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Staff Writer 17 December 2018

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Staff Writer 17 December 2018

Let's Have A Safe, Fun Festive Season

Last Saturday four people lost their lives in four different accidents, and there were many more accidents on the roads, which were not fatal.  While it is not wrong to have fun, it is each and every individual’s responsibility to ensure...

Monitor Editor 17 December 2018

Thanks For Bettering COSBOTS

The success of our company has since its formative stages been built on the efforts of our members, our staff and all other key stakeholders – so thank you all. From the company’s humble beginnings, where our members were virtually just...

Lesego Nswahu Nchunga 17 December 2018

BDC Raises P500m For Investments

The Corporation’s Managing Director Bashi Gaetsaloe revealed this at a stakeholder briefing last week Thursday. According to Gaetsaloe, some of the amount will be pumped into pursuing investments in the local health care sector. The remaining...

Kaone Maje 17 December 2018

Bona Life Bounces Back

The Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority  (NBFIRA) last week announced the upliftment on the temporary closure of Bona Life which came into effect in July this year. “NBFIRA would like to inform members of the public that...

Pauline Dikuelo | 17 December 2018

Few Attend MiCasa Show

The show, which was held at Botswanacraft last Friday, did not attract a lot of fans compared to the previous ones.  Usually, Mascom Live Sessions shows are sold out, but this one failed to attract more people probably because of the Christmas...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 17 December 2018

TAFIC, Gilport Maintain Leads

Gilport Lions played to a 0-0 draw with Uniao Flamengo Santos at Lekidi Football ground on Saturday. TAFIC also played to a goalless draw against Great North Tigers (GNT) in the Francistown derby.  Lions are currently sitting at the top with 23...

Staff Writer 17 December 2018

Athletics Team Rises To The Occasion

As expected, the team did not disappoint and took the war to South Africa who have been grabbing gold medals.Though at some point, Botswana seemed to be struggling, the relay teams proved that they are the future of this country. South Africa easily...

Calistus Kolantsho | 17 December 2018

Gunners Happily Settle For Draw

Notwane had just come from an impressive 1-0 win over Orapa United midweek while the hosts’ preparations for the game were hampered by players boycotting training citing unpaid salaries. In the game, Notwane had the upper hand, but failed to...

Kabelo Boranabi | 17 December 2018

Football Fraternity Mourns Mogomotsi

Mogomotsi, who was serving as Mochudi Centre Chiefs vice chairperson, died following a terrible car accident on Friday night in Gaborone. He was also serving as the chairperson of Kgatleng Regional Football Association. Mogomotsi, who has been...

Staff Writer 17 December 2018

Gruesome 2018, Year Of Terror

Such cases seem to give evidence to the lack of value on the sanctity of human life, where certain individuals resort to killing whenever it suited them.  In 2016, Botswana Police Service recorded 285 murder cases.  The number increased to...

Pini Bothoko | 17 December 2018

BHC Renovates PPH Children's Ward

BHC chief executive officer, Reginald Motswaiso recently handed over the P75,000 renovated paediatric ward and the new playing area to the hospital authority. The ward has received a facelift with pacifying colours incorporated with cartoon...

Staff Writer 17 December 2018

Exam Crisis!

According to some of the teachers, they were on Friday told to leave the marking centres, as their services were no longer needed. This came after 137 of the 153 teachers marking Junior Certificate Agriculture Paper II boycotted marking over...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 17 December 2018

Chamber Of Mines Retrenches Teaching Staff

The body that exists to serve the interests of the mining industry in the country has been facing recurring cashflow challenges. The Chamber’s chief executive officer, Charles Siwawa, admitted to The Monitor over the phone that indeed they...

Kaone Maje 17 December 2018

Four Die In Road Accidents

Botswana Police Service senior superintendent, Andrew Montshiwa said drivers’ attitudes on the roads remain a concern as road accidents continue to claim lives. Montshiwa said since festive mood has started, drivers’ excitement is of...

Pini Bothoko | 17 December 2018

Factionalism Demons Still Plague BDP

The constituency is one of the areas that are usually filled to capacity during BDP rallies, but this time around the attendance was below par. There were many unoccupied patches of space at the rally, which is unusual for high profile BDP rallies...

Chakalisa Dube | 17 December 2018

Kgoboko Humbles Kgathi Again

Kgoboko won almost all the wards over the weekend; nine of the 10 with resounding margins in the re-run that was necessitated by Kgathi’s successful appeal of the primary election. He garnered 4,212 votes against Kgathi’s 1,811, beating...

Koketso Kgoboge 17 December 2018

Govt Amends Liquor Trading Times

“The Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry wishes to inform the general public and Liquor Traders that operating times for sale of liquor have been reviewed through Statutory Instrument No. 192 of 2018, hereto referred as Liquor...

Staff Writer 17 December 2018

Knives Out For Maele

Amongst the members are Pinny Morupisi, who is wife to Permanent Secretary to the President and the man he defeated during the party’s primary elections, Sethabelo Modukanele. The duo along with six other BDP members wrote a letter to the...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 17 December 2018

Rakgare Wins Mogoditshane BDP Primaries

Rakgare won the election, which was necessitated by the suspension of Tshepang Mabaila, by 615 votes to Masimolole’s 465. Called forward by the returning officer Allan Lekwape, Masimolole said he did not accept the results. As people made some...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 17 December 2018

Why Should I Go To Church When It Is Full Of Hypocrites?

A quick google search defines a hypocrite as, “a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess”. Taking us back in history, I remember sitting in an...

Ashley Thaba | 17 December 2018

Standard 5 Pupil Passes PSLE

Sesame who started preparing herself for the examination in a space of nine months decided to sit for this year’s PSLE, and managed to get grade A.  Her mother, Kgomotso Dube, told The Monitor that her daughter who was born in 2008 was a...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 17 December 2018

Petition: Remove Ngaka Ngaka as Minister of Nationality, Immigration & Gender Affairs

The petition was created today via change.org Remove Mr Ngaka Ngaka as Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs This communique is in reference to your cabinet reshuffle on Friday the 14th through the Permanent Secretary to the...

Staff Writer 17 December 2018

The Scramble For Chobe (II)

This instrument further coincided with an agreement over the boundary between then Portuguese Angola and German South West Africa, which recognised Germany’s claims to the territory that “runs in a straight line to the east till it...

Jeff Ramsay | 17 December 2018

Why We Should All Be Feminists (III) - How Has Feminism Developed? The Waves Of Feminism

It is a bold embrace of sexuality, religion and culture in their diversities, using deliberate efforts. The earlier post-Protectorate accounts of Botswana feminism were, as detailed in the first piece in this series, focused on advocacy on civil and...

Lesego Nswahu Nchunga | 17 December 2018