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Back page this week: Letshwiti admits Premier League blunder
Staff Writer 17 January 2020
Inside Page this week: Franco to tlatsa lebala
Staff Writer 17 January 2020
Inside Page this week: Vaka exits Bona Life as new crisis brews
Staff Writer 17 January 2020
Front page this week: 'IEC afraid of own skeletons'
Staff Writer 17 January 2020
Kgaswane proves size does not matter in weightlifting
Kgaswane competes in the 55kg category and is largely considered as the future of weightlifting in the country. He became a weightlifter by default, after moving from his first love, football. He said when teachers at Gaborone Secondary School...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 17 January 2020
Branch 21st ahead of final stage
Branch, who is having a rather mixed campaign in his second appearance at the world’s biggest race, is now 21st overall. Chilean Pablo Quintanilla won the stage, with Matthias Walkner of Hungary and Argentine, Luciano Benavides finishing...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 17 January 2020
Softball committee staring down the barrel
The meeting could have been held last November, but was postponed. But tomorrow, the Thabo Thamane-led committee would come face-to-face with their likely ‘killers’ as the motion of no-confidence is still in place. The committee...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 17 January 2020
The Premier League is my only failure- Letshwiti
Botswana Football Association (BFA) president, Maclean Letshwiti was candid in his admission in the wake of a damaging press statement, reminding BTC Premiership clubs of the absence of prize money at the end of the season. Letshwiti has...
Mqondisi Dube
| 17 January 2020
Under-20 girls eye World Cup berth
The team will face Namibia on Sunday afternoon in the first leg of the preliminary round of the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup at the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Windhoek, Namibia. The team is beaming with confidence after reaching the final of...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 17 January 2020
Tributes to departed Kootswele pour in
Former Botswana Football Associtation administrator, Fobby Radipotsane said the death of “Chips“ was a setback to football development in the country. Kootswele was known for his commitment to developing and nurturing talent. The former...
Koketso Kgoboge 17 January 2020
Desperate City Stars dip into the market
The team is in position 14, a dreadful relegation spot, after amassing only 11 points from 16 games. City Stars are level with TAFIC, Extension Gunners and Gilport Lions, as the relegation dog-fight is expected to heighten in the coming weeks. Just...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 17 January 2020
Letshwiti admits Premier League blunder
There was a groundswell of anger after recent reports that clubs will not receive prize money at the end of the season. Speaking to Mmegi Sport this week, Letshwiti said the crisis at the BPL were a result of a wrong management approach. “The...
Mqondisi Dube
| 17 January 2020
A, a a tshwaragana
Ka ke eo e letse, e re ka le le latelang e tsweledisiwe e lengwe gape gore ke gone e tle e wele. E tlaa re le rona gompieno re dire jalo, re boele morago ka gore kgang ele ya rona ya maloba, ya polelo ya mogwebi yole wa dinkgo wa Kgatleng, e ne ya se...
Sebofo Motshwane 17 January 2020
Philosophy of education: critical pedagogy Vs the banking model – Paulo Friere
He is also best known for his influential work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire’s philosophical views on education grew from his experiences as a teacher and consequent interactions with students and other teachers. He came to appreciate the...
Mmaotho Segotso 17 January 2020
The President must focus on service delivery and overregulation
There is nothing as hard as getting some really basic services from government; Batswana are suffering. I will give an example; someone I know has been trying to get a Day Care Centre licence in Tlokweng for three years now. At first she was to learn...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 17 January 2020
Don't you trust me
Selefu 17 January 2020
Climate change doesn't work on our schedule
For the first time since ISPAAD’s inception, government had decided that of the five hectares it provides communal farmers with inputs for, it would only support two hectares for maize. The balance would have to be alternatives. The idea, as...
Mmegi Editor
| 17 January 2020
President Masisi's Davos playbook
But the world is changing and Davos isn’t what it used to be anymore. This year it is happening on the same week as the UK-Africa investment summit. So, whether the decision to go shake hands with the political and business elite of the world...
Bakang Ntshingane 17 January 2020
The untold story of urban residents and safari hunting
Even as threats to shut down hunting markets continue to manifest particularly from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, actual Africans on the ground stress that the benefits are far-reaching and crosscutting, demonstrating the importance of the...
Emmanuel Koro 17 January 2020
Theorising about Judgeship
I have always recognised the synergy and symbiotic relationship between scholarship and judicial craft. The wheels of justice require scholarship to remain oiled at all times and fit for purpose. I also firmly believe that civic education pertaining...
Key Dingake 17 January 2020
Swimming in the Devil's Pool
Finding what lies beyond your fears is an addictive feeling. Before the swimming, just being on the lip of the largest waterfall in the world, the surround sound of the gushing waterfalls on a gaping 108metres gorge will surely activate your nerves....
Thalefang Charles
| 17 January 2020
Okavango to screen at USA 2020 Sundance Film Festival
The Jouberts are National Geographic explorers, filmmakers and founders of the Great Plains Foundation, a wildlife conservation organisation operating in Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe. The documentary received rave reviews from the Sundance community...
Staff Writer 17 January 2020
No Half-Time Party celebrates decade of existence
Marking its 10 years anniversary, the event popularly known as No Half-Time Party will host yet another session on January 25, 2020 at Lobatse Plantation. In 2010, Juice Polelo, the organiser of No Half Time Party, gathered a few friends at...
Victoria Marumo 17 January 2020
SOTS 2020 themed on women's role in society
Last year and other years before, it had been held at Serokolwane Lawns in Oodi. Patrons this year are in for a splendid shock as they will be able to see and be swept off their feet as to how SOTS has grown as an event. Since inception, it...
