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Kabelo Boranabi 23 December 2016
Happy Christmas, Goledzwa!
Everybody is in rush the world over as people are preparing for a well-deserved break from hardwork. Botswana is not an exception and as majority of our people are Christians, they will join their fellow Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus...
Mmegi Editor
| 23 December 2016
IAAF World championships preparations get underway
Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) is in the process of drawing up a training plan for the qualifiers. BAA spokesperson, Roland Masalila told Mmegi Sport yesterday that they have programmes that are meant to give the athletes an opportunity to...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 December 2016
Fair draw for Rollers, Orapa United
Rollers have been pitted against Madagascar’s Caisse Nationale de Prevoynace Socaile (CNaPS) Sport while Orapa United will face Mbabane Swallows of Swaziland. CNaPS do not have much of a continental football history, but they are the...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 December 2016
2016 state of the arts
BOT50’s missed opportunity The BOT50 organising committee was placed under the then Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture under the helm of Thapelo Olopeng – the Minister who loves entertainment since he juggles as a DJ and loves...
Thalefang Charles
| 23 December 2016
BDP terrorised workers in 2016
The Public Service Trade Unions The government intention of destroying the public sector trade unions is now crystal clear. The government is not doing anything to improve the labour relations but is all out to close down the unions, especially...
Correspondent 23 December 2016
Botswana and the military industrial complex
This industry of profit through military might is called the Military Industrial Complex. This is a phrase coined by former US president Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell address to the US people in 1961 when he warned of a close relationship between...
Solly Rakgomo 23 December 2016
Legend of badimo: a myth unraveled (Part 2)
Indeed, the latest finding I am aware of is an intricate gear-train – that is, a device on which gears travel – made of pure aluminium, found embedded and fossilised in a piece of coal 310 million years old. But, up to the early 1800s,...
L M Leteane 23 December 2016
Goodbye 2016, hello 2017
In all cases, the ruling party caucus instructed its MPs on how to deal with issues and used its majority to rubber stamp executive policy and law decisions. The opposition has tried everything possible with little or no success in preventing...
Dithapelo Keorapetse 23 December 2016
CA records slight decrease in mergers
In its latest annual report, the Authority stated that a total of 33 merger notifications were handled in the 2015/16 financial year, a slight decrease from mergers handled in the previous year. “Out of the 29 mergers finalised during the...
Staff Writer 23 December 2016
�Next year�s mistakes�
Despite the lessons we should have learnt over the last few years, people continue to fall for the nonsense peddled by the proponents of various Get Rich Quick schemes. You might think that with the memory of Eurextrade fresh in our minds, people...
Consumer Watchdog 23 December 2016
Can BDF Commander be jailed?
What was trending in the social media revealed that a lot of our people still don’t understand our new man at the helm of the defence force. I have avoided writing about Lieutenant General Placid Diratsagae Segokgo because he is a very private...
Richard Moleofe 23 December 2016
Alecto Minerals to buy Mowana for P89.7m
The AIM-listed company will pay £1-m in cash and the rest with the issue of 8.79m shares of 0.01p at 0.065p each, that will represent 60% of the issued share capital of Alecto, which in total amounts to about £6.72m. The proposed...
Staff Writer 23 December 2016
Drivers warned to avoid rain-soaked border post
Mabolwe border post immigration officer Dennis Kaelo told Mmegi in an interview yesterday that the road to the border from Mabolwe village is currently in a bad state, adding that the crossing points where the road intersects with the rivers have...
Imi Mokgethi 23 December 2016
Spaghetti nears Completion
It would be an injustice to end the year without writing something about the Thapama Interchange, popularly known as the ‘Spaghetti road’ in the roads engineering lingua franca. The Spaghetti Road would be completed next year February,...
Pini Bothoko
| 23 December 2016
Dark clouds engulf miners in the north
The incessantly falling metal prices led to the closure of mines here and other areas in the northern part of the country, resulting in massive job losses. It would be an understatement to say that the advent of mines anywhere in Botswana brought...
