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• Tuesday January 30
• Wednesday January 31

In this weeks paper

Mpho Mokwape 30 January 2017

�Tshidi� Laid To Rest

Different speakers described ‘Tshidi’ as a brave, hardworking and respectful person who was very passionate about ping-pong. Her uncle, Montshwari Osi described Tshidi as a lovely and ever smiling person. “That is why I learnt late...

Tlotlo Kebinakgabo 30 January 2017

Sesinyi�s Strike Guns Down BDF XI

Galaxy’s first chance at goal came as early as the first minute when Lesego Lubinda received a through ball from Tebogo Sembowa, but the attacker skied his effort. Eight minutes later, Sembowa provided Sesinyi with another defence splitting...

Kabelo Boranabi | 30 January 2017

League Chairperson Blamed For Fixture Mix-Up

First Division South League chairperson, Sam Keitireng has been accused of causing confusion that forced the abandonment of the game. The two sides were scheduled to clash in a top of the table fixture, but Notwane did not turn up for the...

Calistus Kolantsho | 30 January 2017

Rawson tests waters with on-line fashion shop

The 27-years-old operate an online clothing business called BEST Friends Fashion, which recently launched a brand called Queens Ambassador. Apart from being a determined businesswoman, Rawson is a happily married and proud mother of one. In an...

Lesedi Mkhutshwa | 30 January 2017

Sithole�s Upholstery Business Flourishes

Lobatse-born Sithole crafts his products perfectly to furniture shops standards that one can be mistake them for imports.  Situated in a busy street of Woodhall 1 ward, his business attracts customers as far as distant districts in the southern...

Pauline Dikuelo | 30 January 2017

New rules for promotional competitions

According to the regulations, operators were supposed to exclude people aged under 21 years from participating in virtual lotteries and gambling activities, which did not seat well with the mobile operators and sms-based lottery...

Pauline Dikuelo | 30 January 2017

Obama, Trump

Obama signed policies

Isaac Pinielo 30 January 2017

Good Luck Mma-V

Although generally Mma-V had not entertained  considerable media interviews from her homeland, possibly as a strategy to control what goes out, as a fellow Batswana, naturally the local media  would be proud to be associated with Mma-V in...

Monitor Editor 30 January 2017

The legal opinion

On the basis of reference to materials and records voluntarily issued by the Society, the Consultants undertook a due diligence exercise to investigate each issue raised, and to furnish a report for the organisation’s internal reference and the...

Correspondent 30 January 2017

I Comment From Panda On The Evm

Your online banking and your business systems are all vulnerable to the same. As such, we cannot deny that the EVM is not 100% secure, as long as any data will be transmitted electronically the risk cannot be eliminated totally. However we must also...

Correspondent 30 January 2017

Worst day of my life

I don’t know about everybody else, but I always look forward to resting after a long day, it is what drives me during the day. Around six late in the afternoon, a friend called to ask for a favour. Now my second weakness after Coke is, I am...

Tumie Modise 30 January 2017

Origins of the Batswana -BOER WAR OF 1852-53

For local communities their arrival resulted in instances of chattel slavery as well as forced labour and the loss of land and independence. While it is true that some had initially welcomed the Maburu as allies against the Amandebele, others fought...

Jeff Ramsay | 30 January 2017

Working �with� instead of Working �for�

Africans were often suspicious. Michael Faber and the late Robert Oakeshot were two Britons who appeared as devils incarnate in the eyes of most indigenous Europeans during the run-up to Zambia’s Independence in 1964.’ I have been...

Sandy Grant 30 January 2017

Crime Decreases In Monarch

Monarch has been for a long time been one of the crime-infested low-income locations of the city. It seems things are changing for the better. Speaking during a Kgotla meeting at Monarch customary court recently, Maniki said that atrocious crimes...

Lesedi Mkhutshwa | 30 January 2017

Hospital Off The Hook In Baby Switch Row

The child’s mother, Dineo Bentu, had taken NRH to court alleging that the child that NRH said was hers was not her child. She was of the view that the child was possibly swapped after she gave birth prematurely through caesarean...

