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Back page this week: TAFIC want Premiership sides increased
Staff Writer 22 June 2020
Front page this week: Lobatse Police conceal clash with mob
Staff Writer 22 June 2020
Uproar As Snooker Gears Up For Polls
The committee was elected into office in 2016. According to information reaching Sport Monitor, affiliates have threatened to boycott the association until the committee leaves office. “Ask them how it is possible that there are some people...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 22 June 2020
Coke Penalty Miss Still Haunts Pabalelo
This week, Pabalelo opened up on missing the decisive penalty, a development that instantly made him public number one at the Tango Boys, as TASC was known to its supporters. Mareko ballooned his effort over the bar much to the ire of the team's...
Chakalisa Dube
| 22 June 2020
Hockey In P500, 000 Shortfall
Including the Africa Cup of Nations, which serves also as World Cup qualifiers for Under-18 hockey, BHA is to compete at the senior Southern Africa Cup (Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers) and the Field Hockey Series. "We are looking at a budget that...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 22 June 2020
The Season's Top Three BTC Premiership Moments On The Pitch
GU Completes Double In Derby It always feels good to win a derby game but to complete a double is unreal. Gaborone United (GU) this season, for the first time in nearly a decade, completed a derby double over cross-town rivals, Township Rollers. In...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 22 June 2020
TAFIC Wants Premiership Teams Increased
TAFIC, Molepolole City Stars and Miscellaneous have been sent to the lower division after the BFA national executive committee (NEC) declared the season complete last week. The decision has the three sides indignant as they believe they have been...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 22 June 2020
ATI Boycotts Rakgare As Frustrations Heighten
The controversial rapper who recently released a banger called Stimamolelo has revealed that he wants to meet President Mokgweetsi Masisi instead not cabinet ministers. “Our government is the image. Puppet masters take cover. Citizen...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 22 June 2020
Refund Facility Allows Seamless Flow Of Covid-19 Products
MITI permanent secretary, Keganele Malikongwa said the facility will exist indefinitely and subject to periodic review. “As such we aim to ramp up local production of these products which should in future lead to self-dependence,”...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 22 June 2020
Tlou Energy Granted Electricity Generation Licence
The 15-year licence is for the generation of 2MW of Coal Base Methane (CBM) gas and solar power generation at its Lesedi project. The power will be sold to Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) at the approved state-owned power utility’s...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 22 June 2020
Heir Hunters In Business Of Tracing Missing Beneficiaries
This is so as pensions don’t automatically ‘sort themselves out’ when someone dies or when a policy matures. The grey hair industry, often to address this predicament, engages genealogist researchers or probate detectives to find...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 22 June 2020
Spiritual Realm: The Cradle And Foundation Of Life
This means that everything that happens in our lives begins first in the spirit. It may either be a bad thing or a good thing. The spiritual realm is the foundation of the life we aspire to live and also has the potential to destroy us. It,...
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 22 June 2020
Why Do I Care So Much
This week we will address the issue of Gender Based Violence (GBV). We also did an amazing TV show on this where we had a wonderful special guest who gave us great insights into this topic. She is a survivor of GBV after her husband shot her eight...
Ashley Thaba
| 22 June 2020
Your Royal Highness!
Somehow our teachers decided we were not smart enough and kept drilling into our single-digit IQ heads how to address him. Our teachers kept asking us 'how do you address the Prince of Wales'. The answer was something like 'your...
Thulaganyo Jankie 22 June 2020
World Refugee Day And Our Silence – “Too Foreign For Here// Too Foreign For Home//Never Enough For Both.”
The theme of the day this year, is every action counts. The idea is that each of us can do something. Our combined actions can definitely create necessary change. World Refugee Day is essentially a day on which we honour the strength and courage of...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 22 June 2020
The Third Batswana-Boer War (1899-1902)
At the same time some of the more daring Bangwaketse and Bakwena joined Barolong in running supplies across the Boer lines to the besieged town of Mahikeng. In February 1900 Sebele reached an agreement with the Boer Commandant Peter...
Jeff Ramsay
| 22 June 2020
Public, World of Oath DIS
Selefu 22 June 2020
Are All Schools Student-Ready This Winter?
While many seem to criticise all these initiatives, there are some who believe Botswana is somewhat winning in containing the spread of the virus. With that said, COVID-19 has also been a thorn on everyone’s side, a global disaster and, in...
Monitor Editor 22 June 2020
Parting With 'Grand-Pa' Such Sorrow
The sachets and tablets were a product consumers could purchase anywhere without a doctor’s prescription at an affordable price. However, Grand-Pa will soon not be available in Botswana following a decision by the Market Authorisation Holder,...
Pini Bothoko
| 22 June 2020
Tshireletso Becomes Voice To The Voiceless
Tshireletso said in a recent interview that she is going to be the “voice to the voiceless”. Mma Tshireletso, as many call her, revealed that she has registered a non-governmental organisational (NGO) named Botlogile Tshireletso which...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 22 June 2020
Gumare Guitarist Murder Accused Appears
Tsheko’s misfortune was sealed on December 16, 2014 when a dark cloud hung over Gumare village in the North Western District of Botswana following the death of Samoyanaro. The guitarist’s death was a bitter pill to swallow for residents...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 22 June 2020
Gantsi Kgosi Under Fire For Alleged Prejudice
The allegations emanate from claims raised by the village-based businessman who told The Monitor that he had been sidelined because he does not originate from Gantsi. The entrepreneur, who preferred anonymity for fear of victimisation, said he...
Pini Bothoko
| 22 June 2020
Tents For Pupils' Makeshift Classrooms
Chief education officer for Tonota sub-district, Othusitse Namane told The Monitor on Friday some pupils would return to find tents as makeshift classrooms. The sub-district is one of the areas that have often been cited amongst those that have...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 22 June 2020
BOSETU Awaits Report Amidst Wintry COVID-19 Reopening
In the midst of a delayed wintry reopening of schools due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, BOSETU’s complaint is that they have long requested the Ministry of Basic Education (MoBE) to produce a report on schools’ readiness, but...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 22 June 2020
Gov't Open To Dialogue Over Refugee Liberties
The Minister of Defence Justice and Security, Kagiso Mmusi revealed this when reacting to calls by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) that government should consider granting refugees in Botswana some rights, which will allow...
Chakalisa Dube
| 22 June 2020
Toxic Palapye Council Relations Reach PS
The petition, signed by all the 28 sub-district council councillors including the council chairperson, Khumoyame Lekoko, was sent to the PS last Thursday. “This serves to inform your office to the fact that there is no good working...
Koketso Kgoboge 22 June 2020
Court Orders Winding-Up Of Pule Modisana
High Court placed the company under provisional winding up in 2018 following a petition by Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA), which had bought a 40% stake in the company at a cost of P16,934,712. However, in 2018 CEDA approached the...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 22 June 2020
Lobatse Police Conceal Clash With Mob
According to eyewitnesses, on Saturday afternoon, law enforcers were attempting to disperse a crowd after a football tournament at Lobatse Stars grounds when a fight between the public and law enforcers ensued. The Monitor is informed that the...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 22 June 2020
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