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Front Page this week: Issues raised about Masisi's honorary doctorate
Calistus Kolantsho 12 October 2018
Stay Calm!
Selefu 12 October 2018
Humans first, then animals
During the 2014-2016 record droughts, cattle ranchers in the west fought for rapidly declining, drought-ravaged pastures with the safari industry, which argued that wildlife brought revenues of a more sustainable and less fickle nature. In those...
Mmegi Editor
| 12 October 2018
Monkge's savingram shocks schools sports bodies
Monkge wrote to schools before his dismissal that teachers can only be involved in sports as volunteers, and they will not be remunerated for overtime, except, subsistence allowance for nights out, when they travel with pupils and...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 12 October 2018
Women's volleyball veers off course
The trademark swag and charisma that the women’s game has become known for, has sadly been missing of late. Women’s volleyball was known to churn out exports, almost every season, with the likes of Tracy Chaba going to the...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 12 October 2018
Rugby 7s team divides BRU
Mmegi Sport has leant that there were last minute changes to the travelling squad with assistant coach, Kabo Batsile and team manager, Donald Kandima booted out. Mathew Gibson replaced Kandima while, Batsile had to make way for the team medic,...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 12 October 2018
Top official dumps fencing for SA job
Chape has served as technical director for the past three years on voluntary basis, but has landed a five-year lucrative deal where he is reported to be earning just over R100, 000 per annum. Speaking to Mmegi Sport on Wednesday from South...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 12 October 2018
Men's team leaps 18 places after impressive Olympiad
The men’s team stormed into the top 100, after jumping 18 places to finish the tournament, ranked 98th up from 116th. Consistency may have been elusive but the men’s team did enough to improve their standings significantly, even without...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 12 October 2018
Booze, women and wet passport: Zebras kick back to life
Rapidly disappearing out of the public radar, the Zebras kicked firmly back into the spotlight this week. But it took a bitter concoction to get the nation talking about a team that once held fans spellbound with dizzying football and giant slaying...
Mqondisi Dube
| 12 October 2018
BNSC quizzed over inflated payments
Committee member, Mephato Reatile said this week that they have noted a series of incidents in which the Commission has paid service providers more than the initial quoted amount without any reasonable justification. Reatile grilled the Ministry of...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 12 October 2018
Battling TAFIC turns to Maygillip
“We recently had a meeting with him and he gave us some interesting tips on how we can turn the fortunes of the club around. He has promised that he will always be available when we need advice and we will also engage him more often,”...
Chakalisa Dube
| 12 October 2018
First CAF A licence held for local coaches
The training is the first of its kind to be conducted in the country as the BFA moves to plug the coaching skills gap. There are only three local coaches who hold the CAF A licence. Speaking at the official opening of the programme on Wednesday,...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 12 October 2018
Wait over as First Division action returns
The northern league secretary general, Rapula Gaothobogwe said they are expecting all outstanding debts to be cleared before the end of the week ahead of the league start as the sponsor has released funds. “Debswana has availed the funds, and...
Koketso Kgoboge 12 October 2018
GU ordered to pay Moatlhaping P46,000
Delivering a consent order, yesterday, Justice Tebogo Maruping of Gaborone Industrial Court said the club must pay the former player P46, 000 within three months. The amount will be paid in instalments of P15, 333.35 starting on November 30. He said...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 12 October 2018
Zebras look for a lift against Burkina Faso
The national side play the Stallions in a make or break Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the August 4 Stadium, in an 8pm kick-off. The Zebras’ dramatic week began with news that Jwaneng Galaxy midfielder, Lebogang Ditsele had been axed from...
Mqondisi Dube
| 12 October 2018
How to grapple with soaring world population? An answer from Botswana
The unit is the medical hub for Gasita, a village of 2,000 people in the south of Botswana. Inside one of the rooms, pharmaceutical supplies are neatly stashed on shelves while a photograph of the country’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, is...
Correspondent 12 October 2018
BDC snaps up stake in Transport Holdings
The P149 million deal has the effect of transforming Transport Holdings into a 100% citizen-owned enterprise. Speaking on Tuesday, BDC Managing Director, Bashi Gaetsaloe said the buyout is part of the Corporation’s strategy of steering the...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 12 October 2018
Will new technologies help or harm developing countries?
