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Floor Crossing Bill missing in Parly agenda
Mmegi understands that the much talked about Bill christened Floor Crossing Bill by politicians and political activists will be tabled in October sitting. According to the Minister of Presidential Affairs Governance and Public Administration,...
Staff Writer 27 July 2020
Back page this week: Squabbles beckon at Gunners
Staff Writer 27 July 2020
Front page this week: Moswaane defends Khama
Staff Writer 27 July 2020
Nervous BBA's Bumpy Road To Compliance
BBA has been on the wrong side of the Registrar of Societies for some time after failing to meet certain requirements needed to ensure full compliance. It has been three years since the association was compliant with the Registrar. Speaking to The...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 27 July 2020
Mabote Returns To Ping-Pong
Mabote was involved in a horrific car accident in June 2018 in which he injured his ankle and a wrist. The Smash Maniacs player, had to relinquish his top rank spot at the time thereby taking almost a two-year hiatus from the sport. However, he...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 27 July 2020
Online Chess Olympiad Team Face Challenges
Team Botswana, led by International Master (IM) Providence Oatlhotse, Gomolemo Rogwane in the open section, and Women International Master (WIM) Onkemetse Francis in the women section will start the tournament in Division 3. The team will be...
Koketso Kgoboge 27 July 2020
BBC Sticks To Usual Delay Tactics
For instance, the executive committee has rejected all the Gaborone-based clubs that were trying to affiliate ahead of the meeting. According to the rejection letter signed by BBC president, Terrence Tiroyakgosi, the application could only be...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 27 July 2020
Tafic Heads To Arbitration Tribunal Over Relegation
The matter is before the association’s arbitration tribunal The Monitor Sport has learnt. The seven member BFA tribunal deals with all internal disputes within the association, its members, players, officials and player agents, apart from...
Chakalisa Dube
| 27 July 2020
Internal Squabbles Beckon At Gunners
Most Gunners supporters’ branches leadership gathered at Lobatse Civic Hall with the notable exception of the Gaborone West branch. The branch has openly supported ousted former Gunners chairman, Tariq Babitseng who was removed from office in...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 27 July 2020
Vee Mampeezy Set To Expose Batswana On Uyajola99
Apparently, the diminutive hitmaker could not control his excitement, as he breathlessly gushed via his Facebook page saying it was the news he had been waiting for. “Thank Moja Love and Khuli Chana, God is great, Botswana are you ready,”...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 27 July 2020
DJ Ngwazi Details His Scary COVID-19 Experience
The talented artist who dabbles as a DJ for South Africa’s music artist, Master KG told Showtime in an interview that he believed he was exposed to the virus at a grocery store, since it was the only place he had been in Midrand where he...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 27 July 2020
Local Companies Graduate From ODC Course
The programme, which is fully funded by the rough diamond marketing company, started in March 2020 and seeks to assist each graduate on their unique diamond journeys. ODC managing director, Marcus ter Haar said through the sustainability programmes...
Staff Writer 27 July 2020
De Beers Rethinks Business After Diamond Collapse Exposes Cracks
The company founded by British imperialist Cecil Rhodes in the late 1800s was under pressure even before the coronavirus to reform. While De Beers boasts one of the world’s most powerful luxury brands, it remains tied to traditions that in...
Correspondent 27 July 2020
Minergy's Coal Consignment Reaches SA By Railway
According to the company, the initial train consisted of 50 wagons, with each wagon carrying approximately 53 tonnes of coal product, equating to roughly 2, 650 tonnes in total. The coal mined at the Masama coal mine, was loaded onto trucks and...
Staff Writer 27 July 2020
Primeone Aims To Improve Hygiene In Botswana Kitchens
One such, Gardson Mazonde, in June 2011 armed with a background in the health sector left his employment to start Primeone (Pty) Ltd. Mazonde started the nine-worker strong team business in order to follow his passion and specialty. The business...
Cavin Kanoko
| 27 July 2020
Procrastination- An Encumbrance That Make Life A Debt And Very Expensive
Do these words ring a bell? I am confident that they do because they are very friendly to be conversed as when we feel like. The words that attest to PROCRASTINATION. Procrastination is a quality of postponing to do certain events or...
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 27 July 2020
Through The Eyes Of A Seven Year Old
The next morning, I was checking it and realised she wrote God down for every answer! I mean EVERY.SINGLE.ANSWER! Obviously not happy, I called out, “ABI! You told me you did your homework! You LIED! You did not even TRY to do your...
