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Inside Page this week: Getbucks donates towards teachers,students at Lapologang
Pini Bothoko 07 December 2018
Inside Page this week: The power social media influencers wield
Pini Bothoko 07 December 2018
Inside Page this week: Bank license contender withdraws application
Pini Bothoko 07 December 2018
Back Page this week: Organisers admit accommodation blunder
Pini Bothoko 07 December 2018
Front Page this week: Butale accuses Balopi of favouritism
Pini Bothoko 07 December 2018
Jacobs withdraws Masisi's legitimacy challenge case
This came after Jacobs made an application to court stating that Masisi does not have the powers to appoint any party structure. Jacobs, who lost BDP primaries to Dr Thapelo Matsheka for the Lobatse constituency, said Masisi’s legitimacy to the...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 07 December 2018
The NPF saga goes on
Selefu 07 December 2018
Keep BOCRA's keen eye on network providers
Most customers have taken to social media to show their discontent in the way the cellular network providers are (de)servicing them. The complaints, which in most cases the customers raise include amongst others, billing, missing airtime and...
Mmegi Editor
| 07 December 2018
Gaborone's turn to host Region 5 Games
The games have been running since the first ones held in Mozambique in 2004. The AUSC Council of Ministers adopted a Five Year Development Plan at their November 23, 1997 meeting in Cabinda, Angola. One of the Projects in the Development Plan was the...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 07 December 2018
SA in touch with envoy over accommodation drama
The team has engaged its High Commissioner in Gaborone to assist if the matter was not resolved by yesterday. The games’ organising committee said athletes would only move into the Games Village, which is the University of Botswana (UB),...
Staff Writer 07 December 2018
Botswana targets South Africa's scalp
The team has set an ambitious target of winning 15 gold, 16 silver and 11 bronze medals. However, the team did not have a dream start after going down 54-24 to Zimbabwe in the opening netball game yesterday. On the brighter side, two tennis players...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 07 December 2018
Champions League exit a blessing - Shah
Shah said their exit would mean they do not incur costs, in a financially demanding tournament, which only starts rewarding in the group stages. Last season, Rollers created history when they became the first Botswana team to reach the group stages...
Mqondisi Dube
| 07 December 2018
Branch P200,000 short ahead of Dakar Rally
Branch told Mmegi Sport this week that he has to rely on donations from the public and private companies alike after failing to secure funding from the Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC). “Fundraising is the hardest part of going to...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 07 December 2018
Rollers search for answers as goals dry
Their slow scoring rate continued during the CAF Champions League tie against Bantu FC of Lesotho. Usually free-scoring, The Blues are struggling in front after parting ways with coach, Nikola Kavazovic in October, which has seen their goal ratio...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 07 December 2018
Suspended First Division committee seek legal redress
Suspended chairperson, Mpezeni Sambandawe said they were disturbed by various reports, which often carried one side of the story while they were bound by procedures and could not respond adequately. He said they were not given an opportunity to...
Koketso Kgoboge 07 December 2018
Mpote bemoans lack of experience
Mpote watched haplessly on Wednesday night as his charges conceded two quick goals at the beginning of the second half in a CAF Confederations Cup clash against visiting Atlético Petróleos de Luanda at the Francistown Sports...
