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Inside page this week: Kavindama's lifestyle store opens
Mqondisi Dube 23 August 2019
Inside Page this week: Workers down tools at country's newest mine
Mqondisi Dube 23 August 2019
Front page this week: 'Drop the case, get BPOPF'S P450m back'
Mqondisi Dube 23 August 2019
Of sheep and wolves
Selefu 23 August 2019
Darts team target gold in Namibia
The squad is made up of 19 players, all under 18 years of age. They will represent the country in the Under-15 and Under-18 sections, where Botswana will field two teams in each category. Botswana aims to go one better after finishing second overall...
Koketso Kgoboge 23 August 2019
The Untold Story of Ram
The man who built what is arguably the Southern Africa region’s most ambitious retail brand will plead his case in front of shareholders to be reinstated as its head. With the expected fire works, it’s important to establish how Ram and...
Correspondent 23 August 2019
Boxers to punch way to national titles
The titles would be up for grabs as Rising Stars Championship, organised by Bond Boxing Promotions and Global Boxing Stars, takes place next month. For the first time in the history of local boxing national titles would be up for grabs. The national...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 August 2019
Taekwondo breaks Botswana's medal duck
The 16-year-old Kula came from behind to win against her seasoned opponent from Tunisia. Taekwando instructor, Gladys Njoroge told Mmegi Sport yesterday that the achievement emanates from hard work and patience. Taekwondo went to the Games as an...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 August 2019
Judo blames BNSC after dismal show
The team arrived back home on Wednesday after the judokas failed to progress further in the competition. Team manager, Gaongalelwe Morris said they did not get an opportunity to train outside the country. “We requested BNSC to fund our team to...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 August 2019
Strong athletics aims for gold in Rabat
On paper, the team is one of the strongest on the continent, and expectations are that they would bring gold. Some of the athletes would use the tournament to try and qualify for IAAF World Championships, which take place in Doha in September, as...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 August 2019
Sharps changes name amid discontent
Businessman, Sommerset Gobuiwang is the director of the new club, after acquiring Sharps for P10,000 from Kobamelo and Isaac Chilisa in 2018. Some supporters argued the club had been sold without their knowledge, and pointed that players, instead of...
Mqondisi Dube
| 23 August 2019
Butler returns to Botswana
Butler was in charge of the Zebras between February 2014 and June 2017, and left to join South African side, Platinum Stars (now Cape Umoya United). He will return this time on the opposite bench, as he will lead Liberia. The Englishman was on...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 August 2019
Harvey is good, but more is needed
There are doubting voices however that are not convinced that the idea is as noble or effective as presented by its sponsors. The government outlined from the onset when Harvey set foot on our shores that he is here to explore opportunities for...
Mmegi Editor
| 23 August 2019
Apolitical' Mfolo stays, knives still out for Ntshinogang
Mfolo, who joined the BFA two years ago on secondment from the Ministry of Tertiary Education, has acquitted himself well in a volatile environment that has proved unforgiving to the association’s CEOs. The BFA has had more than half a dozen...
Mqondisi Dube
| 23 August 2019
Da Costa, Trucha eye CAF personal triumphs
Galaxy will host Mauritius’ Bolton City Youth Club at the Lobatse Sports Complex while Rollers will do battle tomorrow with Young Africans of Tanzania at the National Stadium as coaches Miguel da Costa and Tomas Trucha eye personal...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 August 2019
No pay, no play
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) made probably the loudest statement yet regarding Club Licensing, after chief executive officer, Mfolo Mfolo told journalists this week that if a club fails to pay its players, it would be relegated to the...
Mqondisi Dube
| 23 August 2019
Racism allegations rock motorsport
The Botswana Motor Sport (BMS) has assembled a 29-member squad, including naturalised Batswana for the MXoAN competition to be held in Donnybrook Park, Zimbabwe from August 31 to September 1, 2019. Over the past weekend, the team was unveiled in...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 August 2019
Gunners, Babitseng face BFA's wrath
BFA suspended Babitseng from all football activities and was recently ejected from the association’s general assembly, following a 2014 trip with the Zebras, which resulted in misappropriation of funds. A BFA employee lost his job after...
