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Front Page this week: CAAB employee faces murder charge
Staff Writer 22 January 2018
Mayor To Turn Gaborone Into Botswana�s �Hollywood�
Speaking at the Botswana content producers exhibition held in Gaborone last Friday, Thutlwe said the local content producers would have his full support to turn the city into the country’s own Hollywood. “This is the time to turn our...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 22 January 2018
GU Pile More Misery On Magosi
A hat-trick from Tumisang Orebonye, a brace from Thatayaone Kgamanyane and a goal from Dirang Moloi saw Magosi suffer a rare humiliating defeat, which leaves them in dangerous relegation zone. It was their third successive defeat in the league while...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 22 January 2018
Rollers Maintain Lead With Win Over Gilport
In a game played under floodlights at the UB Stadium on Saturday, the two teams met under contrasting fortunes with Lions rooted at the bottom of the log while Rollers were back on a winning streak following their first league defeat to Miscellaneous...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 22 January 2018
TAFIC Back To Winning Ways
Former ECCO City Greens striker, Bonolo Fraizer debuted for the hosts after completing a move from Miscellaneous in the midweek. Fraizer, who lasted for slightly over 70 minutes, was very lively for the most part of the match. TAFIC started the...
Chakalisa Dube
| 22 January 2018
BSA NEC Bows Out On A High Note
The committee leaves office on a high note after the performance of the national teams in the World Championships. The senior women’s national team recently hoisted the nation’s flag high and qualified for the World Championships. BSA...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 22 January 2018
Kweneng West Overtakes Ngamiland West As poorest District
According to facts unveiled by the data agency last week, Kweneng West has a poverty incidence of 50.6% or roughly one out of every two people. The district had an updated population of 52,400 according to the 2015-2016 Botswana Multi-Topic...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 22 January 2018
Africa Youth Entrepreneurship Summit On The Cards
The one-day summit will be held under the theme ‘Fostering wealth growth in Africa through young entrepreneurs partnerships’. The event will be graced by 12 panellists, three from East Africa, two from Middle East Africa as well as five,...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 22 January 2018
Escalation of murder cases worries police
The upsurge in murder cases countrywide worry the police, as people are now clearly not valuing the sanctity of human life. Most of murder cases occur as a result of petty issues according to police reports. They pointed out that these petty issues...
Pini Bothoko
| 22 January 2018
Bagaetsho
Mmegi Editor 22 January 2018
Time We Respect Sanctity Of Life
The society is faced with a monstrous challenge of individuals who seem to have lost respect for human life. Botswana used to be regarded as one of the safest countries in the world, but nowadays crime statistics, including murder seem to be...
Mmegi Editor
| 22 January 2018
Bakgatla Asked To Pray Against Rising Murder Cases
Sekai who was speaking at the funeral of Mochudi East legislator Isaac Davids said he had organised for pastors from different churches to come together at the Kgotla and pray for murders taking place in the village. “We have lost our...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 22 January 2018
Mugabe's son vehicles released from Mochudi Police
Russell Gorezara was, together with other drivers, transporting the vehicles from Zimbabwe to South Africa, through Botswana when they got involved in a pile-up accident on Friday night near Artesia along A1 Road, 80km from Gaborone. Gorezara owns...
Staff Writer 22 January 2018
JCE exam results released
A total of 40 896 candidates wrote the 2017 examination showing a slight decrease in candidature compared to the 2016 cohort of 41464. There were 20 404 male candidates and 20 492 female candidates sitting for the 2017 Junior Certificate...
Correspondent 22 January 2018
Francistowown South Bulela Ditswe Losers To Protest
The weekend elections were won by Modiri Lucas, beating former legislator Khumongwana Maoto and former deputy mayor, Ladimo Dikomang. Lucas got 906 votes while Maoto managed 496 and Dikomang trailed third with 306. The losing candidates made their...
Chakalisa Dube
| 22 January 2018
Sekai cautions 'drunkard' Dikgosana
Addressing a Kgotla meeting in Mochudi recently, Sekai said authorities had briefed them that they were concerned by the high rate of Dikgosana who drink alcohol. “The reason why I asked that we mark a register before the meeting commenced was...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 22 January 2018
BDP primaries in disarray
The polling stations were supposed to be opened by 6am but in the majority of cases, voting started late as the presiding officers had to prepare the place first. In other polling stations there was a mix-up of names in the ballot papers and at...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 22 January 2018
Non Bank Financial Institutions Sector Union Needed NBFI-SU
A private industry union would allow for a compensation for uneven bargaining power, between owners and workers, in the struggle over uneven distribution of profits and created wealth. Most of Batswana in the private sector are currently dissatisfied...
Correspondent 22 January 2018
Mabaila triumphs over veterans Masimolole and Kgang
He will represent the BDP in the 2019 general elections. Youthful Mabaila won what was expected to be a two horse race between him and Kgang with ease. He garnered 1,227 votes while the second best candidate, Mogogi Tshiamo got 390 votes. Former...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 22 January 2018
Waterless Molepolole � But Only Half the Story
In sum, it seems that Molepolole, with a population of 67,000 is without water and has been without since at least 2011 when the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) took over from the Department of Water Affairs. But if this is correct, it would...
Sandy Grant 22 January 2018
Police Dismiss Allegations Of �Ignored Tip-off�
The eyewitness account suggested that two men attacked the 28-year-old deceased before he was stabbed to death with a knife last week. On Tuesday Facebook was abuzz with users accusing the BPS of failure to respond on time and saving the...
Pini Bothoko
| 22 January 2018
CAAB employee in court over stepdaughter's murder
The state alleges that Motlatsi Khoto, 44, an aircraft marshal at the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB) murdered Metlha Sibanda, 9, on January 17 at Marobela village. The police exhumed the body of Sibanda at a river at Marobela on January...
Keneilwe Ramphopho 22 January 2018
US shutdown: Government services closed as working week begins
The US Senate has failed to reach a temporary budget deal to keep it open. Some employees will not be paid until the stalemate is resolved. A vote will take place at noon in Washington (17:00 GMT) on whether to re-open government. Immigration...
BBC.COM 22 January 2018
"Ke itse dilalome!" - Duma Boko
Keoagile Bonang
| 22 January 2018
George Weah sworn in as Liberia's president
"I have spent many years of my life in stadiums, but today is a feeling like no other," President Weah told crowds in the capital Monrovia. It is Liberia's first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. Mr Weah thanked his...
BBC.COM 22 January 2018
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