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Correspondent 28 August 2017
BMD
Monitor Editor 28 August 2017
Smart Phones In Schools: A Teaching Aid Or Distraction?
The reason advanced by the minister is that students can use smart phones and laptops as a learning tool. Smart phones and laptops of course are necessary, and they can be used as learning tools, with proper controls put in place. The minister argued...
Monitor Editor 28 August 2017
Slow Start For BOTESSA Team In Taipei
The games, organised by the Federation International University Sport, started on Monday and have attracted more than 142 countries. Botswana sent 18 athletes to compete in athletics, badminton, table tennis and tennis. BOTESSA spokesperson Duncan...
Naledi Lemogang 28 August 2017
We Count On You, Bosetu
I am happy that not everyone understands where the truth lies about the circumstances; Some believe that you are where you are because of your stubbornness, and some say you have failed on procedure; and I am happy that these people don’t know...
Ndaba Gaolathe 28 August 2017
GM�s Cycling Race Raises P400,000
Most cyclists attributed their low speed to the strong winds. Thabiso Mokalake from Tsela Riders won the 60km race. He said although he did not prepare much, he managed to perform well. He noted that last year he was disqualified after using the...
Lebogang Baingapi 28 August 2017
Gaealashwe Sets Chess Date With Briton GM
The Candidate Master would be amongst the 50 players to play against Short. Unfortunately, most of the highly-rated local players did not attend the weekend tournament. Speaking to Monitor Sport, Gaealashwe said being in the tournament was an...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 28 August 2017
Makwala Smiles All The Way To The Bank
Makwala was fresh from a controversy laden World Championships, where he was barred from competing in the 400m finals, before he was allowed to run an unusual solo 200m race. In the form of his life, Makwala disappointedly emerged from London...
Mqondisi Dube
| 28 August 2017
GU, Galaxy Dominate Transfer Market
GU, on a rebuilding exercise following years of absence in challenging for league honours, look set to return to the top if the arrival of new players is anything to go by. Head coach, Rodolfo Zapata last season decried depth in his squad with the...
Staff Writer 28 August 2017
Hotstix Still Hot But Not Relevant
The jazz maestro staged a musical performance last Friday at Botswanacraft with a classic, which was more of a musical journey. Despite the musical act, he was irrelevant by performing covers that most people were not familiar with, even though the...
Dumisani Ncube 28 August 2017
Supa Ngwao Museum Rises From Ashes
The museum was founded in 1992 and is housed at Francistown’s first district commissioner’s buildings in the old central business district. The building is located a few yards from Jubilee Hospital along the railway line and next to the...
Koketso Kgoboge 28 August 2017
Kgosikgolo The Musical Lives To Its Billing
The troupe of talented and energetic youth successfully kept their audience with beautiful, well-composed and directed musical. The musical story line is based on the ups and downs of traditional rule of Bogosi. It’s a narration of deceit,...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 28 August 2017
Royal HaskoningDHV Empowers Batswana
The deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Isaac Moepeng expressed this sentiment at the rebranding of SSI Botswana (Pty) Ltd to become part of the global brand of RHDHV recently. Moepeng said the rapid...
Zolani Kraai 28 August 2017
Crafts Vendors Make A Living From Tourists
Sharing the origins of her business with The Monitor on Friday, Siseho explained that her business was started from just a mere P500 in 2014. Siseho explained: “My mother operated a crafts street vendor. On eday in 2014 after finishing...
Boniface Keakabetse 28 August 2017
Progress On BMD Mediation By UDC
Following numerous media enquiries on the progress made so far and the huge public interest in the matter, we would to share with the nation the latest developments. On August 22, the NEC met with the Ndaba Gaolathe-led team and received their...
Correspondent 28 August 2017
Co-operatives Urged To Change Business Strategy
The councillors were making their contributions after a presentation by the Department of Co-operatives Development recently to the Tonota Sub-District Council session recently. From Tonota Central, Councillor Chris Machokoto said there is...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 28 August 2017
Botswana To Experience Good Rains
While meteorological experts foresee a mixed rainfall forecast for the western half of Botswana; set to receive normal to below normal from October 2016 to January 2018, the situation is expected to change in the remaining months of the raining...
