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In this weeks paper

Earl Miller 23 January 2017

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Monitor Editor 23 January 2017

Segolame Boy: A Huge Testimony For Constituency Tournaments

What is humbling about the Township Rollers and Zebras star is the fact that he is a direct by-product of the constituency tournament, where he was spotted while representing one of the Selebe-Phikwe sides by representatives of a Serowe club that...

Monitor Editor 23 January 2017

Otsetswe Against Sending Athletes Abroad For Training

Amantle Montsho was based in Dakar, Senegal while Isaac Makwala spent time in Jamaica and Germany. But athletics coach, Mogomotsi Otsetswe who was instrumental in Amos’ 2012 Olympics achievement believes it is not the best to opt for training...

Tlotlo Kebinakgabo 23 January 2017

Soldiers March On In Softball

BDF have not dropped points since the beginning of the 2016/2017 season.  Angels were the first to bat through their captain and pitcher, Bokhutlo Molekane. The player walked to the first base after three straight balls by BDF pitcher. The...

Calistus Kolantsho | 23 January 2017

Kit Drama Overshadows Gunners, Police XI Tie

Paul reportedly engaged sheriffs to confiscate Gunners kit. The sheriffs brought a court order that allowed them to attach some assets owned by the Peleng side. Gunners officials were summoned to court last year for failure to comply with a court...

Tumelo Mouwane 23 January 2017

Magosi, Matabele Share Spoils

BDF XI finished with 10 men after Kelepile Ndlovu saw red. Magosi began the match like a house on fire and their efforts were rewarded two minutes into the game as Senatla Molefhe scored from Katlego Keobake’s fine assist.  Chiefs kept...

Tlotlo Kebinakgabo 23 January 2017

Marauding Popa Clip Ostriches� Wings

 The top of the table clash started 30 minutes late as hundreds of football fans were still making their way into the stadium.  Orapa were quick off the blocks with Ronald Chikomo laying a pass to Omaatla Kebatho whose shot went wide off...

Kabelo Boranabi | 23 January 2017

Sesinyi�s Solitary Strike Sinks Sankoyo

Sesinyi proved the difference in a fierce encounter as both teams showed the tenacity to grab a win. Although the game started slowly, Sankoyo gave a strong rear guard action, making it difficult for the home side to penetrate. Former Orapa United...

Lebogang Baingapi 23 January 2017

Food With A Foodie

Whether you are a vegetarian, chocoholic, or aspiring home brewer, there’s always something for everybody, perfectly prepared to satisfy your longing. Musa Mhlasi is a 30-year-old self-taught chef who is ready to forever ignite the taste buds...

Katlego Motsamai 23 January 2017

Student Seeks Way Around Graduate Unemployment

Today, with only a few months to finish her studies, 22-year-old Desert from Thamaga village, majoring in Economics and Public Administration, has a dream to ignite the spark of entrepreneurship among other varsity students. To make her dream become...

Isaac Pinielo 23 January 2017

Wizkid Mentors Aspiring Business Owners

The 24-year-old self-styled entrepreneur, empowerment expert and a wizkid to boot,  who has been listed as one of Botswana’s Top 20 Under 30 Inspirational Youth, is well-known for motivating other youngsters with his famous quote:...

Katlego Motsamai 23 January 2017

Entrepreneur Aims High In Cut Throat Waste Business

Today, Moilwa owns Alumnus Waste Management Company which he started in 2014. “I never thought I will run a waste management company”, said Moilwa who is an Information and Technology graduate from Botho University. Moilwa said he also...

Oageng Batenegi 23 January 2017

Reconstructing Community Development

Local communities are strengthened by networks of social and economic connections, involving both public and private community service providers and a wide range of community based organisations. Villages and less populated areas show have a...

Correspondent 23 January 2017

BOPEU Calls For A Citizen Budget

Motsamai adds that openness of the national budget is also very important and encapsulates government’s responsibility to share all critical information with regard to the national resource base and associated revenues. The BOPEU document...

Correspondent 23 January 2017

CoA Hears Metsimotlhabe Roads Case

PPADB and businessman, Nicholas Zakhem’s ZAC Construction have been in and out of court for the past three years over a P330 million tender dispute. The tender was awarded to ZAC through a High Court ruling on October 2014 before a series of...

Mpho Mokwape | 23 January 2017

BOPEU Calls For Review Of Social Protection Schemes

“There is a worrisome trend of new schemes, strategies, and programmes that most of the time never fulfil their mandates,” the BOPEU leader remarked in his  pre-budget speech document released two weeks ahead of the presentation of...

Correspondent 23 January 2017

The Blackbeards and the Khamas

The origins of a conservative welfare doctrine in Botswana under Seretse Welfare State in Botswana, 1965-1980.’  I have always understood that Seretse was disillusioned,  understandably, with both the Labour and Conservative parties...

Sandy Grant 23 January 2017

Sechele And The White Ants

Sechele was attacked by them, but not conquered. Indeed he retaliated upon the Boers so successfully the fainthearted native chiefs living on the Boer border came with their tribes and placed themselves under Sechele. He now encouraged English...

Jeff Ramsay | 23 January 2017

Adjust your attitude this year

Sometimes changing your physical circumstances isn’t possible, or not possible soon enough, or you may want a less drastic change, but you still want to be happier. You can’t get to a new job right away or you regularly bump into that...

