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Back Page this week: P8K monthly wages for Olympic bound athletes
Staff Writer 08 June 2020
Front Page this week: Border jumpers frustrate war against COVID-19
Staff Writer 08 June 2020
UDC rallies behind Saleshando
As the UDC we give our unwavering support to our VP and are disturbed but not surprised by this trend. Before the elections, the President of the UDC, Cde Duma Boko was the daily target of the ruling BDP social media propagandists. The maligning of...
Correspondent 08 June 2020
BTTA host money-spinning tourney
A company, Phoenix Assurance Group came through with a P96, 000 fund injection into Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) coffers. The money will come in handy for more national tournaments that bring the best in players. A relieved BTTA...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 08 June 2020
COVID-19 Might Produce Football Season Surprises
The football fraternity is waiting anxiously for the final decision of the association on the fate of the season amidst the COVID-19 impact. Last week, the mother body requested football clubs to express their views on what the association should do...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 08 June 2020
Tokyo Qualifying Athletes Receive Monthly Wages
The amount is given to athletes simply because they have qualified for the Olympics. The payment comes on top of other financial assistance received by the athletes from the BNOC. Speaking at a media briefing yesterday, Serufho said his office has...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 08 June 2020
Lucia Dottie Releases New Album
Having done a couple of collaborations with Culture Spears, since then Lucia Dottie’s 10-tracked album features many well known local artists such as Gong Master, Casper The Golden Voice, Una Sell, Spiza Valentino and Kuseri Kumakili. ...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 08 June 2020
Stanbic Bank Piazza Re-Opens Doors
“Our venue is indeed an ideal venue for almost any type of event or gathering in this new normal era. As a vast open-air 24m x 80m space with built-in sound system, basic lighting, housekeeping and ablutions exclusively used for events,...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 08 June 2020
Cresta Back In Business Following Covid-19 Lockdown
The group announced Friday it was back in business by opening Cresta President Hotel in Gaborone, Cresta Thapama Hotel in Francistown and Cresta Jwaneng. However, others will follow in a phased manner. Cresta managing director, Mokwena Morulane said...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 08 June 2020
Tech Company Create Posh Assembly Plant
Housed at Botswana Innovation Hub, the plant assembles mobile phones, televisions, laptops and infrared thermometers. Thatayaone Dichaba, a local innovator who is the brains behind Ditech mobile phones, said at full production, the facility has the...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 08 June 2020
Big Shots Grab Country's First Lottery Licence
Registered in 2016, Grow Mine’s biggest shareholders are Sefalana Holdings Company which owns 80%, Colmar Enterprises at 47%, Citizen Money Makers at 26%, Idlehill (PTY) Ltd at 20%, Carthlee Inventions at 21% and Mokgethi Magapa at six...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 08 June 2020
Fear- The Thief Within The Mind
The commentator always asks with a doubtful perception towards our efforts with an intent to instil fear upon oneself. Fear is an emotion that anticipates exaggerated loss, pain or danger and at times urgeS one to either fight or flee. Our prospects...
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 08 June 2020
Am I Meeting My Partner's Needs In Our Relationship?
This week, I want to share with you an excerpt from the chapter on His needs/Her needs because that is the topic of the episode which will air Sunday night 7:30 pm on BTV. If you have watched the television show, then you will know that the audience...
Ashley Thaba
| 08 June 2020
I Am A Columnist
This useful feedback I got from a very helpful reader this past week who was actually very animated and had really solid advice on how to make it better. The chat was very long and one-sided. At the end of the chat COVID-19 had been discovered, a...
Thulaganyo Jankie 08 June 2020
The Great Plague (Ii)
Years of drought and locust infestation coupled with the outbreak of rinderpest along with a surge in human disease resulted in up to 20% of the Protectorate’s population perishing, along with most of the territory’s livestock and much of...
Jeff Ramsay
| 08 June 2020
Drink Responsibly, Save Lives!
