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In this weeks paper
14 May 2017
Sweet Revenge For Hogs Against Cheetahs
Hogs arrived at SSKB ground in Mogoditshane with revenge in mind after losing to the league defending champions in the first leg played at Wharic Park at the beginning of the month. Hogs charges did not waste any time and scored their first try in...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Tough Duels Expected In Tennis Tournament
The games, which kicked-off on Saturday, focus on players under the age of 18. The categories involve the Under 10, 12, 14, and 16 for both men and women. However, the men’s category also have the Under-18 for singles and doubles. The event...
66870,Naledi Lemogang,, 14 May 2017
FRAFA Independence Cup Receives P65,000 Sponsorship
The two World Group of Companies businessmen, Farouk Sadar and Samuel Mpuchane will be sponsoring the tournament in their individual capacity. Of the P65,000, Sadar has contributed P45,000 while Mpuchane has thrown in P25,000. Sadar’s company,...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 14 May 2017
Gunners Win One-Day Tourney
The one-day tournament featured Premier League sides; Township Rollers, Extension Gunners, Black Forest and Police XI. The Peleng side opened the tournament with a 4-3 win over Black Forest to proceed to the final. The game was decided through...
49078,Tumelo Mouwane,, 14 May 2017
BFA Financial Constraints Hamper National Teams
This year’s president report, delivered by BFA president Maclean Letshwiti and his first since ousting Tebogo Sebego, showed that the association has failed to meet some of its imperative target with lack of resources cited as the main...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 14 May 2017
X Models Breaking Boundaries
The fashion show dubbed X fashion appreciation party will have young and seasoned designers showcasing Arabian designs at My Kind Of Place (MKOP) on September 1. “As X Models, we are diverse and this can be easily seen by the models that we...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
DJ Oats On Tswana Delight Tour
The disc jockey has already toured Kasane and Gaborone in the past week and is looking forward to stretch into other places around the country. “With this tour, I am taking it to the people. This is why I decided to do a nation tour so I grab...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
DJ Oats On Tswana Delight Tour
The disc jockey has already toured Kasane and Gaborone in the past week and is looking forward to stretch into other places around the country. “With this tour, I am taking it to the people. This is why I decided to do a nation tour so I grab...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Trio Aim High As Jam Business flourishes
For the trio of Malebogo Karele (39) Olebogeng Aaron (32) and Reetsang Modisaemang (33), the journey of their thousand miles has started and it has begun to bear fruits. Their unique idea of blending a fruit and a vegetable to produce a sweet jam has...
46713,Lebogang Baingapi,phpCC5C.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
BIHL Trust Donates House In Mabule
Minister of Presidential affairs, Governance and Public Administration, Eric Molale officiated at the event. The house, valued at P150,000, has been fully furnished to accommodate the Bareki family who the BIHL Trust identified through the local...
49078,Tumelo Mouwane,, 14 May 2017
Rules For Financial Success: Rule 2
Never Borrow to Buy Anything That Depreciates in Value As we continue to live our lives under financial pressure, we must create new ways to deal with over-spending and start to focus on saving and investing for our future. It is imperative to live...
475,Correspondent,, 14 May 2017
Entrepreneur Strikes Chakalaka Deal With KFC
According to Seleka, who is the managing director of the company, she will be supplying all the 12 KFCs across the country noting that she has the capacity and machinery that enables her to produce about 400kg per day. “I am excited about this...
33193,Pauline Dikuelo,phpD7C.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Mahalapye Police Hunting Highway Rapists
The alleged assailants are yet to be apprehended according to the police. In an interview with the Monitor, Mahalapye police station commander, Superintendent Isaac Mamadi said the incident happened in the wee hours of last...
45705,Bonte Seepi,, 14 May 2017
ACHAP, NACA Re-launch Wise Up Campaign
The Wise Up campaign is aimed at inspiring behaviour change by creating platforms for dialogues on strategies to reduce HIV risk among adolescents and youths in Botswana. When addressing a press briefing in Gaborone recently, ACHAP head of new...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Mosinyi Encourages Parents To Teach Children About Culture
Mosinyi was speaking during the Selebi-Phikwe tribal administration culture day which was held on Thursday under the theme, ‘Tsosoloso ngwao le matlotlo a rona’. He said parents have the responsibility to impart knowledge to their...
68423,Olefile Serokolo,, 14 May 2017
BHC To Demolish Old Minestone Houses
BHC’s senior estate officer-north, Olefile Segokgo, told The Monitor that he cannot state a definite timeframe of when the tenants would be moved from Minestone. He said this is so because he still has to liaise with the Francistown City...
