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MARINA MATERNITY HORROR

Victoria Seiketso Sethibe 27 January 2017

BDP

Sedibel! E okwa ke borekhu!

Mmegi Editor 27 January 2017

Lets fight Satanism in schools

In recent years, Satanism reports have been too many for us to just dismiss as mere talk or referring to the learners as crazy. First we would here of strange fowls being found in classrooms to fresh-faced teenagers clad in all-black attire...

Mmegi Editor | 27 January 2017

School commitments cripple netball preparations

Speaking to Mmegi Sport yesterday, Lebotse-Sebego said the preparations are going well although there are interruptions.  “Our main challenge is that some of the members are students of which means we cannot always keep them in camp as we...

Tlotlo Kebinakgabo 27 January 2017

Prisons aim to tighten grip on local boxing

The club won the affiliate of the year award during the 2016 Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA) awards with Mpigi lifting the coach of the year silverware. The club intends to continue where it left off, as the 2017 boxing calendar kicks-off next...

Calistus Kolantsho | 27 January 2017

Visa delays softball player�s move to Japan

A scout from Daiwa, Satoshi Furukawa was in Gaborone this week to work with the player and scout for more talent. Furukawa attended the weekend BoFiNeT league matches and there were trials held on Monday and Tuesday. Botswana Softball Association...

Calistus Kolantsho | 27 January 2017

AFCON�s French talisman eyes rare feat

In the middle of the encouraging run, there is one familiar face who possesses significant ‘winning knowledge’ to propel the Atlas Lions to success. Hervé Renard’s second spell with Zambia thrust him into the spotlight after...

Mqondisi Dube | 27 January 2017

Table tennis mourns �loving Tshidi�

Upon receiving the distressing news, fans across the country quickly sent their condolences on social media, with some expressing  how they could not come to terms that their favourite player has departed while some celebrated her life. Born 37...

Kabelo Boranabi | 27 January 2017

Limping BDF XI face thriving Galaxy

Matebele are missing a number of key players due to injuries and suspensions. Speedy winger, Kobamelo Kebaikanye and central midfielder, Richard Legwaila are ruled out due to injuries, while holding midfielder Bitwell Phiri, Keagile Kobe and full...

Kabelo Boranabi | 27 January 2017

Pilikwe tourney to keep Miscellaneous on toes

Division One teams in the Tswapong region organised the tournament to feature Miscellaneous, Morupule United, Pilikwe United and Serowe-based Tsabothe. Chaba said the tournament will assist his side as he does not want his boys to break on any...

Bonte Seepi 27 January 2017

Pay back time

The two teams are developing into fierce foes and United, as the defending champions, need to be above their best to beat a marauding Rollers. While Orapa have laid their hand on the trophy once, Popa also have one title but appeared and lost in the...

Koketso Kgoboge 27 January 2017

BOBS tightens imports pre-shipment inspection

This was done to minimise the risk of unsafe and substandard products entering the country. As part of this move, the standards watchdog stopped accepting letters of authority and certificates of conformity from importers issued by National...

Isaac Pinielo 27 January 2017

Liquidator to market BCL after court�s ruling

Dixon-Warren said this following remarks made by the Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) that there has been poor marketing of the mine. “Once the companies are placed into final liquidation and the first meeting of creditors is held, it is at...

Chakalisa Dube | 27 January 2017

�Our own worst enemies� Very often we can be our own worst enemies.

That’s also the case with our financial health. We know something is too good to be true but we’re in denial. We go ahead with something that, if we were being rational, we would avoid like an infectious disease. I got this message from...

Consumer Watchdog 27 January 2017

Diamond sales register robust 2017 start

At the first sight of the year held in Gaborone last week, De Beers reported strong improvement with sales fetching  $720m (P7.6 billion) in what is normally one of its strongest demand period. A year ago, De Beers, 15% owned by government of...

Staff Writer 27 January 2017

PPADB appeals ruling in property lease tender row

Both the Ministry and PPADB jointly approached the Court of Appeal seeking an order to overturn the High Court’s judgement and an order in which Varsha had been approved as the preferred bidder. Varsha Enterprises is a company owned by...

Isaac Pinielo 27 January 2017

Keasiile�s love for ceramic

In an interview with Arts & Culture, Keasiile said she liked moulding various items with clay soil from a very young age. She said when she got to junior secondary school, she did art as one of her optional subjects and learnt to make sculptures...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 27 January 2017

Cattle baron avails land for Lobatse PPP projects

Executive Chairman of Cambridge Investment, Phillip Fischer says despite the spatial economic comparative advantages of Lobatse’s strategic location, developments in the town have been severely constrained by the lack of suitably zoned freehold...

