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Vehicle theft accused Zims get bail
Attorney Kagiso Jani, managed to secure bail for his client Jivas Chizunza and his co-accused Passmore Gondo (Gondo is not Jani’s client) following lack of strong opposition by the state. The two were granted bail on condition that they pay...
79801,Goitsemodimo Akanyang,, 09 May 2019
Cricket team loses in World T20 warm up matches
The team is preparing for the Africa World T20 qualifiers to be held in Uganda next month. Botswana failed to upstage the provincial side from Bulawayo, despite being set low targets. In the first match on Saturday, Tuskers scored 110 for the loss...
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BNOC's Tokyo 2020 SMS campaign targets P2.5m
A member of the marketing and communications committee, Billy Sekgororoane said the aim is to make sure that the Tokyo 2020 team is adequately prepared.  “There are a lot of challenges in fund raising.  We know the traditional way by...
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Couple perishes in head-on collision
The accident happened in the afternoon, seven kilometres away from Mogapi/Sefhophe gate on the B151 road.  The Audi was coming from Maunatlala, while the bus was from Bobonong en route to Gaborone.  There were three passengers in the Audi...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 09 May 2019
Ndo buchila Mme. Tla re age Domkrag
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EVMs case ends in mutual agreement
The BCP had instituted a lawsuit against the Attorney General  (AG), Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and Secretary to the IEC over the use of the EVMs.  But as anticipated, the case came to and end on Monday after...
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Moshupa temporary diversion bridge collapses
The temporary culvert was constructed in 2016 after the village woke up to yet more shocking news of the main Hatsalatladi River Bridge having collapsed following heavy rainfall during the festive season in the same year.  The incident saw two...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
Montsho going strong despite exit reports
Her coach, Mogomotsi Otsetswe admitted that Montsho kicked off her season late. “She is working hard and at the moment she has endurance and strength. We just have to push her speed,” he said. Otsetswe said Montsho is not retiring and...
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Ndachipiwa ready to defend BotAsh title
The tournament, sponsored by Botswana Ash, will be played in Sowa Town. Kgomotso is aware of the ever-increasing competition in the women’s section. Kgomotso said during her break, she has been preparing to wade-off competition from the young...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 09 May 2019
Softball team off to US for World Cup
Botswana is ranked number 43 after dropping 10 places since 2017. The country last took part in the competition in 2013 in Brampton, Canada and finishing in position 13. Botswana is in Group A with the host, USA, which is ranked number one in the...
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Troopers hunt down Dolphins
Troopers come into the clash fired up after flooring Spartans in a one-sided affair last weekend at the same venue. Dolphins have a chip up their shoulder after losing their last meeting to Troopers. Dolphins’ coach, Trynos Moyo told Mmegi...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
Rollers, Galaxy begin CAF adventures
Popa make a familiar trip to Tanzania to face Young Africans on Saturday while Galaxy Stars are visiting the island nation of Mauritius to play Bolton City this evening. Rollers will be hoping to repeat their 2017 feat of reaching the CAF...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 09 May 2019
End of the road for Mares
The local girls controversially reached the semi finals on Tuesday after a barren draw with Shepolopolo. The match was tainted by reports of match fixing claims from Malawians. The pair met at the Wolfson Stadium again just two days after the...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 09 May 2019
Local players find homes in lower overseas leagues
Seakanyeng joins an increasing pack of local footballers in Europe that include Renei Batlokwa who plays in the English third tier while the duo of Eric Molefhi and Kutlo Thobega secured a move to Austrian third division club, ATSV Stadl-Paura in...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 09 May 2019
Galaxy close in on Makgantai, Mohutsiwa
ABSA Premiership side Baroka FC have released striker, Makgantai after only one year into his contract. The 24-year-old failed to cement a regular place in coach, Wedson Nyirenda’s side. He scored only two league goals in the 16 appearances...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 09 May 2019
TAFIC eye Zim coach
 Chaminuka has coached Dynamos and ZPC Kariba in his home country. He was also in charge of eSwatini MTN Premier League outfit Matsapha United, but quit after clashing with the team’s management. Chaminuka has served as assistant coach...
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NEC holds key to Mfolo's BFA future
Mfolo joined the association on a two-year deal in 2017, on secondment from the Ministry of Tertiary Education. But with his contract up on September 18, nothing concrete has been agreed between him and the employer. However, indications are that...
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Amrouche lands Zebras job
Botswana Football Association (BFA) chief executive officer, Mfolo Mfolo, said a substantive coach has been identified, without mentioning names. “The appointment has been endorsed by NEC, but I am constrained to share the substantive at the...
