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Correspondent 14 August 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...
Monitor Editor 14 August 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...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 14 August 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...
Naledi Lemogang 14 August 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,...
Koketso Kgoboge 14 August 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...
Tumelo Mouwane 14 August 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...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 14 August 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...
Dumisani Ncube 14 August 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...
Lebogang Baingapi 14 August 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...
Tumelo Mouwane 14 August 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...
Correspondent 14 August 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...
Bonte Seepi 14 August 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...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 14 August 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...
Olefile Serokolo 14 August 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...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 14 August 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...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 14 August 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...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 14 August 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....
Pini Bothoko
| 14 August 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...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 14 August 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...
Pini Bothoko
| 14 August 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...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 14 August 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...
Chakalisa Dube
| 14 August 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...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 14 August 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...
Staff Writer 14 August 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...
Correspondent 14 August 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....
Tumie Modise 14 August 2017
Sechele�s 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...
Jeff Ramsay
| 14 August 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...
Sandy Grant 14 August 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...
Dumisani Ncube 14 August 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...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 14 August 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...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 14 August 2017
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