CAMBRIDGE: New technologies reduce the prices of goods and services to which they are applied. They also lead to the creation of new products. Consumers benefit from these improvements, regardless of whether they live in rich or poor...
Correspondent 12 October 2018
IMF slashes Botswana 2019 growth forecast to 3.6%
The latest revisions are contained in the IMF’s World Economic Outlook (WEO) released on Tuesday. Every year, the Bretton Woods institute releases the WEO in April before revising it in October. The WEO is the world’s most authoritative...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 12 October 2018
National Museum and Monuments celebrates 50th anniversary
When addressing the media at the museum’s Little Theatre on Tuesday, the deputy director at National Museum and Monuments Stephen Mogotsi said the celebrations would be held at National Museum and Monuments headquarters in Gaborone under the...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 12 October 2018
Mapetla on comeback trail
Now the award winner is on the verge of a return to the stage with a 14-track album to be released in November. Having taken a six-year leave from the industry after releasing his last album in 2012, Mapetla says he expects his sixth album to be...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 12 October 2018
Global rise of the far right
Yet, in just eight years, 2010-2018, the world has seen the extreme right move from being outside the corridors of power to the center of power itself.There is, of course, Donald Trump. But before his surprise electoral victory in November 2016,...
Solly Rakgomo 12 October 2018
Bangwe ba ka botsa gore Borwa ke mang
Nnyaa, tseo ga di sale gope. Fa motho a ntse a ya koo, a gola, di gole nae, mme e bile gongwe, di nne maswe thata. Mo go bangwe ditlhabi tsa mmele di gole, di oketsege; bangwe itsholelo e tlhofofale, ba bangwe ba opisiwe ditlhogo ke bana ka go...
Sebofo Motshwane 12 October 2018
Electoral offences continued
An offence of this nature is alleged to have happened before somewhere in Francistown. There is no record of a prosecution. Any person who corruptly, directly or indirectly, pays for any entertainment, other than food or drink, in order to corruptly...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 12 October 2018
Low key Tlatsa Lebala optimistic
Kast has already released the 100% local lineup for this year’s Tlatsa Lebala and it includes heavyweights such as Franco, Vee Mampeezy, Charma Gal, Slizer and many more. Kast told Arts & Culture that he has already revealed most of the...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 12 October 2018
Arts deferred for more pressing energy, water projects
The permanent secretary at the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development, Kago Ramokate told the committee that due to budgetary constraints arts projects were abandoned in favour of the more pressing water and power issues. The...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 12 October 2018
Actress Mekgwe picks up paintbrush
It was in that dark space that she picked her brush, dusted it and dipped it into some black paint and started painting. It was like she remembered her middle name ‘Keabetswe’ which literally means, ‘I am gifted’. Mekgwe...
Thalefang Charles
| 12 October 2018
The art of poling
Many people, especially from the south of the country, vowed to ‘never step on that thing’. The little vessel that helped the Bayei to tame the Okavango Delta and travel its precarious waterways lost its glory. Riding a mokoro was, ever...
Thalefang Charles
| 12 October 2018
What latest assessments on global warming mean for Southern Africa
Billed in the media as “life changing,” the report illustrates how crossing the ever-nearer threshold of 1.5 warming will affect the planet, and how difficult it will be to avoid overshooting this target. The special report takes a...
Correspondent 12 October 2018
Govt's new P100m bill: Counting climate change's costs
In the next few weeks, the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security, will lead three other ministries, all cap in hand to the Finance Ministry for additional funding to cover the costs of the failed 2017/18 cropping...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 12 October 2018
Zim refugees return home in dribs and drabs
According to reports an estimated three million Zimbabweans fled the country at the peak of the 2008 political persecution and hyper-inflationary pressure and sought refuge in the diaspora most particularly in South Africa and Botswana. Mmegi has...
Chakalisa Dube
| 12 October 2018
Halted dissolution a populist stunt - UB don
“This is a shock to everyone who has been listening to the unfolding factionalism bedevilling the ruling part,y which manifests itself in government functioning and performance,” said University of Botswana (UB) lecturer in political and...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 12 October 2018
Implement teachers' right to withdraw labour - Keorapetse
Speaking at a prize-giving ceremony at Lebogang Junior Secondary School this week, Keorapetse decried sour industrial relations between government and unions, added that issues such as teachers’ allowances, the 26 days issue and others related...