49080,Lesedi Mkhutshwa,, 14 May 2017
UB Dons Call For Prompt Suspension Of Plastic Levy
In their journal article titled, ‘Polluter Pays or Polluter Enriching The Retailers: The case of plastic bag levy failure in Botswana’, published in the South African Crime Quarterly last month, the academics said the levy has only served...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
SOS Begs For Farming Land
He said this recently during a food hampers donation to the village by Tonota East Farmers committee. When receiving the hampers, Motsamai appealed to farmers to give them farmland on which children could practice agronomy and in the process ensure...
49080,Lesedi Mkhutshwa,, 14 May 2017
MP Calls For Mogoditshane Sub-Land Board Closure
Kgoroba revealed that the Land Board is currently overwhelmed with a backlog, something that has resulted in poor service delivery. Kgoroba was addressing Land Board executives in a meeting that was held at the village’s main Kgotla recently....
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Forestry Warns Of Disastrous Veldt Fires
Gabagomotse Mafoko, acting deputy director of the department said the fire season is anticipated to have high risk of uncontrollable firebreaks due to heavy rains experienced early this year. “We want to avoid a re-occurrence of the 2008...
54598,Goitsemodimo Kaelo,php4B2C.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
BDF Warns Of Fake Vacancy Advert
The BDF director of protocol and public affairs, Fikani Machola has warned the public about the advert. Machola explained that the BDF has in the past weeks been inundated with applications for posts of tracker recruit privates emanating from an...
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Roma Admits Bishop Seane Resigned To Clear His Name
Seane resigned last week following an investigation into accusations of sexual abuse. In the press statement issued last Friday to the Catholics around the country, Makgetla explained that the Catholic Church of the Diocese of Gaborone “is...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Rari Unopposed For BOSETU SG Position
Rari who is said to be a favourite amongst BOSETU members was not willing to comment on the elections. He was also not opposed at the union’s two previous elective congresses. As the SG, Rari is tasked with coordinating key activities of the...
409,Chakalisa Dube,php6867.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Pilane Faction Scoffs At Congress Re-Run
His national working committee (NWC), which met last Tuesday took a resolution that their violent and controversy-ridden congress which was held at Matshekge senior secondary in Bobonong over the President Holidays, was done per the...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
BPP Yet To Appoint Delegates To UDC NEC
Boko insisted that the BPP had not snubbed the UDC as reported in the media. In the first UDC NEC meeting that was held at Tlokweng recently, the BPP, whose president is the umbrella chairperson, did not pitch, fueling speculation that the BPP was...
442,Lebogang Mosikare,php369F.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Thebe Suffers Injury As Relay Team Crashes Out
The injury is expected to keep him out of action for about six weeks. He will miss the IAAF Diamond League scheduled for later this month. The relay team, boasting of Thebe, Amos, Onkabetse Nkobolo, Karabo Sibanda and Isaac Makwala was one of the...
399,Staff Writer,, 14 May 2017
Balopi Starts On A Wrong Footing
Balopi is quoted undermining the public sector union federation, BOFEPUSU, painting them as an entity that is about to benefit, allegedly from a BDP congress resolution in Tonota, that amongst others according to Balopi, resolved to pay public...
540,Monitor Editor,, 14 May 2017
Next Time Perhaps?
But let’s run too fast if you will kindly forgive the expression. Makwala was all over the British press last week with his photo appearing on the front page of the Guardian. And that’s where I come in. Because the last time that Botswana...
2709,Sandy Grant,php13A2.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Hell Knows No Fury Like A Woman Scorned..
By their very own nature, human beings are very territorial. They will go to ANY lengths, by any means necessary, to assert and defend what they perceive to be theirs! Humans always have this overwhelming sense of ‘ownership’ about them....
8264,Tumie Modise,php9215.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Secheles 1853 Appeal To The English
I said my children, any of my guns I cannot give you. These can only be taken when I am dead.” – Kgosi Sechele’s 1853 In our extended account of the 1852-53 Batswana-Boer War we left off with Kgosi Sechele in Cape Town, where...
2894,Jeff Ramsay,php4F39.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Trade Unions Aspire To See A Better Botswana
Trade unions are supporters and proponents of the mainstream public education that can be accessed by all, inclusive of the poorest of the poor. Trade unions are vigorously opposed to the commercialisation of education that results in mushrooming of...
