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Avengers: Infinity War
The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
The Strangers: Prey at Night
A family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths.
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Early Man
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their...
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
A Quiet Place
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Acrimony
A faithful wife, tired of standing by her devious husband, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. A faithful wife, tired of standing by her devious husband, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed.
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Blockers
Three parents try to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night.
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Avengers: Infinity War
The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Early Man
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their...
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Acrimony
A faithful wife, tired of standing by her devious husband, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed.
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
The Strangers: Prey at Night
A family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths.
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Avengers: Infinity War
The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Early Man
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their...
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Blockers
Three parents try to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night.
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Rampage
Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry ...
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Black Panther
T'Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T'Challa's father's mistake. T'Challa, the King of...
Staff Writer 27 April 2018
Boela Gae!
Lauri Kubuitsile 27 April 2018
Make hay come rain or shine
We could be excused for this as it is the most successful international competition for the country, as Team BW grabbed five medals - three gold, silver and a bronze - thus finishing in the 16th spot from 71 participating nations. The feeling brings...
Mmegi Editor
| 27 April 2018
Mascom tipped for volleyball return
The Botswana Volleyball Federation (BVF) launches its league sponsorship at Oasis Motel in Tlokweng today and Mascom is expected to be unveiled as the returning sponsor. Mascom was the last company to sponsor the league in 2016. BVF spokesperson,...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 27 April 2018
Sponsorship nightmare for IWG conference
IWG secretary general, Game Mothibi told Mmegi Sport this week that, despite persistent knocks on several doors, there has been no luck with sponsorship. She said they have partners and some of them are coming as speakers and...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 27 April 2018
Young coach leads team to historic play-offs
Mpatane is the sole owner and coach of Eleven Angels who were recently crowned Division One champions in the Francistown region and in the process qualified for the FDN play-offs to be played in a fortnight. In Division One, Angels were up against...
Chakalisa Dube
| 27 April 2018
FNB in talks to rescue women football
However, a month later the proposed deal is yet to materialise as the BFA awaits a response from the potential sponsor. Sources said the BFA was in advanced talks with commercial bank, First National Bank Botswana (FNBB) and the deal is almost...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 27 April 2018
Galaxy, Rollers in dramatic cliff-hanger
Rollers have been sitting at the top with a three point advantage for sometime only to lose the top spot to Galaxy after the midweek results. Not only has Galaxy equalled the number of points (57) but they have also extended their goal difference,...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 27 April 2018
Makwala's earnings top P1million
While Makwala has made other earnings, which have not been made public, they include appearance fees. Makwala’s prize money, which was made public, stood at P990,000 as of this week before appearance fees are even included, with more companies...
Mqondisi Dube
| 27 April 2018
BAA, BNOC fight over athletes
The country won five medals, the highest since the first participation in 1974, but the BAA, who produced the winners, now feels neglected after the team’s success. Mooketsi said they worked together with the BNOC in Gold Coast, but now...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 27 April 2018
Kwambala festival enhanced
This year’s show takes place on Saturday at the Francistown Stadium starting just after lunch until 6am on Sunday. The festival was launched last year amid much fanfare, but the maiden event was relatively average. It was mostly marred by poor...
Chakalisa Dube
| 27 April 2018
Miss Beauty with Albinism to raise awareness
According to the pageant’s director, Phildelphia Motlaiile, the contest is the first of its kind in the country. She said its main objective is to raise awareness on albinism and make the general public appreciate and understand people living...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 27 April 2018
Mister Gaborone contestants engage in social activities
“Mister Gaborone contestants have engaged in different community activities. Some of them are working with children living with disabilities whilst others are engaged in different social activities. These contestants will continue with...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 27 April 2018
Probe cites IFSCs as money laundering, tax evasion hotspots
The report attributed the high vulnerability in the IFSC segment to lack of cross border supervision and monitoring, as most of them are foreign-owned. Locally some of the IFSC-accredited firms include giant corporations such as Letshego Holdings,...
Correspondent 27 April 2018
NBFIRA weighs options after defeat in P400m battle
BusinessWeek has established that NBFIRA is aiming to secure the establishment of a precedent in the matter, which revolves around P422 million fought over between CMB and the Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOPF). The BPOPF and the CMB, an...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 27 April 2018
Kurly Roots to stage a natural hair show
Kurly Roots is a public communication campaign aiming to endorse better treatment of natural hair and to purposely serve as a platform that advocates for the better treatment and full embrace of natural hair. Kemo Segotso who is the campaign manager...
Oleosi Kgosi 27 April 2018
Protecting the dwindling 'diamonds of Bobirwa'
When the summer rains come to the eastern parts of Botswana, people travel into the region from hours away, and head into the mopane woodlands in search of the ‘diamonds of Bobirwa’. The caterpillars of the region’s distinctive...
Correspondent 27 April 2018
Can competition be effective in the midst of unemployment and company closures?
And so here I am this morning trying to answer a very weighty and forthright question: Can competition be effective in the midst of unemployment and company closures? It is tempting to respond with a quick and unequivocal “Yes”. I have...