Onalenna Kelebeile 12 October 2018
Limko caps 455 graduates
Speaking at the university’s 2018 graduation media briefing in Gaborone on Monday, Thebe said the ceremony that was held Thursday will be celebrated under the theme, ‘Changing The World’. She said the graduates enhanced their...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 12 October 2018
IEC boss fumbles before PAC
The topic was a hot potato on Monday as members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) expressed their fear and discomfort over an exercise that they said could open up floodgates for cheating in the general elections. They said that they were not...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 12 October 2018
Khama-axed magistrate accuses Gabanagae of orchestrating downfall
Thabo Malambane, who was giving evidence when his case resumed on Wednesday before the Industrial Court, said people who were instrumental in his dismissal wanted him to do them favours when presiding over cases. In his sworn statement, Malambane...
Mpho Mokwape
| 12 October 2018
Namibia appoints Dibotelo Supreme Court judge
Justice Dibotelo who served as a judge of the High Court for 13 years and seven years as Chief Justice, retired from office in April 2018 at the age of 70.Reports reaching Mmegi have it that Dibotelo has been appointed on a two-year contract and had...
Mpho Mokwape
| 12 October 2018
Police commissioner bows down in a pregnancy challenge
Through a consent order that was reached before Justice Zein Kebonang recently, the fired trainee Keolebogile Nkgarapi will have a chance again to be enrolled back into training post confinement. According to the order, Nkgarapi who was only left...
Mpho Mokwape
| 12 October 2018
Gov't fires Sbrana sex pest
Dr Namendwa Kuboka Leech was given until tomorrow (October 13, 2018) to leave the country. In an interview with Mmegi, the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MoH&W) chief public relations officer Doreen Motshegwa said Leech’s contract was...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 12 October 2018
IEC hosts key stakeholders meeting
The Francistown-based IEC principal elections officer, Nyanga Nyanga said yesterday that the meeting is in accordance with his plan for the voter registration exercise to give his office findings of the progress made so far. The meeting will be held...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 12 October 2018
IEC still looking for 'stolen voters'
The IEC principal elections officer in Francistown, Nyanga Nyanga, revealed yesterday that they are working to find the ‘stolen voters’ so they could re-register. On September 27, thieves broke into a dwelling house of an elections...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 12 October 2018
BURS denies investigating Kebonang
Alongside asset manager, Bakang Seretse, the Judge was a director of Basis Point Capital in 2015 but later resigned when he joined the bench. The company was reportedly awarded a tender to draft technical, advisory and financial strategy of the...
Staff Writer 12 October 2018
Controversy deepens at BALA
At the centre of the controversy is BALA president Reverend Mpho Moruakgomo who is accused of disregarding procedure in acquiring property, hiring and firing of staff. One of the documents given to the permanent secretary of local government...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 12 October 2018
'Yes, I fired him'
Responding to a question from one of the attendants after his lecture at Oxford University on Wednesday night, Masisi confidently confirmed that he indeed fired Kgosi but he did not expressly state the reasons why he did it. “Yes I can...
Staff Writer 12 October 2018
Traditional values embody governance - Masisi
He said the best secret was in the traditional values that have sustained the nation from our ancestors, who placed people at the centre of governance. “People first and resources last. When you have a system that places human beings at the...
Enole Ditsheko 12 October 2018
Masisi dresses down BBC
However, Masisi turned the approach on its head and the chance might be that when the pre-recorded programme airs on Friday for millions of viewers around the world, a good chunk might be removed because the anchor fielded questions from a rather...
Enole Ditsheko 12 October 2018
The National Museum: Tragedy and humiliation
For at least four years, perhaps for longer, the Museum has been effectively closed. The effect has long been evident but few appear to have noticed and certainly few have cared. Comments on the internet have been damagingly clear. In late 2016 the...
Sandy Grant 12 October 2018
Issues raised about Masisi's honorary doctorate
The highest decision-making body of the UB, the Council, was not informed about the conferment of the doctorate on Masisi. Explaining the process that leads to one being honoured, a high ranking official at UB says: “The procedure as set out...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 12 October 2018
Mineral revenues drop 32% to P5bn
The drop comes even though production across the country’s mines was uniformly higher in the first half of the year, pointing to weaknesses in pricing across the board. At the recent Budget Pitso, the Finance Ministry said it expects mineral...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 12 October 2018
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