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Back page this week: P5M cash boost for women's football
Staff Writer 29 June 2020
Front page this week: Kgosi gets green light
Staff Writer 29 June 2020
Butale Wins Women's National Table Tennis Crown
It was a classical tie that paired the old rivals in a fight for the top rank spot in the country. The win makes Butale the new queen of the table, as Rebatenne is now demoted to second fiddle in the country. Butale showed her intentions in...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 29 June 2020
BONA Diverts Grant To Courts
The refurbishment would ensure the courts, located behind the National Stadium, comply with coronavirus (COVID-19) regulations. BONA president, Malebo Raditladi-Nkgakile said the courts had missed out on a facelift during the 2017 Netball Youth...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 29 June 2020
Table Tennis Adjusts To New Normal
The tournament held at BNYC Hall, saw a number of new changes due to the effects of COVID-19. Significantly, the Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) suspended the doubles event in an effort to encourage social distancing. Spectators are not...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 29 June 2020
Accident Shatters Bolelang's Coaching Dream
Bolelang had his right leg amputated in February 2018 following a horrific freak car accident. On the day, the former Premier League top goal scorer was celebrating his birthday at a popular drinking spot at Somerset West location. A car ploughed...
Chakalisa Dube
| 29 June 2020
Curtains Fall On Madeluka
The Kutlwano and national team setter informed his club last week about his decision to retire. His contract with Kutlwano ends on July 31. Madeluka told Sport Monitor that he felt that time is right for him to retire from active volleyball, which...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 29 June 2020
Rakare Explains Gov't Position On Players' Pay
He was speaking during his visit to former Zebras star, Malepa Bolelang on Friday. “I am aware that some people have raised complaints about the decision to pay players directly. I am a football person and know the culture of our clubs very...
Chakalisa Dube
| 29 June 2020
Women's Football To Get P5m FIFA Cash Boost
FIFA announced that its council has unanimously approved the fund. But it warned that there will be strict control on how the money will be spent by the member associations. As a member association, the Botswana Football Association (BFA) will also...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 29 June 2020
Promoter Comes Up With Appreciation Awards
According to the renowned promoter, the awards are meant to appreciate a wide range of stakeholders including broadcasters, print media houses and journalists for supporting domestic content productions. The awards are slated for December 5 this...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 29 June 2020
Showbiz Promoters Pray For Ban Easing
As the environment is already volatile for musicians and promoters alike, top entertainers attended the meeting to disclose their frustrations. Veteran music promoter, Massie Hule told the crowd that as promoters everything is expensive for them -...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 29 June 2020
BIH Names Winners Of BIF COVID-19 Challenge
Chief executive officer of BIH, Alan Boshwaen said they have seen an increased interest by local innovators seeking support to develop solutions to some of the country’s most pressing challenges. Boshwaen added the interest was noticeable in...
Cavin Kanoko
| 29 June 2020
BECI Rolls Out P1B Loan Guarantee Scheme
It said the framework for the operationalisation of the COVID-19 loan guarantee scheme has been finalised. “Submissions of applications by the qualifying business entities to their respective banks shall has opened on Tuesday,” BECI said...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 29 June 2020
BDC Closes Call For Den of Africa Pitches
The government’s investment’s arm said through the competition, entrepreneurs will be given a opportunity to submit their ideas to a panel of successful business people in Botswana and stand a Chance to win up to P500, 000, mentorship and...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 29 June 2020
Temo Boswa Milling Aims To Feed Nation, Assist Farmers
One of those is Mpho Orapeleng, who is amongst the growing number of woman entrepreneurs that have ventured into this kind of business. Orapeleng’s Temo Boswa was founded in 2014 and got funding in 2018 from the Ministry of...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 29 June 2020
It's Crisis in a Crisis
Beyond the fear of being infected lies the greater fear of being unemployed, and while we wait to hear about the status of our jobs, we grapple with the effects of going several months with reduced income as we did over the past few months. We are...
Shameela Winston
| 29 June 2020
Speak The Language Of Love
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent...
Ashley Thaba
| 29 June 2020
The Mantshwabisi Manual
I mean how does one claim to be a bonafide citizen without ever having gone to watch the desert race. We live in a society where the cold June temperatures are often equated with fun and happiness. Everyone should create this opportunity to camp out...
