Archives
Explore
Home
News
Business
Sport
Lifestyle
Features
Opinion & Analysis
Blogs
Sponsored
World
Full Picture
Featured Videos
More
About Us
Advertise with Us
Archives
Sitemap
Contact us
Sign in
Create account
Home
News
Business
Sport
Lifestyle
Features
Opinion & Analysis
Blogs
Sponsored
World
Select Year:
2024
|
2023
|
2022
|
2021
|
2020
|
2019
|
2018
|
2017
|
2016
|
2015
|
2014
|
2013
|
2012
|
2011
|
2010
|
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
2006
|
2005
|
2004
|
2003
|
Select Month:
January
|
February
|
March
|
April
|
May
|
June
|
July
|
August
|
September
|
October
|
November
|
December
|
Archives:
Monday August 03
Tuesday August 04
Wednesday August 05
Thursday August 06
Friday August 07
Saturday August 08
Monday August 10
Tuesday August 11
Wednesday August 12
Thursday August 13
Friday August 14
Monday August 17
Tuesday August 18
Wednesday August 19
Thursday August 20
Friday August 21
Monday August 24
Tuesday August 25
Wednesday August 26
Thursday August 27
Friday August 28
Monday August 31
Back page this week: Gov't stays out of BFA 'wars'
Staff Writer 07 August 2020
Inside page this week: Rediscovering Kgalagadi on 4x4
Staff Writer 07 August 2020
Inside page this week: Gov't mulls IMF budget bailout
Staff Writer 07 August 2020
Front page this week: Gov't seeks P37bn
Staff Writer 07 August 2020
Bekker makes swimming waves
Despite his tender age, the 17-year-old Maru-A-Pula student told Mmegi Sport that he has been swimming competitively for almost 11 years. He is part of the Botswana Junior National team. “I first started swimming in pre-school, where we would...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 07 August 2020
Mudongo makes 9th Olympiad appearance
The 2020 edition is being played online due to the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mudongo would be leading a side that has other decorated players such as International Master (IM) Providence Oatlhotse, WIM, Onkemetse Francis and Woman...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 07 August 2020
Women gain ground, but remain on the periphery
Women’s participation in football has gained traction over the years, and so have their involvement in leadership roles. Not too long ago, football was considered a male preserve, with fewer women involved. However, FIFA’s deliberate...
Mqondisi Dube
| 07 August 2020
Location of Makwala Stadium divides Tutume
Organiser, Christopher Nyanga said as festive tournament organisers, they had written to Tutume authorities over the matter. “The letter has not been delivered to the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development (MYSC),”...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 07 August 2020
What should Rollers do with fringe players?
Goalkeepers Kabelo Maphakela The young goal minder completed his second full season with the Blues without making a competitive appearance. He was given playing minutes in a pre-season international friendly against South African giants, Mamelodi...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 07 August 2020
Clubs freeze plans as wait drags
Action was suspended in March following the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), and teams have not taken to the field since. The clubs face dilemma on players’ salaries and contracts while the preseason preparations and recruitment has...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 07 August 2020
Out-of-contract players in the cold
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) has hinted the league might kick-off next year February. The out-of-contract players face an anxious wait before their next pay cheque. Footballers Union of Botswana (FUB), however, has negotiated with the BFA...
Koketso Kgoboge 07 August 2020
Gov't stays out of BFA 'wars'
The campaign battles for football’s highest seat recently reached fever pitch, with the vetting out of two presidential hopefuls, Tebogo Sebego and Ookeditse Malesu. Opposing camps also challenged sitting president, Maclean Letshwiti’s...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 07 August 2020
A lefoko leo le katoge
Re setse re fetile ka dipolelo dingwe tse di neng di kaya fa e ne ya re ka yone kgwedi e, ka dingwaga tsele, mapalamente mangwe a tshwara diphuthego tsa go nna jalo. Gompieno re ne ra kopana le polelo nngwe ke eo, e bolela fa e rile ka yone...