Baboki Kayawe 28 August 2017
Police Vehicles Collide, Officers Hospitalised
The Monitor has learnt that the police were chasing suspects who allegedly attacked a businessman in Gabane in the early hours of Tuesday. Five men are said to have attacked the unnamed businessman when he was about to enter his residence. He,...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 28 August 2017
Cop Murder Suspects Further Remanded
The six face two counts of murder and armed robbery. Thuto Motseothata, 22, Buru Motseothata, 26, Lore Morentlwa (27), Karabo Kowa, 26, Tsaone Motswetla, 25 and Thato Lesela, 28 appeared before the Village Principal Magistrate, Goodwill Makofi....
Pini Bothoko
| 28 August 2017
Hungarian Company To Create 4,000 Jobs In Phikwe
The company, according to the SPEDU’s public relations and marketing manager Sheila Moribame, will start setting up in October this year and will take a year to complete. She said the company is already setting up at the airport and the signing...
Onalenna Kelebeile 28 August 2017
BALA Charts New Strategic Plan
The formulation exercise started in May and is expected to end in November. BALA president, Reverend Mpho Moruakgomo told a conference in Maun that the new strategy is underpinned by national, regional and international agendas and...
Boniface Keakabetse 28 August 2017
Pilane BMD Faction To Appear Before UDC
“Like the meeting of 22nd August, the primary purpose of the meeting will be to accord the group an opportunity to present its views on the root problems that have bedevilled the BMD. We have no doubt that the meeting will proceed smoothly as...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 28 August 2017
A Railway Line that Goes Nowhere and Lions in Our Midst
The second, the Gaborone Game Reserve, is entirely new. The bridge, in my view, one of the greatest of the many projects the country has undertaken since Independence, does however puzzle me no end. Take the Telegraph’s report (August 23)...
Sandy Grant 28 August 2017
The Cold War
From the outset the younger Pretorius proved energetic in his efforts to realise his father’s vision of uniting the interior Boers into a “South African Republic” (“Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” or ZAR). In the...
Jeff Ramsay
| 28 August 2017
So people cheat you?
There’s no shortage of people who like to claim that they lead lives above reproach. You know the type: the holier-than-thou, Jesus’ assistants, the seemingly honest. They are usually quick to tell others when they’re straying off...
Tumie Modise 28 August 2017
Students Should Use Cellphones � Dow
At the BOSETU delegates’ congress here on Friday, Dow said in this current era of Information, Communication Technology (ICT) in every sphere of life, including schools, time of thinking cellphones and laptops disrupt classes is over. She said...
Onalenna Kelebeile 28 August 2017
Motshwarakgole Dumps UDC, Declares War On Molale
Motshwarakgole, who is widely regarded to have been the ace card for the UDC in the run up to the 2014 elections, literally gave the UDC no assurances, despite the fact that they had been seen as a Botswana Federation of Public, Parastatal, Private...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 28 August 2017
Father Found Guilty Of Raping Daughter
The court heard that the accused person, who cannot be named in order to protect the interests of the victim, on October 10, 2015 at Botshabelo location, unlawfully had carnal knowledge of his daughter without her consent. According to evidence...
Olefile Serokolo 28 August 2017
Whalum, Butler Kick Start GIMC In Style
In a freezing night at Stanbic Bank Piazza, Whalum and South African, US-based Butler had enough energy to bring warmth around the place. The men’s collaboration on stage was something to die for. Butler was the first one who arrived to...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 28 August 2017
Double Murder At Serule
Narrating the horrible ordeal, the deceased girl’s mother Omphile Tautona, 33, said the suspect, who is still at large has been known to be the girl’s boyfriend and attempts had been made to separate them but in vain. She said it was...
Onalenna Kelebeile 28 August 2017
Mabutsane Entrepreneurs Strive In Waste Businesses
One of them is Kegaisamang Dithobane of Mahotshwane settlement that is known for picking any litter that she comes across to make money. She does plastic pillows, hats, skirts and blouses, as well as mats. She was inspired by her parents to do...
Lebogang Baingapi 28 August 2017
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