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Inside Page this week: Building A House Step-by-Step
Kebone Laetsang 22 March 2019
Inside Page this week: Team Botswana Wins Big In Russia
Kebone Laetsang 22 March 2019
Inside Page this week: Quondam rhumba king returns
Kebone Laetsang 22 March 2019
Inside Page this week: Stalemate over Morupule B's US$800m expansion goes to OP
Kebone Laetsang 22 March 2019
Back Page this week: BFA happy with Zebras new kit
Kebone Laetsang 22 March 2019
Front Page this week: 'Where is the P30 million?'
Kebone Laetsang 22 March 2019
Avoiding an electricity déjà vu
Not long ago, the country went through one of its greatest and deepest public service crises, when loadshedding gripped the economy, starting in 2007 and lasting roughly until 2014/15. Many still remember vividly the uncertainty, disruption and loss...
Mmegi Editor
| 22 March 2019
Manaka: From filling in, to fulfilling career
Manaka started off as a football player at Kgamanyane Junior Secondary School in Mochudi, but his sporting career path took a dramatic twist in 1997, when the regular softball team was away on a school trip. Manaka and others were requested to fill...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 22 March 2019
Zebras look for dignified AFCON exit
The game is also an opportunity for the youngsters to get a feel of the national team set up and lay a new foundation for the future Zebras. But Angola has a lot to play for. The visitors who are on nine points in Group I need victory to secure...
Chakalisa Dube
| 22 March 2019
IAAF sets steep 2020 qualifying standards
However, the new qualifying standards are seen as way too tough. The qualification window has been extended by two months for most events, which would see the start period brought forward to May 1, 2019 instead of July 1. This is meant to include...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 22 March 2019
Mares begin tough 2020 Olympics journey
With the continent allocated just 1.5 slots at the 2020 Tokyo games, the Mares will begin the first of the five rounds of qualification against Namibia on April 5, 2019 at the National Stadium with the away leg to be played four days later at the Sam...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 22 March 2019
Shoes, which shoes?
Most footballers’ monikers did not fall far way from the tree. Diphetogo ‘Dipsy’ Selolwane derives his nickname, Dipsy, from his first name, and Mogogi ‘Manchester’ Gabonamong, got his following a brief trial with the...
Mqondisi Dube
| 22 March 2019
GetBucks, Notwane seal P300,000 deal
Speaking at the sponsorship unveiling in Gaborone, GetBucks managing director, Marthin da Kock said they were pleased to start a partnership with a team that was the first ever to win an organised football league in 1978. The team has in recent...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 22 March 2019
Santos join title race at final stretch
The First Division South side are now second behind Gilport Lions, just three points off the pace with five matches to the finish line. Santos have remained out of the picture since the season started, but The Saints as the Gabane club is...
Koketso Kgoboge 22 March 2019
I'm ready for full time Zebras job - Mpote
Mpote was recently appointed the national team’s caretaker coach, following the sacking of David Bright last month. While the Botswana Football Association’s (BFA) search for a substantive coach points to an expatriate taking over, Mpote...
Mqondisi Dube
| 22 March 2019
BFA happy with new Zebras kit
This comes after fans took to social media, in particular criticising the design of the home kit which was paraded by skipper, Joel Mogorosi. The black and white stripes on the jersey, which some jokingly remarked “resembled a tie”, were...
Mqondisi Dube
| 22 March 2019
Inside Tsodilo Hills' sacred cave
Tsodilo is a very special place. A trip to Tsodilo Hills has been a very emotional journey for yours truly lately. This is because it has been a decade of failed attempts to re-enter the revered White Rhino Cave in Tsodilo Hills. The White Rhino...
Thalefang Charles
| 22 March 2019
The humiliating and haunting return of El Negro to Africa
The remains were returned in an incomplete and undignified manner in gross violation of professional protocols and ethics, as well as indigenous sensibilities, while key stakeholders were not consulted. What was thus meant to have been a triumphant...
Jeff Ramsay
| 22 March 2019
Textile sector upbeat, despite AGOA export collapse
Under the African Growth and Opportunity Act’s duty and quota free provision, Botswana textile firms were shipping off P1.8 billion in stock to the US at the peak in 2008. Becky Geiger, an international trade specialist in the US Department of...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 22 March 2019
Closing the gap onAfrica's energy challenges
Of the 1.2 billion people who live in Africa, it’s estimated that more than 650 million have no access to energy, relying instead on fossil fuels like diesel for electricity generation and harmful cooking fuels like wood, charcoal, and...
Correspondent 22 March 2019
A re se lebale
Ba a bo ba raya gore, metse eo, e na le motlakase, fa mo ga bone gone motlakase o se yo. Ba bangwe ba re, ba tshela ka go kolobetsa kgokgotsho ka mathe; ke gore, motse wa bone ga o na metsi, ba bolawa ke lenyora. Bangwe ba re mo ga bone ga go...
Sebofo Motshwane 22 March 2019
Debswana sees ‘bigger' Orapa Mine running by 2022
The Cut 3 project involves the expansion of the 48-year-old Orapa Mine pit to access more resources currently unreachable. While little information has been made available on the project thus far, it is known that the project will involve the removal...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 22 March 2019
Who Betrayed Sir Ketumile?
The Kgabo Commission found Mmusi erred morally in upholding Secretary General Daniel Kwelagobe’s appeal for a piece of land in Nkoyaphiri. Both were not guilty of stealing any land. On March 7, 1992, Kwelagobe appended his ministerial response...