Different media outlets went around town filming the first day of re-opening for the sale of alcohol, and all the managers seemed not to have any concerns, relating that their customers were cooperating. As announced by the Minister of...
Monitor Editor 08 June 2020
I can't breath
Selefu 08 June 2020
SEDC Repurposes Ipelegeng For Schools Cleaning
The workers will be under the supervision of headmasters since they will be cleaning the school environment and lavatories regularly. This is done so as to beef-up cleanliness in schools, especially in the primary school grounds. Parents and...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 08 June 2020
Bittersweet Gush As 'Great Ponds' Of Liquor Reopen
Similarly, the name of Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s novel, ‘Bittersweet’, describes the mood of some liquor traders. It is no surprise that the titles also in part form the backdrop of various studies that have in the past...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 08 June 2020
SPSS Alumni Mobilise COVID-19 Relief
The group of former students has been aiding SPSS annually since 1994. Despite the fact that COVID-19 has affected people financially, the outbreak did not deter the former students from mobilising a means to cushion the SPSS community and residents...
Koketso Kgoboge 08 June 2020
Thamaga Woman Scammed Of P3,000
Since last year the scammers have been targeting women who drive expensive cars in Gaborone prompting cautionary messages targeted at women. As a result women are being warned to watch out for the fraud syndicate that has taken huge sums of...
Pini Bothoko
| 08 June 2020
Police Applaud Francistowners For Responsible Drinking
This was so after the ban on sale of liquor was lifted with controls last Wednesday in the aftermath of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak following a two-month lull in alcohol consumption. Speaking to The Monitor, Central Police station commander,...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 08 June 2020
Murder Accused Has Case To Answer
The accused, Bathusi Mpitsi, is charged with a single count of murder where the state alleges that he killed Maoto Biza Ntwaagae on September 30, 2016 in Mahalapye. Justice Moesi said that for the charge to be sustainable, the state must prove that...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 08 June 2020
One Fatality After Head-On DUI Crash
The 43-year-old driver of the Toyota Tazz was killed in the accident and two passengers on board the vehicle survived. The surviving passengers, aged between 30 and 31, sustained head injuries. Confirming the incident, Thamaga Police station...
Pini Bothoko
| 08 June 2020
Gang Rapists Jail Sentence Upheld
The appellants, Keamogetse Sekwata and Nicholas Kombe, were found guilty of raping their victim on January 3, 2014 at Gweta village in the North West Administrative District of Botswana. The appellants’ joint grounds in their appeal are that...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 08 June 2020
BPF Courts AP
Talks were said to have started before the lockdown came into effect and were yet to resume. According to a source, BPF has tasked a delegation of four officials led by its chairperson Oboetswe Gabotlale to ensure that opposition parties united and...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 08 June 2020
BFTU: Teaching Needs Overhaul In COVID-19
BFTU secretary general, Thusang Butale said on the occasion of World Teacher’s Day the changing environment brought about by the future of work and COVID-19, necessitates an evolution of the teaching profession to address and adapt to the new...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 08 June 2020
BOFEPUSU Slam '100% Carrying Capacity' Knee-Jerk Reaction
Just as operators were about to retire their buses in protest on Saturday, the Director of Health Services Dr Malaki Tshipayagae announced that public transportation would now be allowed to operate at full capacity to restore the informal...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 08 June 2020
BDP Want Mogalakwe To Withdraw Case
Mogalakwe has approached the High Court seeking leave to appeal the decision of the court relating to his election petition. When the case commenced on Friday, judges presiding over the matter requested both Mogalakwe and BDP attorneys to discuss...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 08 June 2020
Border Jumpers Frustrate War Against Covid-19
Already 116 are awaiting deportation, mainly to Zimbabwe. While Botswana and Zimbabwe closed shared borders as part of a calculated effort to control the spread of COVID-19, by mid-April some Zimbabwean immigrants faced challenges returning to...
Pini Bothoko
| 08 June 2020
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