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Staff Writer 15 December 2017

BPOPF set to terminate P3.9bn Kgori Capital contract

Kgori was thrown into the spotlight last week when Seretse appeared before the courts on money laundering charges before he was later released on bail. Seretse resigned from the company on Monday.  The Investment and Risk committees of the P60...

Staff Writer 15 December 2017

Team Gaborone sets Botswana Games pace

At the time of going to press, the district had 41 medals followed by former champions, Francistown and Central at 21 medals each. Gaborone had received most of their medals from swimming, where they collected 16 gold, eight silver and eight...

Calistus Kolantsho | 15 December 2017

Football legends meet for �Oris� testimonial

The testimonial will be against a Palapye legends side at Pilikwe Ground on Saturday morning before the programme of the birthday celebration begins. The celebrations are pioneered by a group of Boyo’s friends and former teammates. Four...

Koketso Kgoboge 15 December 2017

New sprint gem unearthed

Machara arrived in Gaborone from Francistown a week ago, as your boy next door, but that has drastically changed after he scooped three gold medals. Machara brought the stadium to its feet as he pushed himself to a gold medal in the 200m men’s...

Calistus Kolantsho | 15 December 2017

Choppies keen on sponsoring football

Choppies chief executive officer, Ramachandran Ottapathu told Mmegi Sport that they are in talks with the mother body, the Botswana Football Association (BFA) over a sponsorship deal for the youth league and grassroots football.  “At the...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo 15 December 2017

Festive Premiership line-ups ahead of break

Amongst the highlights of the weekend is the clash between log leaders, Township Rollers and Extension Gunners on Sunday in Lobatse. Rollers, assured of going into the break sitting at the summit of the league table, were yesterday scheduled to play...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 15 December 2017

ATI switches focus to selling copies

He said he is targeting selling 100,000 copies of his new album, Envelope. He said the album will be launched again in Serowe on December 23, after been launched recently in Gaborone. “I have gone beyond marketing this album and I am focused...

Koketso Kgoboge 15 December 2017

The local songs that celebrate the festive season

Even with the popularity of international music, local music had never failed to find its way into people’s ears and make the Christmas season come alive. Whether you are a fan of house, kwaito, hip-hop, pop, kwasa kwasa or even traditional...

Mompati Tlhankane | 15 December 2017

Rollers concerned about safety in Sudan

Rollers were pitted against the Sudanese champions in a draw conducted in Cairo on Wednesday. But Rollers public relations officer, Bafana Pheto said they are concerned with the team’s safety due to the unstable political situation in...

Staff Writer 15 December 2017

Galaxy face Mozambican side in CAF debut

The draw for the preliminary and first rounds was conducted in Cairo on Wednesday and provided a relatively kind draw for the debutants. Galaxy travel to Maputo on the weekend of 9-11 February next year, before the return leg in Botswana, a week...

Staff Writer 15 December 2017

Tholwana Borethe � Can anything good emerge from this unlikely tangle?

When I first learnt that the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) had lodged a complaint with the police about four newspaper editors, it seemed that it had embarked on a gamble which had the very real potential to backfire.  The BCP’s action is...

Sandy Grant 15 December 2017

Botswana alleged corruption

Sandy Grant 15 December 2017

Plug the leaks

WUC is quite unpopular particularly among urban consumers whose higher level of tariff subsidises rural consumers and who have no alternative supply other than the Corporation’s often shaky distribution. A closer look at the WUC however...

Mmegi Editor | 15 December 2017

Open letter to MP Mzwinila

Greetings Honourable Member. I hope you are doing well, and preparing to fully enjoy your festive season. I am writing this letter to express my views on your performance as our MP, and indeed how they reflect on the poor state of my home village...

Correspondent 15 December 2017

AfDB sets up P5bn local bond programme

In what is seen as an indication of local capital markets deepening as well as a boost for local companies seeking funding, the bonds are expected to be issued in tranches as and when demand arises and listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange...

Brian Benza 15 December 2017

Lesedi to produce 100MW over 30 years

Speaking at the company’s listing on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) this week, executive director, Gabaake Gabaake said the Lesedi project has independently certified gas reserves of 261 billion cubic feet (3P). The company has the most...

Pauline Dikuelo | 15 December 2017

BSE lifts Olympia�s four-year suspension

Yesterday, BSE head of market development, Thapelo Moribame told BusinessWeek that the four-year suspension had been lifted after the Kenyan majority-owned group complied with the bourse’s listing rules. “The BSE Main Committee has...

Mbongeni Mguni | 15 December 2017

Botswana builds capacity to attain SDGs

Majelantle expressed her confidence during a training workshop this week aimed at enhancing capacity amongst African member states to produce accurate and timely statistical information for monitoring and reporting on Agenda 2030. She said the...

