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In this week's paper: Masisi's rule under threat

Oarabile Mosikare 09 February 2018

Front runners for Chief Justice post

Sources within the Administration of Justice (AoJ) said the powers that be have their eye on Lesetedi. One reason why the thinking is returning him back to the High Court to head it, is that for as long as the Court of Appeal Judge President (JP)...

Oarabile Mosikare 09 February 2018

Trump

Mmegi Editor 09 February 2018

Compliant BNSC affiliates get grant relief

The resolution was adopted during the Sports Pitso held at the Majestic Five hotel in Palapye last weekend. The Pitso resolved that up to 30% of the annual grant will be given to National Sport Associations (NSAs), provided they meet accounting...

Calistus Kolantsho | 09 February 2018

Chief Justice weighs in on �bail after bail�

In 2017, the Botswana Police Service upped the ante by pouncing unannounced on crime scenes following surveillance and intelligence gathering and parading suspects in the public glare on national television. Using this strategy, police have arrested...

Correspondent 09 February 2018

ILO decries Botswana snub

This comes to light in the newly released Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations. The report partly states that the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards “notes the discussion...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 09 February 2018

NLB takes legal route to recoup P70m debt

The NLB is also threatening to repossess ranches that have been undeveloped for over three years, which are also in default of lease rentals for a similar period. About 666 ranches have been allocated in theCentral District and only 364 have been...

Koketso Kgoboge 09 February 2018

Thothi keeps it flowing at Boatle

Metsemaswaane River is one of the three main sources of inflows to Gaborone Dam. The River crosses the A1 to Lobatse just near Mokolodi, where it flows to meet with the Taung and Notwane Rivers, that feed the Dam. The P1.7 billion project, which...

Mbongeni Mguni | 09 February 2018

Using CSR to influence positive perceptions of the Chinese by South Africans: Hit or Miss

“My grandfather came to South Africa in 1898. My father, born in China in 1910, he came to South Africa just about the time Japan attacked China and its persistent actions eventually sparked World War II. My father came because he had gotten a...

Correspondent 09 February 2018

Employ more teachers to curb class overcrowding

The teacher/student ratio was even identified as one of the reasons why government schools - from primary to senior secondary level - yield dismal results year after year. Soon after the outcry as is typical of Batswana, the issue of the recently...

Mmegi Editor | 09 February 2018

No kid gloves for gov�t in litigation

Keetshabe in his first address of delegates at the opening of the legal year this week said government was not accorded any special rights rather it was brutally equal to all other litigating parties. “The government has the same duties and...

Mpho Mokwape | 09 February 2018

PrEP ambassador claims the drug reduces HIV infections

“PrEP can stop HIV from taking hold and spreading throughout your body thus prevent HIV from making copies of itself in the body. Everybody who is HIV negative at a substantial risk of getting HIV for example gays or bisexual men, transgender...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 09 February 2018

Francistown economy in ICU

Any renewed optimism about the economy of Francistown getting out of the doldrums were dealt a heavy blow on Wednesday after councillors adopted the proposed tentative budget for the fiscal year 2018/2019. According to councillor Zibanani Benefield,...

Lebogang Mosikare | 09 February 2018

NBIFRA left clutching air in P400m row

NBFIRA, responding in part to complaints by the Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOPF) over a P400 million dispute with CMB, last Wednesday placed the private equity firm under statutory management and appointed veteran attorney and former...

Mbongeni Mguni | 09 February 2018

LSB chair accuses judicial officers of corruption

Addressing the opening of the legal year on Tuesday, Monthe called on Batswana to be more vigilant against corruption and bribery in the judiciary, which he said could prove a real challenge to the rule of law. Monthe said that bribing of judicial...

Mpho Mokwape | 09 February 2018

Masisi�s influence, leadership under threat

Masisi is scheduled to take over from Khama on April 1, 2018. The outgoing Khama leaves office on March 31, 2018. The recent appointments have attracted criticism from public sector unions and even some members of the ruling Botswana Democratic...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 09 February 2018

BCP, BNF push for database

Botswana National Front (BNF) and Botswana Congress Party (BCP) held their individual party leadership forums contemporaneously in Moshupa and Palapye, at which delegates made resolutions that the UDC and their party conferences would be forced to...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 09 February 2018

Gov�t denies BCL retrenchment package claims

Speaking on behalf of the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security at the on-going Parliament session on Tuesday, Makgalemele said that there have never been funds budgeted to pay 12 months retrenchment packages for BCL...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 09 February 2018

Makwala gets Grand Prix invite

The 400m sensation will use the series to kickstart his 2018 season.  He last competed in the Diamond League last September, where he emerged triumphant. The Grand Prix series, organised by Athletics South Africa (ASA), would feature three...

Calistus Kolantsho | 09 February 2018

Butler�s greatest hits

* “#BFA the dinosaur Bright is destroying what WE not ME built over 3 years - calling old players is a travesty for the National Team #disgrace.” Butler twitted last August, just two months after he had left his job and David Bright came...

