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Back page this week: Fraudsters swindle Gunners' fans
Staff Writer 23 March 2020
Front page this week: Government has not shut down - OP
Staff Writer 23 March 2020
Sibanda Readies To Reclaim Track Again
The injury took the athlete through a roller-coaster until this year when Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) president, Paphane Botlhale took an infamous decision to bring him back into the national team fold. The team manager, Tshepo Kelaotswe...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 March 2020
Corona Virus Changes Sport Activities
The football season would be reaching its peak with the title race heating up, fight for the top eight and engulfing battle to survive the chop with eyes also set of the cup tournaments. As for table tennis, players would be fighting the top spots in...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 March 2020
AUSC Region 5 Cancels Activities
The only event that has been left is the Regional Annual Sports Awards (RASA) scheduled May in Eswatini. The awards would proceed if the situation abates. AUSC Region 5 chief executive officer, Stanley Mutoya said activities that have been postponed...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 March 2020
Covid-19 Threatens Mares Champions League Dream
The move would make the pair the first local players to play in the UEFA Champions League. The pair was invited for a four months trial with the side from March 3 until June 30. But is yet to receive visas due to the outbreak of the...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 March 2020
Fraudsters Swindle Gullible Gunners' Supporters
Mmegi Sport is informed that fraudsters impersonating Gunners’ officials robbed a number of the club’s credulous supporters of their money. The swindlers pretended to sell policies through the club’s sponsorship with Hollard...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 March 2020
Bars Shutdown After Batswana Defy Ban On Gatherings
It was quite surprising to see Batswana in most of these recreational centres doing their business as usual despite the government’s new order that imposed a suspension of public gatherings of more than 100 people for 30 days. The...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 23 March 2020
An Idle Mind Bears Spiteful Capsules- Stagnation
Nobody wants to experience it because it is a place where dead dreams live. The dreams are dead because their source, the mind, is distorted and disorientated. The mind is weaker than the situation encountered in life. When the mind is derailed from...
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 23 March 2020
Until Corona…..
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or...
Ashley Thaba
| 23 March 2020
Auto love- Rattling to the Benz
She was a bundle of energy and seemed to be running on that endless Duracell power. The day I brought her home my mother hugged her tightly, although in the interest of accuracy, I should tell you that the day before she came, mum also gave a tight...
Thulaganyo Jankie 23 March 2020
A Motswana Toned #Covid19 Conversation – What's Real Botswana?
It’s not so easy to bury our heads in the sand and pretend we don’t see the whole world standing still, cancelling almost everything but breathing, and at the same time collapsing in the realization that we may all be Jon Snows, we know...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 23 March 2020
Engage and Dismiss with Diligence
Today I specifically want to focus on the terms we use with regards to the engagement and termination of employees on the team. Let’s start off with betboo probation period and what that means to the employee. When we induct a new member, we...
Shameela Winston
| 23 March 2020
Coronavirus: BDF recalls all soldiers
“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) hereby directs all its members on leave/off duty to report to their respective workstations with immediate effect,” reads a statement from BDF director of Protocol and Public...
Staff Writer 23 March 2020
Ga e a tsoga kgomo e khunwana!
Selefu 23 March 2020
Batswana, Shame On You!
This means any one of us is just a border away from contracting the deadly coronavirus because people still cross in and out of the country daily. Some, for absolutely unnecessary reasons and those who continue to ignore restrictions are likely...
Monitor Editor 23 March 2020
Boston Doctors Appeal With Public To Help Fight Coronavirus
Many people are reading the claim online that this virus is a lot like the viruses that cause colds, and that if you get it, it will probably just seem like a bad cold and you are very unlikely to die. Depending on who you are, this may be true, but...
Correspondent 23 March 2020
Travel to Namibia by President Masisi
Last week, the President announced that he has decided to take responsibility for the coordination of all activities related to prevention measures against corona infection, which included a call for all Batswana to avoid unnecessary travel. As...
Dumelang Saleshando 23 March 2020
Police warns public, cancels all officers' leave
“The Botswana Police service wishes to sound warning that the police shall be in full force to ensure compliance and attainment of safety for the people,” reads a statement from Assistant Commissioner Dipheko Motube. He further revealed...
Staff Writer 23 March 2020
The Great Escape (Part 3)
According to Keitseng the two were with Special Branch Inspector John Sheppard when they ran into him at a butcher shop. Keitseng instantly recognized Wolpe, who had a decade earlier served, along with Nelson Mandela, as his lawyer when he had been...
