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BOPEU wants P20m from Motsamai

Solly Rakgomo 26 January 2018

Charges against Seretse & Co amended

The four accused have been charged with a single count of money laundering, contrary to Section 47 of the Proceeds and Instruments of Crime Act. The particulars of offence in the charge states: “The accused persons, on date unknown to the...

Staff Writer 26 January 2018

BOFEPUSU calls for education Pitso

Tshukudu told a press conference this week that they were concerned about the recent academic results from both the Primary School Leavers Examinations (PSLE) and Junior Certificate Examinations (JCE). He said while there was slight improvement on...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 26 January 2018

Mukokomani to call it a day

He will effectively bring to an end a reign that began in 2012. It is reported that Mukokomani’s vice, Katlholo Mosimanegape is keen on contesting for the presidency.  “I believe that it is enough. I have done my part and let other...

Calistus Kolantsho | 26 January 2018

Hamba kahle Bra Hugh Masekela

Bra Hugh lost a protracted battle with prostate cancer, and passed away in Johannesburg aged 78. The world-renowned trumpeter has been been battling prostate cancer since 2008. A great man who needs no introduction, Bra Hugh spent close to three...

Mmegi Editor | 26 January 2018

Francistown businessman, Paulson wins top-of-the-range Cruiser from Haskins

Champaign flowed as Paulson managed to pick the right key after he was left with only one competitor. Six others had been eliminated in preceding nail-biting and feverish rounds of fumbling. The runner up did not go empty-handed as he was left...

Staff Writer 26 January 2018

Monastery of judgeship

I have been lucky to have such loving family, relatives and friends. My friend Eddie Mdluli last week crafted a piece in which he lionised me – coming very close to conferring me with judicial sainthood! Thank you Eddie. You are such a sweet...

Correspondent 26 January 2018

Feisty First Division race back on track

Motlakase Power Dynamos kept an astounding chase on unyielding BR Highlanders in the first round. And when they had the chance to leapfrog the Mahalapye side in the last fixture, they slipped to Francistown City Greens. The difference between...

Koketso Kgoboge 26 January 2018

Concerned Shah meets Mogorosi, Msomi

The two have been suspended from all football activities and face a disciplinary hearing. Mogorosi and Msomi charged at TAFIC’s Samuel Phiri after he had slapped Edwin Moalosi. The two Rollers players will now miss Sunday’s Mascom Top 8...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 26 January 2018

Free scoring GU look to bombard Ostriches

It will be a tough ask for last year’s finalists to redeem their lacklustre season in the lucrative cup against the Reds who are proving to be one of the most potent sides going forward. The Ostriches are fresh from a 2-0 battering at the...

Koketso Kgoboge 26 January 2018

Botswana, Bra Hugh�s second home, mourns

The jazz maestro, who spent three decades in exile during the apartheid era, had association with Botswana from way back, but his most notable was when he sought refuge in 1980. After settling in the country, he set up a mobile recording studio and...

Mompati Tlhankane | 26 January 2018

Remembering Bra Hugh Masekela

In case you are wondering, yes it was Professor Fako, the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Botswana who was the compere on that particular Saturday evening! Momentarily, the man himself, Hugh Masekela, spotting an Afro hair-style, showed...

Titus Mbuya | 26 January 2018

Paradigm shift needed to drive rugby forward

If the Botswana Rugby Union wants to move at a new, quicker speed, it has to re-arrange its furniture. The issue of appointing coaches, should come after the BRU gets in a fulltime general manager or chief executive officer (CEO) to head the...

Calistus Kolantsho | 26 January 2018

Reikeletseng, Modongo in harsh exchange of words

Reikeletseng said Modongo, who has taken the BNSC to court over his suspension, should channel his energy elsewhere instead of scaring people away from sport. “It is always a good thing when people like him are not involved in sport,” he...

Calistus Kolantsho | 26 January 2018

Kemoeng pleads with Gunners supporters to avoid complaints

Tsa Gae (Pty) Limited director, Ludo Kemoeng made the plea during the unveiling of a new sponsorship from Chinese company, Meizu in Gaborone on Wednesday.  Kemoeng said he realised that like in any situation, Gunners have people whose main role...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 26 January 2018

Francistowners� last word to Khama

Dalton Khupe “He is calm, strategic and fair. I remember President Khama for having allowed foreigners (Zimbabweans) to stay in Botswana freely without a need to acquire visas and we have benefited a lot from products in the...

