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Back page this week: Sedimo's BNSC service ends
Staff Writer 24 August 2020
Front page this week: Lotty in P42K row
Staff Writer 24 August 2020
FRAFA Teams Receive Prize Money
The prize money is for the 2019/20-league season. Fanyana Fish, FRAFA Vice-Chairperson confirmed the release of the funds in an interview with Sport Monitor on Saturday. “All the teams have received their prize money including those that...
Chakalisa Dube
| 24 August 2020
Players Reflect On COVID-19 Misery
Lack of activity has exposed clubs to financial problems resulting in a situation where some teams have frozen players’ contracts, while others have slashed salaries. Clubs rely mostly on grants and gate-takings to maintain players. Recently,...
Koketso Kgoboge 24 August 2020
Gaolaolwe, Morake Still Stuck In Botswana
The pair is yet to link up with their teammates for the preseason as they are trapped in the country because of COVID-19 border restrictions. They have been without pay as TS Galaxy said through media publications the players we will get their full...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 24 August 2020
Sedimo's ''Sterling'' BNSC Service Ends
Although it was difficult to get a reaction on Sedimo’s impeding departure from BNSC board chairperson, Marumo Morule, a memo from Human Resources and Administration Director, Gaba Gaetsewe, confirmed that Sedimo’s contract comes to an...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 24 August 2020
Slow Wizzy Dedicates Song To Late Aunt
The former freestyle dancer and hypeman told Showbiz that the song made its debut on local airwaves last week Friday and it has been well appreciated. Slow Wizzy also said the song was inspired by what is happening around during the COVID-19...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 24 August 2020
Make-up Artist Turns Setback Into Success
Unlike many young people who threw in the towel when the going got tough, Loeto decided to come up with a business idea that would generate income so that she puts food on her table. This 23-year-old Motswana woman grew up as an intelligent girl. She...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 24 August 2020
Rediscover Botswana Crew Concludes Trip With Pomp
Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development, Tumiso Rakgare welcomed the diminutive duo who also travelled with a crew of filmmakers documenting the journey. Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO), Chief Executive Officer, Myra...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 24 August 2020
NDB Wants More Women In Agric Revolution
This is in line with their Letsema 2019-2020 strategy. The strategy focuses on four national priorities being food security or reduction of the food import bill, Small and Medium Enterprises growth, job creation, youth participation in business,...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 24 August 2020
Creditinvest Strikes Deal To Build Houses For Doctors
Last week, Botswana Doctors Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Malta-based corporate finance and consulting firm, Creditinvest International to help build houses for health professionals. Under the deal, 600 stand-alone...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 24 August 2020
How Organic Tswana Is Turning Letlhafula Into Beverages
Moarabi Mokutu found the trick a few years ago while pursuing his Masters Degree in Mass Communications in Asia. He was fascinated by how Asians produced almost everything from the organic products. When he returned to Botswana upon completion of...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 24 August 2020
Faith- A Tunnel We Realise Our Aspired Life Through
Tomorrow has its unique fashion to unfold and it always pans out in reference to the decisions we made yesterday with the hope that things will take form and materialise according to what we have envisioned. Everyone has a way of life they envision...
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 24 August 2020
That's A Wrap Folks!
We have enjoyed the journey of hearing thousands testify to how the show has positively impacted their lives and families. For that, we truly praise God. We self-sponsored this show because my husband and I genuinely wanted to encourage Batswana with...
Ashley Thaba
| 24 August 2020
Order, Order Honourable Members
Some very kind individual has decided that citizens of this country had finally earned the right to watch parliament proceedings on TV. This guy must have one day said to the citizenry ‘I am going to give you a warm, unsolicited hug to sort out...
Thulaganyo Jankie 24 August 2020
Hailing Indigenous Peoples
It is always important to celebrate people under every circumstance. It’s just that to recognise indigenous persons, one must take cognisance the great strife the “modern” governments have put them through. Imagining all the...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 24 August 2020
The Lost Kingdom (Part 8)
Today, Banambiya communities can be found in both the Chobe District and the adjacent north-western tip of Zimbabwe. The Banambiya are also sometimes still referred to as the Bananzwa. This term has, however, gone out of favour as being derogatory....
