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Front Page this week: Judges fight over ministers' BMW
Calistus Kolantsho 16 March 2018
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Solly Rakgomo 16 March 2018
DCEC better not fool us
This happened days after what appeared like a covert operation that saw DCEC agents camping out at Maele’s house. On Sunday morning, the minister was taken to the DCEC offices to explain the large sums of money found in his yard. Maele has...
Mmegi Editor
| 16 March 2018
Partnering for growth, development
My passion for public private partnership (PPP) is the reason this proverb is close to my heart. Around the World, there are plenty of examples of the value of good partnerships in the advancement of socio-economic development. In 2004, the United...
Correspondent 16 March 2018
Karate team selection just about done
Karatekas are expected to give their all as they attempt to catch the eyes of the national team selectors. Junior team national coach, Sensei George Tshikare said there is a bunch of talented young boys and girls, some from as far as Chobe, all...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 16 March 2018
Thebe recovers to make Commonwealth Games team
Thebe has been in the sidelines due to a muscle injury he picked during the Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) Super Night Meet series in Lobatse last month. Thebe did not compete at the Athletix Grand Prix, which was held in Pretoria last week, as...
Calistus Kolantsho 16 March 2018
Fat cheques await Rollers players
Rollers are just 90 minutes away from achieving a rare feat, as they seek to become the first local team to reach the group stages of continental club football. Notwane were the first team to reach the second round in 1995, while Gaborone United...
Staff Writer 16 March 2018
Dark days in volleyball as league uncertain
In a bid to arrest the slide, the federation has hired a consultant to assist in finding a sponsor. BVF public relations officer, Kagiso Meswele told Mmegi Sport that there was a meeting to discuss sponsorship on Tuesday, although details were not...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 16 March 2018
Highlanders face tough exam in derby
The leaders have collected just one point from two games after the Movers’ defeat and a draw against Nico United. They do well against top sides, but have struggled against teams on the lower side of the log. Hotspurs, who are blowing...
Koketso Kgoboge 16 March 2018
Technical storm brewing at Rollers
Kavazovic was appointed ‘The Blues’ coach at the start of the season on a one-year contract, with an option to extend for a further two years. Mpote was in charge last season, leading Popa to their 14th domestic title. Information...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 16 March 2018
Shah promises financial stability at BPL
“In the BPL there are so many areas where we need to achieve. (It) may be the players’ welfare, the teams’ welfare, the financial sustainability or the sponsorship criteria. There are so many areas but for me in this period, my...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 16 March 2018
Rollers' time to eat
After years of continental famine, the feast might have just arrived for Township Rollers. For years, Rollers have laboured in CAF club competitions, and despite their decorated local history, they have failed to progress past the first round on the...
Mqondisi Dube
| 16 March 2018
WIA celebrates Women's Day
The event was spearheaded by Career Coaching Botswana under the theme, #PressforProgress. The event brought together exceptional women from all fields such as technology, farming, arts, business and others. WIA performers spoiled the audience...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 16 March 2018
Maun Rocks music fest coming soon
Before the heart pounding action of Botswana’s own version of Rodeo comes the annual Maun Rocks Musical event scheduled for March 30 at Country Farm. The legendary house band Revolution that has more than seven albums will headline the event....
Mompati Tlhankane
| 16 March 2018
N'henna Designs finally launched
“Henna takes patience and since it’s my passion, I always invest time in creating these beautiful designs,” she said. She encouraged artists to support each other so that they can grow. She added that she exhibits her work mostly at...
Oleosi Kgosi 16 March 2018
Exciting menu at Ghetto All Stars Open Championships
The school’s managing director, Tebogo Gaseitsiwe said the school has been in existence for four years and has since then been participating in national competitions outside the city, hence the reason she decided to host the event she described...
Olefile Serokolo 16 March 2018
Behind Rekunde's hilarious accent
As Botswana’s first female stand-up comedian, she has already made an indelible mark on the comedic landscape. Today’s comedy world is packed with brilliant male comedic minds, but Rekunde with her heavy Ngamiland accent is up there with...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 16 March 2018
We need a Ministry of Youth
This was a radio programme about the youth, so perhaps this person was pulling everything out of his hat in the hope of showing how much that ministry is doing for young people. But when I heard it, I was disappointed. I’ve written here before...
