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In this weeks paper

Staff Writer 11 September 2017

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Monitor Editor 11 September 2017

CSR Projects Critical In Building Future Leaders

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is not new as different businesses across the globe (including Botswana) practise it. Many companies engage in CSR to empower communities by providing financial support, while others may engage in other ways...

Monitor Editor 11 September 2017

Local Players Impress British Grand Master

Short, who arrived in the country last week at the invitation of Talking Chess Trust played some of the country’s brightest chess minds. Short faced the juniors on Thursday while he played against the country’s best on Saturday including,...

Kabelo Boranabi | 11 September 2017

BoFiNet Lauds Softball Partnership

BoFiNet and BSA signed a P1 million sponsorship deal in 2014, and increased the amount to P1.7 million in 2016. The agreement will end next year March. Speaking during the BoFiNet, BSA awards ceremony on Friday, BoFiNet board chairperson, Ratsela...

Naledi Lemogang 11 September 2017

Absence Of Star Names Dims Boxing Tourney

BOBA competition manager, Gibson Rauwe said despite the good turnout he was worried about the absence of top boxers. “The quality of boxing today was a bit low because some of our tough and national team boxers failed to attend the tournament,...

Naledi Lemogang 11 September 2017

Cheetahs, Hogs In Super Rugby Final

Cheetahs proved too powerful for University of Botswana (UB) Rhinos in the semi-final played at SSKB on Saturday. The Cheetahs powered to a 29-15 victory to progress to the final. Rhinos came into the match as the lowly placed team on the Super Rugby...

Calistus Kolantsho | 11 September 2017

Rookies Broadhurst Shock Fighters

The new comers have so far registered four points from two games after playing to a 0-0 draw with Modipane United in their first game. However, it was Fighters who had the better scoring chance in the first half when Bernard Kebotseng forced his way...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 11 September 2017

Ronaldo Names Strong Squad For COSAFA Cup

Ronaldo assembled a 26-member squad a fortnight ago, but had to cut to six players less as per requirements for the regional tournament. There are no surprises in the travelling squad as Nkutlwisang kept the crop of the players who were called up...

Kabelo Boranabi | 11 September 2017

Creatives Share Ideas

Creatives amongst them Donovan Goliath, Mmabatho Motsamai, The Napsta, Kenny Mumba, Brilliant Kodie and Calistus Chijoro facilitated a series of discussions that ranged from digital marketing, film, brand packaging and digital media influence. South...

Dumisani Ncube 11 September 2017

Stanbic Changes Leadership

The bank said it is grateful to Gabaraane for his efforts, and for leading the business so competently over the years. “The details of where Leina will be headed will be shared in due course, as we work to ensure all due diligence and...

Staff Writer 11 September 2017

Youth Firm Imparts Knowledge On Tax

Through his company,  Great Ant, he has taken it upon himself to start teaching people about tax and tax-related issues. “We will be conducting 30 minutes training workshops for untrained taxpayers in companies and government departments....

Isaac Pinielo 11 September 2017

I Feel Young! Why do I Have to Worry About Retirement?

He remembers years ago when she would buy treats – she’d buy his Mum nice dresses and spoil him with the latest toys. She’d even given his uncle a top-of-the-range cellphone. “It’s so sad now –she can’t keep...

Correspondent 11 September 2017

Mandunyane Teenager Escapes Bestiality Charge

The act of having sex with animals is worldwide, but bestiality, which is also known as zoophilia, though legal in some countries, is considered unnatural, illegal and shunned upon in many communities. The 2006 story of a Sudanese man who was forced...

Lebogang Mosikare | 11 September 2017

�Licence Dealers� In Limbo

The situation, which is a growing thorn in the businesses of driving school operators, is due to the fact that the police are yet to conclude their investigations. “The cases are still with the police and no disciplinary hearings have been...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 11 September 2017

Beware, Conmen On The Loose

Recently, four Batswana men alleged to have been defrauding people in most of the businesses in Gaborone, were arrested last Wednesday. In an interview with The Monitor, Botswana Police Service (BPS) public relations officer, assistant Commissioner...

Pini Bothoko | 11 September 2017

Spatial Planning Presents Viable Opportunities

Briefing a full council meeting on the draft in Jwaneng on Thursday, the Director of Town and Country Planning from the Ministry Of Finance and Development Planning, Peter Moalafi said the spatial plan seeks to establish patterns and trends of people...