Chakalisa Dube
| 07 December 2018
Selebi-Phikwe to be named as new 'Mantshwabisi' host
Last month, the Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) announced that the race would move away from the diamond-mining town of Jwaneng after five years. Since the announcement, Selibe-Phikwe was seen as the front runner to get the nod to host the...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 07 December 2018
Organisers admit accommodation blunder
Athletes from 10 countries started arriving in Gaborone on Tuesday, but were told that the University of Botswana (UB), which is the games’ village, was not ready. The athletes ended up sleeping in common rooms and buses. Peloewetse told Mmegi...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 07 December 2018
The Brothers Trio to serenade jazz fans
The trio who are saxophonist,acoustic guitarist and trumpeter respectively who aptly call themselves The Brothers Trio, promises a refreshing yet energetic performance when they debut at Somarelang Tikologo during a musical event called ‘A...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 07 December 2018
Bush Farm Thamaga's only hangover from Sundays
To kick the habit if not to blissfully nurse the unwelcome hangover, people in Thamaga have found a way to create positive vibes into a full swing family fun day with an event called Bush Farm Sundays. The event, which is normally, hosted every last...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 07 December 2018
Little Miss Princess Botswana returns
Little Miss Princess of the World Botswana is the first children’s beauty pageant in the local beauty pageant industry. In an interview with the local pageantry director Tebbie Lebanna, she said they will host the pageantry’s auditions...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 07 December 2018
The power social media influencers wield
He was powerful enough to discredit Kast’s Tlatsa Lebala event. With more than 145k likes, he is influential enough to exert his persuasion on his followers. From posts about preserving bananas and the four kings project, he fully interacts...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 07 December 2018
Prime Time showcases new home décor shopping mall
“We wanted a unique shopping mall catering for home décor, furniture shops, interior designs to mention a few and there are other upcoming developments at Setlhoa,” he said. Design Quarter shopping mall was built by Time Projects...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 07 December 2018
The new Transfer Duty Act and you
Firstly, and worthy of note, the definition of a citizen owned company has been amended to reflect that, all the shares have to be owned by a citizen for it to qualify as a citizen company. As such, the 51% shareholding qualification previously...
Correspondent 07 December 2018
Of elephant overpopulation and desertification
Now due to the above topic, recently Botswana government embarked on countrywide consultations to find out as to whether the 2014 hunting ban could be uplifted or not because these giants are causing a concern. Botswana is a landlocked country...
Correspondent 07 December 2018
Pollution from used car fumes is a silent killer, WHO warns Botswana
KATOWICE, Poland: “Don’t make the mistake we did,” says Maria Neira, director in the Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health at the World Health Organisation (WHO). Speaking in an interview at...
Correspondent 07 December 2018
Morupule B is down again, so why isn't BPC panicking?
Hardly any consumers felt the impact and in fact, most carried on about their business without any idea that the Palapye station was down. A few years ago, such a situation would have caused a national crisis, with the Botswana Power Corporation...
Staff Writer 07 December 2018
Gov't digs deeper to bail out farmers
Drought and Household Food Security Assessment and Analysis report conducted in April/May this year found that a poor harvest from 2017/18 had left hundreds of thousands of families across the country at the mercy of government’s emergency...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 07 December 2018
Don't give up yet, Radithupa urges
Radithupa Radithupa says there should be rains along the country’s eastern regions, both north and south, starting this weekend and leading into next week. Should that happen, the rains could be the signal for hundreds of thousands of communal...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 07 December 2018
Meanwhile, in the North…
Following the first rains in the north, farmers under the Tonota, Tutume and Masunga (TOTUMA) arable and commercial Farmers Association are optimistic of a productive season regardless of the poor rainfall forecast by the Meteorological Services...
Chakalisa Dube
| 07 December 2018
The agony of the heat
MOSIMANETHEBE KGABONNGWE Mmasebele Lands Our main challenge here is lack of rainfall and heat waves. If the situation continues like this I foresee drought and famine. My main worry is that our land is very fertile but looking at the current...
Kennedy Ramokone
| 07 December 2018
Minister denies rift with SA
His response followed a motion for the adjournment-definite matter for urgent public importance by Member of Parliament (MP) of Mogoditshane Sedirwa Kgoroba on Tuesday who asked the Government to revise the laws relating to the importation of...
Ookeditse Malesela 07 December 2018
Fare thee well Seisa
Hordes of mourners last weekend thronged Tutume village in the north central part of the country to pay their last respects to a fallen hero popularly known as ‘KS’ by his congregants and other people he mingled with during his...
Correspondent 07 December 2018
Instructor calls for first aid in driving tests
Michael Seleka is a trained first aider who volunteers his services in schools, other institutions and even public transport operators and drivers about first aid. He says that it is crucial for drivers to know first aid basics because they are...
Onalenna Kelebeile 07 December 2018
Phikwe miners SACCOS accounts frozen
SPM SACCOS has been facing operational challenges following the BCL and Tati Nickel Mines closure in 2016 and had membership drop from 2,280 to the current 694, thus seriously affecting its cash-flows that threatens its survival. In a bid to save...
