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In Friday Paper

Kabelo Boranabi 20 October 2017

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Mmegi Editor 20 October 2017

Mmegi will continue to report without fear or favour

Consultative engagements have been held between staff, management and representatives of the Board. Rationalisation came as a last resort because the wage bill had become too cumbersome for the company to carry. Over the years, our revenue has been...

Mmegi Editor | 20 October 2017

British motocross champ visits Botswana

The programme, organised by Muddy Face Events, will give the local riders a chance to gain experience from the 2014 British 2 Stroke Champion. The programme comes at a time when the local riders produced a below par performance at this year’s...

Kabelo Boranabi | 20 October 2017

Exercise your power in sport leadership

Speaking during the IWG second open discussion with Tsoseletso Magang on Wednesday, Makgato said Botswana has a lot of powerful women in sport. She said it is only that they do not know they have the power. She said Botswana provides an environment...

Naledi Lemogang 20 October 2017

Mogwadi not startled by false start

He took over from Maitumelo Letlamoreng in May last year. Since then he had been in charge of the side for the past nine league outings, five from last season. In the nine games Police managed a single win, two draws and six losses. The former...

Koketso Kgoboge 20 October 2017

Zone VI Basketball Championships moved to GC

The opening ceremony however will be held at Lobatse Sports Complex while the rest of the tournament will be moved to the University of Botswana (UB) sporting arena. “We received a sponsorship from the UB sporting arena in form of the venue...

Dumisani Ncube 20 October 2017

�You will never walk alone�: A war cry is fulfilled

The journey to Anfield Stadium in Liverpool was always going to be an emotional affair. Long flights across the ocean; and laborious check-ins from airport to airport. All these little inconveniencies paled into insignificance in the quest to watch...

Correspondent 20 October 2017

Fox Sports deal bitter pill for professional boxing body

Fox Sports brought two World Boxing Association Pan-African titles to Gaborone recently. The bouts were sanctioned by the World Boxing Association (WBA). Kebualemang said when Fox Sports arrived in Botswana they approached Botswana National Sport...

Calistus Kolantsho | 20 October 2017

Rollers, Sharps in emotional clash

The two sides although not historically related, recently saw former Rollers managing director, Somerset Gobuiwang join the Premier League rookies’ management team. Gobuiwang, who has served Rollers for many years before they parted ways...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 20 October 2017

Major Comedy Moves billed for laughs

Called Major Comedy Moves as a collective, the producers bring Fresh Comedy Nights, which is expected to treat comedy lovers to nothing but fresh acts and material.  The event will be held at Multicuisine at Zambezi Towers on October 26,...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 20 October 2017

Youthful Lopang crafts own artistic niche

In local art circles abstract is not common.  Many artists play it safe with less controversial art.  The commercial market is still held to traditional art forms that are more self-defined. Born in 1994 at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital,...

Koketso Kgoboge 20 October 2017

Joblessness to slow poverty reduction - World Bank

Botswana’s poverty levels, which depicts the number of people living on $1.9 or less per day, currently stands at 12.7%. In a Macro Poverty outlook report released recently, the World Bank projects poverty levels to decline by 0.7 percentage...

Brian Benza 20 October 2017

KFC franchise finds buyer

Liquidator of the franchise, Nigel Dixon-Warren told Mmegi Business yesterday that at a meeting held last week, creditors accepted the bid, which will take the company out of liquidation. Dixon-Warren however declined to name the winning bidder...

Brian Benza 20 October 2017

Minergy discovers more coal reserves at Masama

The Botswana Stock Exchange-listed company made the announcement this week following the recent completion of a Competent Persons Report (CPR). Comparing the 2016 and 2017 estimates, Minergy chief executive officer, Andre Bojé said the total...

Staff Writer 20 October 2017

Construction of Leather Park to finally start � LEA

Currently, work is in progress to secure a technical advisor and an investor for the project. According to the Authority’s 2016/2017annual report, work is in progress to secure other components of the leather industry park project noting that...

Pauline Dikuelo | 20 October 2017

Reading fiction and your brain

Raymond Mar, a psychologist at York University in Canada, and Keith Oatley, a professor emeritus of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto, have found in their studies that readers of fiction have a more developed “theory of...

Lauri Kubuitsile 20 October 2017

Fourteen years for corruption, not stock theft

That is how government hopes to fix the country’s crime situation in so far as stock theft is concerned. When cattle thieves are threatened with the envisaged obscenity, so goes the theory, the farmer’s nightmare will end. Farmers will...