Keneilwe Ramphopho 26 January 2018

NBFIRA: Half of medical aids defaulted in 2017

“This reflects a serious challenge when reporting about the sector, as the authority has to exercise oversight over the financial soundness of medical schemes to ensure the protection of the members,” NBFIRA said in its recently released...

Pauline Dikuelo | 26 January 2018

Remembering Bra Hugh

“Hey! Shut the f**k up!” bellowed Bra Hugh Masekela’s raspy sandpaper voice as he shouted at some excited old bloke donning a black beret from the audience who was screaming and cheering like a paid cheerleader to his music. That...

Thalefang Charles | 26 January 2018

JCE 2017 results show slight improvement

According to a statement released by BEC, overall performance indicates that 33.80% of candidates have been awarded Grade C or better compared to 32.54% in 2016, which represents an increase of 1.26 percent. This year only two candidates obtained...

Lenitame Motsokono 26 January 2018

Okavango Delta: Studying Angola�s terra incognita

CAPE TOWN: For years, the southeastern region of Angola, a host to the sources of the Okavango, Zambezi and Kwanza rivers, has been a terra incognita – a mystery to science. It has remained a black hole in the map of biodiversity data because...

Thalefang Charles | 26 January 2018

Farewells pour in as Dingake leaves the bench

Edwin Cameron Judge, Constitutional Court of South Africa It has been a privilege over the last 10 years to work with, and to get to know, Justice Oagile "Key" Dingake. He has proved himself a passionate, highly intelligent, forthright advocate for...

Correspondent 26 January 2018

US legislator presents bill to protect Okavango Delta

Trump’s party member, Jeff Fortenberry from the US House of Representatives, presented a Bill aimed at promoting sustainable economic development and combating wildlife trafficking in the Okavango River basin. In a January 18, 2018 release,...

Thalefang Charles | 26 January 2018

Mauritius among targets of PrimeTime�s P200m war chest

PrimeTime managing director, Sandy Kelly said the group was actively looking for investment and expansion opportunities to be funded through the P200 million, the budget remaining for such activities in the financial year which runs to August...

Mbongeni Mguni | 26 January 2018

Accountants bluff their way through technology

The accounting profession is undergoing its biggest technological transformation since the introduction of the personal computer and accounting curriculums will need to be overhauled to keep up with the changing environment, according to one leading...

Correspondent 26 January 2018

Alleged poaching kingpin engages attorney

The State alleged that the self-employed Moyo, 52, from Zimbabwe, Godwin Mbaiwa, 55, from Zoroga village and others not before court acting together in concert were at the Francistown-Orapa junction unlawfully found with a rhinoceros horn in October...

Lenitame Motsokono 26 January 2018

Lerala boss faces 20 years for �deceiving investors�

Government and Lerala Mine’s owner, Kimberley Diamonds are presently tussling in a Belgian court over a parcel of 53,000 carats authorities here believe was spirited out of the country just before Lerala’s closure last year. Creditors,...

Mbongeni Mguni | 26 January 2018

Move or be moved: Block 5 squatters face Feb 28 deadline

Things had been quiet for five years.  At some point during those years, the community of squatters living at the edge of Block 5 must have believed the October 2011 Lobatse High Court ruling ordering them off the land, must have simply been...

Mbongeni Mguni | 26 January 2018

The bruising fight for land

The story repeats itself everytime. One Land Board or the other calls for applications.  Hungry land-seekers sleep at offices and sometimes riot in the morning. No amount of warnings and pleas not to sleep or riot make a difference. It has...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 26 January 2018

Anguish for vendors as council mulls mass evictions

Thoughts of the yellow monster have hung over the hundreds making a living off the Gaborone City Council’s market stalls, since last June.  In that month, the council told vendors to prepare for removal from the stall due primarily to the...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 26 January 2018

A slap in the face for football

Botswana football fans were transported on a journey they rarely travel, with gruesome sights, but occurring right in their backyard. The UB Stadium was the venue for Tuesday night’s shameful scenes, which left an indelible black mark on local...