Onalenna Kelebeile 07 December 2018
BMWU shocked by jailing of ex-members
This was said by assistant Minister of Basic Education, Thato Kwerepe this week when responding to a question from Member of Parliament for Selebi-Phikwe West, Dithapelo Keorapetse. Keorapetse had wanted to know the number of people who are serving...
Onalenna Kelebeile 07 December 2018
SEDC to stem stench with new landfill compactor
The old compactor has been having a problem since last year and the council kept on trying to fix it though it had broken down several times. In October 2017, the machine must have broken down so irreparably waste materials continued being dumped...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 07 December 2018
DCEC nabs alleged corrupt NEDC officer
Mmegi is reliably informed that recently DCEC operatives came and whisked away Timothy Clarence Moesi, the Local Authorities Procurement and Asset Disposal (LAPAD) secretary based in Masunga. He was later released. Allegations have now surfaced of...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 07 December 2018
BMD takes UDC to court
He said they were working on court papers that will be served on the UDC before Christmas. BMD time frame to appeal the decision by the UDC to suspend them from the affiliation expired last week and it had never bothered to appeal. UDC had given BMD...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 07 December 2018
Lebotse appointed to Lesotho High Court
Lebotse who served for the country’s judiciary for a term and was not short-listed for a permanent position confirmed his appointment to Mmegi to the mountainous nation’s High Court. Though still a bit cagey about the matter because the...
Mpho Mokwape
| 07 December 2018
FCC councillors play games while people suffer
They often face the responsibility of dealing with intricate, personal and social problems that some of their constituents experience. One of their key roles is to develop a long-term strategic vision that will have a lasting effect on their people....
Chakalisa Dube
| 07 December 2018
BOSETU condemns APP
This comes after this year’s PSLE results showed a slight improvement compared to last year’s, though having still not drawn any confidence in the future of candidates’ performance at subsequent levels. Responding to the 2018 PSLE...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 07 December 2018
Punch drunk football sings the blues
Football’s burst of optimism has been crudely punctured in recent weeks. The smell of defeat is overwhelming and evenly spread across pitches, from the Stade Olympique in Mauritania, across to the Kamuzu Banda Stadium in Blantyre, spilling...
Mqondisi Dube
| 07 December 2018
Granny's rape-murder suspects further remanded
The duo, Modisakgotla Keganeditse, 24, and Moabi Morwalela, 21, are alleged to have robbed Grace Keakantse, 70, of a mobile phone worth P249 at her place of residence in Area W during the wee hours of November 17, 2018 before allegedly proceeding to...
Tsogo Ramatsabana 07 December 2018
Remembering George Bush Snr
The fact, however, is that it was the blundering of George H. W. Bush and Baker in 1990 that set the stage for George W. Bush’s calamitous move 13 years later. It was Papa Bush, after all, who sent American troops half way around the world to...
Solly Rakgomo 07 December 2018
Jalo, a dirisitswe jaaka lediri
Go buiwe gape ka HIV/AIDS gore le yone e itlhatlhobelwe. Ba tswelele ba re, go thibela malwetse a a sa tshelanweng a, batho ba je dijo ka go di tlhaola, ba ele tlhoko gore ba ja eng. Go twe, a ba se je sengwe le sengwe fela, e se re gongwe, dijo...
Sebofo Motshwane 07 December 2018
Let us fix this constitution
The drafters of our constitution left the door sufficiently open for legal executive indiscretion. A reckless concentration of power on the executive weakened oversight institutions and reduced them to tools of the very people whose excesses they...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 07 December 2018
Butale accuses Balopi of favouritism
Butale, who has taken the party to court, has revealed in his founding affidavit that Simon Moabi who is cited as the third respondent in the matter was a fan favourite of Balopi and was given support to topple him. In the affidavit filed through...
Mpho Mokwape
| 07 December 2018
Bank licence contender withdraws application
While the identity of the applicant has been cloaked in official secrecy, observers have read the move as a blow to the country’s aspirations to establish a citizen-owned or homegrown bank. The two known institutions that have publicly...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 07 December 2018
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