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Front Page this week: Serowe West Vetted Khama Out
Correspondent 20 August 2018
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Selefu 20 August 2018
Let's Be Cautious When Self-Medicating With Herbs
Although herbs are said to be harmless, some can be potentially dangerous, especially to people taking medication. Apart from possible dangers emanating from interactions with prescription medicine, there is also another danger of people who often...
Monitor Editor 20 August 2018
Late Goal Stuns Rollers In CAF Tie
Rollers travelled to Uganda without head coach, Nikola Kavazovic who is said to be attending some personal matter back at his home country. They were also without defender, Kaone Van Der Westhuizen as well as Mwampule Masule and Ofentse Nato...
Staff Writer 20 August 2018
Netball Team Misses Out On The World Cup
Team Botswana missed out on the prestigious tournament that is to be held in Liverpool, England after managing only two wins from five games losing three in their campaign, placing the team in position four just above Kenya and Namibia. The team...
Correspondent 20 August 2018
Youth Chess Tournament Proves A Success
It attracted a total of 70 players from around the country including the visually impaired from Mochudi Resource Centre for the Blind. The visually impaired players were taking part in a competitive chess tournament for the first time since Limitless...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 20 August 2018
Fraiser's Solitary Strike Earns Police Maximum Points
With low spectator turnout and lack of branding the match could have been easily mistaken for a pre-season warm up. The law enforcers had a field day in the mid-park and created an avalanche of chances but were not clinical. Highlanders’...
Koketso Kgoboge 20 August 2018
Hogs Claim Bokomo Sevens Title
Hogs are the current Botswana Rugby Union (BRU) Super Rugby League defending champions. Hogs 7s coach, Jeremy Babbage told Sport Monitor that they had prepared well for the season and are now being rewarded by winning everything that comes their...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 20 August 2018
Galaxy Distance Themselves From Moyo Saga
Following his move from Orapa to Jwaneng, Moyo was initially linked with a transfer to Jwaneng Galaxy from Orapa United. However speaking at the club’s press briefing on Saturday, club spokesperson, Archibald Ngakayagae said they have never had...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 20 August 2018
Chiefs, Gunners In Thrilling Draw
Gunners held a 2-0 lead into the half time break, but Chiefs managed to take a 3-2 lead in the second half. Mapantsola were saved from the blushes by a late penalty call. Gunners were the first to ask questions as in the second minute Kabelano...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 20 August 2018
Local Gospel Artists Honoured
The awards were graced by the who is who of the industry, with the assistant minister of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development, Dikgang Makgalemele as the guest of honour. Makgalemele noted in his remarks that AGA 2018 are aimed at...
Betty Ramohubu 20 August 2018
Culture & Heritage Botswana Pageant Trust To Send Reps To China
In an interview with Showtime, founder and patron of Mr/Miss Culture & Heritage Botswana Pageant Trust Millicent Shunda said they have scheduled the crowning of the two beauty queens for September 23, 2018. This comes after her organisation was...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 20 August 2018
BDC Divest From Kwalape Tours and Safaris
The transaction is part of a broader strategy by BDC to divest from mature industries as well as those sectors that had demonstrated adequate private sector capacity to invest and operate in. The transfer to Batswana owners offers the company an...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 20 August 2018
RDC Properties Profits Bounce Back
Speaking during the results presentations this week, RDC Properties executive chairperson, Guido Giachetti attributed the good performance to the Botswana portfolio, which contributed the largest share. “The good results are underpinned by...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 20 August 2018
CEDA Boss Decry Sluggish Growth In Agribusiness
Speaking during the Serowe Agricultural show recently, Thamane told farmers that for the first time in the organisation’s history, services sector has surpassed agribusiness in terms of portfolio size. “Services sector has the largest...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 20 August 2018
Special Olympics Explained
Usually when people talk about sports for persons with disabilities what comes to their mind is physical impairment or visually impaired sport events. Intellectual disability is not mental health case; it is a condition resulting from slow...
Correspondent 20 August 2018
Talented Yngwie Segwabe Benefits From Yale University's Africa Program
Segwabe recently returned from a 10-day mentorship programme in Rwanda hosted by famous United States of America (USA) university, the University of Yale, which runs a programme in Africa targeting talented young leaders to impart life skills, and...
Correspondent 20 August 2018
Palapye Man Dies After Eating 'Herbal' Plant
The four, who are employees of a Chinese company that is constructing the Botswana Housing Corporation houses at Extension 7 in Palapye, were said to have taken the said medicine a week ago. A colleague, Ishmael Nwako, said the four were about to...
Koketso Kgoboge 20 August 2018
Venson-Moitoi Decries Immoral, Unethical Behaviour In The Church
They also help maintain order in the society at large. However Pelonomi-Venson Moitoi, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development has said that as per various reports, a notable number of some leaders might not be keen to execute...
