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Am I my brothers keeper?
Selefu 25 February 2019
Let's Restore Botswana To Safety Reputation
Last week, there were sad news of a woman who was murdered in front of her colleagues in Molepolole. Within a few seconds, social media especially Facebook was inundated with messages from angry Batswana, about the incident. To rub salt into the open...
Monitor Editor 25 February 2019
Coach Worried About Fitness Of Women Karatekas
The female martial artists were vying for places in the senior national team that would represent the country at Region V, UFAK championship, World Cup and All Africa games. The selection for the junior team was held the previous weekend at...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 25 February 2019
MCE Student Dominates BOTESSA Awards
During the awards, Thabiso Sekgopi was the star of the night as he scooped sportsperson of the year award and also best male in athletics. Sekgopi walked away with a total of P1,500 from sponsors, First National Bank Botswana (FNBB). Sekgopi, who is...
Kebone Laetsang 25 February 2019
Relegation Battle Intensifies
At the bottom, Sankoyo Bush Bucks look set to kiss their Premier League status goodbye following another thrashing over the weekend. Ngurungu, who are battling financial problems, have in the past few seasons managed to survive the storm and...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 25 February 2019
GNT Advance After A Goal Feast
GNT won the fiercely contested clash 4-3. The less fancied Francistown derby was a game of two halves. Angels started the game on a very high note and launched numerous attacks in the first stanza. They also looked high in confidence and enjoyed a...
Chakalisa Dube
| 25 February 2019
Jwaneng Fighters Take Charge
The two teams came into the game level at 26 points each, but Lions had a better goal advantage. Fighters have now opened a three points lead with eight games remaining. Seven minutes into the game, Serati Semadi outpaced his marker and went for a...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 25 February 2019
Palapye Sides Dumped Out Of FA Cup
In fact, it was a bad day in the office for the Palapye representatives. All the three sides from the village bowed out of the competition. In an early kick-off here, before Wanderers were rudely knocked out, 10-men Palapye All Stars became penalty...
Koketso Kgoboge 25 February 2019
Magosi Suffer Another Defeat
With Magosi sitting in a relegation position, the team’s stand-in coach, Zaahid Jalal is not thinking about relegation and says the team will survive. “The idea here is that we are still in it. The teams are not far from us (but) we have...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 25 February 2019
Jazz X Change Concert Slated For November
The Jazz X Change was formed with the main aim of discovering young talent and molding it. As a result, the initiative has grown in ‘miraculous way’, El-kindiy said. During the continuous growth of The Jazz X Change, there has been...
Ame Motimane 25 February 2019
Cultural Activists Reflect On Setswana Culture
The workshop hosted by Bana Ba Mmala Trust (BBMT) assembled cultural activists and thought leaders for an interactive engagement around cultural issues with topics that included celebrating dirwe tsa kgomo, cultural song and dance, the raising of a...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 25 February 2019
Thokwane Launches The Poetic Beauty Book
In this poetry collection, the author shares her journey with depression and anxiety. The book features a number of poems with the first one penned in 2011. At the launch, Thokwane told the audience that she started writing from a tender age. That...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 25 February 2019
Local Entrepreneurs Urged To Look Beyond Borders
Speaking at the second annual Africa Youth Entrepreneurs Summit (AYES) last week, founder and president of AYES Lemogang Senwelo said the summit was aimed at building partnerships amongst business people thus identify ways of expanding into other...
Ludo Kwapa 25 February 2019
Conference To Expose Botswana Businesses To Canadian Market
The two-day meet, which will be held at the Gaborone International Convention Centre from March 26-27, will help local industries on ways of tapping into North American market. According to the event organiser, Soapbox Communications Partner Vuyiswa...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 25 February 2019
Tutume Businesses Bear The Brunt Of Power Cuts
Tutume Sub-district council chairperson, Ishmael Mokgethi said the council is deeply worried that power outages have become a regular occurrence in most of the areas within the sub-district. Mokgethi was officially opening an ordinary council...
Chakalisa Dube
| 25 February 2019
Why BDP Is Still In Power After Five Decades?
The rational choice model believes that voters do not vote along party lines. They vote for candidates and parties that they believe or think will maximise their interests. When Batswana see how Botswana is, they attribute the independence,...
Correspondent 25 February 2019
Kwelagano (21) Named BIUST Class of 2018 Top Achiever
Kwelagano was amongst the 257 graduates at BIUST’s third graduation ceremony since the University was incepted. The 21-year-old was graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Pure and Applied Mathematics. She is currently doing her first year of...
Koketso Kgoboge 25 February 2019
Lobatse DMHT Toasts To Couple Testing Campaign
In an interview with this publication, Lobatse DHMT public relations officer Thabo Mosetlhi said they have an annual campaign where couples are encouraged to test for HIV together. However, he explained that this year, the campaign started at a slow...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 25 February 2019
Molepolole Shocked By Public Murder
When The Monitor team arrived yesterday afternoon at the grieving family’s home at Borakalalo ward in Molepolole, we found the deceased’s family sitting under the tent with symphathisers. Sorrow was written all over their faces. In the...
