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Balete, govt in court over Kgale farms
Last week the pair appeared before court for a status hearing where the tribe’s attorney indicated that they have not filed their replying papers on the government suit.  Balete attorney, Oteng Motlhala told Mmegi that they had failed to...
601,Mpho Mokwape,php5B7D.tmp.jpg, 25 May 2019
Easter holidays register drop in incidents
According to the police a total of 211 road accidents were recorded as compared to 350 recorded the previous year portraying a decrease of 39.7%.  “A total of six people died in five fatal road accidents from April 18 to 23 compared to 17...
399,Staff Writer,, 25 May 2019
Murder trend leads to stop and search
Senior Superitendent Agreement Mapeu says they came up with the intervention following incidents in which three people died after they were allegedly stabbed with a sharp instrument believed to be an Okapi knife.  He disclosed that the Okapi...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 25 May 2019
US election 2020: Joe Biden launches presidential bid
In a video announcement, Mr Biden warned that the "core values of the nation... our very democracy, everything that has made America America, is at stake".  The 76-year-old enters a crowded race for the 2020 Democratic nomination.  He is...
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Chinese businessman becomes a chief in Nigeria
The emir holds a lot of influence and is a religious and cultural leader in the region.  At a traditional ceremony in Kano Mike Zhang took the title of Wakilin Yan China, meaning the leader of the Chinese residents, as his head was wrapped in a...
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Born and Raised, bigger and better
The event was held at Serowe stadium on December 22.  While the build up to the music concert had placed the stakes high, the event exceeded expectations attracting a massive crowd.  Although there were sound glitches from time to time,...
54598,Goitsemodimo Kaelo,php4B2C.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
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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...
411,Boitumelo Khutsafalo,phpCD8F.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
79573,Kebone Laetsang,, 25 May 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...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 25 May 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...
409,Chakalisa Dube,php6867.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 25 May 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...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 25 May 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...
79574,Ame Motimane,, 25 May 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...
49270,Mompati Tlhankane,php2FDF.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
49270,Mompati Tlhankane,php2FDF.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
79575,Ludo Kwapa,, 25 May 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...
33193,Pauline Dikuelo,phpD7C.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
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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...
79575,Ludo Kwapa,, 25 May 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,...
475,Correspondent,, 25 May 2019
Lets 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...
540,Monitor Editor,, 25 May 2019
Am I my brothers keeper?
76729,Selefu,php4qexft.jpg, 25 May 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...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 25 May 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...
2172,Nnasaretha Kgamanyane,php16B0.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
54598,Goitsemodimo Kaelo,php4B2C.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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,...
79575,Ludo Kwapa,, 25 May 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...
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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...
409,Chakalisa Dube,php6867.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
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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...
442,Lebogang Mosikare,php369F.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg,54815,Innocent Selatlhwa,php522E.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,,423,Thalefang Charles,phpAA56.tmp.jpg,402,Ryder Gabathuse,phpF55A.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
54815,Innocent Selatlhwa,php522E.tmp.jpg, 25 May 2019
BDPs 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;...
3476,Tsaone Basimanebotlhe,php5334.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
78990,Ashley Thaba,phpNBMUDQ.jpg, 25 May 2019
Whats 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...
8058,Pamela Dube,phpkuL8U3.jpg, 25 May 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...
74047,Lesego Nswahu Nchunga,phpgwjNJg.jpg, 25 May 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...
2894,Jeff Ramsay,php4F39.tmp.jpg, 25 May 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...
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg, 25 May 2019
Chess brains line up in Airfficiency Year Opener
The 11th edition takes place over two days at Mogoditshane Senior Secondary School. Defending champions, Barileng Gaealafshwe (men) and Onkemetse Francis (women) will be the notable absentees. However, that would not take the sting out of the tough...
47121,Koketso Kgoboge,, 25 May 2019
Botswana tennis star rated the best in Africa
Seetso, who developed the love for tennis at a tender age, is only 13 but already ranked number one in Africa. “I had to work hard to be where I am right now. Last year I was the youngest in the Africa juniors’ top 10. Those players have...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 25 May 2019
Why football, volleyball got nod for monthly allowances
The allowances were discontinued in November, after the BNSC admitted the system had become difficult to implement.  The scheme was introduced in 2012 and over the years, but last November, the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 25 May 2019
Talented cricket duo seal Singapore moves
Motlhanka and Rangaswamy played a key role in the national team’s recent success at the ICC Division 3 Africa qualifiers, where Botswana finished top, ahead of perennial irritant, Namibia. The success saw Botswana through to the next round of...
407,Mqondisi Dube,php794.tmp.jpg, 25 May 2019
Motswetla: A goalkeeping superstar in the making
Growing up playing football with other children by the roadside, few saw Motswetla  as a future star. He is not there yet, but he gave glimpses of the future with some stupendous saves during a football tournament over the festive season in...
434,Pini Bothoko,php3A86.tmp.jpg, 25 May 2019
Khama, BNSC meet to review sponsorship policy
The BNSC has over the years availed funds for national teams but individuals have found it difficult to secure funding. This comes in light of motor sport’s recent participation at the Dakar Rally, with Vincent Crosbie representing the country...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 25 May 2019
Zapata in emotional return as Top 8 heats up
This will be first time the Argentine sits on the opposite end of the Reds’ dug out, and coincidentally, he will be sitting on one of GU’s fierce rivals’ bench. This will be Zapata’s second game in charge of the Blues and he...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 25 May 2019
BFA wars escalate as election looms
Sebego has said he is still considering standing in next year’s election, but sources within his camp, the ‘Friends of Football’ say it is no brainer that he would stand. “At the moment I am focused on stabilising Notwane. I...
407,Mqondisi Dube,php794.tmp.jpg, 25 May 2019
Did TK push Solly?
Inside sources said the new Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development, Tshekedi Khama had contacted Reikeletseng and asked him to reconsider a number of issues surrounding his position. “The minister asked him to reflect on...
417,Calistus Kolantsho,php1F76.tmp.jpg, 25 May 2019
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