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Front Page this week: 'I was cheated'
Calistus Kolantsho 05 October 2018
BMD Constituency
Selefu 05 October 2018
A balancing act needed in the Alcohol Levy reduction
This means the levy now will be 35% on the cost of production. This is the first reduction since the contentious levy was introduced in 2008. There were too many problems, which were brought about by the introduction of the levy ranging from loss of...
Mmegi Editor
| 05 October 2018
Race against time to raise P15m for Region 5 Games
BNSC chief executive officer (CEO), Falcon Sedimo told Mmegi Sport that the budget for the team is P15 million and they have not been able to raise the full amount. He said there are discussions between BNSC and the Ministry of Youth...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 05 October 2018
Women on song at Chess Olympiad
Ahead of the 10th round, highly-rated Botswana player Woman International Master, Dr Francis Onkemetse is sitting pretty with an impressive six points from nine games, a 68% performance rating. Francis did well in seven games only losing two...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 05 October 2018
Ministry in u-turn as Olesitse heads to Argentina
Last week, Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) chief executive officer, Tuelo Serufho had announced that the team would be travelling without the talented athlete due to the pending Junior Certificate Examinations. After meetings amongst...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 05 October 2018
Sitale shuns Lopang in chess election
Lopang was contesting for the Africa Chess Federation (ACC) vice presidency in elections held on the sidelines of the ongoing Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia on Wednesday. Sitale stepped down from contesting for the position of ACC president and...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 05 October 2018
Overused National Stadium turf takes pounding
The stadium is in constant use and this has seen the turf fail to recover. Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC) chairperson, Solomon Reikeletseng admitted the facility is struggling to cope. “It is highly utilised because it is the only...
Mqondisi Dube
| 05 October 2018
Gunners out to halt Rollers' juggernaut
But the Peleng giants are not prepared to be the gentle lamb, and have vowed to fight back when the two arch rivals trade blows at the Lobatse Sports Complex tomorrow afternoon. After joining the race late, Rollers have wasted no time in sending an...
Mqondisi Dube
| 05 October 2018
Moyo's departure affected Orapa plans
The Orapa-based side are second on the log with the same number of points as log leaders, Township Rollers. Moyo secured a job at Jwaneng mine before the beginning of the season and informed his club about the development. Following discussions...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 05 October 2018
FDN chairperson attacks BFA VP over audit
Sambandawe told Mmegi Sport this week that he felt the ‘brouhaha’ over the FDN audit was nothing but Motlogelwa’s vendetta against his committee. He said they are not the only committee who had been audited. “Other...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 05 October 2018
‘Olympics bid was ill-timed'
Botswana lost out to Senegal in a four-horse race to host the first ever Youth Olympic Games in Africa. In a candid interview yesterday, BNSC chairperson, Solly Reikeletseng said the bid’s timing was wrong. “The President (Mokgweetsi...
Mqondisi Dube
| 05 October 2018
Blue Train revenues inch forward to P15m
The passenger rail service was reintroduced in April 2016 and for the year up to December 2016, it transported 109,272 people earning P10 million. Figures released by Statistics Botswana last week suggest that the BR Express is still being...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 05 October 2018
Global equities lift Debswana's P7bn pension fund
The Debswana Pension Fund (DPF) has more than 12,000 members and holds about P7 billion in assets locally and offshore through 10 fund managers. The assets include local cash, local and offshore equities, property, local and offshore bonds,...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 05 October 2018
Bad financial moon rising
BASEL: No one should overestimate economists’ powers of understanding. Just as the magnitude of the global downturn that began in mid-2008 took most economists completely by surprise, so did the sclerotic nature of the recovery. Similarly,...
Correspondent 05 October 2018
Tonight's 'educative' youth pageantry to thrill Pres Hotel guests
The event director, Oteng Gabalebatse told Arts & Culture that the pageantry seeks to celebrate the talent and intellectual abilities of young men and women of Botswana. He said it would also build ascendancy and humane works through beauty and...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 05 October 2018
Bush Farm Sundays gave Thamaga residents a chill, relaxing Independence
The event, which is normally hosted every last Sunday of the month at Adashe Garden Resort, had attendants relaxed in a chilled environment. For a village known for notorious gangs and violence, it was quite a surprise to see people having fun...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 05 October 2018
Kebiditswe takes Motlhala play to Chile
Her original dramatic play, Motlhala, was selected by 25 jurors from across the world, and was sequentially chosen for a dramatic reading at this prestigious conference, which is held every three years in different continents. Kebiditswe is no...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 05 October 2018
Dance troupe seeks positive change
Kalatsakgale aims to venture into business to diversify opportunities as they look for sponsorships. Group spokesperson, Tshepo Tsela took Arts & Culture in to their confidence talking about their serious ambitions. First, they do not only...
Onalenna Kelebeile 05 October 2018
Fine artist takes her talent to other level
The 23-year-old mostly creates her works using pencil, charcoal, coloured pencil, acrylic and oil paint. The young artist told Arts & Culture she focuses on understanding her clients’ requirements to deliver quality work. “My...
Oleosi Kgosi 05 October 2018
Game ranching: An alternative and highly productive form of resource management
This fact demands that if His Excellency’s ambitions are to be met, we must focus on our rural areas. Our country is characterised by large areas of marginal low rainfall rangeland that is only capable of supporting extensive livestock...