Kgosietsile Ngakaagae | 20 October 2017

Carving childhood memories in Russia

Growing up in a village where herding flocks was an obligation, learning how to make toy cattle out of clay was a bonus craft we learnt from our older brothers. Our family’s flock would disappear while we were busy moulding our own. While it...

Mompati Tlhankane | 20 October 2017

Bobirwa bogosi crisis finally ends after 44 years

Before a packed kgotla, Kgosi Mokhutshwane Sekgoma led a Bamangwato Tribal Authority delegation to present Masilo’s name together with that of Dimakatso Patane, who was promoted from a headman of record to sub-tribal authority. Onketetse...

Onalenna Kelebeile 20 October 2017

�Get that lump checked out�

For many, a cancer diagnosis is as good as a death sentence. People live with symptoms and suspicions, but many are reluctant to test because they fear the outcome. Unfortunately, this is one disease where ignorance is not bliss, but fortunately, a...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 20 October 2017

Boots: K9 matriarch smokes out drug dealers

Boots has become an overnight sensation, thanks in large part to the Btv reporters embedded in the operation’s drug busts that have captivated viewers of the late news. Every night viewers across the country sit transfixed to Btv news, as...

Thalefang Charles | 20 October 2017

Drug raids: We�ve only just begun, top cop says

Mmegi: What informed the latest raids and why now? Lesetedi: We were concerned with the alarming rate of crime in general, especially in Gaborone.  One would say crime is rising and it has been mostly affecting the youth, something that...

Pini Bothoko | 20 October 2017

Fierce battle for F/town East ensues

The electoral period comes with its own fair share of the good and the controversial. Politicians go to great lengths to woo voters to their side in order to win the elections. It is a well-known fact that as elections approach; politicians will...

Lebogang Mosikare | 20 October 2017

A conversation with the late DJ (Part 1)

Robala ka kagiso Soaresh Bashi Sambalanda Katumbela. Wena pholwana ya phala, o goletseng gareng ga mathalerwa. You were as they say, ‘a calf of an impala that grows up in the midst of wild-dogs’. Your going conjures only one word...

Correspondent 20 October 2017

Madigele says UNESCO project, an �embarrassment�

The programme called ‘Better Education for Africa’s Rise’ (BEAR) was launched in 2014 to focus on developing curriculum culinary arts, travel management and hospitality management and rolled out in institutions such as the Gaborone...

Baboki Kayawe 20 October 2017

Youths resort to other forms of drugs

On Wednesday four male youths residing in Gaborone North location were caught red handed by the police abusing a certain mixture of a liqueur called Zorba, Broncleer cough syrup and Fanta Grape soft drink. Upon their arrest, the police also...

Pini Bothoko | 20 October 2017

We knew it all along � BMWU on BCL report

Unionists have long maintained that BCL Mine and its various offshoots were the victims of gross mismanagement, incompetence and possible misgovernance by authorities in charge in the years leading to last year’s closure. Provisional...

Onalenna Kelebeile 20 October 2017

DPP, DCEC go after ex-BCL bosses

The efforts have been given a boost by a damning report that emerged yesterday from the group’s provisional liquidator. BCL Group, which includes BCL Mine, Tati Nickel and a portfolio of multi-million Pula    projects under BCL...

Onalenna Kelebeile 20 October 2017

China sets eyes on safeguarding world peace

Giant China now promises to continue its efforts to safeguard world peace and to constantly uphold international order for the betterment of all nations. At the official opening of the Communist Party of China National Congress this week, the...

Mpho Mokwape | 20 October 2017

Secure business prospects in China for foreign investors

Accordingly the investors are assured to be treated equally with their Chinese counterparts, as all businesses registered in the country will be treated equally, something inspired by China’s need to pursue openness and expand foreign...

Mpho Mokwape | 20 October 2017

China builds high tech airport

The airport, which is taking shape as construction is up and running, has been positioned as the largest international airport hub projected to receive a total of 100 million passengers annually as a long term plan, 620,000 aircraft movements, cargo...

Mpho Mokwape | 20 October 2017

DIS targets Judge Moroka

The DIS and AG were apparently sent to Francistown to look into Moroka’s hotel stay after his transfer. It is alleged that the Administration of Justice (AoJ) said Moroka committed a crime for staying more than 14 days and that he was...

Oarabile Mosikare 20 October 2017

Gov�t borrows P3bn from bond market

A budget deficit of P6.5 billion is forecast for the current financial year up from P2.35 billion announced by Finance Minister, Kenneth Matambo in February. With government having ruled out tax increases to finance the deficit, the shortfalls will...

Brian Benza 20 October 2017