Isaac Pinielo 15 December 2017

Khato Civils: forged in fire

In fact their beginnings were just as painful as the traveiling labour pains-rejections for funding by banks, shortage of experts, acute shortage of equipment and vehicles, but the early struggles were to be turned into experience’s invaluable...

Correspondent 15 December 2017

Brite Star president visits SPEDU

Attracted by the tax and duty incentives package launched in March for Phikwe, the group plans to develop an aircraft assembly plant, research centre, maintenance workshop, hospitality facilities and pilot training centre. During his visit, Katona...

Staff Writer 15 December 2017

Dibotelo, four judges bury the hatchet

The bench squabble has been going on for months after Dibotelo demanded an apology from the quartet.  The four Justices namely, Tshepo Motswagole, Godfrey Nthomiwa, Lot Moroka and Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe, stuck to their guns and refused to...

Staff Writer 15 December 2017

Mafikizolo to serenade music lovers at BOSETU Cultural Night

The event, which has grown in stature, will also feature celebrated son of the soil, Sereetsi and the Natives of Robete fame, and Amantle Brown of Black Mampatile hit. There is no doubt that with Mafikizolo, the organisers have hit the right cord,...

Staff Writer 15 December 2017

Ethics, whistleblowing and the fight against corruption in Botswana: A journalist�s perspective

Needless to say, the last 10 years have been very difficult and trying for Botswana. On the economic front there was the global economic meltdown, the effects of which we are still reeling from, as it is evident from the slowed rate of economic...

Titus Mbuya | 15 December 2017

Still chewing, still choking

By comparison, Mmetla Masire is more diplomatic than his predecessors when he describes the state of the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC)’s finances. In the Annual Report released this week and containing a P137.6 million loss, the CEO treads...

Mbongeni Mguni | 15 December 2017

SEDC hit by malnutrition cases

“On a sad note, the district is currently experiencing a rise in various social ills. In South East South, we are seeing an emerging trend in cases of malnutrition, which are basically due to child neglect/abuse,” Segokgo said.  He...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 15 December 2017

SADC poaching kingpin to be extradited to Botswana

According to the Botswana Police Service, the extradition process was delayed as authorities in Zimbabwe were still finalising paper work (to pave way for the extradition). Moyo is currently in police custody in Zimbabwe. “Everything in...

Chakalisa Dube | 15 December 2017

Malawians remanded in custody for �human trafficking

The State alleges that John Mayodi, Enock Nkatha and Gaston Kamanga on July 11, 2016 at Kazungula village, acting together with a common purpose and with intention to deceive and exploit, unlawfully recruited and transported one Sakina Estoni, Mary...

Lebogang Mosikare | 15 December 2017

Cab driver murder suspects spend Christmas in jail

Broadhurst Magistrate, Gennai Jensen denied the accused persons, Kgotlaetsile Leonard Gaonakala (24) and his girlfriend Tsholofelo Kgogo (25) bail after the duo pleaded for bail when appearing for mention. Representing the State, Tsogo Rantopa had...

Pini Bothoko | 15 December 2017

BUAN lecturers enjoy 35% windfall

The impasse, which led to the lecturers withholding students’ results at some point, started in 2015 when the University Council awarded the employees the windfall. This, however could not be implemented as the management objected the...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 15 December 2017

Barclays Bank enlisted to pay ex-miners pensions

Injuries and deaths due to accidents in mines occasionally present the greatest immediate health hazards such as pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis, which are caused by the inhalation of dust. The diseases remain the major long-term occupational hazard...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 15 December 2017

Bakgatla-ba-ga-Mmanaana bid Khama farewell

Khama whose 10-year term as the country's President comes to an end on March 31, 2018 began his tour at Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisiís constituency and home village. The ceremony, held at the village's main Kgotla, was attended by...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 15 December 2017

Axe hovers over Kebonang�s head

Khama is said to be contemplating firing Kebonang after it emerged that he benefitted about P15 million from flamboyant businessman Bakang Seretse’s commission. Seretse is facing money-laundering charges together with Botho Leburu and Kenneth...

Staff Writer 15 December 2017

Kerekang faces suspension

He is one of the four full time Board members in an eight-member board, which has the chief executive officer (CEO) as an ex officio member. Kerekang, formerly a director at the Department of Energy in the Ministry of Minerals and Energy together...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 15 December 2017

BPOPF battles to retrieve P477m from CMB

BPOPF is reported to have terminated CMB mandate after investigations revealed that the fund manager flouted agreed investments policies and guidelines. Industry insiders say the contract was terminated on October 30, 2017 with an order for the fund...

Brian Benza 15 December 2017