Correspondent 27 April 2018
Khama's last Acts
Read together, the revised Competition Act and Consumer Protection Act provide for the establishment of the Competition and Consumer Authority, Competition and Consumer Board and Competition and Consumer Tribunal. The new entities, empowered with...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 27 April 2018
Cuba foreign policy remains intact - Ambassador
Díaz-Canel, elected by Parliament last week, is the first person outside the Castro dynasty to lead Cuba in decades. Botswana and Cuba have 40 years in bilateral diplomatic relationship, especially in areas like health, education and...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 27 April 2018
Write What You Know- Is It Good Or Bad Advice?
good or bad advice? Some people think it means that your fiction should be thinly veiled autobiography. These people might tell you that the only legitimate stories you can write are ones that stem from your own life, your own experiences. If that...
Lauri Kubuitsile 27 April 2018
Lefoko leo ke lesupi
Ka Ngwanatsele, ba setse ba bona gore mmu o siame, dijwalo di ka itshetlela, ke gone di latlhelwe dijokwe, megoma e tsene mo masimo, seme se lele. Kgomo ke eo, e ne e bidiwa Aforekannere, e goge, e re kgantele o utlwe e suma jaaka mosoko o gana go...
Sebofo Motshwane 27 April 2018
Western media demonise Palestinians
It is a calculated and long-term campaign, aimed at guarding or shielding Israel and demonising Palestinians. The disgraceful coverage of Gaza’s popular protests indicates that the media’s position aims at suppressing the truth on...
Solly Rakgomo 27 April 2018
Sore losers threaten to vote for opposition
FRANCISTOWN: BDP might lose the impending Moselewapula ward by-election next month if it ignores a grim warning from its primary election losers over the weekend. The weekend primary elections started off on a wrong footing with electricity cut for...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 27 April 2018
Spare us your sick culture
I have the same affinity for my roots, and for my country, as does Tanya Tucker. It is for a reason that I like the song “Texas, When I Die”. When I die, I want to go to heaven. But if as my detractors have suggested they...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 27 April 2018
Will Masisi, private media smoke the peace pipe?
At a ruling party press conference in Gaborone this week, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) leadership paraded its catch from the opposition with the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) hardest hit after losing one of its senior members of the executive...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 27 April 2018
Ministry suspends funding to Anne-Stine school
The Ministry together with other stakeholders such as the Ministry of Education made the announcement on Wednesday in Molepolole in a Kgotla meeting where the school board was in attendance. Anne-Stine is a school for disabled children funded by...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 27 April 2018
BONU petitions MoH&W
The petition started off with a march from Gaborone Senior Secondary School grounds to the ministry. In the petition that was handed to the ministry, BONU president Obonolo Rahube stated that nurses play a critical and indispensable role in the...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 27 April 2018
Palapye's newest Diphalane Mall finally opens
The opening of the mall has been delayed from November 2017. Earlier in the year, another date was set for March only to be postponed again. Yesterday the anchor tenant, Shoprite Supermarket opened doors for business. Four other tenants,...
Koketso Kgoboge 27 April 2018
Saleshando yet to find a constituency
This comes after party members in Francistown West anonymously shunned the idea by the party to exchange the constituency with the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) in an internal party meeting on Wednesday night. The BCP and BMD are partners in...
Chakalisa Dube
| 27 April 2018
Palapye to have two mines by 2021
The coal development company intends to tap into 2.45 billion tons of coal resource south of Morupule mine, the country manager Comfort Molosiwa has said. He said the next mining activity will be in Shalakwe, 30 km north of Morupule where they have...
Onalenna Kelebeile 27 April 2018
Bungled rape case leads to acquittal
While acquitting the accused the court observed, “It is clear that at the material time to the occurrence of the alleged rape, the complainant had taken alcohol. It is not clear from the record of proceedings her state of intoxication. What is...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 27 April 2018
'Voter-trafficking', losers' old song - Boikhutso
Speaking to Mmegi this week following his emphatic victory at the party’s Moselewapula ward primary election held at Mahudiri Primary School last Saturday, Boikhutso brushed aside accusations of voter trafficking downplaying it as normal...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 27 April 2018
Judge absolves attorney Molatlhegi in land dispute
Molatlhegi, who was accused of having transferred a plot in Block 8, Gaborone to a buyer without the consent of the owner, was absolved from the dispute together with two other defendants in the matter. The Gaborone lawyer, having claimed ignorance...
Mpho Mokwape
| 27 April 2018
LGBTI equality for a fairer future
In the African continent, there has been a very mixed record of achievement on human rights and social justice for vulnerable and key populations, including LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) persons. It is correct to assert...
Key Dingake 27 April 2018
Storytelling to save the Delta
NatGeo’s Into the Okavango film combines art, adventure and the power of storytelling in an inspiring endeavour to save the Okavango Delta – the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage Site. Recognised as one of the most iconic natural areas on...
Thalefang Charles
| 27 April 2018
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