Lebogang Baingapi 11 September 2017

Phikwe Revival On Track

It is evident that everyone is now playing a role to dispel the myth that the town is dying. A team of former BCL employees and some residents of Selebi-Phikwe residents have formed a company called Theolex Properties, which has come up with a...

Onalenna Kelebeile 11 September 2017

Boy Kills Teen Lover, Commits Suicide

The incident is said to have taken place last week Saturday in Kopong. It is said that the boy’s parents found him hanging from the rafters of his house at their home while his girlfriend’s lifeless body was soaked in blood on the floor...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 11 September 2017

Block 8 Residents Threaten Cop Killers

Thuto Motseothata (22), Buru Motseothata (26), Lore Morentlwa (27), Karabo Kowa (26), Tsaone Motswetla (25) and Thato Lesela (28) are facing murder and armed robbery charges. It is alleged that on August 11 at Block 8 Domboshaba Bar in Gaborone,...

Pini Bothoko | 11 September 2017

Mogoditshane JSS Classes Overflowing

He added even parents who come from places closer to the capital opt to have their children enrolled in Mogoditshane JSS, and others nearer Gaborone. “Their reasoning is that it is most convenient for them to check on learners when they are...

Baboki Kayawe 11 September 2017

Makgato Hails Tau As A Gift To Botswana, Africa

Addressing the audience at Mmakgosi Live, a poetry night held at Travel Lodge in Gaborone on Friday, the Minister of Health and Wellness, Dorcas Makgato pledged to support the poetess, Mmakgosi Tau, a bipolar and depression patient’s initiative...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 11 September 2017

Francistown Mourns Soares Katumbela

Former drummer with Francistown’s 1970s music group, The Shades, Cynthia Bright passed her condolences to the Katumbela family. Bright, who was visibly saddened, explained that Katumbela and her were members of the Makgadikgadi Band. The...

Koketso Kgoboge 11 September 2017

BTU Celebrates 80 Years

The event was thronged by multitudes of teachers and retired teachers. Foreign Affairs Minister, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, the area Member of Parliament and assistant Minister of Basic Education, Moiseraele Goya and BTU founding father, Japhta Radibe...

Lindiwe Mozola 11 September 2017

Teachers Are Better Politicians � Radibe

He was speaking during the 80th BTU anniversary held over the weekend here. “You need to be fearless and join politics because you are in a far much better position to fight for the rights of the nation as you have a better understanding of...

Lindiwe Mozola 11 September 2017

A New Capital?

Certainly it’s a grim, frightening prospect. Faced each morning by news of these almost daily worldwide disasters we need to be thankful for the country’s great natural beauty and for the peace that we still enjoy. Both, we must always...

Sandy Grant 11 September 2017

State capture by juveniles

There were sighs of relief everywhere; we have been waiting for this day. If it wasn’t for the fact that this particular group is mostly made up of scruffy, streetwise boys, most of who are barely out of their nappies, the word...

Tumie Modise 11 September 2017

War And Rememberance

As we have seen, the key local figure in that pan-African struggle was the Bakwena Kgosi eKgolo Sechele I, whose death occurred a 125 years ago this month, on the 25th of September 1892. By twist of fate the week of his passing coincided with the...

Jeff Ramsay | 11 September 2017

Mmakgosi Live showcases Emotional Poetry NIGHT

Mmakgosi Live is an exclusive poetic affair hosted by Mmakgosi Anita Tau and it is intended to sensitise people on mental health issues, raise awareness and bring forth an element of healing through poetry and song. It was an enlightening event that...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 11 September 2017

Mysterious Inferno Claims Life Of Dj SK

Even though the Tlokweng Police station commander, Station Robson Maleka could not confirm whether it was Katumbela, he told The Monitor that they recorded such an incident on Thursday. “The investigations are still ongoing. As far as we are...

Mompati Tlhankane | 11 September 2017

Graduate Ventures Into Mobile Advertising

According to Nkawana, he considered to be creative with advertising, hence the reason for his concept noting that he wanted to tap into a market that was not really exploited. “Unlike my other colleagues, I didn’t wait to get a white...

Pauline Dikuelo | 11 September 2017

Reputation Is All That Matters As High Court Restores Simbi Phiri�s Dignity

When a sustained media frenzy built around him in the last 12 months, suggesting that he   had tried to sneak money into Botswana as the crime busters, the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) froze all his bank accounts in a...

Correspondent 11 September 2017