Lebogang Mosikare | 30 January 2017

Grand Palm Casino Grosses Over P96 Million

The next best performer is Marang in Francistown, grossing P10, 851, 700, followed by Sedibeng Casino in Francistown with P8, 654, 862, and Letsatsi Casino of Palapye coming forth with P6, 580, 579, followed by Kings Casino in Lobatse, grossing...

Staff Writer 30 January 2017

Avani Hotel Rooms Undergo Makeover

In the rooms, the change over involves adding a new colour, introducing stylish and brighter lighting on the corridors, as well as new carpeting, among others. But it is inside one of the just completed rooms that one starts to appreciate the...

Katlego Motsamai 30 January 2017

BHRDS heads north

This was revealed by the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) chief executive officer, Raphael Dingalo at a media briefing last week. “This year marks the eighth BHRD Skills Fair and Career Clinics. Interestingly this year, the event will...

Staff Writer 30 January 2017

BOFEPUSU Gabz Workers Rally Defered

The rally that was scheduled for 5pm on Friday was one of the Union’s scheduled nationwide workers’ rallies whose intention is to pave way for their (BOFEPUSU) structures across the country to organise nationwide demonstrations against a...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 30 January 2017

Another BDP Hopeful Drops Out

There was further encouraging news also over the weekend that a third candidate, name known to The Monitor, could also drop out by the end of the week, leaving the BDP with at least two candidates ahead of the weekend primaries. The BDP has finally...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 30 January 2017

Wayei �Paramount� Chief Dies

Ozoo has understandably been sickly of late. Gceba said: “The death has just happened. I can only have more details after travelling to Nokaneng where the funeral arrangements will be conducted”. Ozoo, who was the chief for Nokaneng, was...

Boniface Keakabetse 30 January 2017

UDC Talks Collapse

The plot has taken a new twist and both Duma Boko (UDC) and Dumelang Saleshando (BCP), the supposedly highest decision making structure in the talks, now having been forced to tear their cooperation document and throw it into the dustbins, while...

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 30 January 2017

Yarona FM Sends Lovebirds Bonni, Zizi Packing

Dintwa posted on social media that he chose love over the job and promised to fight for the love of life, posting a picture  of him and Panther cuddling under the sheets. The post came just days after both celebrities’ one-year contracts...

Staff Writer 30 January 2017

Nigerian man with 86 wives dies aged 93

Mohammed Bello Abubakar, known as Baba Masaba, died at his home in central Niger state on Saturday after an undisclosed illness. A large crowd attended his funeral on Sunday. Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper reported that while he had 86 wives in...

BBC.COM 30 January 2017

Trump executive order: White House stands firm over travel ban

In a statement, President Trump said visas would once again be issued once "the most secure policies" were in place, and denied it was a Muslim ban. The move has been widely condemned. Sixteen state attorneys general have said the order is...

BBC.COM 30 January 2017

Orapa One Foot Into The Final

Rollers started the game calmer, pressing high forward and winning two corners in the opening six minutes while it took United five minutes to arrive at the other end. In their second visit into the Popa box, after another five-minute interval the...

Koketso Kgoboge 30 January 2017

Nchabeleng Delivers Indigenous Sound

Nchabeleng is on a 17-day tour dubbed Africa My Home Tour. The tour includes performances and facilitation of music workshops. With the aid of his wide range of African instruments such as drums, marimba, mbira, lefoto, jaw harp, Nchabeleng played...

Dumisani Ncube 30 January 2017

UCCSA Pastor�s Regime Change Prophesy Stirs Controversy

The youthful pastor is famous for hosting RB2 gospel radio show. He  was at one point chased out of the mass media complex at the height of the BDP split that bore the BMD, after he was suspected of sympathising with the splinter party. Former...

Staff Writer 30 January 2017

Designer finds booming business in used tyres

As a graphic designer and an environmentally conscious youth, 30-year-old Kago Monageng believes that used car tyres can be recycled and reused to create luxurious lounge seats for households. Having established a creative design agency called...

Isaac Pinielo 30 January 2017