Isaac Pinielo 27 January 2017

Zac�s P330m tender dispute nears finality

Zac, a company owned by prominent businessman Nicholas Zakhem, filed an appeal last year after the High Court had ruled against the company’s earlier application. The company had sought the High Court to review and set aside the PPADB’s...

Isaac Pinielo 27 January 2017

Blockbuster heavyweight � xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage

January One of the New Year’s celebrated resolutions, Vin Diesel returns to his iconic role starring as agent X after lying dormant for 15years since the 2002 exploits. This is the third sequel to the initial 2002 film after a 2005 retcon...

Bakang Israel 27 January 2017

Soul singer Pearl�s latest single Free shows growth

The multi-talented young woman, who was born in Lobatse, is not only a vocalist, as she also writes melodies and lyrics, amongst other things.  The enthusiastic Pearl, describes her latest single as the beginning of a new chapter in her musical...

Maureen Odubeng | 27 January 2017

Politics of strongmen, blood relations and dynastic successions; Their turn to eat

Sadly in South Africa, like in many African countries, it is an issue which tribe rules. The two major tribes Zulus and Xhosa's have dominated the first prize. But with Magashule, Zuma is sure he wont go to jail. Now while it would be a little ...

Correspondent 27 January 2017

Indian community celebrates Republic Day

When addressing the gathering on behalf of the President of India, the India High Commissioner to Botswana, Ketan Shukla said when India attained freedom on August 15, 1947, it did not have an instrument of governance of its own. He said they waited...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 27 January 2017

How to produce failure � A Gantsi case study

Gantsi regional education director, Mpho Isaiah faces another round of difficult questions after yet another year of failure in the district. Gantsi region schools perform poorly annually, with Tshimologo Junior Secondary School named the worst...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 27 January 2017

Diversifying the economy: Lessons from India

Arriving in New Delhi in the middle of a smog crisis was not the best start to developing an article on how India is transforming its economy away from a reliance on agriculture and towards services.  The smog, so thick one could not see the...

Mbongeni Mguni | 27 January 2017

Unlearnt lessons in JCE exam disgrace

The nation is once again in tears; a dirge over the recently released 2016 Junior Certificate Examinations (JCE) results is ongoing. The results point to a slight drop in students who obtained grade C or better by 0.87 percent from 33.41% in 2015, to...

Baboki Kayawe 27 January 2017

Holy war against Islam

In terse and clear words, Trump said: “We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones and unite the civilised world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate from the face of the Earth.” In fighting against radical...

Solly Rakgomo 27 January 2017

Poor education results: What can Parliament do?

Why do we have poor results in public schools and outstanding results in private schools? Are private school students inherently more intelligent than those at public schools? What can the legislature do about this problem of plummeting...

Dithapelo Keorapetse 27 January 2017

Legend of bodimo: a mystery resolved (part3)

And as for their giant stature, I duly explained that it is now established fact that an astronaut grows by whole inches for every few weeks he or she spends in the weightlessness of space and that this is currently being monitored by NASA in their...

L M Leteane 27 January 2017

Soldiers should not be transferred on an emergency

For the 20 years of my service with BDF, 15 of those years were spent at BDF HQ where I served as a staff officer for the commander. I was particularly involved so much with welfare issue of soldiers and their families. My training on these issues...

Richard Moleofe 27 January 2017

Rebuttal on Kirby�s acidic speech

We have also observed time without number that Justice Kirby is fond of either attacking unions and other interest groups in our society or making orbiter decisions on matters that he knows that he will not be able to sit on or are still pending at...

Correspondent 27 January 2017

UB don offers answers to Dow's many questions

More voices are weighing in to the public debate on the recent shocking JCE examinations in which 66% of learners were graded D, E and worse. UB senior education lecturer, Dr Philip Bulawa says studies have previously been undertaken on the factors...

Oarabile Mosikare 27 January 2017

How Nanogang has remained tops in JCE

Arriving at the school around midday, a Mmegi newscrew is greeted by silence as though the school is on holiday. Clearly, students are in class, but there is dead silence. This stillness is unique to Nanogang and exemplifies the eagerness and thirst...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 27 January 2017

Hotel Selebi tells pregnant employees to resign

One such employee said the director told her to resign because she was heavily pregnant. “I refused to write such a letter and argued that management should write me such a letter not me because I suspected that it was a plot to get rid of me...