Lauri Kubuitsile 16 March 2018
BIHL brainstorms over shrinking formal sector jobs
While growth in the formal sector has remained largely flat, even declining by 2,600 jobs between September 2016 and September 2017, informal sector employment, led by the Ipelegeng programme, has been swelling. The Ipelegeng programme rose by 2,862...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 16 March 2018
Small fish swimming against the tide
The smaller auditing firms are the proverbial small fish swimming in a big pond, except this particular pond is crocodile-infested. The local auditing market is dominated nearly entirely by the Big Four: PwC, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst & Young,...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 16 March 2018
Letshego revises profits after P118m tax bill
Letshego had cautioned investors about the possible tax bill when it initially published its year-end results on March 5. This week, the microlender revealed that year-end profits were now P681.3 million from the initially stated P745.4 million,...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 16 March 2018
In coming First Lady commemorates International Women's Day
A good morning to you all. It is an honour and pleasure to be here with you on this commemorative event following on the heels of the 2018 International Women’s Day, which was held on March 8, 2018. You will recall that the United Nations (UN)...
Correspondent 16 March 2018
Khama, presidential term limits in Africa
Leaders of the liberation struggles were celebrated throughout Africa as an air of optimism filled the atmosphere across the whole continent. Poor Africans who were brutally dispossessed of land and basic human rights, looked up to liberation...
Solly Rakgomo 16 March 2018
A re diriseng maemedi sentle
Fa ngwaga o setse o simologile, e bile e kete ba le bantsi ba tlaa itlhoboga, ya na mo balemi bangwe ba neng ba nametsega. Ya re pelo di ne di sudile, potso e le, ‘Re tlaa dika re rileng?’ jaanong ga itumelwa, ga solofelwa gore, tema ele,...
Sebofo Motshwane 16 March 2018
No internal party democracy or without internal party justice?
There was a time when some party members of parliament, we are told, were rounded up and made to sign undertakings to vote an executive preferred choice. It is easy to lambast party executives for overbearing conduct. We must remember, however, that...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 16 March 2018
From Ipelegeng to Nursing
Many young people’s lives are ruined by drugs and alcohol abuse, as they abandon their studies and wind up either unemployed, engaged in crime or doing menial tasks. Otlametse Shapa did not exactly follow this path. The young man from Maun,...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 16 March 2018
Judgement Day in battle over P400m
Late night, Motumise also ruled that former High Court judge and veteran attorney, Peter Collins remain as statutory manager of asset manager, Capital Management Botswana (CMB), in the interim while final judgement is awaited. Mmegi has been...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 16 March 2018
Moselewapula: A crowded political affair
To be precise, about 14 politicians from both the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) and the opposition Botswana Congress Party (BCP) have thrown their hats in the ring. As politics is proving to be another major employer in the country and...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 16 March 2018
Legislators' spat that caught the public's eye
At the centre were Tati East Member of Parliament (MP) Samson Moyo Guma and Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Sadique Kebonang. Guma, who started the tirade in Parliament had ridiculed his senior party colleague,...
Chakalisa Dube
| 16 March 2018
Lottery licences suspended
The Authority was interdicted from proceeding with, nor taking any further action in accepting, assessing and processing the Botswana National Lottery Licence applications. This is purely because the Authority already has a pending arbitration case...
Mpho Mokwape
| 16 March 2018
Health practitioners beef security against listeriosis
Listeriosis, which is a serious infection usually caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes broke out in South Africa in January 2017 and as of now has already killed over 180 people causing alarm in neighbouring...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 16 March 2018
Mhalapitsa chieftaincy row boils on
Two dikgosi, George Tlhwane of Artesia and Michael Molefe of Kopong were in the village to deliver the ruling on behalf of the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Slumber Tsogwane. As Tlhwane stood to announce the minister’s...
Correspondent 16 March 2018
BURS institutes remedial action on VAT payment
The BURS, through its management, has instituted remedial action to those affected following two court cases that emanated from similar undertakings where deputy sheriffs were made to pay VAT despite not being registered for it. This led to court...
Mpho Mokwape
| 16 March 2018
Sex scandals rock Law Society
The LSB management was forced to conduct investigations when numerous complaints by staff members were recorded, one senior staff member told Mmegi. In a report by LSB council themed investigations, it indicates that staff members Mpho Rammai and...
Mpho Mokwape
| 16 March 2018
Judges spurn costly Volvos for pricey BMWs
The bone of contention is that the 26 High Court Judges are demanding to be bought BMW 5 Series while the government has settled for Volvo S60. The 26 BMWs, which were to be procured from Capital BMW go for P19,5million collectively, or P750,000...
Oarabile Mosikare 16 March 2018
Cut 9 to yield 48 million carats at Jwaneng
Known as Cut 9, the massive project will involve tapping into a 40 million tonne ore body at Jwaneng Mine. Since the middle of last year, Debswana has been producing diamonds from its Cut 8 seam, which was accessed by deepening the pit from 410...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 16 March 2018
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