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Inside Page this week: Haunted By The Ghost To Premier in Jwaneng
Calistus Kolantsho 19 July 2019
Inside Page this week: Namastap finally gets recognition
Calistus Kolantsho 19 July 2019
Inside Page this week: CMB's Marsland fights back against extradition
Calistus Kolantsho 19 July 2019
Back Page this week: Belgian front runner for Zebras job
Calistus Kolantsho 19 July 2019
Front Page this week: Security agents harass Mmegi
Calistus Kolantsho 19 July 2019
Press Release concerning the use of unilateral sanctions in solving international problems
The unhealthy disposition of the United States and its allies to use unilateral sanctions as the main tool in solving various international problems causes a growing concern. In the speech at the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International...
Correspondent 19 July 2019
She is all yours Boss!
Selefu 19 July 2019
Press-release on the issue of strengthening the international legal regime for the return of criminal assets
The return of criminal assets at the international level is governed mainly by framework norms. The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) provides the possibility of concluding agreements on the transfer of all or...
Correspondent 19 July 2019
Let reason prevail
This is not a new development as it has happened in the past under the previous regime. We never thought this would ever happen under the current regime. Talk of new wine in old glasses! We admit that the police are free to investigate. What...
Mmegi Editor
| 19 July 2019
Bikers' Lesotho trip in the balance
The local pair has qualified for the 52nd edition of the Roof of Africa race to be held in Lesotho from December 4 to 7, 2019, but could fail to travel to the mountainous kingdom owing to lack of funds. The race dubbed the ‘Mother of Hard...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 19 July 2019
Mosalagae's injury blessing in disguise
Little did she know that the setback was actually a blessing in disguise, as she retired from active sport to take up officiating. At the just-ended 2019 Africa Karate Championships (UFAK) held in Gaborone last week, Mosalagae was the only local...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 19 July 2019
Softball team to test uncharted waters
The qualifiers run from July 23 to 27, 2019. Botswana is ranked number 43 and together with South Africa, who are number 28, will represent Africa at the qualifiers. Botswana is in the same group as Italy, Czech Republic and France. The team coach,...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 19 July 2019
Mane, Mahrez the fuel needed to ignite AFCON final
Far from the lush fields of England, Liverpool’s Sadio Mane and Riyad Mahrez of Manchester City, will take their battle to the towering Egyptian pyramids at 9pm tonight. It has been an exhausting but fulfilling campaign for the two, with Mane...
Mqondisi Dube
| 19 July 2019
BoFiNET Injects P136,000 Into BISA Softball
The sponsorship was launched this morning at the National Diamond. The sponsorship is for junior and secondary schools national softball championships and it is for a period of three years. BISA president, Joshua Gaotlhobogwe told Sport...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 19 July 2019
Slow start to Olympics' SMS campaign
The BNOC launched the campaign in order to augment funds from government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as Botswana prepares for next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. BNOC has set a target of four medals, to add on to...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 19 July 2019
BNOC ditches Sibanda
Addressing the media yesterday, BNOC chief executive officer, Tuelo Serufho said they have decided to suspend support towards the athlete. He said they have had an issue over the arrangement that Sibanda has with the manager. Serufho said the...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 19 July 2019
Battle for Copa Coca Cola glory begins
Matches kicked-off yesterday across several venues in the capital, including Gaborone Senior, Ledumang Primary, Marang Junior, Motswedi and Taung Primary Schools. The winners will be crowned iskenderun escort bayan on Saturday, with three of the...
Mqondisi Dube
| 19 July 2019
BTC Charity Cup scrapped
The one-day spectacular was launched last year as part of a three-year sponsorship deal between the Botswana Premier League and the telecomms group. However, a year later the local football fans will not watch the season curtain raiser, BPL chief...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 19 July 2019
Chiefs, Sundowns in town
The fixture would be used to officially open the new Jamali Stadium in Tlokweng. Rollers would utilise the 10,000 capacity stadium for both the league and CAF games in the coming season. The tickets for the match are selling at a relatively high...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 19 July 2019
Weakened squad for women's COSAFA Cup
Botswana will also send a team to the inaugural COSAFA Under-20 championships, both tournaments to be played in Port Elizabeth, South Africa early next month. The senior women’s team, the Mares leave on August 4 for a two-week training camp in...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 19 July 2019
Alcohol returns to stadiums
This will be the second encounter where alcohol has been served after it was banned several years back. The BFA allowed the sale of alcohol during last month’s Orange FA Cup encounter, as a way of enticing supporters to the stadium. BFA...