Tumie Modise 23 January 2017

Cry Beloved Southern Africa

And sadly, Southern Africa is in a sorry state. And I don’t mean the respective economies, or the drought, or politics, or the state of the roads, or any such matter. I mean the people. And specifically, the people with a uniform and a badge...

Correspondent 23 January 2017

Spaghetti Road Misses February Completion Date

The project was awarded to China Railways Seventh Group in 2015 and was supposed to have been completed last August. After missing the August deadline, the completion date was moved to October 2016.  The October deadline was also not met. When...

Dolly Bathobakae 23 January 2017

Jwaneng Galaxy Goalie Acquitted

The Palapye Magistrate’s Court ruled that at the time of the alleged offence, both the boy and the girl (17 and 15 years respectively), were minors who lacked direction in the social sphere. Kedidimetse was facing a single charge of defilement...

Lindiwe Mozola 23 January 2017

Central District Declared As The Mostly Affected Area By Tomato Leaf Miner

Due to the outbreak in December, the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security banned the importation of some vegetables such as tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and beetroot and the situation has triggered price increases and shortage of the...

Bonte Seepi 23 January 2017

Blind Teacher Charged With Rape, Defilement

The accused, Mpho Keikabile, 32, of Monarch, is facing three counts of rape that he allegedly committed between November 15, 2015 and February 21, 2016 at Lephoi Centre in Monarch. The state also alleges that Keikabile committed two counts of...

Lebogang Mosikare | 23 January 2017

Education Runs Out Of Overtime Funds

Signing the communication on behalf of the permanent secretary, Oemetse Nkoane said, “considering that according to their records monthly expenditure ranges between P13 million to P15 million,  it is evident that the funds are already...

Baboki Kayawe 23 January 2017

BURS Workers Break Bank After Big Payout

Spearheaded by BOPEU, the single union that oversaw the bargaining process with BURS, the lowest band, cleaners, night watchmen, grounds men, and drivers walked home with 10-12% basic salary increase, while assistant officers got a 10% increase on...

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 23 January 2017

Dwindling Student Funding Forces Limko To Retrench Staff

This, according LUCT, is due to a significant and sustained decline in student enrolment sfaced by the entire tertiary education sector in Botswana mainly due to the low number of sponsored students by the main client, Government. In a statement by...

Correspondent 23 January 2017

Nanogang, Orapa, Makhubu Top JC Results

Nanogang registered 12 As, 82 Bs, 101 Cs, with 48 and 12 attaining Ds and Es respectively. Orapa JSS is number two on the national leader board with a 72.1% pass rate, with 145 of their 201 attaining a pass that comprises three As, 57 Bs, 85 Cs, 47...

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 23 January 2017

BOSETU Reacts To The 2016 Junior Certicate Results

l We note as well that the release from the Botswana Examinations Council points to a slight drop in students who obtained grades C or better by 0.87% from 33.41% last year, 2015, to 32.54%, this year, 2016. l We further note that, this drop, though...

Correspondent 23 January 2017

Seventh Jailbreaker Arrested

The sixth man, Charlotte Ndlovu, who is awaiting trial for murder was arrested in Tutume on Saturday. He is the second escapee to be arrested in the village. Police in neighbouring Zimbabwe have also arrested another escapee,Thabani Ncube bringing...

Chakalisa Dube | 23 January 2017

Crime Partner Who Aided Escaped Murderer Arrested

The state alleges that Newton James, 36, assisted Gaomodimo Molosiwa, 27, to illegally escape justice by unlawfully accommodating him in his house knowing very well that he had escaped from prison. The offence carries a maximum sentence of seven...

Mpho Tshwaane 23 January 2017

Greater Gaborone Taps Dry Up

In their public notice on Friday the WUC said the affected areas are Gabane, Tloaneng, Mmopane, Mogoditshane, Sir Seretse Khama Barracks (SSKB), Mmopane Block 1, Metsimotlhabe, Ledumadumane, Kumakwane, Gaborone West Phase 1 and 4, Block 5 and 9,...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 23 January 2017

Opposition Snatches Boikago-Madiba From BDP

BCP’s Area Gabathuse, who contested the ward in the last general elections with the late councillor, Ritchie Kenosi sailed through with 606 votes against the ruling party’s Thabo Dimeku, who got 503 votes.  This was an impressive gap...

Onalenna Kelebeile 23 January 2017

Nadia Brightens Up �Jan-Worry�

Nadia once again proved that women do belong in the hip hop scene as she gave a show that will keep tongues wagging in 2017 and beyond. The evening started off on a high note with DJ JAM-N-I’s ecstatic performance,  which revitalised the...

Katlego Motsamai 23 January 2017

Opposition Romps To Victory

The atmosphere on the eve of the election seemed to favour the opposition. On the eve of the weekend by-elections that saw the UDC and the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) snatch both council wards, Boikaego-Madiba and Tsabong North respectively, the...

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 23 January 2017

Sesotho Culture Inspires Lobatse Weaver

Pule Letshikhona (38), of Tlhareseleele is one true expression of the power of imagination. Letshikhona’s business idea is unique in the sense that he deals with manufacturing of Sesotho traditional garments. Inspired by his culture, he weaves...

Tumelo Mouwane 23 January 2017