Koketso Kgoboge 23 December 2016
How to move out of SA�s shadow
Any talk of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and industrialisation in Botswana inevitably touches on the events of Wednesday January 12, 2000 when 900 citizen jobs were thrown onto the street after the inglorious closure of the Hyundai assembly plant...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 23 December 2016
Weakened judiciary spoils Xmas mood
This year alone it has been no different with tensions rising further between the government and the Law Society of Botswana (LSB) regarding the judicial independence and its ability to administer justice independently without any interference from...
Mpho Mokwape
| 23 December 2016
The good and the bad of politics in 2016
BDP The party would believe this was their blessed and progressive year as it managed to parade hundreds of new members who were defecting from opposition parties. The defection led to the collapse of some of the structures of opposition parties....
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 23 December 2016
Laying down the law in Mogoditshane
Arriving at the Mogoditshane Police Station, a few minutes before 10pm on a Friday night, I am nervously excited. During a debriefing earlier in the afternoon at the Broadhurst Police Station with the top brass of the country’s police force,...
Thalefang Charles
| 23 December 2016
Botswana�s bad showing on the international scene
Mogae brokers peace in South Sudan After being selected by the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) as the Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) for South Sudan in 2015, former Botswana president, Festus...
Tefo Pheage 23 December 2016
Sex scandal of the year
The incident arose from a purported Facebook conversation between the then assistant minister of Education and Skills Development, Fidelis Molao, and councillor Amon. Molao denied the Facebook conversation with Amon saying that his Facebook account...
Koketso Kgoboge 23 December 2016
Death of Christmas spirit
While its true getting the spirit of Christmas means different things to different people, to some it is that beautiful warm feeling of no place like home for the holidays, to others it is the excitement of shopping for gifts and wrapping them by the...
Baboki Kayawe 23 December 2016
Rabble-rouser of the year award winners
The two have a few things in common. Both are former city mayors. From 2004 until 2015, Moswaane was the Francistown city mayor while Nkaigwa was the Gaborone City mayor from 2012 until 2014. They both speak out of turn. Earlier this year, Nkaigwa...
Oarabile Mosikare 23 December 2016
Job losses steal festive joy
At the end of November, Mmegi estimated that at least 9,000 jobs had been lost directly in these sectors since July. Add to that, more scheduled retrenchments at the Botswana Investment and Trade Centre, downsizing at Majwe Mining, the Cut 8...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 23 December 2016
2016 the year of fatal accidents
Most predominately, this year saw a rise in the number of fatal accidents. Even the Police Commissioner Keabetswe Makgophe recently spoke of the worrying numbers of road accident that have rocked the country. Makgophe confirmed that by November a...
Staff Writer 23 December 2016
Francistown crimes that shook the nation
One such case that will remain in many people's mind is that Gobuamang Ntsuape, who, after being jilted by his former lover, committed a series of crimes that claimed the lives of three people. For his alleged wicked actions, Ntsuape, 30, in one...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 23 December 2016
Top 10 trending articles of 2016
* KFC closes all shops in Botswana – press statement First published in the Mmegionline on June 2, 2016, this was a distressing statement about the closure of KFC Botswana. * Kgathi in court for cocaine possession It was a story...
Staff Writer 23 December 2016
The year of the buffalo
Earlier, in April this year, a buffalo was found in an unfamiliar territory of Moreane crush in Lotlhakane, near Kanye after it attacked two headmen. The buffalo was later hunted down and killed by officials from the Department of...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 23 December 2016
A bad year for Botswana sport
Ofentse Nato Saga Botswana football suffered a huge dent this year with the protests and appeals surrounding the registration of Zebras midfielder, Ofentse Nato by Township Rollers. What started as a mere protest spiralled out of control...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 December 2016
The good, the bad and the ugly entertainers
Flops BOMU awards Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU) held their eighth annual awards on November 5 under the theme ‘Best of all times’ and the whole thing was a flop from the beginning to the end. If it was a competition this one will...
Dumisani Ncube 23 December 2016
The ups and downs of business in 2016
January The year began with reports of a tax dispute that stalled Choppies’ plans to enter the Kenyan market as the retail giant had intended to acquire Ukwala Supermarket outlets. This was halted until the P104 million-tax dispute between the...
Isaac Pinielo 23 December 2016
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