Jeff Ramsay
| 23 March 2020
Hand Sanitiser Business Soars
Retailers have managed to cash in as people are preparing themselves for the unknown, buying in bulk. Of recent, people have been clearing shops, stockpiling groceries in case they get quarantined. The coronavirus also caused hand sanitisers...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 23 March 2020
Crisis readiness is panacea - PR expert
According to the Managing Director of PR Practice, crisis is about preempting diverse crisis scenarios before crisis strikes. “The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic caught a number of entities unprepared and has this has led to a huge...
Staff Writer 23 March 2020
Moreba's Daily Bread Of Passion
Sanctified Delights bakery and café is located opposite Matshekge hills school in the Ndandane ward in Bobonong. It specialises in baking bread loaves, doughnuts, sugar buns, scones, cakes and muffins along with many other baked food...
Cavin Kanoko
| 23 March 2020
Coronavirus: Progressive Churches Live Stream Sunday Service
This followed a step by government on Saturday to restrict gatherings to just 10 people in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19. Churches such as Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) Tlokweng branch, Eloyi Mogoditshane branch and the Zion Christian...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 23 March 2020
Boyfriend Charged With Sadistic 'Rape' By Broomstick
The 35-year-old Block 1 resident, who is employed as an End Control Checker at Sefalana Hyper, is alleged to have left his place of work on the morning of March 18 proceeding to Chedu Gas in Block 1 Shopping Complex where his girlfriend works. ...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 23 March 2020
Kerebotswe's Worthy Cause Helps Female Inmates
Besides just helping prisoners, she has decided to commit to assisting the latter’s children who were born in prison as well as ex-inmates who struggle to successfully reintegrate into society, find work, and return to their families. Being an...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 23 March 2020
Botswana-SA Cross-Border Travel Declines
This is despite the government having issued warnings that Batswana should minimise their travels to countries that are highly affected by coronavirus (COVID-19). SA is one such country with 240 reported cases by the weekend. Coronavirus is spread...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 23 March 2020
Travel To Coronavirus-Hit Countries Worries BDP
This is despite the government’s appeal to Batswana to minimise travel. Although Botswana has not recorded any coronavirus case, the ruling party believes too much travelling in and out of Botswana may lead to the country registering a case or...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 23 March 2020
Coronavirus-Bound Masisi Criticised For Namibia Trip
By Friday, Namibia had recorded its third case of a coronavirus infection, after a 61-year-old German national who travelled to the country tested positive. This came after all the talk on social distancing and keeping away from gatherings by health...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 23 March 2020
Covid-19: Batswana Still Visit High-Risk Countries
The Monitor has been reliably informed that some business people, who sell clothes and hairpieces in particular, took a trip as if going to South Africa before taking another flight out to a high-risk destination, China, to buy stock for their...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 23 March 2020
The Evolving Many Facets Of The Coronavirus
It has virtually affected many business establishments even social life. Even though the government has put in place a raft of measures to contain the virus, compliance to the measures is a double whammy-some as business entities have started to...
Keoagile Bonang
| 23 March 2020
Masisi's Namibia trip was irresponsible, reckless - Saleshando
In a statement released on Monday, Saleshando said: “The decision by President Masisi to undertake an unnecessary trip to a country grappling with the outbreak of the corona virus was blatantly irresponsible and reckless.” “Having...
Staff Writer 23 March 2020
'Work From Home' - Labour Sector Advises
The labour sector met recently to deliberate on matters relating to coronavirus and agreed on ways to enhance issues of personal safety, while addressing certain considerations relevant to the workplace touching on the employer/employee...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 23 March 2020
No Special Classes For School Leavers – MoBE
The School Head, Mma Kolanyane wrote to parents requesting that they allow their children to come to school. Basic Education Minister, Fidelis Molao has quashed the move and said no students should attend school. Speaking to The Monitor, Kolanyane...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 23 March 2020
Wuc Stops Water Disconnections
The Corporation was in fact already on its massive water disconnection exercise in Mogoditshane and Gaborone just as the announcement was being made on Thursday morning. By Thursday, WUC had disconnected over 400 defaulting households at Mogoditshane...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 23 March 2020
Coronavirus: Health Minister Calls For Everyone's Involvement
Acting to safeguard health on Friday, government moved swiftly to close the operations of bars, nightclubs as well as reducing the limited numbers of public gatherings from 100 to 10 people in response to the spread of the pandemic. Following this,...
Pini Bothoko
| 23 March 2020
MPs Approve Amendment Of BERA Act
The Bill, which was presented by the Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Lefoko Moagi seeks to change the structure or setup of the appointment of eight Board members (four being part-time members and four being...
Pini Bothoko
| 23 March 2020
Botswana Distances Itself From Germany/Namibia Genocide
According to Foreign Affairs Minister, Unity Dow, Botswana took a decision not to be involved because the matter is of a bilateral nature between two sovereign states. However, Dow said the government expresses sympathy for what the affected...
Pini Bothoko
| 23 March 2020
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