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Scorned!

The now all-too familiar calls for a boycott of local tourism are rising. The demonstration at our Washington DC embassy has presumably again taken place. The appeals to celebrities such as Ricky Gervais, Brad Pitt and Ellen DeGeneres are again being...

Mmegi Editor | 03 April 2020

Wena o le bona jang?

Jaanong re itse gore fatshe leno ke la temo thuo; la balemi-barui. Ka ga di sise ka go tshwana, bangwe balemi-barui ba gatele pele, ba tswelele sentle, ba bangwe bone ba salele morago. Go bona go ntse jaana, go nne le megopolo e e farologanyeng ya go...

Sebofo Motshwane 03 April 2020

Urgent need for an economic package to contain the COVID-19

Remember, when South Africa sneezes, we catch a cold.  We rely on our neighbour basically for everything – power, water, food, essential medicines and so forth.  SA is officially on lockdown, and  consequences will be...

Kgosietsile Ngakaagae | 03 April 2020

No safety, protection for tourism workers

Ntswetswe said while on the frontline, their members’ safety and protection is not guaranteed. He added they were concerned by the exclusion of the union in the fight against COVID-19 by employers and related stakeholders in the tourism...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 03 April 2020

Empty Ghetto streets

Keoagile Bonang | 03 April 2020

Gaborone Bus rank during lockdown

Bashi Kikia 03 April 2020

Economy grew by 3% in 2019

Figures released by Statistics Botswana this morning show that 2019’s growth was the lowest since 2015, when the economy shrank by 1.7 pecent due to an across the board slowdown in the mining sector. Government had expected the economy to grow...

Mbongeni Mguni | 03 April 2020

Softball tourney organisers remain hopeful

The chairperson of the Local Organising Committee (LOC), Oeme Morupisi told Mmegi Sport this week that they held a discussion with SPEDU after the cancellation of the Toyota 1000 Desert race due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. He said it was...

Calistus Kolantsho | 03 April 2020

Letlhakane residents comply with lockdown

As of tonight no new incidents of crime and no cases of people not adhering to the State of Public Emergency in the area are recorded. Hardly a week passes without an incident of rape, defilement and in rare instances, incest, happening in...

Lebogang Mosikare | 03 April 2020

Jele to miss Olympics despite new 2021 date

The 400m athlete was suspended in 2017 for taking a stimulant, but would, however, not return in time for the Olympic Games. Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Tokyo 2020 Games have been moved to July 2021. But Jele only returns to the...

Calistus Kolantsho | 03 April 2020

Athletes face fitness dilemma

Christine Botlogetswe, who has qualified for next year’s Olympic Game said it is going to be difficult, but they have no option but to follow the strict rules and stay home. “It is made worse by the fact that I do not have a training...

Calistus Kolantsho | 03 April 2020

Administrators under fire as athletes go off rail

The recent case involved two high profile athletes, Baboloki Thebe and Onkabetse Nkobolo breaking camp, and being involved in a car accident. In another sad development, a Township Rollers junior player, Johannes Oaitse died in a crash, which left...

Calistus Kolantsho | 03 April 2020

COVID-19 impact on Debswana could hit Orapa, Galaxy

Already precedence has been set before in the country that when companies hit a rough patch they usually cease funding activities that are not part of their core business such as football. For example, under a cloud of financial trouble in 2013,...

Chakalisa Dube | 03 April 2020

BNSC to assess COVID-19 damage

BNSC chief executive officer, Falcon Sedimo said it was difficult to determine the impact thus far, although the outbreak has had far-reaching implications. All sports activities have been halted, with some codes, particularly football, feeling the...

Mqondisi Dube | 03 April 2020

Horses society raises concerns over congested schedule

The month will hold two events, two weeks apart, which has raised health concerns for horses, trainers and jockeys. On July 4, 2020 the inaugural Gabs July Derby is set to take place at the Sebele Horse Race Track while on July 19, Mascom Derby will...

Kabelo Boranabi | 03 April 2020

The fall and rise of Ndodole

Amongst the victims was modest and soft-spoken Allen Ndodole. But five years after Ndodole’s near football obituary, the attacker has burst back to life. The tricky forward, after trudging the rough terrain that saw him quit at some point,...

