Select Year:

• 2024 |
• 2023 |
• 2022 |
• 2021 |
• 2020 |
• 2019 |
• 2018 |
• 2017 |
• 2016 |
• 2015 |
• 2014 |
• 2013 |
• 2012 |
• 2011 |
• 2010 |
• 2009 |
• 2008 |
• 2007 |
• 2006 |
• 2005 |
• 2004 |
• 2003 |

Select Month:

• January |
• February |
• March |
• April |
• May |
• June |
• July |
• August |
• September |
• October |
• November |
• December |

Archives:

• Wednesday July 02
• Thursday July 03
• Friday July 04
• Monday July 07
• Wednesday July 09
• Thursday July 10
• Friday July 11
• Monday July 14
• Tuesday July 15
• Wednesday July 16
• Thursday July 17
• Friday July 18
• Monday July 21
• Wednesday July 23
• Thursday July 24
• Friday July 25
• Monday July 28
• Tuesday July 29
• Wednesday July 30
• Thursday July 31

Front Page this week: Mayhem At BOPEU

Thalefang Charles 30 July 2018

Caprivi Refugees

Selefu 30 July 2018

Blood moon total lunar eclipse

Thalefang Charles | 30 July 2018

Laughing At My Stupid Pain

The smooth ride can blink through a passage of life faster than Molepolole lighting. Yes, I’m here today, and hopefully for a while to come, to share my life’s journey. Here to rally your friends, and even foes, to points of...

Pamela Dube | 30 July 2018

Under Pressure BOPEU Must Put House In Order

Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) seems to have had its own share of challenges, which intensified last year when the labour organisation decided to kick out its former president, who at the time was employed as the executive chairperson of...

Monitor Editor 30 July 2018

Zimbabwe: First election without Mugabe

The country's founding president, Mr Mugabe, was ousted last year after almost four decades in power.  The main contenders in the presidential vote are incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa, of the ruling Zanu-PF party, and opposition leader Nelson...

BBC.COM 30 July 2018

Passion Keeps Phikwe's Elegant Designs In Business

Elegant Designs’ woes come from the general downturn in the economy of Selebi-Phikwe, the once thriving copper and nickel-mining town rendered a near ghost town by the closure of BCL Mine in 2016. Elegant Designs, established in 2011 and...

Onalenna Kelebeile 30 July 2018

Kanye Suspected Cattle Rustler Hits Back

Apparently, the police gate-crushed a lobola ceremony in Goo-Ruele ward in Kanye and extracted five cattle, which were part of the bride price, from the enclosure they had been kraaled in.  To the chagrin of the bride and groom and their invited...

Pini Bothoko | 30 July 2018

Family Shocked As 'Missing' Son Is Nailed

Tebogo, who had been missing since the burial of his parents and brother, had gone AWOL following his family members’ murders mid-last month. Whilst the Ramantosha family was still reeling from the grief of losing their loved ones, on Thursday...

Pini Bothoko | 30 July 2018

Jwaneng Desert Bush Walk Growing, Gruelling

The walk that is a charity event and also used to promote healthy living combined conventional walkers and individuals who never exercise regularly for both the 15km and 30km walk. It was somehow common belief amongst some first-time participants...

Mompati Tlhankane | 30 July 2018

Mlambo Builds Underprivileged Woman A Home

Thanks to Darius Mlambo, 35, now Batungamile occupies a bachelor pad with a bedroom, sitting room, kitchen, and an en-suite bathroom and toilet. Mlambo’s good gesture started as a cycling trip from Gaborone to Borolong village back in 2016 to...

Pini Bothoko | 30 July 2018

CoA ZCC Judgement Catastrophic - Ndadi

“The outcome is a catastrophic one. It means the government and the members of the ZCC cannot touch the Bishop if he violates the laws of Botswana or the constitution of the ZCC as we contend he does, yet he has reserved himself absolute powers...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 30 July 2018

CoA Sends Kgosibodiba To The Gallows

The Francistown High Court convicted Kgosibodiba in 2017 for the murder of Benjamin Mokobela without extenuating circumstances, which happened on February 1 or 2, 2012 in Makobo village. It is said that the new entrant to the death-row killed his...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 30 July 2018

Cheated Murderer Loses Appeal

A bench of three Court of Appeal judges, Jacobus Brand, Monametsi Gaongalelwe and Abednego Tafa, dismissed the application. Oteng Gabakalelwe was in 2016 sentenced to 18 years in jail for killing his girlfriend, Oakantse Galentebale in 2011 over...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 30 July 2018

Suspected Cousin Slayer Granted Bail

Arnold Ofentse was brutally murdered in Mogoditshane with his throat slit only for investigations to lead to his guardian’s son. This comes a few weeks after High Court judge, Omphemetse Motumise, turned down his bail application, as...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 30 July 2018

Motsamai's Shadow Lurks Behind BOPEU Chaos

Approached for comment late Saturday after appearing to have survived a coup by disgruntled members of her National Executive, Mogwera was unflinching: “We have information that some of our members are working with outside forces to frustrate...