Onalenna Kelebeile 27 January 2017

Publishing 101-Again!!

But instead of putting in even a minimal amount of work to investigate for themselves how a person might go about getting published, they contact me. They want me to tell them - in as short an email as possible because they are busy you know - how to...

Lauri Kubuitsile 27 January 2017

Magistrate dismisses recusal bid

Thatayaone Nka who is alleged to have committed a series of rape cases made the application before Principal Magistrate Dumisani Basupi. The alleged rapist’s modus operandi allegedly involved offering his victims, mostly students, lift and...

Dolly Bathobakae 27 January 2017

Investigations in nightclub murder case complete

The police had initially charged Nicholas Itshekeleng, Gobusamang Mothibi, Batshabi Montsho, Tshepo Mokalare, Keolopile Moshotle, Ditiro Reboeleng, Oabile Dibobo, Tshepo Ntusa and Tshiamo Morolong with murder and robbery. Yesterday the state...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 27 January 2017

Satanic practices worry school head, MP

Topollo raised the concern when addressing parents during a Kgotla meeting that was addressed by the legislator for Francistown West, Ignatius Moswaane recently. She pleaded with parents to be always vigilant about what their children were...

Lesedi Mkhutshwa | 27 January 2017

Chinese welcomes New Year

According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, this year is the year of Rooster and in Chinese culture, the rooster is an image of an early riser that work very hard and energetically. That is why the Chinese people often say that ‘golden rooster...

Katlego Motsamai 27 January 2017

China-Botswana relations continue to blossom

Speaking at the reception for the 2017 Lunar New Year, Chinese Ambassador to Botswana, Zhao Yanbo indicated that the year 2016 saw a fruitful development between the two countries. “Last month, I signed an agreement with the Botswana...

Katlego Motsamai 27 January 2017

Suicide cases worry Mahalapye police

This comes after a 37-year-old man left his family heartbroken after he was found hanging from the rafters of his one-room house at Parwe ward on Tuesday near the Showground. The deceased is said to have used a wire to end his life. On the same day...

Bonte Seepi 27 January 2017

Ntuane�s reforms agenda bites BDP

This is according to University of Botswana (UB) political science and international relations lecturer, Leonard Sesa. The UB academic was reacting to recent developments in which the Botswana Federation of Public Private Parastatals Sector Unions...

Chakalisa Dube | 27 January 2017

IEC rushes to condemn �EVM rigging lesson�

In the two-minute video dubbed ‘Lesson 101 on how to rig an EVM’, a faceless man shows and narrates how chips inside an EVM can be changed to make votes for other candidates go to the one chosen by the manipulator. The presenter using an...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 27 January 2017

Gov�t to slash tertiary education funding

According to available data Government authorised the expenditure of P 3.3 billion in 2016/17 financial year. Reports suggest that the figure will be cut down to P2.4 billion when the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Kenneth Matambo...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 27 January 2017

Former BNYC employee appeal case postponed

The council has taken the matter to the CoA after numerous attempts at the High Court to secure their assets from being attached including trying to stay the execution of judgement pending a recession application. The council, in their documents...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 27 January 2017

BDF commander challenges Justice Kebonang�s ruling

Segokgo, who was almost jailed late last year by Kebonang for defying the court order when he allegedly refused to reinstate the duo, Thabang Tlhapisang and Kozondu Uariua, has filed a notice of appeal at the Court of Appeal (CoA). The notice of...

Mpho Mokwape | 27 January 2017

Passion drives The Photographers trio

The Photographers is subsidiary of the holding/parent company Wolves, which was founded by three talented and dedicated gentlemen who are driven by passion and a burning desire for photography. The trio, Kago Serole (22), Gonna Monnakgotla and Motheo...

Katlego Motsamai 27 January 2017

Marina maternity horror

An eyewitness, a patient at the referral hospital, shared the horrifying incident with Mmegi of a woman who "needlessly" lost her life in the maternity ward, Monday morning. According to the traumatised young woman who cannot be named for fear of...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 27 January 2017

Gov�t raises P4bn on bond market

According to figures released by the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE), tap issuances and new bond issuances, helped push the bond market capitalisation of listed bonds to P12.2 billion compared to P10.1 billion as at the end of 2015. During the year...

Brian Benza 27 January 2017