Ashley Thaba
| 27 July 2020
Ever Had A Parent Who Is A Serial Hoarder
The old dusty sofa set which looked like a buffalo with a horrible skin disease had now quickly morphed into some sort of masterpiece and a crowd of hoodwinked hoarders were furiously trying to outbid each other for it. Amongst the lot was my dad,...
Thulaganyo Jankie 27 July 2020
World Day Against Trafficking In Persons
The trafficking of persons, also referred to as human trafficking is a significant problem, the world over, including, and more significantly in the developing world. Trafficking in persons is not only a very serious crime, it is also a severe...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 27 July 2020
The Lost Kingdom (Part 4)
The Bakalanga also subsequently became renowned for their possession of imported firearms, including cannon. By the 19th century they, along with their Vashona cousins had begun to construct guns of local manufacture known by the Chishona name...
Jeff Ramsay
| 27 July 2020
Floor Crossing Bill
Selefu 27 July 2020
Gov't Should Minimise COVID-19 Reporting Errors
Many citizens at the beginning had shown signs of panic, while some even blatantly complained that there seemed to be no strategy to curb the spread of COVID-19. Also, others observed that government is ill prepared for the possibility that...
Monitor Editor 27 July 2020
Reputation Management
Everyone was doing what they could, but some employers had the ability to do better than they did, and in that, they missed the opportunity to promote their brand as employers, not necessarily of choice, but employers of, ok, let’s say...
Shameela Winston
| 27 July 2020
One Good Turn Deserves Another
The staff, pupils and parents of Mogobane Primary School were excited to receive the soap dispensers from one of their own, Ruth Maganu. Speaking at the handover of the donation, Maganu said the soap dispensers were meant to support the school in...
Correspondent 27 July 2020
Limko Offers Partial Scholarships To Self-Sponsored Students
Limkokwing University, also known as Limko, announced that for the 2020 September intake the university will offer 50% scholarships for its first year self-sponsored students. The university’s associate director registry, Beenzu Kapapa stated...
Correspondent 27 July 2020
Court Convicts 21-Year-Old For Raping 60-Year-Old
According to the charge sheet read in court, Gaboipewe raped the woman on April 5, 2018 at Japane settlements near Borolong village. Documents read in court indicate that Gaboipewe met the victim, grabbed and dragged her by the neck to a nearby bush...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 27 July 2020
Prisons Considers Rehabilitative Farming
Prisons commissioner, Colonel Silas Setlalekgosi revealed the ambition when addressing Public Accounts Committee (PAC) recently. Setlalekgosi asked for the committee’s strategic support in order to contribute handsomely to the country’s...
Pini Bothoko
| 27 July 2020
Overcrowded Maximum Prison Worries PAC
Their concerns followed existing challenges that were raised by the Botswana Prison Service’s commissioner, Colonel Silas Setlalekgosi in terms of their holding capacities when appearing before PAC recently. The commissioner revealed that the...
Pini Bothoko
| 27 July 2020
Magosi 'Unwatched'
While many found his utterance shocking and in need of instant correction, his predecessor Peter Magosi also finds himself working without any oversight bodies leaving the DIS unwatched. PAC members on Wednesday advised Magosi to remind...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 27 July 2020
Moswaane Defends Khama's Speech At Spouse's Burial
Moswaane, who is currently serving suspension from the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), added that to the best of his interpretation, the political statements made by Khama were not a veiled jab directed at the neither ruling party nor government as...
Chakalisa Dube
| 27 July 2020
UDC Councillor Defects Amidst Anti-Floor Crossing Bill
Makhura said he feared that had he delayed leaving Botswana Congress Party (BCP) there would have been chances that the Bill passing into law would have prevented his plan to move to the BPF. BCP’s internal party squabbles within the Palapye...
Koketso Kgoboge 27 July 2020
COVID-19 Hits BURS Border Collections
One of their main concerns was under- valuation and failure to declare goods at borders. The situation has since hit the ceiling during the COVID- 19 period as businesses take advantage of the pandemic to cross with minimal screening. “The...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 27 July 2020
Bofepusu To Lobby Mps On Civil Servants' Vote
Secretary general of Botswana Federation of Public, Parastatal and Private Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU), Tobokani Rari said they would lobby Members of Parliament (MPs) to push for public servants to be allowed to vote in political party primary...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 27 July 2020
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