Mqondisi Dube
| 23 August 2019
Cresta ploughs back into community
The ninth edition of the hotel’s native heritage celebration is dedicated to supporting a six-year-old child with brain complications. Since inception, the benevolent event extended arms to support underprivileged community members around the...
Koketso Kgoboge 23 August 2019
Makau on comeback trail
In an interview, one of the three group members, Bakang Mphele said the single was inspired by Eseng Mo Ngwaneng campaign led by the First Lady Neo Masisi. He said they released the song after realising that child abuse, more especially of a sexual...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 23 August 2019
Kalanga Afro Track Njelele gets international audience
The song, written in Kalanga to Afro house, ancestral rhythms and elements, comes as a celebration of the ancient rainmaking shrine tied to the BaKalanga and other tribes. “Njelele was inspired by our long history of rainmaking as the Kalanga....
Staff Writer 23 August 2019
Sereetsi & The Natives stage live DVD/CD recording concert
The event, which promises to be one of the most memorable in this year’s live music calendar, will see Sereetsi leading natives through the act’s highly acclaimed discography that has become the soundtrack to the lives of many a...
Staff Writer 23 August 2019
Change of wardrobe beacons as spring looms
But with the right clothes and the right attitude, one can still enjoy this time of the season. Lets be honest, we all wanted to throw away our winter jackets ‘re je summer’ as many would like to say. But the official change in...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 23 August 2019
Kavindama's lifestyle store opens
Her Brands Emporium and Vintage Classics Lifestyle Store is opening at Molapo Crossing today. The store caters for the local fashion trendsetters. Upon entering the shop, one is met with breathtakingly colourful handbags, exquisite shoes; stunning...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 23 August 2019
CITES is millions of thoughts away from Seronga
Last year the communities around Botswana descended to kgotla meetings to provide their opinions and insights on the management of the thousands of elephants that throng their backgrounds. In Seronga, on the Okavango eastern panhandle, elephants are...
Thalefang Charles
| 23 August 2019
CITES' dark underbelly surfaces in Geneva
By press time yesterday, Botswana and neighbours, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa were staring defeat in the face, in their proposal for future sales of their substantial ivory stocks. Another proposal, for Zambia’s elephants to...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 23 August 2019
Former CITES SG's advice to Botswana: Speak truth to Western power
“If Africa is serious about balancing both conservation and development, it has to have the courage to do the right thing. “So, it must cease being bossed around by Western-fuelled lobbies that are blind to reason. “That requires...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 23 August 2019
Foreign policy charm offensive or misplaced priority
The subject of the interview from the onset was a conversation on exploring synergies between Botswana and South Africa, the values that the two countries share and how they can grow stronger together. Although much of the interview was a...
Bakang Ntshingane 23 August 2019
RDCP battles sluggish progress in Namibia
Presenting the financial results for the half-year ended on June 30, 2019, the group’s CEO, Giachetti Guido said the group was still waiting for a title deed for the property purchased there. RDCP spent P4 million to purchase the...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 23 August 2019
How do I start living within my means
He has heard this term about “living within your means” and is not sure how to apply the concept to his life. Does this mean he has to be tight-fisted with his money? Thato* is usually a generous man who likes to share what he has. The...
Correspondent 23 August 2019
BIHL braces for P110m hit as associate firms struggle
BIHL’s biggest stakes in other firms include 50% in Botswana Insurance Company, 36% in the Funeral Services Group (FSG), 25.1% in Malawi’s Nico Holdings Limited and about 26.2% in Letshego Holdings Limited. Group executives previously...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 23 August 2019
Morupisi confirms Presidential Directive for Masama project
In an interview with Mmegi at his office, the PSP said taking the project to Parliament for inclusion in the NDP11, and for approval of its expenditure, was a normal process in the implementation of a Presidential directive. He added that there were...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 23 August 2019
Khato Civils tender is clean- BDP
Interestingly, in the 2014-2019 parliament, the dominant BDP has consistently used its majority to push its political agenda and in some instances frustrated important debates and pushing through some motions that it considered in line with its...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 23 August 2019
Masama wellfields currently a white elephant
Moswaane claimed that there was no need for the construction of another pipeline from the same wellfields to Mmamashia, while water from the same sources was being pumped into the North-South pipeline already. It emerged that the Masama wellfields,...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 23 August 2019
Khato cut cost of multimillion pula project
It was also tabled before Cabinet way before the tender award was announced, the documents revealed. The documents also established that when the award of the tender was announced, Khato’s winning bid was put at P781 million or USD 65 million,...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 23 August 2019
Envoy sends students off to China
The beneficiaries are expected to leave the country for China starting from August 31, 2019. The Chinese government has been giving out scholarships to Batswana students who aspire to study in China for over four decades. Chinese ambassador to...