475,Correspondent,, 14 May 2017
In Thursday Paper
14 May 2017
RAJA Xmas tournament celebrates 20 years
One such competition is the RAJA tournament, which has been running for the last two decades. RAJA is an acronym for Ramokgwebana and Jackalas 1 villages. The tournament spokesperson, Modesto Madzambi said RAJA will be celebrating its 20th...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Botswana to host 2018 COSSASA athletics
Francistown will be the venue for the competition to be held in May. Windhoek in Namibia will host the COSSASA ball games next year. Zimbabwe hosted the last edition’s athletics, while Lesotho organised the ball games. Botswana has twice...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 14 May 2017
Handball eyes basket, volleyball players
He said there are some students who are not good in basketball and volleyball who can join handball. “Recruit players from there. Some players may not make the schools basketball or volleyball teams, but you find that a person can spike very...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
TAFIC coach wants more firepower
He said this after watching his side lose 3-1 to Gaborone United (GU) in an emotionally charged BTC Premiership match played at the Francistown Sports Complex on Tuesday. Chinyemba and goalkeeper coach, Wrist Mmusi were shown red for using foul...
409,Chakalisa Dube,php6867.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Ex-Gilport players demand October dues
The players through the Footballers Union of Botswana (FUB) have proposed that they be paid the remaining half of their October salaries before the end of the year. The club had proposed to pay all the outstanding payments by the end of February...
411,Boitumelo Khutsafalo,phpCD8F.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Boatle to host chesa nyama session
The event, which has a strictly Motswako line up, has an endless number of events such as games, musical performances, braii and a picnic set up. Local acts on the line up are Scar, Big L Wasekai, Touch Motswak Tswak, DJ Izzy, Chrome and Eskimos to...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Nono Siile hosts a pre-album launch this weekend
Douglas Mosadi, Banjo Mosele, Shanti Lo, Kearoma Rantao and Trinity Mpho will support the singer who started her career by winning My African Dream. The album, an extended play show organised by Zen Promotions, will start at 6pm. Real name,...
399,Staff Writer,, 14 May 2017
Cookout Food festival promises tasteful dishes
This comes after the outdoor event that was scheduled for November 25, 2017 was postponed to December 16, 2017, which is this Saturday. The event coordinators were forced to postpone the event due to a downpour on the date set earlier. In this...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Touch Motswak Tswak postpones album release
The rapper had recently highly publicised that the album will be released this month on various media and social media platforms. ‘‘Despite announcing the release dates of the album with time I felt I needed to perfect a couple of things...
8057,Dumisani Ncube,php79F5.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Main Mall hosts Heart of the City carnival this Saturday
Botswana Tourism Organisation is coordinating the event in partnership with African Point Solutions and Epiphany Royals. The Carnival is an annual event that happens at the end of the year to herald the Christmas season. It will be hosted in and...
399,Staff Writer,, 14 May 2017
ATI, Amantle Brown, Leungo impress at Mahika Mahikeng
Taking the stage first at the well-attended Mahika Mahikeng‘s Jazz festival on Sunday was Amantle Brown and her flexible dance crew who kept the audience on their toes as they watched their seductive moves. By the time she sang Follow the crowd...
33193,Pauline Dikuelo,phpD7C.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
BBS gets P250m funding from IFC
IFC’s support to the Building Society will promote financial inclusion and access to housing finance in the country. IFC investment in BBS comprises a senior loan equivalent to $25 million in local currency. The long-term funding will support...
399,Staff Writer,, 14 May 2017
WUC loses P500m through leaks, non-invoicing
The corporation incurred a loss in revenue of over half a billion pula, its latest annual report shows. During the year under review, a total of 100.6 million kilolitres of treated water was pumped into the distribution networks, and only 71.8...
46073,Isaac Pinielo,php10C7.tmp.jpg, 14 May 2017
Can I crush medicines before taking them?
Medicines in tablet, pill or capsule form come in many different shapes and sizes. Some are designed to release medicine slowly into your body over a period of time. Some have a special coating and may be difficult to crush. In some cases, these...
475,Correspondent,, 14 May 2017
Wilderness Safaris: Proudly driving sustainable ecotourism in Botswana since 1983
Here are a few short facts to illustrate how Wilderness Safaris Botswana positively impacts the country, its people and its wildlife: * 1,079 staff employed, of which 1,039 are local citizens: * This makes up 43% of the entire Wilderness...
475,Correspondent,, 14 May 2017
And that comrades is the BMD strategy. Any questions Media! Where the hell are they
14 May 2017
The magistrate overreacted
They have to weigh the interests of society, against the interests of the victim and the interests of the accused person before coming to any conclusion. All this should be conducted in a transparent manner in the presence of all stakeholders;...
450,Mmegi Editor,, 14 May 2017
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