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Zebras strong enough to qualify for AFCON - Mpote
Mpote was speaking to Mmegi Sport just days after the Zebras suffered a 3-2 defeat to Zambia in a 2019 CHAN qualifier played in Lusaka. Mpote is expected to step down from his role as interim coach soon. The Botswana Football Association (BFA) will...
409,Chakalisa Dube,php6867.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
SEAfricaBW plans at advanced stage
Aptly tagged SEAfricaBW, the inaugural event will take place on September 2-3, 2019 at the New Capitol Cinemas in Masa, Gaborone’s Central Business District. According to the organisers, Sixpence Media spearheaded by Tshepo Ntshole, SEAfricaBW...
399,Staff Writer,, 09 May 2019
Debswana unfazed as diamond market slumps
Debswana is the world’s largest producer of diamonds by value and a key economic entity, contributing about a fifth of the gross domestic product (GDP) and about two thirds of foreign currency revenues. De Beers, which holds 50% equity in...
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Sereetsi & The Natives heads out to the Delta
Sereetsi & The Natives will play alongside multi-platinum selling South African band, Watershed, Bongeziwe Mabandla, Evicted, Josh Kempen, So Kindly, The Mackay.z, Masa Caroleen, locals - Goddy & 100% Africa Dance, Zimbabwe’s Flying...
399,Staff Writer,, 09 May 2019
Stanbic unhurried about BSE listing
Stanbic is the only unlisted member of the ‘Big Four’, Botswana’s biggest banks, which also include First National Bank Botswana, Barclays Bank Botswana and Standard Chartered Bank Botswana. Stanbic’s listing has long been a...
33193,Pauline Dikuelo,phpD7C.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
The real cost of Trumps trade wars
But, following another inconclusive round of bilateral trade talks in Shanghai last week, Trump announced that the US will impose 10% tariffs on a further $300 billion worth of Chinese goods, effective September 1. Should this new measure take...
475,Correspondent,, 09 May 2019
Kweneng cultural fest to resuscitate culture
In an interview event organiser, Joel Mosimanyana also known by his stage name DJ Spitz Phoenix said the festival will be filled with rich Setswana song and dance like dikhwaere, setapa and mmino wa katara ya Setswana.  Mosimanyana said there...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
Minergy scores P90m funding from BDC, MDCB
According to the coal miner, the funding is sufficient to bring Masama coal project into production, as they envisage a steady state of operations to be reached in September 2019. The BDC is the government’s investment agency while the MDCB is...
33193,Pauline Dikuelo,phpD7C.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
Mcleod publishes Makgadikgadi Pans guide
From his sojourns in the pans, Mcleod has now published a book titled ‘Makgadikgadi Pans – A traveller’s guide to the salt flats of Botswana’. Mcleod, 68, was born in Malaysia. He worked as an exploration geologist in Botswana...
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'Plenty of room for improvement in visual arts'
Bakwena said curators were invited from around the world. “The whole process of the project was to look into bringing new ideas in the arts and discussing how we can take the arts forward as institutions,” he reflected in an interview...
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Thobolo finds thin line between art, makeup
Her father John Thobolo, who is also a talented artist who paints nature, raised her. Just like any child that copies everything that a parent, elder or model does, Thobolo grew up watching her father working on his masterpieces. That is when her...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
Award-winning brainy beauty pushes catwalk dreams
Now 23-year-old model Thanolo Keutlwile, who is also a medical student at the University of Botswana, is aiming to continue to showcase and celebrate the creativity and diversity of African fashion. With her roots being in Thamaga, Keutlwile has set...
69494,Oleosi Kgosi,, 09 May 2019
Bigger and better - The Shell FuelSave Media Challenge returns
In an endeavour to demonstrate the economic benefit of Shell FuelSave fuel, Vivo Energy Botswana has invited the media fraternity and some industry partners to another guided road trip, dubbed the “Shell FuelSave Media...
399,Staff Writer,, 09 May 2019
Tourism, critical contributor to Botswana's economy
The report found that by 2030, consumer spending on tourism, hospitality, and recreation in Africa is projected to reach about $261.77 billion, $137.87 billion more than in 2015. From 1998 to 2015, the report notes, service exports such as tourism...
399,Staff Writer,, 09 May 2019
State enlists Interpol to apprehend 'human traffickers'
During the Pitso, attended by different stakeholders from within and outside the legal fraternity, it became apparent that there was a public outcry about accused persons who are granted bail then go on to commit more crimes or escape for good...