Correspondent 05 October 2018
The business of youth unemployment
Statistics show that Africa has the world’s youngest population, with more than three fifths of its population under the age of 25 and the numbers expected to increase significantly. With majority of the working age population in Africa being...
Correspondent 05 October 2018
How the alcohol levy nearly killed St Louis
The Ministry of Health and Wellness last year commissioned the Botswana Institute of Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) to study the impact of the alcohol levy. Government officials have slowly revealed titbits from the study as they traverse the...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 05 October 2018
Alcohol levy cut saves 150 KBL jobs
The consultative process on the review of the alcohol levy and liquor trading hours is a two-ministry approach led by Health and Wellness, which is looking specifically at the levy, while Investment, Trade and Industry is focussed on the trading...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 05 October 2018
Boozegates burst wide open, but not everyone is merry
A week ago, assistant trade minister, Moiseraele Goya sat in the midst of a roomful of the country’s most prominent liquor traders and assured them that all efforts would be taken to avoid a shock reduction of the 55% alcohol levy. Members of...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 05 October 2018
Weeding it out
Firstly, we need to dispel the belief that the legalisation of Cannabis means that it is a harmless substance. The legality of substances says little about harms: tobacco and alcohol are legal but they still cause significant harm to users and...
Correspondent 05 October 2018
DCEC engaged to investigate BALA
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) members have learnt that BALA has been failing to account for the money that they are given by the government yearly. The special elected MP, Reggie Reatile wanted to know why the Ministry keeps on dispersing money to...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 05 October 2018
Government feels destitute pinch
Speaking before Public Accounting Committee (PAC) on Wednesday, Matlhare said the budget for destitution programme keeps on going up because of the increasing number of beneficiaries. Mmegi has learnt that the numbers of people affected by...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 05 October 2018
Hang-man phase out burdens prison officers
The Public Accounts Committee yesterday learnt that the vacancy for the hangman longer existed as it was phased out due to no one applying for the job. The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Justice and Security, Segakweng Tsiane told...
Mpho Mokwape
| 05 October 2018
Palapye's staunch members leave BCP
Veteran politician Comfort Molosiwa, Boikago-Madiba incumbent councillor, Area Gabathusi, Isaac Lepang who contested Mmaphula East and Dineo Tumotumo who contested Mmaphula West have served the party with resignation letters. Molosiwa argued that...
Koketso Kgoboge 05 October 2018
Mabaila's fate will be delivered today
Mabaila is facing several charges said to be against the rules and regulations and General Code of Conduct of the ruling party which led party President Mokgweetsi Masisi to slap him with a two months suspension. The offences include behaving in a...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 05 October 2018
BLLAHWU condemns dissolution of Sowa Town Council
BLLAHWU, a trade union that organises workers in local authorities yesterday said that it is immensely disturbed by the dissolution of Sowa Town Council. This week, it was reported that minister Venson-Moitoi on Wednesday started the process of...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 05 October 2018
Maruapula 'person of interest' in kidnapping rap
According to police sources, Maruapula is “a person of interest” in the kidnapping of the businessman by men pretending to be police officers at Gaborone College of Law and Professional Studies. Apparently, the businessman has too...
Staff Writer 05 October 2018
Monkge's firing: The other side of the story
FRANCISTOWN: The official version of Monkge’s forced exit has to do with the strong language he used to reprimand what he deemed as unacceptable levels of performance. Apparently, government relied upon a secret recording of the proceedings of...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 05 October 2018
'Wimpish' Magosi receives Kgosi deal equipment
DIS director general, Peter Magosi continues to receive the Israeli equipment in what seems to be unheeded calls and failing attempts to end the arms deal for the acquisition of security equipment and surveillance platform with associated...
Staff Writer 05 October 2018
Electoral Board's tragedy of errors exposed
Seretse is demanding that the results of the first Bulelwa Ditswe held in that constituency on August 25 be upheld as the legitimate results, a plea that he made even before the re-run that was held two weeks later. Section 12(b) of the BDP...
Staff Writer 05 October 2018
PEPFAR ceases ARV financing for refugees
PEPFAR is an initiative started in 2013 by the then US president, George Bush. It is president’s emergency plan that was designed to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and help save the lives of those suffering from the disease, primarily in...
Mpho Mokwape
| 05 October 2018
IEC registration saga: Credibility of elections in limbo
The incident happened on September 27 at Botsalano ward in the Francistown West constituency. The culprit(s) allegedly stole a bag containing two voters’ registration books. Each registration book contains 25 registrations papers. Of the two...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 05 October 2018
Choppies loses P1.7bn in value after sell-off frenzy
Choppies opened the week trading at P1.69 with a market capitalisation of P2.2 billion and by last Friday, was trading at P0.40 with a market capitalisation of P521 million. By Wednesday, the first day of trading after the long weekend, the regional...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 05 October 2018
"I was cheated" - Seretse
Authoritative sources within the constituency say Seretse wants the party’s Central Committee to overturn an Electoral Board decision that ordered the September 9, 2018 re-run. Seretse initially won the August 25 by-election, defeating his...
Oarabile Mosikare 05 October 2018
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