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Back page this week: Cabinet approval stalls school sport
Staff Writer 21 February 2020
Inside Page this week: Home coming concert likely
Staff Writer 21 February 2020
Inside Page this week: EU extends deadline for Botswana tax greylisting
Staff Writer 21 February 2020
Front page this week: Masisi's joy, agony in 100 days
Staff Writer 21 February 2020
BMS in P10 million treasure hunt
In September, the BMS will stage Africa’s largest off-road cross-country event dubbed Morolong 2020. The race would cover a distance of more than 6, 000km making it the biggest cross-country rally in the continent. It would thus surpass the...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 21 February 2020
Swimming team on a positive start
James Freeman won the gold medal in the 800m freestyle. Andile Bekker won the silver medal in the same race while Maxine Egner scooped a bronze medal. The championships were still ongoing by the time of going to press. By then Botswana was...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 21 February 2020
Magosi finally replaces Morupisi
"In accordance with the powers vested in him under Section 112 of the Constitution of the Republic of Botswana, His Excellency the President of the Republic of Botswana Dr Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi, has appointed Mr Elias Mpedi Magosi, to the...
Staff Writer 21 February 2020
Softball fever grips Orapa
The launch is the beginning of action for Northern zone teams. Rebels and Carats welcome Scramblers, Ghetto Yankees and Sua Raiders to their own turf. The game promises to be a thriller as players have been thirsty for game time. Some of the games...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 21 February 2020
Coaching merry-go-round hits top speed
Out of 16 teams, only six have not changed coaches so far this season. Miguel Da Costa has become the latest casualty, joining a long list of coaches who have been either fired by their clubs, or decided to leave for greener pastures. Jwaneng Galaxy...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 21 February 2020
Ruele snubs Swimming championships
According to a team announcement of January 8, 2020, Ruele was to compete in the category of girls aged 17 and above alongside Ruvarashe Gondo, Tayla Vos, Leone Van Rooyen and Amantle Mogara. Chairperson of the Local Organising Committee, Kgaotsang...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 21 February 2020
BSA, umpires smoke peace pipe
The BoFiNeT Softball League games were called off last Friday after umpires downed tools over unpaid wages. On Sunday, the officials wrote a letter raising all their concerns to the BSA. The two parties met on Tuesday to iron out their differences....
Calistus Kolantsho
| 21 February 2020
Afriyie faces Rollers' wrath
Afriyie stormed out of the technical bench midway through the second half when he realised that he would be an unused substitute in the team’s 1-0 win over Prisons XI last Sunday. The Ghanaian striker, cut a frustrated figure on the bench as...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 21 February 2020
Rollers look to avoid upset
The match, which is probably the standout fixture this weekend, will be played at the old Francistown stadium tomorrow. By virtue of their standards Rollers are tipped to have a stress-free match against lowly ranked Tonota FC who have found the...
Chakalisa Dube
| 21 February 2020
Majombolo close in on Flamingoes
Through the action, they blew the Debswana First Division North title race wide open. Majomobolo as the Selibe-Phikwe Club are affectionately known to hordes of supporters have cut Flamingoes’ five-point lead and equalled the latter on 33...
Koketso Kgoboge 21 February 2020
Cabinet approval stalls school sport
With the first term about to come to an end, it was expected that the school sport would have started by now. The expectations were that the Ministry of Basic Education would send out a savingram announcing the date when school sport would...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 21 February 2020
Legokedi leo, ga se lone
Fela go utlwala gore, kwa Bokaa, kwa Kgatleng go kile ga tshwarwa phuthego ya kgotla, e le ya modulasetilo wa khansele. Re a tle re re, tiro e le ya morafe, e nna e nne le bagolo fa gare ga yone. E re ba loisa Setswana ba re, ga di ke di goga di le...
Sebofo Motshwane 21 February 2020
Motivation in education
Truth is, inability to achieve frustrates us. This is what psychologists call motivation/moxie/pep/gumption/chutzpah. Motivation is an attribute that instigates movements, an energy, direction, the reason for our behaviour, and the...