Cavin Kanoko
| 23 August 2019
Big Russian fashionista to set up school in Gabs
The well-travelled influential personality in fashion circles around the world, is looking into working with local designers, both established and upcoming, to inculcate a spirit of pride and acceptance by the local market, in the products produced...
Maureen Odubeng
| 23 August 2019
BDP organ to seek reprieve for Moswaane
Moswaane’s future as BDP candidate in the 2019 general elections hangs in the balance following tension between him and the party. Developments in the constituency have reached a point where indications are that he may be suspended from the...
Chakalisa Dube
| 23 August 2019
Cheap politicking divides villages
It’s becoming apparent that as political activity heightens here, especially between the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) and independent candidate, Prince Maele so does the level of differences in the two villages. Politicians are in a way...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 23 August 2019
BPF loses out on Maele
The BPF is contesting 2019 general election in 18 constituencies including Lerala/Maunatlala, according to the party leadership. The BPF, a breakaway party from the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) formed last May also contests 219 council...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 23 August 2019
DPP again pursues Kgori Capital
The directors and the company were served with summons on August 21, 2019. Insiders close to the case say the move by the DPP has the hallmark of malicious prosecution. They reason that the CoA’s judgement determined on July 26, 2019 that,...
Staff Writer 23 August 2019
Gov't, unions head for 'make or break' finale
The public sector unions have now agreed on an allowance for their members and are also said to be willing to sit down with the government to negotiate a deal. The 6CTU are Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union, Botswana Nurses Union,...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 23 August 2019
Council investigates breach of donation rules
Guidelines governing donations prohibit receipt of such by individual members. The council dictates that donations should be received through established official channels. The issue came to light in 2018 after some members in the Committee...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 23 August 2019
Mystery as Bushiri's church is deregistered
The reasons for the church’s de-registration are yet unknown but according the Registrar of Societies Act, a society can be deregistered under circumstances where it has failed to submit its returns annually after being operational for a year,...
Mpho Mokwape
| 23 August 2019
NPF money laundering case heads to trial
On Wednesday, Broadhurst Regional South Magistrate, Masilo Mathaka committed the accused persons to stand trial despite an earlier call by the accused persons for him to stay the proceedings. Mathaka dismissed the application by the accused persons,...
Mpho Mokwape
| 23 August 2019
A dirisitswe e le lesupi
E re ditshupo tseo di tshwerwe, barui ba tle ba tsile go supa loruo lwa bone le ka fa ba tsweletseng ka teng. Fela jalo, balemi le bone ba tle ka dijwalo tsa bone go supa gore ba dira eng le gore ba tsweletse jang. Ba ba nang le kgatlhego le lorato...
Sebofo Motshwane 23 August 2019
Opportunity knocks for opposition! But will anybody dare open the door?
This picture is one that has saliently been on the drawing board since the first quarter of 2018, almost taking the country to an American-style election of long drawn out campaigns. As October draws nearer, it is increasingly clear there are only...
Thabo Masalila 23 August 2019
Botswana: A country on verge of State Capture
Now, not all who voted against the motion were bought by the construction mafia. That would be an unfair statement to make. Some were fooled. They thought that they were rendering their country a service. Some voted purely on the basis of political...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 23 August 2019
Back page this week: Gunners, Babitseng face BFA'S wrath
Mqondisi Dube 23 August 2019
CMB offers to return P450m
CMB, now under liquidation, was contracted by the BPOPF in 2014 to manage an initial P500 million investment mandate in private, unlisted equity. The asset manager and the pension fund fell out in late 2017 with allegations of misappropriation, at...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 23 August 2019
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