Staff Writer 30 July 2018

Let Us Implement Pathway

This makes education the common denominator for all existing developments regardless of demographic factors. Keeping up with the modern trends in the educational systems is not an option. As a matter of fact, the opposite will have devastating long...

Ignatious Njobvu 30 July 2018

Modongo Continues To Haunt BAFS

BAFS president, Mandla Masuku told the meeting that Modongo keeps threatening the society with lawsuits. He said such interferences make them uneasy and that they are a drawback. However, Masuku said with a strong team he has, they have come up with...

Calistus Kolantsho | 30 July 2018

Hogs Grab 7s Championship

Hogs won the 7s title after beating Jwaneng 38-0 in the final. Hogs pocketed P5,000 while Jwaneng received P3,000. The marauding Hogs did not have mercy as they walloped UB Rhinos 24-0 in the semi-final. On the other hand, Jwaneng crushed BDF...

Calistus Kolantsho | 30 July 2018

Ledumang Lift BISA Cup After Dramatic Final

The game finished 1-1 in regulation time and the teams had to be separated by the lottery of penalties. FSS were the first to ask questions on the afternoon with Mmilidzi Muzila coming close in the third minute. Ledumang tried to exploit the...

Kabelo Boranabi | 30 July 2018

Rollers' CAF Lights Dim

This is the first home game loss to Rollers in the competition since losing 2-1 to Kaizer Chiefs in 2015 whilst it cements the Blues at the third place in Group A with just three points. The two sides met just a fortnight after Al-Ahly registered a...

Kabelo Boranabi | 30 July 2018

Musicians Fingered In Piracy

From time immemorial, musicians from Botswana and the world have been crying foul that pirates are enjoying the fruits of their intellectual labour while some of them are wallowing in poverty having nothing to show for their sweat despite having been...

Lebogang Mosikare | 30 July 2018

Is It Because Of The Queues?

Also in the news were the two hospitals, Princess Marina and Lobatse, the former because it was to be given a partial upgrading and the latter because the Ministry has so abandoned it that it barely exists as a hospital at all. I have long had...

Sandy Grant 30 July 2018

Re-Writing "Rape" (I) - An Acquaintence With The Crime Of Rape - A Definition

The articles that will follow will explore various elements that add up to the crime of rape, including consent, painting the picture of the problem of rape in Botswana, who rapists are, why rape is a national crisis, and how we are where we are with...

Lesego Nswahu Nchunga | 30 July 2018

Ghanzi In History (Part 5) – The Kgalagadi Scramble

As a result in 1884, the Germans were able to begin their own occupation of Namibia on the pretext that the land was not under the effective jurisdiction of another so-called “civilised”, that is to say European, power. The history of...

Jeff Ramsay | 30 July 2018

Woman found beheaded in Tlokweng

Police spokesperson senior superintendent Near Bagali said the woman was suspected to be between the ages of 25 and 35 years. The body was found by passers-by, dumped in the bush. “We received a call this morning informing us that a...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 30 July 2018

Unplugged Comedy Fest More Than Tickles

The comedy night featured Botswana’s K-LO, Phenyo The Master, Mr. O, Mawee, Rekunde, Thapelo Malani and Lebo English while Zimbabwean comedian, Clive Chigubu, was the host. As host, Chigubu showed why he is an award-winning comedian with his...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 30 July 2018

Boardroom War Erupts At BOPEU

The union is reportedly cash-strapped and is recently reported to be reversing salary increments they had made to their employees. The five were on Saturday afternoon suspended from their positions at the BOPEU National Executive Committee (NEC)...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 30 July 2018

Size 10 Restaurant Takes Local Cuisine A Notch Up

Located in the heart of the capital city Gaborone, Size 10 restaurant offers traditional food that include seswaa, mokwetjepe, mokoto, koko ya Setswana, oxtail served with either bogobe ja lerotse, pap or dikgobe. Just barely a month since the...

Pauline Dikuelo | 30 July 2018