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The Monitor wins defamation appeal
She had sued the company for defamation. In 2015 Mokobi successfully sued DPC for articles published by The Monitor newspaper (formerly Mmegi Monitor) of November 17 and 24, 2014 that appeared on the newspaper’s print and online...
54598,Goitsemodimo Kaelo,php4B2C.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
Botswana Patriotic Front: The compelling story
This write-up seeks to interrogate and offer a synopsis of the impact that the BPF will have on the coming national general elections, as well as give reasons why potential voters should cast their votes in favour of the new kid on the block who has...
475,Correspondent,, 09 May 2019
Dingake heads PNG's Judiciary Efficiency Task Force
Justice Dingake, a former judge of the High Court of Botswana, is now a Judge of the Supreme and National Courts of PNG. PNG, which is located in the Pacific, north of Australia, is one the fastest developing countries in the Pacific reputed for the...
399,Staff Writer,, 09 May 2019
Suspended BERA board accuses Molale of conflict of interest
The Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Molale suspended the BERA board over allegations of poor performance in May 2019. Recently, he gave them a charge sheet containing seven counts of misconduct relating to the...
399,Staff Writer,, 09 May 2019
Selebi-Phikwe earth tremor increases
Speaking at the Parliament yesterday, Molale said the first earth tremors were felt and reported in December last year.  They were the first of such incidence since BCL went into liquidation. He however pointed out that his Ministry commissioned...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
Unions mull over strike action
The general membership of Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU), Botswana Nurses Union (BONU), Botswana Teachers Union (BTU), Botswana Land boards, Local Authorities and Health Workers Union (BLLAHWU) and Botswana Public Employees Union...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
BPF runs out of options
Even the ‘strategic alliance’ BPF prefers to have with the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) is slowly overtaken by events as the general election gets closer and closer by the day. Ahead of last weekend’s inaugural elective...
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Khama's BPF yet to define itself
The party so far has offered nothing as alternative policies except as demonstrated by its inaugural patron, former president Ian Khama who has deliberately chosen to pursue politics of mudslinging and character assassination. In an election year,...
399,Staff Writer,, 09 May 2019
My P2m gift to Masisi was clean - Ismail
The revelations are contained in an affidavit Ismail deposed this week in support of former spy chief, Isaac Kgosi, against whom the State is building a money laundering and corruption case. In response to a Directorate on Corruption and Economic...
399,Staff Writer,, 09 May 2019
TK going, going...
“It’s a done deal,” said a highly placed BPF source. “The straw that broke the camel’s back was Dorcas (Makgato’s alleged) comments on his father,” the source said. BPF, as a party, is the former...
423,Thalefang Charles,phpAA56.tmp.jpg,3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
Cautious optimism as Morupule B undergoes rebirth
PALAPYE: The list of experts the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) has brought in for the $120 million overhaul of Morupule B is extensive. It’s an army of experts charged with one mission: ensuring the mistakes of before are not repeated in the...
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Botswana's food production can join the Blue Revolution
Many therefore see fish farming as the only way to produce enough fish to satisfy the needs of a growing world population. Aquaculture and fish farming have become huge business and products are sold/distributed to countries all around the globe....
475,Correspondent,, 09 May 2019
Will CITES fail Africa for the 44th year?
Today, Africa has never recovered from such divisions even in the area of wildlife conservation and trade in its wildlife products such as ivory and rhino horns. African countries are made to oppose one another for no good reason. Therefore, it is...
475,Correspondent,, 09 May 2019
A voter's dilemma
The political debate space has gotten messier and deviated from the ideal to the level of ‘getting power by any means necessary’. Elections are naturally a heated contestation of personalities, and if we are lucky, a hot contestation of...
53074,Bakang Ntshingane,, 09 May 2019
Parliament rushes debatable bills into law
The bills, which were passed in the night, have far reaching impact on the lives of Batswana, but were not subjected to adequate debate by parliamentarians after the Umbrella for Democratic Change Members of Parliament walked out. The UDC has since...
450,Mmegi Editor,, 09 May 2019
Susu a ilele Suswana gore Suswana a ilele Susu
76729,Selefu,php4qexft.jpg, 09 May 2019
A re bitse mafoko ka botlalo
Ga twe tona o ne a supa fa tiro ya lephata la gagwe e le go gokaganya lefatshe leno le mafatshe a mangwe ka tsa amranyane. A supa gape gore puso e tshwere ka thata go bona gore maranyane ao, a nna one, a a dirisiwa. Godimo ga moo, tona a bolela fa...
2805,Sebofo Motshwane,php5705.tmp.jpg, 09 May 2019
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