Mqondisi Dube | 26 January 2018

Improve Bulela Ditswe or risk losing elections � analysts

While the party insists the first run of primaries held in opposition led constituencies were “peaceful and did not have lot of problems,” that was further from the truth. University of Botswana (UB) political science lecturer, Leonard...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 26 January 2018

BOPEU challenges BURS �lockout�

BOPEU, which is representing BURS employees that were engaged in the strike, had taken the war with the revenue services to the Court of Appeal on grounds that the lockout notice was unlawful. BOPEU and BURS have been in a legal battle, both at the...

Mpho Mokwape | 26 January 2018

AP embarks on nationwide launches

“We are busy putting together party structures across the 57 constituencies and 450 wards across the country,” the AP vice president, Wynter Mmolotsi told Mmegi this week. The AP is currently working around the clock training leaders to...

Ryder Gabathuse | 26 January 2018

Disbelieving customers win 30 cars

Inside the giant marquee on the eastern outskirts of Commerce Park, were 30 boxes laden with till slips belonging to customers who had entered the Win-A-Car. The boxes belonged to different suppliers of the retailing giant’s different...

Staff Writer 26 January 2018

Yet another church battle breaks out

The battle is the latest to hit the local faith sector in recent times, where highly publicised disputes have rocked other churches such as the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), Evangelical Lutheran, Roman Catholic Church and Shepherd Bushiri’s...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 26 January 2018

Victory for officers, sour grapes for gov�t

The pair were this week squaring off at the Court of Appeal with the government trying to convince the three-man bench the officers were not entitled to remuneration as per a 2008 directive. The Education Officers who are supervisors of school heads...

Mpho Mokwape | 26 January 2018

Peace reigns since deportation of �Sebina Monster�

In the aftermath of the gruesome incidents, residents of the above villages, especially women, imposed a temporary curfew upon themselves not to visit fields and cattleposts, which are the mainstay of their livelihoods for fear of their lives. The...

Lebogang Mosikare | 26 January 2018

How political novice beat veterans to their game

The 38-year-old political novice slugged it out with much accomplished politicians in former Francistown South MP, Khumongwana Maoto and former city deputy mayor, Lamodimo Dikomang. Both politicians are old enough to be Lucas’ parents. While...

Ryder Gabathuse | 26 January 2018

BDP youth suspensions likely to backfire

The ruling party recently suspended Thabo Autlwetse, Onneile Segwai, Bruce Nkgakile, Thatayaone Serema, Bonang Morapedi, Kitso Mazebedi, Sekano Bodio and Patience Kaego. Kabo Ketshogile, who was suspended resigned before the disciplinary hearing took...

Chakalisa Dube | 26 January 2018

Khama addresses a bitter, hopeless crowd

It has become an official tradition for the exiting state President to traverse the length and breadth of the country bidding citizens farewell after serving the statutory 10 years. Khama hands power to Vice President, Mokgweetsi Masisi in an...

Ryder Gabathuse | 26 January 2018

BOPEU counter-punches: demands P20m from Motsamai

Motsamai had in November 2017 slapped his former employer with a claim of P2,101, 456.01 plus 10% interest. The former president of Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU), filed his suit before Justice Abednego Tafa after his contract was...

Oarabile Mosikare 26 January 2018

Wrong ideas about writing

I would expect someone who is, or wants to be a writer to know how to use Google and to actually use it. If you don’t have time nor inclination to search for your own answers, please give up writing now and find a less demanding...

Lauri Kubuitsile 26 January 2018

Of Khama�s gifts and sex dolls

Now, government is taking from the poor and rich alike under whatever guise it is. Yes, just like the very fire preachers they are persecuting. Except that with government, the whole nation is a fire church. How the ministry responsible for keeping...

Kgosietsile Ngakaagae | 26 January 2018

US secret war inside �shithole� Africa

Behind these anti- immigration remarks by Trump, many people all over the world are unaware that there is a real, but largely concealed war which is taking place throughout the African continent. It involves the United States, an invigorated Russia...

Solly Rakgomo 26 January 2018