Koketso Kgoboge 03 April 2020

BPL weighing options on season

On Tuesday, President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced a 28-day countrywide lockdown, meaning football fans will have to wait much longer to see their teams in action. The league was two-thirds through the season, with each team left with around 10...

Kabelo Boranabi | 03 April 2020

Row looms over players' salary cuts

The Botswana Football Association (BFA), like all other federations, suspended all football activities last month following the outbreak of the virus. Some Premiership sides have already stated that they will consider cutting players’ salaries...

Boitumelo Khutsafalo | 03 April 2020

Dingake's book demystifies the work of judges

The lockdown gave me a little more time for mental improvement through reading and I elected to read one of Judge Dingake’s books entitled “Judges”. Notion Press of India published the book that runs into 362 pages. The book is now...

Correspondent 03 April 2020

Ex-journo releases book on self-confidence

Edwin who worked as a journalist for many years has written a Christian motivation book entitled ‘Cashing Out Confidence’. “I am a Christian and I want to read everything that has to do with God including the bible. The book is...

Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | 03 April 2020

MTF launches free online masterclasses

The masterclasses offer exclusive access to practical, industry expert-led skills workshops that afford film and television professionals the ability to interact and learn from the best in Africa. “We are launching with the Produce Like a PRO!...

Staff Writer 03 April 2020

Locals get little in royalties while aliens receive lion's share

According to COSBOTS, the period they are currently distributing for, foreign repertoire enjoyed 73% airplay or usage compared to 27% in respect of the local repertoire, which means that almost three quarters of the royalties collected and...

Mompati Tlhankane | 03 April 2020

Entrepreneur calls for clarity on coronavirus relief

“Yes we don’t support the idea of being spoon-fed by the government, hence the establishment of our businesses. But there should be formal communication between banks and clients also on what is going to happen during the lockdown...

Mompati Tlhankane | 03 April 2020

Street art takes on COVID-19 social commentary

In the past few weeks, many artists have expressed the disastrous effect the pandemic has on their careers and livelihoods. So to create awareness about the danger of COVID-19 infection, local artists Ronald Kegomoditswe and Prince Tom painted a...

Mompati Tlhankane | 03 April 2020

S&P's waves red flags

When S&P’s last downgraded Botswana in 2009, the country was wrestling with a collapse of diamond revenues due to the global recession. This time, having emerged from a year of weaker diamond revenues, analysts at S&P’s said their...

Mbongeni Mguni | 03 April 2020

BITC braces for coronavirus

Each year, the BITC holds various initiatives to attract investors and promote exports, including a packed diary of inward and outward missions designed to bring investors and local partners together. The BITC also participates in world-level...

Pauline Dikuelo | 03 April 2020

Heavy Transfer Pricing tax fines take effect

Whilst transfer pricing legislation took effect on July 1, 2019, it could only be implemented upon publication of the TP regulations on July 12, 2019, which stipulated how MNEs would comply with the new law. Two tier tax penalties of P500, 000 and...

Correspondent 03 April 2020

Mogwera fails to overturn her suspension

Mogwera was expelled at the union’s special general congress, which took place on November 30, 2019 to December 1, 2019. At the time she was still serving her suspension from the union.  Following her expulsion, she had on December 5,...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 03 April 2020

Bailout for sports, arts on the way

Both arts and sports have ground to a halt as a result of the devastating impact of the novel coronavirus, which has spread across the world. Botswana has registered four cases, including one death, which saw President Mokgweetsi Masisi declare a...

Mqondisi Dube | 03 April 2020

GIPS staff salaries suspension causes outcry

BB’s Education Sector Coordinator, Golekanye Setume said he did not know how the institution reached the decision while it was never discussed. “We cannot comment much on the decision as GIPS did not consult us and we do not know how it...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 03 April 2020

Reflections on the Covid-19 confinement

As the COVID-19 storms gathered in the Pacific and countries were sealing their borders, one after the other, and Australia, USA and New Zealand were calling upon their citizens to come home. I took a decision to be close to my family at this...

Key Dingake 03 April 2020

Homeschooling in COVID-19 pandemic

Sometime back, I wrote about the importance of PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT (PI) in children’s education. One of the things that PI brings in a child/parent relationship is bonding over education. If a parent has been an active partaker in the...