Mmaotho Segotso 21 February 2020
Lost opportunities by the Masisi administration (Part 1)
What is trending beyond social media is that Batswana are increasingly asking themselves what is the vision that the Masisi administration has for Botswana. What is their business plan amidst the country facing the triple threat of stagnating...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 21 February 2020
BCL Closure
Selefu 21 February 2020
DPP, a serious joke!
This remains a public concern on a justice system. May be the Directorate should be rechristened the Directorate of Public Persecution given spates of botched attempts at prosecution. But this week, we learnt with shock that an office of the same...
Mmegi Editor
| 21 February 2020
Overview of key developments brought by the Competition Act Pt II
In respect of the latter, one may appreciate from Mokubung’s article and indeed from the literature in European Union (EU) and South Africa that, the abuse of a dominant position is whereby, an enterprise which is dominant in the market,...
Correspondent 21 February 2020
A letter from PNG on Senior's 92nd birthday
And as you testified to me, later that day, you were overwhelmed by good wishes pouring in! Reviewing your life I think you have worked with sufficient integrity and dedication to advance the cause of freedom to deserve all accolades coming your...
Key Dingake 21 February 2020
Shackled in leg irons, down in the dumps
When the now suspended permanent secretary to the President (PSP), Carter Morupisi first appeared in court on September 3, 2019, the whole event seemed like a political smokescreen for the general elections. Watching such a powerful man sitting in...
Thalefang Charles
| 21 February 2020
Living in the shadow of a virus
It takes very little to spread panic. A scream, loud noise in a sensitive surrounding or even sudden running where running is not called for. For the passengers of BP 204 from OR Tambo to Johannesburg that afternoon, one quietly spoken sentence from...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 21 February 2020
Masisi's 100 days: Great on diplomacy, worrying on domestic issues
As we reflect on the progress made, the verdict is frankly speaking an indication that things are still moving ‘slow’. Reforms are taking too long and they appear to have stalled. The President’s forte, however, has been on...
Bakang Ntshingane 21 February 2020
Mynhardts taste first fruits after Furnmart delisting
After 21 years on the local exchange, Furnmart delisted and went back into the hands of founders, the Mynhardt family, who controlled approximately 92% of the group after the BSE exit. According to the group’s Annual Report released this week,...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 21 February 2020
Decentralise tenders, Francistown businesspeople plead
The call was made in response to presentations about the state of the country’s competitiveness and Doing Business Reforms held by the Botswana National Productivity Centre (BNPC) recently. Contributing to the debate, Francistown Knitters...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 21 February 2020
China's digital revolution in bank lending
BEIJING: China’s economy is growing at is lowest rate in over 30 years, but if the country’s nearly 40 million small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) could overcome a lack of access to funding, they could become a powerful engine of...
Correspondent 21 February 2020
Gov't seeks to borrow P1.3bn from capital market
The government, through Bank of Botswana (BoB), borrows quarterly from the local capital market mainly to develop the domestic market’s capacity, but also to fund gaps in the national budget. For the 2019-2020 fiscal year, government’s...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 21 February 2020
EU extends deadline for Botswana tax greylisting
The EU, which is the world’s single richest market, says Botswana now has until August 31, 2020 to sign a tax cooperation deal, under which the country will commit to a wide range of commitments around information sharing, transparency and...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 21 February 2020
Mental health exhibition on the cards
Last year, the fine artist decided to spread his artistic wings following an invitation from a fellow artist abroad. Nkawana is now back home in full force to share his experience with fellow Batswana artists. “I have been engaged in charity...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 21 February 2020
Skinflint climbs big U.S stage
Skinflint guitarist/vocalist, Giuseppe Sbrana told Arts & Culture that the first time they breached US shores, it was a success and now they have been called yet again. “We will be playing in places like Minneapolis. These are big shows...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 21 February 2020
DJ Bino hopes to bag YAMAs
DJ Bino has been nominated for the best dance single, best producer of the year and best dance DJ for this year’s Yarona FM Music Awards (YAMAS). “I really feel overwhelmed because I came a long way to be where I am at the moment. It...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 21 February 2020
Chrispin The Drummer aims high
Chrispin The Drummer has been nominated in the best male single and best male DJ in the upcoming sixth annual awards show to be held at UB Indoor Sports arena. He told Arts & Culture that this year they are going all out to ask for votes....