Jeff Ramsay
| 24 August 2020
Take Their Temperature
As employers, many of us have taken steps to assure our staff safety and general wellness. We did all we possibly could to protect jobs and support in any other way that we could under the circumstances. From where we stand, it seems like our...
Shameela Winston
| 24 August 2020
A kuna mathata
Selefu 24 August 2020
Allocate Plots, Developments Will Follow
Appearing before the Public Accounts Committee hearing last week, accounting officer at the lands ministry, Bonolo Khumotaka revealed the number of applicants on the waiting list to be over 650,000. She attributed the delays in allocating plots to...
Monitor Editor 24 August 2020
Broiler Production Experts Drill Youth
The broiler production and consultancy business along with an expert duo hosted a workshop at StayWell Gardens at Rasesa with the aim to equip young broiler farmers with skills to grow their enterprises. Facilitators and animal scientists, Freddy...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 24 August 2020
Son Convicted Of Raping Own Mother Twice
The gory details of how a then 31-year-old man of Gumare village raped his then 47-year-old mother at Gumare in the North West District of Botswana in 2017 emerged at the Francistown High Court much to the dismay of the court audience. In the first...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 24 August 2020
No End To Botash, BMWU Wage Dispute
The Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) and Botash management met on Wednesday at the District Labour Office in Sowa Town in a bid to settle the wage dispute. After failing to agree on the increment the two parties declared a dispute and ultimately...
Chakalisa Dube
| 24 August 2020
WUC Breaks The Bank for COVID-19 Pay
Moreover, WUC has also been funding other operational costs related to bowsing water to various parts of the country. Senai revealed this in an interview following the commissioning of the Shashe Mooke village booster pump station on Friday. The...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 24 August 2020
Kwape Decries High Maternal, Infant Mortality
Kwape announced in a press conference over the weekend that they have so far recorded 43 maternal deaths since the beginning of the year. We are concerned by high numbers of mothers and infants losing their lives during birth. Since the beginning of...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 24 August 2020
Poor Monitoring Collapses YDF Projects
The Auditor General’s report covering the 2018-2019 financial year, found out that supervision and monitoring of YDF projects was not adequately carried out. The report stated that in most instances it became evident that continuous monitoring...
Pini Bothoko
| 24 August 2020
Gov't Loses P21m In Gender Affairs Projects
This was revealed by the recent Auditor General’s report for the year 2018-2019. The report states that from November 2015 to November 2017 the Department of Gender Affairs under the Ministry of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs...
Pini Bothoko
| 24 August 2020
AG Report Reveals 12 Suicides At Sbrana
The report revealed that patients were able to hang themselves from the rafters exposed by a collapsed ceiling. A site inspection of the premises revealed a number of maintenance issues, which needed to have been attended to, in order to safeguard...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 24 August 2020
COVID-19 Surge Concerns Marina
Already, the hospital commonly known as Marina has recorded 31 new positive cases amongst 15 patients and 16 staff members. A memo by the hospital superintendent, Dr Tshepo Machacha dated August 19, 2020, stated that the rate of infection at the...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 24 August 2020
GC Deputy Mayor Mum On Unaccounted P42K
One Boitshoko Pule has instructed JJ. Matomela Attorneys to ask Manyapetsa what happened to the P42,000 he collected on her behalf in 2016. According to a letter from the attorneys, Boitshoko alleges that Manyapetsa was engaged in his capacity...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 24 August 2020
PAC Calls For Localisation Of Posts
Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) made the call during the ministry’s appearance before the Parliament body recently. PAC member and the Member of Parliament for Mochudi East, Mabuse Pule requested the ministry to come up with a...
Pini Bothoko
| 24 August 2020
Broadhurst Court Extension Project Bleeds P4m
This is despite officials at the time of the delivery of the project crediting the contractor, Red East Construction, “for delivering the state-of-the-art Broadhurst Magistrate’s Court on time and within budget”. Auditor General...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 24 August 2020
SA Group Mounts Pressure In Royal Feud
The groups in South Africa have joined forces to support Pilane in the fight for the chieftaincy against Bakgatla Kgosikgolo Kgafela Kgafela II and the newly installed Moruleng Kgosi Ramono Pilane Linchwe. Last Tuesday, Bakgatla women from 32...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 24 August 2020
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