Sebofo Motshwane 07 August 2020
What Is Dyslexia?
Different people are affected to varying degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, writing words, "sounding out" words in the head, pronouncing words when reading aloud and understanding...
Mmaotho Segotso 07 August 2020
The alcohol ban is unsupportable
In fact, the current lockdown of the Greater Gaborone Area, was almost universally approved by the citizenry, including the hard-hit Greater Gaborone Area. That is testamentary to Batswana’s preparedness to be part of the national effort...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 07 August 2020
Where are you Mr President?
You did not just address the nation, you sow seeds of hope, you counselled your people, and even announced interventions to help your people through, including the infamous Mma Boi. You are probably working hard with your Cabinet and COVID-19 Task...
Mmegi Editor
| 07 August 2020
The pursuit of social justice – Part 2
For some people, one example that illustrates the efficacy of protests is that of Mandela. Away from the limelight, his voice completely censored from reaching the world and for part of the time languishing in solitary confinement, he managed to...
Correspondent 07 August 2020
On Gaborone's foreign policy during COVID-19 and beyond
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its broad impact on the country will require the presidency to radically rethink and review the strategic underpinnings and operational modalities of Botswana’s foreign policy. Chief amongst these...
Bakang Ntshingane 07 August 2020
Constitution takes precedence over parliamentary proceedings
Former finance minister Kenneth Matambo has sought to review and set aside the proceedings of the Select Committee of the National Assembly, and that of the National Assembly itself, primarily on the basis that the adoption of the Committee’s...
Oarabile Mosikare 07 August 2020
Responding to COVID-19 in the tourism sector: Acknowledging the complexity
The restrictions in movement have not only suffocated the tourism sector through closing out international travellers, but have also limited the room for expanding the already limping domestic tourism. Jobs within the sector are highly threatened and...
Correspondent 07 August 2020
Kate the Aesthete hopeful for a big break
The offering is part of her upcoming EP scheduled for release later this year. “I have two singles out. Ke Mrepa Dawg is my first rap song and so it had to make a statement because I have so much love for Hip Hop. Then there is Summer...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 07 August 2020
Creatives do not bring much value to Botswana
With the envisaged depletion of diamonds, the creative industry has been hailed as the next ‘real diamonds’ that would move Botswana’s economy forward. However, the situation according to Ramokate does not look pretty...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 07 August 2020
Martha the Dancer lives dance
Her passion landed her into doing dance as a career. The young dancer who is based in Gaborone started her vocation and took dance seriously in 2009 when she was 12 years old. The dance style she started with was Latin American Dance with Exotic...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 07 August 2020
Gov't to realise dream to promote local talent through TV
Despite that fact, Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development (MYSC) Tumiso Rakgare recently assured Batswana that would soon change as government focuses on promoting local talent through TV. Rakgare admitted that TV plays a major...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 07 August 2020
FNBB boosts FAM online workshop
Last month, FAM won the ‘FNBB Bodiragatse Jwame, Lentswe Lame’ competition under the fine arts category. The competition was an initiative aimed at supporting the creative arts during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a reward for winning...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 07 August 2020
Accounts graduates turn to catering
The decision came after the pair did not find jobs after graduation due to high unemployment rate in the country. In an interview with one of the co-owners of their business, Talita Pitso, she said Banting Foodie was a registered catering...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 07 August 2020
Mupane hits paydirt as gold price soars
Gold, seen as a safe haven investment in turbulent times, has risen by more than 30% this year, as investors seek it out to secure value and also buffer themselves for the expected rise in inflation later, when the trillions of dollars being pumped...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 07 August 2020
SEZA pushes for high-income economy status
SEZA chief executive officer (CEO), Lonely Mogara revealed in an interview this week that the authority’s new strategy seeks to diversify the economy and improve output in key sectors such as agro-business, financial services, applied ICT,...
