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Back page this week: Football's P300 million dilemma
Staff Writer 05 June 2020
Inside page this week: Taps open up at drinking holes
Staff Writer 05 June 2020
Inside page this week: Debswana cuts production amid COVID-19 market glut
Staff Writer 05 June 2020
Front page this week: Border jumping students quarantined
Staff Writer 05 June 2020
BNOC scores 36% in Satisfaction Survey
However, the local Olympic body scored high in issues of ethical behaviour in a survey conducted by the University of Botswana. According to a report on the Satisfaction Survey, presented during BNOC’s virtual Ordinary General Meeting (OGM)...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 05 June 2020
Strict rules for softball as league returns
The league has been suspended since March due to COVID-19 outbreak, but would return in July. The BSA would discuss the draft guidelines today, as players prepare to return to the pitch. Amongst the changes, players would not be allowed to lick...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 05 June 2020
Cricket cautious ahead of return
England and the West Indies will bowl the first ball next month, as international action resumes after a three-month COVID-19 enforced break. But locally, action is still some way off, with BCA fixtures and publicity secretary, Sumod Damodar...
Mqondisi Dube
| 05 June 2020
Gov't promises to clear teachers' arrears this week
Botswana Primary Schools Sport Association (BOPSSA) president, Busani Segweni revealed the amount was at P5.5 million, but the government paid part of the debt. “The ministry has promised us that they would pay the outstanding fee of P3.9...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 05 June 2020
Gabz Rising Stars aims to alter football landscape
Academy owner, Kenneth Dambe envisages the facility would become a constant conveyor belt of talent. The academy is based at Masa Primary School in Gaborone. Dambe said the academy has a tailor-made and all encompassing programme, which targets the...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 05 June 2020
Gunners receive Umbro cash boost
The two parties entered into a five-year agreement in February. Gunners have since received the package from their new sponsors, which include playing kit, travelling kit as well as tracksuits for players and technical teams. According to the club...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 05 June 2020
First Division sides in the dark over relief funds
They argue, without assistance, they would not be able to return to the playing pitch. Calendar Stars chairperson, Buzwane Diboko said the situation at his side is so dire they would not be able to meet costs to fulfil either a home or away fixture...
Koketso Kgoboge 05 June 2020
Clubs face difficult choice
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) has asked clubs to choose amongst three options to determine how the current campaign, disrupted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, should be concluded. Like other sporting codes, football was forced to...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 05 June 2020
BFA defends consultation process
Some clubs have expressed misgivings about BFA’s consultative process, after the mother body asked for opinions on the football season. TAFIC chairperson, Carlos Sebina argued the process was worthless as their input might be ignored. But...
Mqondisi Dube
| 05 June 2020
The winners and losers if season is voided
It all points to the current season being declared null and void where there are no champions or relegation. The other option is declaring the season complete, with current league standings deemed final. One of the two options is expected to emerge...
Mqondisi Dube
| 05 June 2020
Ban on alcohol sport sponsorship lifted
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development (MYSC), Kago Ramokate told Mmegi Sport that sport codes have been given the green light to negotiate with alcohol companies for sponsorship. “We have...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 05 June 2020
Khato Civils' Masama 100km Pipeline Project starts
It has been two weeks now since the contractor, Khato Civils, set up base at Artesia, from where bulldozers have been busy with bush clearing to mark the pathway along which trenching activities and associated works will be carried...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 05 June 2020
Football's P300 million dilemma
Medical experts engaged by the Botswana Football Association (BFA) have presented a report, which does not provide good news for those hoping to see the conclusion of the various leagues. The report indicates that clubs would have to fork a combined...
Mqondisi Dube
| 05 June 2020
Go buiwa ka mmaba e le motho
Go bua jalo ba re ba raya gore, dilo tsa botshelo di dirafala ka ditsela di farologanyeng. Dilo di tle e le tse di botlhoko mme di re hutsafatse, di re letse. Tse dingwe e nne tse di monate, di itumelelwe, di lelediwe megolokwane. E re botshelo bo...