Victoria Marumo 17 January 2020
Kast disappointed at Franco's fill-up
Kast, real name Tshepiso Molapisi, got the Tlatsa Lebala idea from South African celebrated rapper Cassper Nyovest in 2015, but says Franco with be copying his event if he goes on to fill up the National Stadium. “I respect him. He is a...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 17 January 2020
Franco lines up own fill up the stadium festival
Whilst the idea to fill up the National Stadium is not knew as it was first done by local rapper Tshepiso ‘Kast’ Molapisi. But Kast had coined his campaign ‘Tlatsa Lebala’ a Setswana translation of South African rapper Cassper...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 17 January 2020
Chinese tycoon seeks control of Letlhakane uranium project
A-Cap shareholders are due to vote on the offer by March and although directors have said the offer is unfair, they also say it is reasonable. Jiandong’s Shenke Holdings has tabled an offer to Jiangsu Shengen Resources group for its 41% stake...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 17 January 2020
Mosele Legal Services breaks into SA market
After years of knocking on doors in Ghana, Namibia, and Tanzania, Mosele recently secured an operating licence in neighbouring South Africa. The company offers legal aid products. Customers subscribe monthly and in return have access to lawyers...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 17 January 2020
The uphill battle against terrorism financing
This manifests itself in many ways, with some countries being used as potential conduits for the passage of such transactions and other illegal transactions. It creates a much bigger challenge for financial institutions that have an obligation to...
Correspondent 17 January 2020
Golden Fruit 'resurrection' set for August
The regional grocer is expected to spend in excess of P10 million and initially hire 20 people as it resurrects the mothballed plant. Recruitment is due to begin in August. Golden Fruit was mothballed in 2013 amid operational stress, with more than...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 17 January 2020
Vaka exits Bona Life as new crisis brews
The Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) had given Bona Life until August 31 last year to comply with its prudential rule on the Prescribed Capital Target (PCT). The PCT states the minimum amount of assets that an insurer...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 17 January 2020
Climate Change: A bane on the availability of Mophane worms
MATOBO/GOSHWE: With unemployment expected to hover around 19% this year from 18% last year, some people, mostly women, on the outskirts of Matobo and Goshwe villages, have pitched camps in the bush to harvest mopani worms. Many of them harvest...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 17 January 2020
Heads to roll after ‘Butterfly' case
Causalities expected are one of either the Director Generals of Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC), Joseph Mathambo Peter Magosi of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS), and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP),...
Staff Writer 17 January 2020
Tan Sri Limkokwing: The education maverick who turned Botswana into a rare gem through skills development
He said since the University established a campus in Gaborone in 2007, it has not just brought 21st century relevant programmes but it has also imbued the students with a unique fusion of African, Asian and European education thus better enabling...
Correspondent 17 January 2020
IDM convenes 4th Biennial Research Conference in Botswana
This is IDM’s 4th Biennial Conference, which attracts delegates from around the world. Over 200 delegates are expected to converge in Gaborone for the conference under the theme: Knowledge-based economy: Insights, Opportunities and...
Correspondent 17 January 2020
Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela Traditional Administration call for intervention
The Royal Family, Dikgosana and Traditional Council challenged the Terms of Reference of the commission because they were broadly vague. The struggle to engage with Premier Mahumapelo continued even after Prof Job Mokgoro was appointed as the new...
Correspondent 17 January 2020
Beheading suspect's family not happy with OP's response
The devastated family of Simon Kgowe, who was initially accused of beheading his lover Elizabeth Bonolo Kerekang in July 2018 in Gaborone, says it has given up on the country’s justice system. One family member told Mmegi they recently...
Pini Bothoko
| 17 January 2020
Inspection of vote material an attack on us- IEC
The IEC, which tried to block the inspection, were objecting a request by the petitioners to be allowed to inspect election materials saying the materials were personal and should not be made public. This was in relation to Noah Salakae and five...
Mpho Mokwape
| 17 January 2020
BR employees expose safety lapses
Two employees of BR died in the December 10, 2019 passenger train accident near Pallaroad. The accident left a few critical and many passengers escaped with minor injuries. The derailment was supposedly caused by heavy water flow following torrential...
Koketso Kgoboge 17 January 2020
Pro and anti UDC merger divide BCP
The party goes to the congress divided between those who are pro and anti-Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) merger. The BCP is one of the three contracting members of the UDC alongside the Botswana National Front (BNF) and Botswana People’s...
Oarabile Mosikare 17 January 2020
Farmers urged to vaccinate cattle against Lumpy Skin
According to Botswana government portal, LSD is described as an infectious disease of cattle caused by a virus and it is commonly known as nkokomane in Setswana. The disease is characterised by the eruption of nodules on the skin and other parts of...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 17 January 2020
Jwaneng Mine launches P65m wastewater project
The project, whose construction and supervision by citizen contractors and local consultants commenced in November 2017, was delivered on time early this month and is set to run for at least fifty years. Sustainable mining is at the core of...
Staff Writer 17 January 2020
Makgato appointment: A political masterstroke?
FRANCISTOWN: Expectations from some sections in the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) are that after labouring very hard for the party victory, they would easily be rewarded with political appointments. But, unfortunately not all were appointed, as...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 17 January 2020
'IEC afraid of own skeletons'
In his response to the election body’s objection for ballot material inspection on Wednesday, Boko who is representing amongst others former Member of Parliament for Ghanzi North, Noah Salakae was questioning the IEC’s determination to...
Mpho Mokwape
| 17 January 2020
Your vote is not absolutely secret - IEC lawyer
Redding was presenting the IEC arguments in a case where the Commission was objecting to the elections petitioners, Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), to inspect the elections material that are in custody of the Registrar of the High Court. The...
Thalefang Charles
| 17 January 2020
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