Staff Writer 07 August 2020
How to prevent the looming sovereign-debt crisis
NEW YORK: While the COVID-19 pandemic rages, more than 100 low-and middle-income countries will still have to pay a combined $130 billion in debt service this year – around half of which is owed to private creditors. With much economic activity...
Correspondent 07 August 2020
Despair as BTCL withholds dividends to store cash
The decision has triggered despair amongst the corporation’s retail investors, many of whom have remained faithful to the group despite the fall in the value of their shares from the P1.15 listing price in 2016 to the current 86 thebe. In...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 07 August 2020
Rediscovering Kgalagadi on 4x4
That is when they run up to their highest sand dune to watch out who is coming. From their vantage point view they could see four approaching vehicles coming their way. Inside the vehicles is yours truly in the leading vehicle, trailblazing through...
Thalefang Charles
| 07 August 2020
Gov't mulls IMF budget bailout
About 40 African states, including nearly all in Southern Africa, have applied for special coronavirus (COVID-19) funds from the IMF. Officials at the institute told BusinessWeek that the applications thus far totalled $16 billion, with about $14.3...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 07 August 2020
Shakwe murder accused dodges hangman
Justice Bashi Moesi sentenced Mmoko to death by hanging last year July for the death of his girlfriend, Badiredi Mmampane Tsiapane. According to particulars of the offence, Mmoko murdered Tsiapane on April 9, 2015 at or near Mogothe ward in...
Pini Bothoko
| 07 August 2020
Luck escapes death row inmate
His sentence was confirmed on majority rule. The inmate, Wedu Mosalagae who was initially convicted on a single count of murder and sentenced to death after he was accused of murdering his live-in girlfriend on or about November 24, 2012 at Nkosho...
Mpho Mokwape
| 07 August 2020
No special treatment for plot sellers
The Minister of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services, Kefentse Mzwinila made the remarks in Parliament recently when answering a question raised by Member of Parliament (MP) for Maun East Goretetse Kekgonegile. Kekgonegile had asked the...
Pini Bothoko
| 07 August 2020
Moswaane impending defection riles UDC
Both parties are affiliated to the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC). Moswaane is strongly linked to the BCP. It has also in the recent past been speculated that Moswaane intends to join the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF). But he is said to have...
Chakalisa Dube
| 07 August 2020
Moswaane has freedom of association - UB experts
FRANCISTOWN: While it is a truism that Moswaane’s defection from the BDP is a bitter pill to swallow for some of his constituents and general BDP members across the country, lecturers Adam Mfundisi and Dr Leornard Sesa from Department of...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 07 August 2020
Moswaane resignation attracts mixed reactions
Some of the constituents supported Member of Parliament (MP) stating that even if he remained in the BDP he was bond to be sacked while others believed that his tactics so far prove that he long wanted to part ways with the party. This week Mmegi...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 07 August 2020
State to close Morupisi trial
This was after the prosecution led by lawyer, Priscilla Israel indicated to court last week it would not be calling some of its key witnesses who were expected to take the stand. “We are expecting to close the case after the witness on the...
Mpho Mokwape
| 07 August 2020
Gov't seeks P37bn to revive economy
According to documents before Parliament this week, government is proposing P14.5 billion for funding under a final version of the Economic Recovery and Transformation Plan (ERTP) and another P22 billion as the cumulative budget shortfall from...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 07 August 2020
COVID-19 non-compliance rocks Mater Spei
Their concerns follow a statement from Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union which pointed fingers at the Minister of Basic Education, Fidelis Molao and the COVID-19 task force team for their laxity in enforcing adherence to set preventative...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 07 August 2020
Local COVID-19 transmission hits DIS offices
According to Mmegi sources, the suspected DIS officer’s wife is a teacher at the school which recently recorded eight positive cases, four being teachers and four students. This situation forced the spy agency to close its headquarters and two...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 07 August 2020
Subscribe
Receive latest and breaking news via email
Submit
Have a Story? Send Us a tip
Invalid key
Send