Thulaganyo Jankie 29 June 2020
ATI – The Movement
The social movement, although not formalised, is evident in the concerns and memes shared about the impact of COVID-19 interventions in the country; and the displeasures raised by many Batswana of government’s lack of critical engagement with...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 29 June 2020
The Lost Kingdom Of The Mambo
They run deep in our soil, having nurtured our evolution as an ideally proud and united nation-state. These roots have, moreover, not simply been grafted on to our nation through the vagaries of colonial boundary making. If one goes back in time to...
Jeff Ramsay
| 29 June 2020
Come on! Make my day!
Selefu 29 June 2020
Gov't Should Lead By Example
Unions and individuals did not take kindly to the announcement by the government that the COVID-19 Scorpions contracts were erroneous, and must be the same as those for public works programme (Ipelegeng). The circumlocution irked many people,...
Monitor Editor 29 June 2020
Mogale JSS Fails COVID-19 Standards
Mogale Junior Secondary School (JSS) returned to a new normal that the institution was not ready for, as students are still overcrowded at their hostels. Each dorm is supposed to accommodate eight students, but currently the dorms have 25 to 26...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 29 June 2020
Ramokgonami Jss Students 'Forced' To Share Beds
The situation has left the school’s leadership, parents and the students worried in the era of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The situation is so dire that it has pushed the school authorities to seek donations to rectify the state of...
Pini Bothoko
| 29 June 2020
Mindsets Barrier To E-Thuto Buy-In, ICT Adaptation
e-Thuto project is an interactive web-based system, which is the recipient of the prestigious 2020 United Nations Public service Awards (UNPSA) in the category of promoting digital transformation in the public sector. When addressing members of the...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 29 June 2020
Sunday Soccer Teams Plough Back
They are of the view that there is nothing positive about Sunday football games. Although there is some semblance of truth in such views, some Sunday soccer teams are contributing positively in scommunities. A case in point that not all Sunday...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 29 June 2020
Sefalana Puts Smiles On Customers' Faces
The Grand Opening Competition came much later than planned as the draw was initially set for March, but it had to be postponed due to the coronavirus-induced lockdowns that required extreme social distancing. The grand prize was a Honda Amaze car...
Cavin Kanoko
| 29 June 2020
Bots Drops In Global Peace Index
Last year, Botswana was ranked the 30th peaceful country in the world, but is now ranked 33rd. Unemployment, cited as one of the contributing factors to the decline, has been a burning issue in the socio-economic climate of Botswana hence it was not...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 29 June 2020
Police Probe COVID-19 'Contravening' BDP
The party will be investigated after Botswana Congress Party (BCP) reported the matter to the police. A letter dated May 27, 2020 penned by BCP secretary general, Phillip Monowe read: “In terms of regulation 16 of the Emergency Powers (COVID...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 29 June 2020
Gov't Too Broke To Sponsor 'High Flyers'
Minister Douglas Letsholathebe says for the ministry to be able to sponsor students for education beyond undergraduate level, there is need to review policies and improve on collection of loans. Jerry Golesedi is a frustrated Mechanical Engineering...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 29 June 2020
LSB Calls Afriforum's Engagement 'Alarming'
In a recent statement, the Council of the Law Society of Botswana (LSB) stated that government’s decision was incomprehensible and perplexing given that there is extensive choice of legal representation in South Africa, in view of its much...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 29 June 2020
Court Gives Kgosi Defence Green Light
This is in a case in which Kgosi is charged with disclosing identities of Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) agents and obstruction of the officers’ duty. The former DIS director general, Kgosi’s legal team of...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 29 June 2020
Violence Against Nurses Worries BONU
BONU’s president, Obonolo Rahube said in an interview that violence against workers on duty gravely concerns the organisation. Rahube raised the concern following an incident in which Batawana Chief, Keleatile Moremi, allegedly slapped a...
Pini Bothoko
| 29 June 2020
Incarcerated Cmb Founder Fears Deadly Covid-19
Marsland fears it is only a matter of time before the virus gets him while he is incarcerated. He has been held in a South African prison facility since July 2019 at the behest of the Botswana law enforcement authorities. In urgent court papers...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 29 June 2020
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