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Tsaone Basimanebotlhe 11 August 2017
BCP, UDC
BUT COMRADE KE COMRADE
Mmegi Editor 11 August 2017
Molapise is an elephant in the room
This is the man who sacrificed a lot to build the democracy that we all enjoy today. Molapise is not an ordinary man. He is a veteran opposition politician. He has been the BPP president for many years. He once resigned from the position, but was...
Mmegi Editor
| 11 August 2017
Rugby official admits paying for banned substances
During a random doping test, Emmanuel Ntshiwa and Lesedi Cherry tested positive to a banned substance. Irish told Mmegi Sport yesterday that he had paid for the supplements. He said players had asked for his assistance to pay for the substance...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 11 August 2017
Nowhere to run for IAAF
The World Championships in London were never about Isaac Makwala. The former 400m champion was just an insignificant component in a complex system. But in a whirlwind 48 hours, all that changed and in explicit fashion, the system unravelled. It was...
Mqondisi Dube
| 11 August 2017
BFA holds first Letshwiti-led assembly
The latter took over from Tebogo Sebego last year in a highly-contested BFA election that also marked the end for other national executive committee members. The presidential election were forced to go for a re-run after Letshwiti took the lead, but...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 11 August 2017
Fencing clubs defy BNSC
Robust, Sir Seretse Khama, Metsimasweu, Boipelego Junior Secondary Schools and North Rise fencing clubs agreed to remove the executive from office. The matter has now reached the BAFS and BNSC legal teams. The Commission threw the first jab, stating...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 11 August 2017
Makgantai returns to the Ostriches
The Zebras marksman left the Ostriches for Vita last season, but struggled to cement a regular place. Orapa United spokesperson, Kabo William said As Vita had not fully met Mankgantai’s contractual obligations, and it was agreed that the...
Koketso Kgoboge 11 August 2017
Money starts rolling in for Makwala
President Ian Khama yesterday announced that the 200m and 400m runner would receive P100,000, the money reserved for winners under the government’s athlete incentive scheme. Khama said Makwala, in the eyes of many, was already a winner and...
Mqondisi Dube
| 11 August 2017
Supa Ngwao museum re-opens
The museum, which first opened its doors in 1992 had financial challenges in the past years and as such has been in and out of operation leading to its closure in 2016. Supa Ngwao is located a stone throw away from Jubilee Hospital, which lies along...
Koketso Kgoboge 11 August 2017
Poetess raises mental health issues through art
The 28-year-old talented mental health activist told the press at Mmakgosi Live press conference, held at Elements Executive Accommodation in Gaborone yesterday, that she was diagnosed with bipolar and depression when she was at tertiary school. She...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 11 August 2017
Stereotype Society brings dance competition
The community-based competition is targeting young talented and energetic dancers in and around the city. During an interview with Showbiz, the society’s founder, Tumelo Bogatsu said the competition aims to promote the local kasi streets dance...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 11 August 2017
No fairy tale end for heroic Makwala
He had run a solo time trial on Wednesday night after ‘recovering’ from food poisoning to power into the semi finals, before he moved into the finals with a good run the same evening. However, Makwala, who was a fan favourite after his...
Staff Writer 11 August 2017
Acid Rain in Sandton, Johannesburg
That time, we saw that our car was fully covered with white and black innumerable spots. My long experience in environmental research revealed to me that this is something interesting related to air pollution, and I photographed the whole horizontal...
Correspondent 11 August 2017
The legal profession � a leading voice in the defence of the rule of law
Introduction The Director of Proceedings, my Lords, and Ladies, members of the legal profession allow me to express my gratitude to the organisers of this event, for the opportunity to share some thoughts on the assigned subject matter. It is...
Correspondent 11 August 2017
Miles Nan: A Chinese with an African heart
When Miles Nan got an invitation from a Chinese compatriot already residing in Botswana then, he did not hesitate to start packing his bags and heading to the Promised Land. He did not doubt his friend’s advice and he got busy selling his...
Zolani Kraai 11 August 2017
Botswana can be regional financial hub � IMF
In a country report released this week, the IMF said developing a regional financial hub can contribute to private sector development as it could adapt its services, regulation, and infrastructure to make investment by foreign investors easier and...
Brian Benza 11 August 2017
BICA helps gov�t improve accounting standards
Through the MoU, BICA will assist the accountant general migrate from cash accounting to International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). The transition to IPSAS by government is scheduled to start in the 2019/2020 financial year. There are...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 11 August 2017
Bomaid strives on with service excellence
BusinessWeek: What schemes do Bomaid offer and how many members does it have? Mokgosana: Bomaid is the largest open medical aid fund in Botswana commanding 51% market share, with over 39,000 principal members and 85,000 total lives. The fund offers...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 11 August 2017
It�s Like Herding Cats
Admittedly anyone who has worked with me knows I prefer the world be an organised place where when something is supposed to happen it happens. Perhaps this inflexibility is a flaw. If a meeting is scheduled for a certain time and I say I can attend,...