Mqondisi Dube
| 19 July 2019
Belgian frontrunner for Zebras job
The former Libya coach, Amrouche will reportedly arrive in the country on Tuesday to watch the Zebras play Zambia in the first leg of the African Nations Championships (CHAN) in Francistown.The Zebras job fell vacant in February following the...
Mqondisi Dube
| 19 July 2019
Johnny Clegg wasn't begging to be black. He simply was
Not that we didn’t have a sense of it during his lifetime, of course. He was known across continents, recipient of an OBE, Le Zoulou Blanc to the French and so much more. Johnny Clegg’s music and band went through many iterations from...
Correspondent 19 July 2019
Think donkeys don't matter? Climate change begs to differ
The nation was shocked almost exactly two years ago. A raid by members of the Botswana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA), veterinarians, agriculture ministry officials and other animal NGO representatives stumbled on a donkey...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 19 July 2019
BSE action on Choppies hangs on audit report
The BSEL suspended Choppies last November, having temporarily halted its trades in September due to the non-release of results for the 2018 financial year. Under the Exchange’s tougher new listing rules, which kicked in this year, delisted...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 19 July 2019
BR cashes in investments to cover insurance reserve
BusinessWeek recently reported on the Auditor General’s findings that BR’s assets of about P4.4 billion were uninsured thus leaving the parastatal at high risk. Responding to written enquiries this week, officials at the rail parastatal...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 19 July 2019
A mafoko ao, a elwe tlhoko
Re setse re itse gore, lenaneo le, le tlhomilwe e le tsela nngwe ya go lwantsha bogodu jwa loruo ka bo setse bo aname le lefatshe leno lotlhe mme gongwe bo ka tloga jwa tlogela barui bangwe ba iphotlhere jwa ba jwa koafatsa le yone itsholelo ya...
Sebofo Motshwane 19 July 2019
Teetering on the brink of lawlessness
Government has gone wild. But because we are in the honeymoon stage of a supposedly new administration, the bride’s gown cannot be soiled. Today, in this shining example of democracy, the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) through...
Thabo Masalila 19 July 2019
Separate bogosi from politics
Our ethnic diversity needs careful management if we are to achieve lasting peace and security as a nation. Those that came before us did a fairly good job in managing our ethnic diversity in spite of an unequal constitutional landscape. Thanks...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 19 July 2019
New MNE, IFSC tax commences, albeit late
The regulations took effect as from the date of publication (July 12, 2019) but were expected sometime in March 2019 as the Transfer Pricing law contained in the Income Tax Act could not be implemented without the regulations. The regulations...
Correspondent 19 July 2019
Govt to approach market for P450m
The government, through Bank of Botswana, borrows quarterly from the local capital market mainly to develop the local market’s capacity but also to fund gaps in the national budget. For the local market participants who bid for the right to...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 19 July 2019
Models convince judges
Every aspiring model wants to stomp top designer catwalks, get featured in the best magazine covers, and in the best commercials. Last weekend at the PDC fashion show there were 30 contestants competing for two crowns in both the female and male...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 19 July 2019
Vee Mampeezy's Music Video lords over PDC
“I released Dololo last year and the best part was working with Jack Bohloko. He was able to visualise every single thing that I wanted,” Vee Mampeezy told Arts & Culture in an interview. He added that Jack Bohloko is one of the...
