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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