Sebofo Motshwane 05 June 2020
Bullying amongst children (Part 1)
The behaviour is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems. Bullying is a subcategory of aggressive behaviour characterised by the following...
Mmaotho Segotso 05 June 2020
'Behind every Botswana President, there is Ram'
I could try and find a name for it, but will choose not to do so, for now. I will merely say, for now, that it does not look good, and if looks count for anything, then there is a problem. Yet another Botswana president, has a business relationship...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 05 June 2020
Roll out the barrell
Selefu 05 June 2020
Media under threat
The media industry was not spared by this global pandemic. Household brands across the world have closed shop! Major brands have shut down because there is no business to support continuation of these magazines and newspapers. Some newspapers...
Mmegi Editor
| 05 June 2020
From health crisis to bank crisis
But back in the capital Gaborone, the city is a gloomy picture. The clicking sound has become the norm and character of the day as bankers hit the keyboards, huffing and puffing, trying to harvest any of the remaining breadcrumbs on relief packages...
Correspondent 05 June 2020
A layman's introduction to cybersecurity
The post COVID-19 era is bringing in a ‘new normal’. Part of this new normal is increased digital interconnectedness. In the new normal, people are expected to fulfill their professional and life vocations remotely through the use of...
Correspondent 05 June 2020
Misconceptions around social work drive confusion and hatred
In terms of the history of professions, social work is a new profession, which was first established in the USA and UK around 1800 and later imported to Africa around 1910 in the Union of South Africa. Social work as a profession came to Botswana...
Correspondent 05 June 2020
Can hotel industry bounce back? Part I
If the greatest painter of the 16th century Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni were to be assigned to work on an artist’s impression of the hotel industry, it would be quite telling. In this coronavirus (COVID-19) era, no doubt there...
Correspondent 05 June 2020
Fare thee well Thuso 'Thusoski' 'Mthuzonkana' Letlhoma
Growing up I listened to Thusoski on radio and for one second didn’t even anticipate that I would ever share the stage with him, as I had no ambitions for radio broadcasting. But as fate would have it, I ended up sharing the stage with him and...
Correspondent 05 June 2020
Sounding the empowerment trumpet
That Nchindo heads Debswana Diamond Company, the largest earner of Botswana’s foreign exchange, is only part of the story. Picture this. He has been close to Mogae since they were students at Oxford University. He still has the...
Correspondent 05 June 2020
Garfxld quits DJ'ing, ventures into singing
The 23-year old hip hop and R&B artist who is also a songwriter fell in love with recording songs in 2017. There and then, decided to quit DJ’ing so that he focuses on vocal recording and beat making. He describes his music as...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 05 June 2020
Kobe Twins' magic hands process leather merchandise
Having beautiful natural hand-sewn merchandise is a dream-come-true for many. That is why businesses like Kobe Twins whose hands work wonders with leather make women truly drool and daydream as they picture themselves in such fineries. Enter...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 05 June 2020
God inspired Motladiille releases first offering
In an interview with Arts and Culture, the multitalented singer said her album is aimed at preaching the ‘word’ through her music. She explained that she is a born again Christian adding that she has being singing since her Sunday school...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 05 June 2020
GIMC to proceed without international acts
According to the organiser of the multi-disciplinary annual event held in Gaborone, Thapelo Pabalinga the seven-day art and cultural event could go on without international acts. Pabalinga said for as long as it is safe and possible to host live...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 05 June 2020
Taps open up at drinking holes
Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry, Peggy Serame has been hailed as a hero for burrowing down to an underground soak and supplying water to an array of native fauna hard hit by this unusual drought. With the memes that have been going around...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 05 June 2020
Chobe upbeat as tourists choose deferrals over cancellations
Chobe is one of the major players in a sector that has borne the brunt of the pandemic’s impact, with travel restrictions causing mass cancellations, revenue collapses and unemployment. Hospitality and tourism are amongst major contributors to...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 05 June 2020
Mood's forecasts 7% drop for Botswana's economy
In a position announced recently, Moody’s however affirmed the country’s long-term local and foreign currency issuer ratings at A2, amongst the highest in Africa. The status means Botswana is one of the continent’s best borrowers...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 05 June 2020
The limits of extreme COVID monetary policy
LONDON: With output having collapsed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many are wondering how far monetary policy can be stretched to support the economy. For the US Federal Reserve, negative interest rates appear to represent an effective limit,...