Mqondisi Dube | 09 February 2018

Al Merreikh ranked Africa�s fifth best side

Al Merreikh stayed fifth in the latest club rankings released on Monday, although the ratings are questionable, with some defunct sides still on the list. Rollers officials recently acknowledged Al Merreikh’s strength based on what are seen as...

Staff Writer 09 February 2018

Wait almost over for karate referee Rakgampu

The course starts on Sunday while the Dubai Open Karate Premier League is scheduled for Al Wasi Club from February 16 to 18, 2018. The premier league event was launched in 2011, and there are seven circuit events held in Paris, Dubai, Rotterdam,...

Calistus Kolantsho | 09 February 2018

Battered Reds face Ostriches again

The Reds return to Itekeng Stadium for a BTC Premiership encounter on Sunday. The two sides are fresh from a two-legged Mascom Top 8 tie, which left GU battered and bruised as the diamond miners recorded a resounding 5-1 aggregate win. Orapa first...

Koketso Kgoboge 09 February 2018

BPL turns to SA to improve league

BPL chief executive officer, Thabo ‘Styles’ Ntshinogang said they met the Premier Soccer League (PSL) executive committee and senior management. The benchmarking exercise is aimed at improving governance and the BPL product. The BPL...

Staff Writer 09 February 2018

Mogorosi, Msomi return for CAF tie

The two players are serving suspension from all Botswana Football Association (BFA) activities for their role in the match against TAFIC, which saw three players and an official given red cards. While many had doubted whether Rollers could do...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 09 February 2018

Biggest YAMAs winner, ATI pockets measly P10,000

The biggest winners on the night each pocketed P5,000 courtesy of First National Bank Botswana. For his two awards, ATI of Khiring Khiring, Khoring Khoring fame got P10,000 for both the best single male award and song of the year while Bouncy...

Mompati Tlhankane | 09 February 2018

Teenager turns art into a career

The teenaged told Arts and Culture that she accidentally ticked art as her practical subject when she started her Form One. As the saying goes, “everything happens for a reason”,  and that day, Twala’s destiny as an artist was...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 09 February 2018

Customising denim jackets

The Art Handz and Amateki Culture owner started off customising shoes and later caps, something that started off just as an idea to make pocket money. His abilities and skills won the young artist many reliable customers who continued supporting him...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 09 February 2018

Dry port�s hopes lie with SMEs

In the last quarter of 2017, traffic began building up at the Port with about 72 containers belonging to SMEs and full of imports from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. The dry port also handled 217 units of vehicles and equipment destined...

Pauline Dikuelo | 09 February 2018

Anxiety rises as tax incentive shakeup looms

Under the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) incentives package, qualifying firms enjoy a 15% corporate tax rate (as opposed to 22%) and conditional exemptions on Capital Gains Tax, Withholding Tax and other rates. The package, initially...

Mbongeni Mguni | 09 February 2018

BEMA welcomes budget, but . . .

The significant allocation towards the development and maintenance of economic infrastructure and focus on ease of doing business has our full support and applause.  Our road network for instance is in desperate need of improvement and...

Correspondent 09 February 2018

DTCB eyes world beyond Debswana

DTCB, established in 2006 as a joint venture between De Beers and government, is limited by its founding shareholder agreement to only sorting and valuing stones from Debswana, before selling these to De Beers and the state-owned Okavango Diamond...

Mbongeni Mguni | 09 February 2018

Chief Justice weighs in on �bail after bail�

In 2017, the Botswana Police Service upped the ante by pouncing unannounced on crime scenes following surveillance and intelligence gathering and parading suspects in the public glare on national television. Using this strategy, police have arrested...

Staff Writer 09 February 2018

Eyes to the skies for February

The crop situation for the season will increasingly become clear starting from this month. The official ploughing season for the South ended on Wednesday, while communal farmers in the North have until next Thursday. The start and end of the...

Mbongeni Mguni | 09 February 2018

'Jesus' arrested after yet another robbery

Following his release from police custody on Tuesday, Jesus was this afternoon caught red-handed after breaking into a house in Block 7 in Gaborone and stealing a laptop.  Eyewitnesses said the Block 7 Neighbourhood Watch team caught the boy...

Staff Writer 09 February 2018

BOSETU�s synopsis of 2017 JC results

It is extremely important that we look at the Botswana Examination Council (BEC) grading system before we attempt to analyse the results. This is necessitated by the fact that we cannot analyse that which we do not understand. That is to say, the...

Correspondent 09 February 2018

The budget speech and the legal year

The opening of the legal year is practically about nothing. I have been in this business for 18 years now, and I have attended almost all legal year opening ceremonies. The BDF bring the same feathered helmets, their Lordships and Ladyships wear the...

Kgosietsile Ngakaagae | 09 February 2018