Pini Bothoko
| 25 February 2019
Multiple Pathways To Absorb More Teachers
Minister Bagalatia Arone told Parliament that in preparation to implement multiple pathways, his ministry has created 474 positions for Teacher Aides, who have since been appointed. It is said that a large number of graduate teachers are roaming the...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 25 February 2019
Pakistani Facing Human Trafficking Charges Denied Bail
Ghafoor who allegedly claims to be an investor but had entered the country through an ungazzetted area, appeared before Village Magistrate’s Court on Friday where he pleaded not guilty to all 10 charges laid against him. He has been charged,...
Ludo Kwapa 25 February 2019
Can A Christian Drink Alcohol?
Therefore, I am bound to have someone disagree with me on this one. However, since the goal of this article is for people to freely ask questions and find out what the Bible says, let’s attempt! I pray God gives me wisdom to share His...
Ashley Thaba
| 25 February 2019
Analysis Of The Budget Speech - A Look At The Working Poor
It is first and foremost vital to note that the Botswana government has, for a long time measured poverty. An area however, where there has been great silence by researchers and reporters alike, is that of working poverty in Botswana. An even more...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 25 February 2019
What's The Real Story Behind BDP Self-Mutilation?
Never have we had leaders, of the ruling party taking on each other, in public, as we have today. It makes for good read, in turn a jump in sales, listenership and viewership. If we are to check the latest readership figures from the Audited Bureau...
Pamela Dube
| 25 February 2019
Fading Dreams Of Dukwi Refugee BGCSE Top Performers
Ngwenya, a Zimbabwean refugee, emerged as the best student at Nata Senior Secondary School after she accumulated 48 points for the 2018 Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) examinations. Ngwenya’s results recently...
Chakalisa Dube
| 25 February 2019
Floods Hit Tutume Sub-District Again
Tutume Sub-District Council chairperson Ishmael Mokgethi made the averment late last week when officially opening the council’s ordinary meeting in Tutume. Over the years the sub-district, which comprises amongst others, Nata, Gweta, Dukwi and...
Chakalisa Dube
| 25 February 2019
PMH Staff Sick Of Sex Pest Patients
PMH is deeply concerned about the continued abuse of staff members while on duty and in service of the public seeking medical attention at the hospital. It has been years since workers at PMH reported sexual assault at the hands of their...
Pini Bothoko
| 25 February 2019
Filmmaker Joubert Fires At Cabinet
“At first, I thought it was a cruel April Fools’ Day announcement, but no one is laughing today. I have given this white paper a name and if it passes I believe it should be called ‘Botswana’s Blood Law’,” wrote...
Thalefang Charles
| 25 February 2019
EVM Case Rages on
The case that can aptly be summed by the idiom “so near and yet so far” will go for trial from April 8- 12, 2019. The attorney for the BCP, Dutch Leburu told the court that the Friday hearing was set to deal with subpoenas that the...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 25 February 2019
You Cannot Have Nkarabang - OP Tells Khama
While Khama said he has not received any response on his request to employ Tsaone Nkarabang as his private secretary, Permanent Secretary to the President Carter Morupisi has told this publication that Khama cannot have Nkarabang. The position of...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 25 February 2019
Masisi Blasts The West Over Hunting Ban
Last week Cabinet Sub Committee on Hunting Ban Social Dialogue recommended the lifting of the hunting ban. Former president Ian Khama instituted the ban on wildlife hunting in 2014 without consultation. However, three months after taking over...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 25 February 2019
BDP's BOMASE Regional Congress Halted
The region known as BOMSASE is made up of Selibe-Phikwe East, Selibe Phikwe West, Mmadinare and Bobonong. The congress was supposed to have been held over the weekend. According to a letter dated February 20 written by secretary general Mpho Balopi;...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 25 February 2019
The Jazz King - Mathubantwa (Part 4)
His desire to be a performer as well as consumer the popular music became a lifelong passion. To the amusement of some and concern of others, Sebele II brought back something of the cultural ethos as well as sounds of the township when he finally...
Jeff Ramsay
| 25 February 2019
Thamaga Bush Farm Sundays Introduces VIP Section
Now making a return for the first time in 2019 at Adashe Resort this coming Sunday, the event will now introduce the VIP section which will be a marketing tool to increase and to maintain the loyalty of key BFS customers. The event organiser, Lucy...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 25 February 2019
Venson-Moitoi, Khama, Guma Gang Up
Venson-Moitoi claimed that she was intimidated at the recent BDP Serowe regional meeting where she lost to the incumbent, Mokgweetsi Masisi in the nominations for presidential candidates. She was speaking before a packed Lady Khama Hall here at the...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 25 February 2019
LEA Client Makes A Mark In Camping Equipment Manufacturing
Narrating his journey, Giye told Monitor Business that it was in 2011 when he decided to leave his employer and start his own business. By then he had no material and was operating alone. “The whole inspiration behind being an entrepreneur was...
Ludo Kwapa 25 February 2019
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