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Calistus Kolantsho 28 November 2017

Galaxy fire Dubula over poor results

Dubula arrived at Galaxy last season and helped the team clinch the Mascom Top 8 title as well as finishing as runners-up in the BTC Premiership. Sithole’s side has been a pale shadow of the team that was so dominant last season. However, they...

Kabelo Boranabi | 28 November 2017

Cash-strapped Diphatsa send SOS

The Francistown-based team made it to the men’s final of the JB Sports tournament played here over the weekend. Diphatsa lost the final 3-0 to Police VI. The club travelled overnight in order to compete in the final. Faced with financial...

Calistus Kolantsho | 28 November 2017

SESAD win first wheelchair basketball tourney

The two teams were defensive in the opening quarter, but Selefo Mothusi opened the score line for the Diamond Wheelers, who led 2-0 at the break. At the beginning of the second quarter, Wheelers were awarded a free throw after a foul, but they...

Naledi Lemogang 28 November 2017

Botlhole clinches chess title after lengthy lay-off

WIM Botlhole collected six out of a possible seven points to pocket P1,800. WIM Onkemetse Francis finished second with 5.5 points to take home P1,300. Woman Candidate Master (WCM) Koziba Mokhuzeni and WIM Boikhotso Modongo finished joint-third and...

Calistus Kolantsho | 28 November 2017

B-Blok releases 20-track mixtape

The mixtape is a compilation of songs from about 15 hip-hop artists mostly from Francistown. It is inclusive of men of the moment ATI, his right hand man, Noello and Perion. All the songs were recorded and mastered at GoHard Entertainment. The...

Koketso Kgoboge 28 November 2017

Moaneng honours single fathers

Going by stage name PsychoPath in the music circles Moaneng told Showbiz that Two has received a positive response in both local and international radio stations. He said the single was released this year and the video is expected to drop...

Lindiwe Mozola 28 November 2017

Stagnant football forced BFA to engage expert

The association recently engaged a German expert, Christoph Rocholl to carry out an audit on local football and map the way forward in terms of football development in the country. “For 51 years we have nothing to show. This got us thinking as...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 28 November 2017

Sasa Klass debuts at DStv iRock Rustenburg

The DStv iRock is a famous South African music festival mostly headlined by South African artists.  It takes place in different parts of the country. This time around the event will have the likes of Ricky Rick, Black Motion, Amanda Black, Nasty...

Dumisani Ncube 28 November 2017

Mjakes steals the show at the Good Radio Awards

The talented former host of the ER won the best weekday radio presenter and best weekday radio show awards. Mjakes, as Mojakgomo is affectionately called by his legion of fans, had an illustrious radio career and his contribution also helped his...

Mompati Tlhankane | 28 November 2017

Stanbic commends entrepreneurs

This came after the commemoration of the recent Global Entrepreneurship Week, in which entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, and collaborators from around the world connected, shared ideas, and inspired one another in a bid to propel economic growth...

Staff Writer 28 November 2017

Mnangagwa, Zimbabweans

Mmegi Editor 28 November 2017

African Energy to delist from BSE

In a public announcement yesterday, the company, which has a dual listing on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), stated that its two million shares currently held on the Botswana register will be...

Isaac Pinielo 28 November 2017

Burden of proof on Mnangagwa to convince a doubting nation

Emerson Mnangagwa is reportedly a man of few words. Not necessarily shy, but quiet and calculating. The 75-year-old has been blamed for the early 1980s disturbances which saw an estimated 20,000 Ndebele people butchered in the marginalised provinces...

Mqondisi Dube | 28 November 2017

SADC must emphasise democratic practices

Whilst military coups should never be tolerated anywhere in the world, what transpired in Zimbabwe in the last two weeks should teach us many lessons. First, it is unprecedented for any country to be ruled by a liberator who would later become his...

Mmegi Editor | 28 November 2017

Murder accused says Magistrate is biased

He said that he tried on several occasions to apply for bail but failed. He added that he was shocked to learn that some of his co-accused were granted bail. “In all occasions I applied for bail, I followed all the necessary steps one needed...