Chakalisa Dube
| 20 August 2018
Khama's Countrywide Meetings Continue To Divide BDP
Khama addressed a kgotla meeting in Francistown East on Friday. Although he did not make any political statements, his visit did not go well with some Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) members associated to James Kgalajwe who will face incumbent Member...
Chakalisa Dube
| 20 August 2018
AP Sends Youthful Kelebeng Back Home To Takatokwane
Kelebeng grew up in Motokwe village in the constituency, one of undeveloped areas in the country. “Our people despite all the hardships are people of high spirits. I never realised that our people were wallowing in abject poverty; our parents...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 20 August 2018
AP Hold Primaries In 22 Constituencies
Speaking at a press conference last week, Kelebeng said they would hold more primaries in September as they are still working on their structures. “We are going to contest in many constituencies. For now, 22 are ready to go for...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 20 August 2018
Irregularities Delay Jwaneng/Mabutsane BNF Results
The Monitor has learnt that the counting was immediately stopped after some polling agents found some irregularities on the ballot papers. This is not the first time that the results for primary elections never got announced in some wards due to...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 20 August 2018
Decapitation Murder Suspect Also Face Drug Charges
Court documents state that on the first count, Kgowe, facing unlawful possession of cannabis was on or about May 21, 2016 found with the habit forming drug weighing 11.3 grams at Block 3 location in Gaborone. On count two, he is facing an offence of...
Pini Bothoko
| 20 August 2018
Mogwera Holds Fort At BOPEU, For Now
Mogwera who was suspended from the BOPEU office together with the national executive committee (NEC) and refusing to voluntarily vacate offices has survived another day in the office as the interim committee has failed to convince the court to move...
Mpho Mokwape
| 20 August 2018
Bushiri Shuts Troubled Gaborone Church
The church is entangled in a bitter war with the government, and was de-registered late last year for amongst other things, not submitting audited financial results for two financial years. The church went on to challenge the court decision and was...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 20 August 2018
Bakang Seretse & Co Clash With DCEC Over 'Dodgy' Court Order
Seretse and co who are accused of dipping their hands into millions from the National Petroleum Fund (NPF) accuse the DCEC of closing them out of objecting to the continuous seizure of their property by obtaining an order without even informing them...
Mpho Mokwape
| 20 August 2018
Penal Code 59 – A Trap Still Waiting To Be Sprung
It is now, long ago. So, allow me to recap by cobbling together bits from the internet. In her first issue on September 29, 1995, Caitlin, having first asked a reporter to get the reaction of the police, ran a front-page report about a gang of youths...
Sandy Grant 20 August 2018
Where Art Thee Father!
Twice, he came knocking, and many times before and after we met, made telephone calls to share ideas and progress reports. His call? “What is it that I can do to help fight gender based violence?” When we finally met on Wednesday, he...
Pamela Dube
| 20 August 2018
Re-Writing Rape (Iv) - Why Is Rape Becoming A National Problem
Essentially, as a society, we have this idea that women are these crazy, gold-digging humans, who cannot be trusted when it comes to sex. These women we have conceived in our minds hold so much sexual power over men, that men find themselves helpless...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 20 August 2018
Ghanzi In History (Part 8) – Samkoa & Sheppard
News of the growing threat posed by Samakoa’s brigands was communicated to the Ghanzi Magistrate, Capt. A.L. Cuzen by the Acting Magistrate at Gobabis, SWA, Lt. E.L. Grayson, in a dispatch dated August 19, 1922: “I daresay that you have...
Jeff Ramsay
| 20 August 2018
SARPCCO workshops investigators on human trafficking
The Southern African Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation (SARPCCO) is an organ made up of member countries in Southern Africa that realised the need to cooperate at regional level in order to address crimes threatening regional peace and...
Correspondent 20 August 2018
Dipela-Tsa-Ga-Kobokwe Steal The Show At Batlokwa Cultural Day
Popular artists such as Ramunyaku, Nnunu Ramogotsi, Culture Spears, Dr Vom, Dipela tsa Ga Kobokwe and poets Poets Kgosintwa Gaborone and Tshekiso Ramonk provided entertainment during the annual event celebrated on the third week of August, which...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 20 August 2018
MP Khama Rejected By Serowe West Committee
The MP, who is also Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism has been accused by his own party of paying no attention to his constituents. The accusations towards Khama are surfacing as he is challenging the candidacy of...
Mpho Mokwape
| 20 August 2018
Defying Odds Through Motivational Speaking
Kontle has managed to defy all odds and penetrate the neighbouring market through his company, Hope T Consulting, which offers motivational speaking, team building, and wellness just to mention. With just his Degree in Theology, Kontle was brave...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 20 August 2018
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