Thabo Masalila 22 March 2019
Greetings, Batswana ba Sekei
Inter-tribal relations have not been good of late. The presidential tiff has resulted in Bangwato, in particular, being accused of tribal bigotry and a false claim to national leadership. It was not an entirely undeserved accusation. We squealed...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 22 March 2019
Masai twist braiding business in town
This is despite only a handful of men locally embarking on braiding vocation. Yona Mathew Young alongside three other local men braid for a living. Even though hairdressing, more especially braiding and plaiting at large are popular amongst females,...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 22 March 2019
Hyperrealism artist makes waves on social media
The 25-year-old from Ramotswa, who is a University of Botswana media studies graduate, says he discovered his talent at an earlier stage in his junior and senior secondary school days when he took art classes, but never pursued it at varsity. He...
Ludo Kwapa 22 March 2019
Fairground festival celebrates food
The event, which was held at Fairgrocunds in Gaborone attracted top chefs who amused food lovers with insightful demonstrations. They proved they could cook just about anything and anywhere. The festival also attracted most top Chinese and Indian...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 22 March 2019
Direct election of President: Wrong prescription
The opposition has always had it among its electoral reform requisitions, which it believes would improve the nation’s democracy outlook. The ruling BDP on the other hand, only helped to pass the motion, not out of any known noble principle,...
Correspondent 22 March 2019
LSB dance club makes Botswana proud
The two ballroom dance couples of David Motlhodi, who partnered with Kesego Lopang and Gilbert Mosweu, who partnered with Gorata Kenyaditswe seemed to have found Aladdin’s Cave in Russia where they garnered a couple of both gold and silver...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 22 March 2019
Quondam rhumba king returns
Except maybe on Radio Botswana, listeners hardly ever hear that “Nna e rile maloba ka utlwa ka Alfredo le setlhopha gotwe ba moopelo o monate, ke saitse fa ba na le melaetsa, ka bona ka ba utlwa ka dumela gore Alfredo Mos…” Back...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 22 March 2019
Drought scares farmers from BAMB's sweetened deal
For farmers, the BAMB’s contracts are a type of hedging or security, offering a guaranteed market and price for their produce, while it is in the ground. The scheme is open to those producing five tonnes or more of sorghum, maize, cowpeas or...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 22 March 2019
BUAN urged to help Botswana attain food security
de Kock, who works in the University’s Department of Consumer and Food Sciences, said this at the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN) Food Science and Technology (FST) Department’s Stakeholders Workshop in...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 22 March 2019
Botswana students third in Huawei's Sub-Saharan Africa ICT Comp
The competition covered latest ICT technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, mobile networks and big data. Almost 30, 000 students from over 100 universities in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, South Africa,...
Correspondent 22 March 2019
Metropolitan in court for benefit transfer suit
One former client, Esau Jokonya blames the company for withholding his funds after exiting a policy. Jokonya narrates that in 2008 he purchased a Retirement Annuity Policy from the pension fund provider after he had left his employment with Botswana...
Mpho Mokwape
| 22 March 2019
Harvard dealmakers ‘seize power' in Wilderness deal
Wilderness is one of Africa’s biggest ecotourism groups, with 16 camps in the Okavango Delta either wholly or partially owned. The group dominates the Delta’s high end with camps that have won international awards. Shareholders holding...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 22 March 2019
Lies, deceit, double-cross as BMC P40m saga deepens
The explosive allegations are contained in Balopi’s submissions to the High Court made on Wednesday. Balopi, also a former Cabinet minister, alleges that the Agriculture minister made good faith representations, saying the matter between...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 22 March 2019
Of song, dance and theatrics
Singing and dancing together has become a symbol of unity. It seemingly gives politicians some happiness, joy or is just the fun of being in politics even when confronted with hostility. There are geniuses that are also gifted in singing and...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 22 March 2019
Bill to give DCEC more powers, autonomy
According to Keorapetse, the purpose of the Bill is to make the DCEC more independent and improve its powers, effectiveness and efficiency and appear before the Public Accounts Committee for examination of its books of account. This will also...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 22 March 2019
Jackalas No.1 problem: water shortage
What is worrying is that the village is near the ever-flowing Ntimbale Dam and this has made Kgosi Tapson Jackalas to conclude that government has abandoned them. Kgosi Jackalas said the water shortage is a perennial problem that even affects...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 22 March 2019
Motshegwa to contest Bonnigton South under UDC
Motshegwa has confirmed that he will tussle for seat under the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) banner. The three horse race features Motshegwa, Gaolathe and Christian Nthuba of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). Political pundits are of the...
Staff Writer 22 March 2019
Venson-Moitoi counts on MPs, councillors
President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s camp is of the view that the legislators and civic leaders are delegates who cannot nominate a candidate as they do not have any mandate from any structure. On the other side Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi’s team,...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 22 March 2019
Moyo: Look me in the eye and tell me to lie
This week Moyo claimed that he had fled to an unnamed country in the region following a ‘tip off’ from intelligence sources that there are people who want to eliminate him. He told Mmegi that he was outside the country, but would not...
Chakalisa Dube
| 22 March 2019
'Where is the P30 million?'
The maverick Member of Parliament confirmed on Tuesday morning that he was on the run and in hiding in one of the neighbouring countries. “I can confirm that I am outside the country for my safety. I am out of the country yes. I don’t...
Oarabile Mosikare 22 March 2019
Stalemate over Morupule B's US$800m expansion goes to OP
Two Asian mega-corps – Marubeni from Japan and Posco from South Korea – won the tender to expand Morupule B by 300MW in 2015 and were due to have begun work in January 2017 on a 42-month contract. While Morupule B currently has four...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 22 March 2019
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