Correspondent 05 June 2020
Gov't extends lifeline as 140,000 companies face the chop
By June 2, at least 65% or 143,000 companies were due to be terminated as a result of their failure to migrate to the Online Business Registration System (OBRS). By last Friday, ahead of the deadline, sources close to the Companies and Intellectual...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 05 June 2020
Debswana cuts production amid COVID-19 market glut
The company’s stones are sold primarily through the De Beers’ chain and to a lesser extent, the state-owned Okavango Diamond Company. Both channels have been restrained this year as the coronavirus forced government to close borders and...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 05 June 2020
Motovac employees donate food hampers
Concerned by the challenges facing vulnerable groups and communities as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Motovac management team has donated 200 food hampers worth P22, 000 to residents of Old Naledi and the SOS Children’s...
Staff Writer 05 June 2020
Informal sector: The saviour of many families
The Coronavirus pandemic has kicked the legs from under the informal sector, with the lockdown sending both vendors and their customers behind closed doors. Even as the economy reopens slowly, the stringent requirements government requires businesses...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 05 June 2020
Cop loses malicious prosecution suit
Lungisisani Masubi who has held a rank of Sub-Inspector since 2015 was charged with stocktheft while stationed at Dukwi Police Station in 2017. According to his court documents, Masubi was making two claims, one arising from the alleged unlawful...
Mpho Mokwape
| 05 June 2020
Schools spare the cane
FRANCISTOWN: In Botswana, corporal punishment is practiced at homes hence it is not surprising that it is still a norm even in schools. For most Batswana, the idiom “spare the rod and spoil the child” is a truism that should be practiced...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 05 June 2020
Alcohol imbibers urged to drink responsibility
Ever since the President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s nation address last Saturday lifting the alcohol ban, drinkers have been displaying their devoted love for alcohol and excitement towards the President’s move across social media...
Pini Bothoko
| 05 June 2020
Social media use on the rise in Botswana
This is according to the latest Afrobarometer survey, which also shows that more than a third of Batswana (34%) now use Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, or other social media every day as sources of news. The study investigated the use of social media in...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 05 June 2020
Keorapetse, Skelemani agree on PAC meetings
In a letter written June 2, 2020 addressed to the Speaker of National Assembly, Keorapetse said; “That PAC has a backlog of two years of unexamined books of accounts of government, that is financial years 2018/2019 and 2019/2020. That the...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 05 June 2020
Lands ministry suspends workers
The 20 employees who were employed under the Kweneng Land Board at the time of the allegations received their suspension letters on March 20, 2020 from the Permanent Secretary, Bonolo Khumotaka after the ministry was notified of the...
Mpho Mokwape
| 05 June 2020
The challenges of double shift at Mater Spei
Speaking to this publication this week, Munyere raised a concern that during the second shift there is a high risk of teachers experiencing fatigue due to exhaustion caused by splitting classes into two. He said that as a way of maintaining social...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 05 June 2020
Re-opened Kediretswe primary heaves under serious challenges
All local schools were closed down nearly two months ago when the debilitating effects of the COVID-19 hit the country’s shores. On Tuesday, the schools re-opened after the Ministry of Basic Education had made attempts to prepare facilities to...
Koketso Kgoboge 05 June 2020
Tonota schools battle accommodation woes
This was revealed by the Chief Education Officer for Tonota sub-district, Othusitse Namane. Namane was however, not sure about the date on which the cabins will be availed at Tonota Junior Secondary School (JSS) and other schools within the...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 05 June 2020
Schools re-open as pupils walk into COVID-19 challenges
However, as soon as doors opened the learners had already walked into challenges where some are confronted by incomplete projects, as works to refurbish infrastructure and installation of washing basins are still behind. When schools resumed classes...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 05 June 2020
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