Mompati Tlhankane
| 21 February 2020
Dramaboi unmoved
Instead of responding to the beef Ozi F Teddy has been seeking for a long time now, Dramaboi has been ignoring all that. He is posting a lot about his late grandmother on Facebook recently. While some fans have been alluding to his posts as a cry...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 21 February 2020
SOTS 2020 women centred
The event billed for February 29, 2020 at Masa Gardens in Rasesa is cryptically themed ‘Kwa Re Go Yang- Re Belegwe’, whose translation could be hazarded as ‘where we are going (the future)-we are birthed/delivered’. Speaking...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 21 February 2020
Home Coming Concert likely
With a lineup that some deem as ‘too good to be true’, it looks like it might be happening after all. The ‘Makeup concert’ is scheduled for February 29 at Railways Stadium in Mahalapye. The annual one, which was set to take...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 21 February 2020
No qualified personnel for top BURS post
The post has been vacant since December 2018 following the departure of Keneilwe Morris. Morris has not been replaced with a substantive head. Before he left, Morris had been at the helm of the tax agency for about eight years following his...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 21 February 2020
Botswana ranks 106 on child flourishing index
The report surely flies in the face of various government interventions such as providing free food to children at government schools from primary to secondary level, clinics and under the destitute programme. The government provides the food to...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 21 February 2020
Government's impulsive brigades enrolment backfires
Large numbers of enrollees were absorbed while there was shortage of resources to accommodate them. Minister of Employment, Labour and Skills Development, Mpho Balopi has since owned up to the mess and admitted there is urgent need for change. He...
Pini Bothoko
| 21 February 2020
Controversial Masama pipeline back on table
Last August the MPs refused to authorise funding for the project after allegations of improper tendering. According to Ministry of Finance estimates seen this week by Mmegi the Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services proposes to...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 21 February 2020
Locusts invade 10 Gumare farmers
Due to the situation, an alert was issued Tuesday this week by the chief plant protection officer Velleminah Pelokgale warning farmers and the public in general about confirmed cases of AML in Gumare and the bigger Ngamiland district. Gumare, which...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 21 February 2020
Serema explains his BDP roots
Serema was born and raised in Tonota by a teacher and a family that was dependent on livestock and arable farming. He was born in a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) family, the party that has since catapulted him to being a High...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 21 February 2020
Ketlogetswe's dissenting judgement
Boitshwarelo, who was an independent council candidate during the 2019 general elections, petitioned the election results saying they were not free and fair. A panel of three judges Ketlogetswe, Omphemetse Motumise, Itumeleng Segopolo heard his...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 21 February 2020
'Broke' DPP decries lack of funds
The dire situation emerged at the Francistown High Court on Wednesday after the substantive prosecutor in the cases in which Gobuamang Ntsuape is charged with several offences failed to appear before Justice Lot Moroka because of lack of funds for...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 21 February 2020
DIS surrenders Sebina brothers properties
The DIS was complying with principal magistrate, Batho Kgerethwa who had ordered the Peter Magosi-led agency that the warrant of entry, search and seizure as against applicants be rescinded. She also ruled that Magosi is ordered to return all...
Staff Writer 21 February 2020
How education ministry aided collapse of aviation school
The latest revelations come at a time when reports indicate that authorities at the same ministry are under the radar of the Directorate of Intelligence and Service (DIS) and the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC). According...
Staff Writer 21 February 2020
Villagers on the warpath
Coupled with that, a senior district official denounced for abusing his office and dividing the community. In January 2020, the chief executive officer of what was to be renamed the Palapye Community Development Trust (PCDT), David Jibajiba,...
Koketso Kgoboge 21 February 2020
Corruption allegations hit Palapye Community Trust
The claims have set members of the Palapye community on a collision course with the former management and Board of the Palapye Development Advisory Trust (PDAT). In January this year, 27-year-old Thebe Johannes and 200 other protesters twice laid...
Koketso Kgoboge 21 February 2020
Masisi's 'uninspiring' 100 days in office
FRANCISTOWN: It is widely known that the first 100 days of a presidency is too short a time span to measure a sitting President’s success. However, the first 100 days of a sitting President are used to assess whether the new administration has...
Chakalisa Dube
| 21 February 2020
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