Mmaotho Segotso 03 April 2020

Citizen journalism in a time of a pandemic

Recently, one popular Facebook page with more than 20,000 followers alleged that the health ministry was hiding a white patient from South Africa at Bokspits Clinic. After the first three cases were announced, photos of a couple alleged to be the...

Pini Bothoko | 03 April 2020

The risk facing health professionals

Many health workers in Botswana have at some point been exposed to various infections such as HIV, Hepatitis B and C through accidental pricks and cuts from contaminated needles and sharp objects and even splashes from infected bodily fluids from...

Correspondent 03 April 2020

Possible economic impact of COVID-19 on Botswana

The aim of this article is to therefore try to investigate the different economic effects that will arise from this disaster. I will look at individual industries, possible effects on unemployment, possible effects on the government budget and...

Correspondent 03 April 2020

The economics of a pandemic vs. Matsheka's economics

This is the nature of the pandemic economy: In the face of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic and following the declared state of public emergency, many parts of the country will be severely locked down and the state will curtail people’s ability to...

Bakang Ntshingane 03 April 2020

BoB, gov't free billions into economy

At its next Monetary Policy Committee on April 30, 2020 the central bank is also expected to significantly lower interest rates to ease access to capital for the local economy. This week, details of government’s response to the economic impact...

Mbongeni Mguni | 03 April 2020

OLDM recruit medics to fight COVID-19

While many governments around Africa including Botswana have imposed lockdowns on their citizens to control the virus, OLDM recently joined the fray by recruiting more medical personnel as one of the measures to stymie the deadly virus, Bontle...

Lebogang Mosikare | 03 April 2020

Court throws out BERA trio matter

Judge Gaedupe Makgato dismissed the request as not urgent, stating that there is available redress in due course for the three. The trio Tshegofatso Keitumetse, Tshephang Sebogodi and Nthabiseng Nyepetsi had sought an order for their matter to be...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 03 April 2020

GwezoTshaa Trust roars back to Life

In the early 1990s, the trust used to be a force to reckon with as it was one of  the promising community projects in the country. But a number of factors ganged up against the project resulting in its collapse in the late 1990s. Now, after...

Staff Writer 03 April 2020

Gov't gets its P1.5B tender back

Following the latest development, the Court of Appeal (CoA) on Tuesday ruled that the State was right in its power to rescind the tender from Jiangsu as per the warning of the Directorate of Intelligence Service (DIS) that the Chinese company was a...

Mpho Mokwape | 03 April 2020

Judiciary goes under lockdown

Chief Justice Terrence Rannowane yesterday issued a practice directive on court operations during the COVD-19 state of emergency. The directive to suspend duties is in line with the declaration made by the State President, Mokgweetsi Masisi on March...

Mpho Mokwape | 03 April 2020

Choppies considers 24hr shopping

CEO Ramachandran Ottapathu told Business Monitor the group is working on finalising logistics and is also waiting for the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) to give them the go-ahead. "We are thinking of operating long hours across...

Pauline Dikuelo | 03 April 2020

Private sector stabs govt in the back

Ahead of today’s lockdown, leaked internal memos from several companies showed that workers were being put on unpaid leave, or having their contracts terminated under the “no work, no pay” policy. While the tourism sector has been...

Mbongeni Mguni | 03 April 2020

From Seretse to Masisi: How Botswana fought disasters

FRANCISTOWN: Although Botswana’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic might have started on the wrong footing with the helmsman President Masisi defying advice from his handlers; the level of the country’s combat against the deadly virus...

Ryder Gabathuse | 03 April 2020

Broadhurst residents defy lockdown rules

Broadhurst Police Station Commander, Superintendent Obusitswe Lokae told Mmegi moments ago that people in his policing area are still ignoring the call by the President to stay at home for the next 28 days and practice an extreme form of social...

Pini Bothoko | 03 April 2020

Lockdown empties streets of Francistown

As an endeavour to combat the COVID-19 or novel coronavirus pandemic, Masisi has not only imposed regulations but also pleaded with the nation to treat the fight against the pandemic as a serious affair.  At least with three positive cases and...

Lesedi Mkhutshwa | 03 April 2020