Lindiwe Mozola 28 November 2017

Anglican Church denounces GBV

Zambia Anglican Bishop and Primate of the Council of Anglican Province in Africa (CAPA), Albert Chama said this at the just-ended two-day Anglican 2017 high-profile Provincial Synod held in Gaborone.  The Central Africa Province Synod consists...

Zolani Kraai 28 November 2017

Kapinga accuses BDP of buying votes

Speaking in a recent interview, Kapinga said BDP has historically stifled developments in Okavango because people in the area voted for the opposition. He however said voters in his constituency would not to be enticed by influx of developments...

Boniface Keakabetse 28 November 2017

�Habitual rapist� remanded in custody

Detective constable, Veronica Molapo pleaded with Broadhurst Magistrate Gaseitsewe Tonoki not to grant Moloi bail, who is facing three counts of rape, fearing that he might commit more similar offences. “Moloi is suspected to have committed...

Pini Bothoko | 28 November 2017

Teachers encouraged to work hard despite challenges

Mojuta was a guest speaker on Friday during the Selebi-Phikwe, Bobirwa (SELEBO) Region teachers' excellence awards, which where sponsored by Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU). The award recipients were teachers whose students...

Olefile Serokolo 28 November 2017

From blind date to Botswana's stars, Prince Harry charts love for U.S. actress Meghan Markle

Harry, 33, Queen Elizabeth’s grandson and fifth-in-line to the British throne, and Markle, 36, best known for her role in the U.S. TV legal drama “Suits”, got engaged this month at their cottage in London over a roast chicken...

Reuters 28 November 2017

Rape suspect fails to raise bail money

The teen, accused of raping his five-year-old cousin, was yesterday further remanded after failing to raise the money for his bail. The accused was granted bail last month, but failed to pay P5,000 as one of his bail condition. The alleged rapist,...

Pini Bothoko | 28 November 2017

Council inundated with pleas for help from retrenched BCL miners

The closure of BCL Mine last year saw over 4,000 miners losing their jobs with many other related industries here collapsing. Letlhogela told an ordinary full council meeting that the retrenched miners have of recent been approaching the SPTC to...

Olefile Serokolo 28 November 2017

Phadisa remains in police custody

Prosecutor, Inspector Oamogetswe Gaboutlwelwe yesterday told Broadhurst Magistrates’ Court that they were in the process of referring the docket to the Directorate for Public of Prosecutions (DPP) for possible prosecution. “We have...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 28 November 2017

State wins immigrants appeal case

The AG, representing the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, officer commanding Botswana Prison Service (BPS) and FCII, firstly appealed against Justice Lot Moroka’s judgement in the case of Marie Iragi and two others and finally against...

Lebogang Mosikare | 28 November 2017

Three countries sign water supply agreement with Lesotho

The ministers responsible for water supply in the respective countries met in Kasane last week to give green light to the commencement of a feasibility study of the project. The study to be funded by the African Development Bank to the tune of...

Bame Piet 28 November 2017

Zimbabwe�s second coming

In 1965, Smith had defiantly declared UDI, cut ties with Britain, without consultations with the black majority. In doing so, Smith benchmarked on South Africa, the apartheid state where blacks were stripped of their human rights and  lived in...

Michael Dingake 28 November 2017

Khama holds cabinet meeting inside Gcwihaba Caves

Masisi said this during the launch of the staircase to allow tourists easy access the caves on Saturday. While the organisers of the event, the Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) had planned to spring a surprise on Khama by making his entire Cabinet...

Boniface Keakabetse 28 November 2017

Central bank introduces new P10 notes

Addressing the media yesterday, the bank governor Moses Pelaelo said a decision was taken in response to persistent public concerns regarding a poor quality of the current circulating P10 paper banknote. He said in accordance with the Bank of...

Pauline Dikuelo | 28 November 2017