Lauri Kubuitsile 11 August 2017
My gripe with public expenditure
Much as I am opposed to hanging people, I am a proponent of both defence and self-defence. I am at peace with government on shooting rhino poachers in legitimate defence of the animals. I would rather these thugs go extinct than have future...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 11 August 2017
Dispatch from the Okavango Delta: My biggest fear
‘Aren’t you afraid?’ I have received this question many times ever since I started crossing the Okavango Delta with mekoro (dugout canoes) in 2015. But, I do not really remember answering it with any ounce of second thought. All the...
Thalefang Charles
| 11 August 2017
Ministry unaware of dropouts challenges
Assistant Minister of Tertiary Education, Research Science and Technology Fidelis Molao made the utterances this week in Parliament after Francistown South legislator, Wynter Mmolotsi inquired about higher learners, who in the process of pursuing...
Baboki Kayawe 11 August 2017
Constitution should reflect national aspirations � expert
Addressing multitudes of participants at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Lawyers Association conference yesterday, Justice Zak Yacoob said many African countries inherited Constitutions from their Western colonisers and such...
Bame Piet 11 August 2017
SADC lambasted for keeping quite in bad times
Mwaanga said many countries in the region have gone through political problems, which were only resolved by mediators from outside the region. He said that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is burning, but SADC is keeping quite and...
Bame Piet 11 August 2017
Khama requests P41 million for second hand choppers
This came after the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Kenneth Matambo told legislators yesterday when presenting the supplementary estimates of expenditure from the consolidated fund of 2017/18, that the emergency funding requested by...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 11 August 2017
Gov�t, refugees headed for another showdown
The applicants have been in perpetual detention at the Francistown Centre for Illegal Immigrants (FCII). According to the Immigration Act and the Constitution of Botswana, it is illegal to keep asylum seekers (be they rejected or awaiting their...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 11 August 2017
BMD Matshekge victim suffers permanent eye damage
The members who had camped at Bobonong Secondary were those affiliated to Ndaba Gaolathe’s faction. Matshekge was destined the original venue for the BMD elective congress. However, what was supposed to be a routine journey to a party...
Chakalisa Dube
| 11 August 2017
Moswaane calls for Gripen freeze
The move, which has since been criticised heavily by opposition parties, will see the country part with around P16 billion. According to Moswaane, the purchase of weapons may lead to the collapse of the economy. “The government of Botswana has...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 11 August 2017
Mogoditshane still a squatters� haven
The mushrooming of squatters have plagued the Mogoditshane Sub Land Board despite the Board addressing residents several times on the negative impact of squatting. The allocation of plots is still on suspension as the Sub Land Board is still facing...
Pini Bothoko
| 11 August 2017
How Kgosi pulled the rug under the DCEC�s feet
Kgosi, the director-general (DG) of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DIS), has in the past picked incessant fights with the DCEC mainly over his pending corruption case. There was brouhaha and condemnations from the DCEC...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 11 August 2017
Botswana lions in danger from poachers
The police have confirmed the arrest of four Batswana men allegedly behind the poaching of these lions. Mmegi has learnt that the market for lion bones is in Asia, but poachers in Botswana sell the skeletons to South Africa that seem to be supplying...
Pini Bothoko
| 11 August 2017
Under-performing referees face the chop
Olopeng said starting this season, action will be taken against referees whose performances are not up to the required standard. He said the referees will be given leave if they are seen to have performed below par. “We will give leave for two...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 11 August 2017
Women�s football teams face expulsion
Mmegi Sport is informed that by yesterday afternoon around, 55 teams were yet to subscribe to the local football governing body. A source said of all the regions, only Kweneng teams had complied by yesterday afternoon while 55 teams across the...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 11 August 2017
Bishop Seane in shameful sex sandals
This is according to letters written to the Holy See in Rome, Italy and Pretoria, South Africa this year. In a letter to Marc Cardinal Quellet in Rome written by Sisters of Calvary, Gaborone, they appealed that Eminence Archbishop Peter Wells had not...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 11 August 2017
BBS investors to get P75m shares windfall
Aside of the free shares, qualifying members will also convert their investments or deposits in the society into shares with each investor limited to a maximum 15% shareholding in BBS Limited. According to a prospectus for the BBS demutualisation...
Brian Benza 11 August 2017
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