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Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 09 August 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...

Mmegi Editor | 09 August 2019

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Selefu 09 August 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...

Calistus Kolantsho | 09 August 2019

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...

Koketso Kgoboge 09 August 2019

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...

Calistus Kolantsho | 09 August 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...

Calistus Kolantsho | 09 August 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...

Kabelo Boranabi | 09 August 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...

Kabelo Boranabi | 09 August 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...

Kabelo Boranabi | 09 August 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...

Chakalisa Dube | 09 August 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...

Kabelo Boranabi | 09 August 2019

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...

Mqondisi Dube | 09 August 2019

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...

Chakalisa Dube | 09 August 2019

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...

Mqondisi Dube | 09 August 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...

Staff Writer 09 August 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...

Mbongeni Mguni | 09 August 2019

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...

Staff Writer 09 August 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...

Pauline Dikuelo | 09 August 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...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 09 August 2019

The real cost of Trump's 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...

Correspondent 09 August 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...

Thalefang Charles | 09 August 2019

'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...

Mompati Tlhankane | 09 August 2019

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...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 09 August 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...

Oleosi Kgosi 09 August 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...

Staff Writer 09 August 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...

Staff Writer 09 August 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...

Lebogang Mosikare | 09 August 2019

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...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 09 August 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...

Correspondent 09 August 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...

Staff Writer 09 August 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...

Staff Writer 09 August 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...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 09 August 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...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 09 August 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...

Chakalisa Dube | 09 August 2019

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,...

Staff Writer 09 August 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...

Mbongeni Mguni | 09 August 2019

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....

Correspondent 09 August 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...

Correspondent 09 August 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...

Pauline Dikuelo | 09 August 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...

Bakang Ntshingane 09 August 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...

Sebofo Motshwane 09 August 2019

Is Boko and UDC binging on controversial funds from South African businessman Moti?

In this snapshot appeared commitments from the Moti group in exchange for some benefits to be derived by the sponsors once Boko assumes power.The picture went viral of course. For an excitable audience such is the juicy news needed to spice this...

Thabo Masalila 09 August 2019

The sad case of Kgori Capital

The DPP is simply acting under dictation from the grand office, which is on a high octane campaign to punish everyone formerly associated with the former regime’s key functionaries and suspected to have benefitted from corruption. Not...

Kgosietsile Ngakaagae | 09 August 2019

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Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 09 August 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...

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | 09 August 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...

Staff Writer 09 August 2019