Ame Motimane 19 July 2019
Qgam gets President's Day posthumous award
Better known as Dada be her peers, Qgam was part of the Kuru Art Project, a stable of highly accomplished Basarwa artists who practise their trade at a facility in D’Kar. Dada was born in 1934 in Gantsi, Botswana. She attended just three...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 19 July 2019
An insight in the possessive appeal of Tsutsube
Almost a year later now I am reeling over the Tsutsube dance group from Charleshill that generated electricity on the dance floor, this past holidays. Xanxase group that won the Tsutsube category last year managed to retain their top prize. The...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 19 July 2019
Slater honoured for performing arts mentoring
The legendary Bra John Selolwane received the gong last year. Slater retired from Maitisong in 2007 after turning the festival into the biggest arts gatherings in Botswana. During his tenure, Slater became synonymous with Maitisong. He then...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 19 July 2019
Namastap finally gets recognition
Thanks to the annual Nama Cultural festival held in Lokgwabe village, President’s Day Competitions (PDC) this year included the Namastap category for the first time ever. The winners of the category !Karkhoin from Lokgwabe finally got to share...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 19 July 2019
Maun so dry hippos feed on hay
MAUN: Five hippos and at least 18 crocodiles are trapped in a small pool in the middle of Maun. And time is running out for the beasts because the water, which is their only shelter, is quickly drying up. Maun is facing one of the driest periods in...
Thalefang Charles
| 19 July 2019
Gaolathe loses, applies for stay pending appeal
Ndadi noted an intention to appeal the decision of Village Magistrate, Lindiwe Makgoro immediately after she dismissed the legal points he raised on the matter prior to getting into the merits of the case. The legal points included that the...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 19 July 2019
BSB soon to open new doors in Hukuntsi
Last year BSB installed an ATM in Hukuntsi, which is currently the only ATM in the village and the area, making financial services a lot more accessible and life easy for the residents in the surrounding villages. The current provision of a physical...
Correspondent 19 July 2019
Great plains conservation calls on all to commit to eradication of single use plastic
Great Plains Conservation has been on a mission to eliminate single-use plastic in the running of its hospitality business and is encouraging other companies to join the group, especially during #PlasticFreeJuly. Plastic Free July is a global...
Correspondent 19 July 2019
Unruly BNF veterans to face party's wrath
Of recent, some members of the Veterans League have been attacking the BNF leadership and planning to petition the party. According to a source, the angry members feel that the party should not condone indiscipline at all. “During the Rakops...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 19 July 2019
F/town cllrs cry to sample Kasane
The move by the councillors just on the eve of the general elections shocked some people who attended the recent special full council session. As it is customary, senior civil servants from various government departments, members of the public and...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 19 July 2019
Anti-poaching must focus on cutting out middlemen
This is according to Alistair Nelson, a South African conservationist who has more than 20 years’ conservation experience working in east and southern Africa. Nelson was speaking in an interview with Mmegi recently after presenting at a...
Chakalisa Dube
| 19 July 2019
6CTU to consult further over mass demonstrations
Motshegwa’s words follow a recent decision by members of the 6CTU in Francistown and surrounding villages that gave their leaders the go-ahead to start preparations for mass demonstrations across the country. During a tempestuous meeting that...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 19 July 2019
Kgori's final bid for frozen millions
The NPF, a statutory fund run under the Energy Affairs Department, hit the headlines in late 2017, with the state alleging that up to P230 million had been lost through money laundering linked to the national intelligence agency. Several high...
Mpho Mokwape
| 19 July 2019
'You're sitting on powder keg'- workers warn BDP
The employees issued the warning at a highly-charged meeting outside the Civic Centre Hall before the President Day’ Holidays. The meeting was attended by the 6CTU from Botswana Public Employees Union, Botswana Sector of Educators and Trade...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 19 July 2019
BONELA wants condoms in prisons after ruling
BONELA executive director, Cindy Kelemi said they had written to the commissioner, since the High Court decriminalised same sex conduct during a judgement handed down in Gaborone last month. “For the longest time, the government has refused to...
Mqondisi Dube
| 19 July 2019
Kgosi pleads for bail variation
Kgosi is currently in Malaysia where he is admitted to hospital. He was on April 3, 2019, slapped with two counts of offence contrary to section 19 (b) (ii) as read with section 46 of the Intelligence and Security Service Act after he allegedly...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 19 July 2019
Security agents harass Mmegi
Basimanebotlhe was indisposed and home at Lenganeng Block 4 ward in Tlokweng when four detectives from Broadhurst Police Station and Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) ambushed her with a warrant of entry, search and seizure issued by...
Staff Writer 19 July 2019
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