
BTCL records P88m profit, declares dividend
The state-owned telecommunications and Internet service provider said Wednesday that its profit after tax for the period grew by 19% to P88 million, providing a return on investment of seven percent. The gross profit totalled P468 million during the...
Brian Benza 16 December 2016
Botswana strongly rejects tax haven label
Since 2012, the diamond-rich country has been excluded from the international business community because the country was labelled by France as a tax haven that did not have a “suitable legal framework for the exchange of tax...
Isaac Pinielo 16 December 2016
CAAB makes headway in aviation safety
Chief executive officer (CEO), Geoffrey Moshabesha explained that the ICAO award which they got ranks Botswana well above the world average noting that it would benefit the country in many ways. “The implication of the EU ranking and its...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 16 December 2016
Prepare for floods now
This is a welcome development that should be applauded. This week this department warned the country that the second half of the rainy season in January and February 2017 would be characterised by heavy rains countrywide, with a risk of flooding on...
Mmegi Editor
| 16 December 2016
Khama, Boko: What these nemeses forgot to say
When he took the podium in Parliament chamber last Wednesday, his body language made it easy to predict what he was going to say about his arch-rival, President Ian Khama. Khama’s demeanour during the presentation of this year’s SONA was...
Bame Piet 16 December 2016
Gov�t owes WUC millions
This was after the MP for Francistown South Wynter Mmolotsi asked the Minister of Land, Water and Sanitation services if indeed government owes WUC. “It is true that WUC is owed some money in the form of outstanding water supply bills by some...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 16 December 2016
Dawn breaks after the storm at BDC
Times have been tough at the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC). In recent years, the corporation hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with Parliamentary probes, management shake-ups, disastrous investments and the associated loss of...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 16 December 2016
Kenya tries to convince Venson-Moitoi to withdraw
The two countries senior citizens are competing in the highly divisive African Union Commission Chairperson elections, which will be decided next month at the AU summit. The East African Community has agreed to collectively campaign and lobby other...
Tefo Pheage 16 December 2016
The dissenting voices of BDP legislators
In public, BDP MPs have adopted a style of self-censorship and never speak against Khama. Most BDP debates are held in house and what comes into public is usually an agreement that has been reached during caucuses. Francistown West legislator...
Chakalisa Dube
| 16 December 2016
Sexual behavior
Study partners? Startling sexual behaviour fueling HIV infection
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe 16 December 2016
Sekai�s lawyer calls for reconciliation in flogging case
Linchwe is facing charges of assault and causing grievous bodily harm during flogging incidents that happened in Kgatleng in 2010. Following the barring of his former lawyer Kgosietsile Ngakaagae, Linchwe has roped in Onalethata Kambai as his...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 16 December 2016
Maoto launches bid to return to Parley
Maoto, who has been in the political wilderness for seven years, has confirmed that he will challenge the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) primary elections in Francistown South next year. Maoto’s confirmation end days of widespread speculation...
Chakalisa Dube
| 16 December 2016
Mineral beneficiation key to job creation
This week Madigele delivered a well thought out and impassionate response to the State of the Nation Address challenging government to look deeper into terms of copper, soda ash and coal as the mineral industry value chain remains unexploited. ...
Baboki Kayawe 16 December 2016
Molale denies corruption in ministerial housing
Molale told Parliament that due to shortage of housing in Gaborone, some Ministers who had own residences around the city had to vacate to create space for High Court and Industrial Court Judges. The Minister was responding to a question by Member...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 16 December 2016
Consensus for BDP in Tlokweng unlikely
The BDP is looking for a candidate who does not belong to any faction for the imminent by-election. Factionalism is blamed for the 2014 general elections loss in this constituency. This scourge saw a candidate who won the primary elections, Elijah...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 16 December 2016
Gov�t apply for stay in BDF lovers case
This week the state filed a notice of motion seeking a stay of Justice Zein Kebonang’s judgement issued on November 18 that ruled in favour of the lovers. Kebonang had ordered the immediate reinstatement of Thabang Tlhapisang and her lover...
Mpho Mokwape
| 16 December 2016
LSB reads riot act to in-house attorneys
In a memo written to all practitioners LSB says the Legal Practitioners Act (LPA) provides that it is a misconduct for an attorney to assist in any way a non-attorney to charge, recover or receive a fee or derive any remuneration for performance of a...
Oarabile Mosikare 16 December 2016
Judiciary tight-lipped on Solo�s �forced� retirement
This was after the Francistown-based High Court Judge had, before being retired, had taken a “sabbatical” leave. The President apparently asked Solo to retire a month or so ago. There are no reasons advanced for his retirement, but Solo...
Oarabile Mosikare 16 December 2016
CMB clinches another P380m BPOPF deal
This comes at a time when the Fund had withdrawn a P300 million private equity tender after applicants failed to meet their requirements. In an interview with BusinessWeek, BPOPF chief executive officer, Boitumelo Molefe said they decided to...
Brian Benza 16 December 2016
Khama hates the opposition
It is becoming increasingly difficult for the opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) to represent Batswana well and provide effective oversight on the government and the ruling party. In Parliament, the speakership is biased against the opposition;...
Dithapelo Keorapetse 16 December 2016
Assessing Botswana�s National security threats
Security studies include security threats ranging from pandemics, environmental degradation and transnational criminal organisations to more traditional security concerns such as weapons of mass destruction and interstate conflict. Traditionally, the...
Solly Rakgomo 16 December 2016
Humana starts Tuberculosis in mining sector programme
Tuberculosis in Mining Sector (TIMS) programme started from a recognised need for a regionally harmonised response to the issue of Tuberculosis (TB) and related illnesses in mineworkers, ex-mineworkers, their families and the communities that they...
Correspondent 16 December 2016
Teenager commercialises henna art
Artistic 19-year-old Natasha ‘Daey’ Letshabo has found a niche as a body artist that specialises on henna art. In a brief description, henna art is body art of various patterns applied on human body using henna inks, which stay on the...
Dumisani Ncube 16 December 2016
Olopeng fights for cash-strapped entertainers
In March, the Minister met with entertainers in Gaborone and promised them that he would engage the Minister for Investment, Trade and Industry, Vincent Seretse and Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Slumber Tsogwane to have...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 16 December 2016
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