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Back page this week: Cracks develop within school sport task team
Staff Writer 28 September 2020
Front page this week: Khama threatens to sue state
Staff Writer 28 September 2020
Botswana Bids For Two Cricket Tournaments
The Botswana Cricket Association (BCA) will submit two different bids; one with COVID-19 protocols and the other, without. The bids relate to the Under-19 boys Africa qualifiers, expected to be held in October next year and the T20 women’s...
Mqondisi Dube
| 28 September 2020
High Noon At BTTA Champs
After a demanding 12 months, the BTTA schedule reaches the peak when players face each other for the finals. The season was however disturbed by the outbreak of the COVID-19 and has seen a number of tournaments building up to the Grand Finale...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 28 September 2020
BFA Recommends Gradual Football Return
The Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development, Tumiso Rakgare last week announced that sporting activities could return provided strict COVID-19 protocols are followed. Social football sides immediately returned to the field after...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 28 September 2020
DJ Kuchi Bags Prestigious YAMA
The award carried a ash prize of P45, 000. The nectar that attracted the lucrative award was the hit song Rejection, featuring talented vocalist Han C. Saluting Han C for delivering the magic on the song, DJ Kuchi he gloated that Rejection was...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 28 September 2020
Mrs Botswana Contestants Showcase Beauty
They made the job difficult for the judges as every contestant came prepared and looking for a slot in the top 12. All the women showcased their talent during the second parade where each of them was given a task to design an outfit and tell the...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 28 September 2020
Cracks Develop Within School Sport Task Team
At the centre of looming dispute is the issue of allowances. According to information reaching Sport Monitor, there is no budget for the team. A source has revealed that the members have to cater for themselves unless they are sponsored by their...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 28 September 2020
Bulb World CEO To Batswana: Buy Local
This clarion call has been amplified, especially since the impact of COVID-19 is starting to be visible. Chief executive officer of Bulb World, Ketshephaone Jacob shared his experiences during the pandemic in a BusinessMonitor interview and how his...
Cavin Kanoko
| 28 September 2020
Choppies Owed P124M By Payless
Choppies has been running Payless since 2014 doing all the procurement, advertising as well as the entire Human Resources recruitment. Choppies as lender and Payless as a borrower entered into a loan agreement in terms of which Choppies...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 28 September 2020
BnR Detergents Hit Local Market
Of late, most Batswana have been warming up to this with Born’n Raised team also doing their most. After successfully hosting annual music festivals for five years, the team, better known as BnR, recently leveraged on the brand and introduced...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 28 September 2020
Let- Go: Liberate Self To New Exploits
A land you and your ancestors are alien to. Leave Haran. You shall never see your father; Ure and brother; Haran’s tombs, in- laws, enemies and friends anymore. Tag along your Wife; Sarai, your cousin Lot and his Wife along. When you reach the...
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 28 September 2020
Don't Worry
About twice a year, we import a huge quantity of fruit trees. This coming weekend is one of those weekends. Months leading up to this weekend requires insane amount of logistics coordinating with over 700 clients we work with, various farmers who are...
Ashley Thaba
| 28 September 2020
The Good Old Days
My teenage son wanted to know ‘Grandpa keeps talking about the good old days. When are we getting ours and what are good old days?’ How do you explain to an inquisitive teenager when he will get his good old days and what these are?I...
Thulaganyo Jankie 28 September 2020
Fragile Democracy I: The Invalidation Of Women's Anger And The Arrest Of Resego Kgosidintsi
She says, especially for women and girls we are taught that anger is silent, isolating and destructive. This is despite the fact that anger is a signal emotion which warns us of indignity, threat, insult or harm. Yet we are taught that it is an...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 28 September 2020
The Lost Kingdom (Part 13)– MWALI'S REVENGE
Ntinima is then said to have taken some of his own cattle to make a personal offering Mwali. But, the priestess was not placated, asking Ntinima why he was bringing cattle when the owners of the country were still refusing? She further added that...
Jeff Ramsay
| 28 September 2020
Do We Need Appraisals?
So this question to you would be startling. There are some of us who talk about the importance of appraisals but somehow never manage to conduct them, neither the bi-annual structured assessments, nor the on-going monitoring and feedback between...
Shameela Winston
| 28 September 2020
Stay Home, Stay Safe!
He explained reasons advanced by those who were travelling were that they were going to funerals and weddings. Others, he said, were visiting parents as it has been long overdue because of the novel coronavirus restrictive (COVID- 19) protocols. In...
Mmegi Editor
| 28 September 2020
Iketle pele teacher, a principal waitse'
Selefu 28 September 2020
G/North Residents Grateful For Water Connection, But..
I wish to thank Water Utilities Corporation for connecting the long awaited water supply to almost all residents of Gaborone North, even though it did not come cheap. Now that water connection is underway, it is our hope as...
Correspondent 28 September 2020
MYSC Plans Independence Celebrations
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has however thrown a wrench in all activities that attract crowds at a particular time. The year 2020 will be remembered in history as one that shook the very foundations of the country as many sectors of...
Cavin Kanoko
| 28 September 2020
Bomra Win Blocks Ag Cera Product Entry
This followed an urgent application by local distributor AG Nutrition Botswana (Pty) Ltd seeking the court to order the regulator to release a consignment of 30 sachets of 3000mg AG Cera product, which was confiscated in August, 2020 upon entry into...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 28 September 2020
Bullied Student Attempts Suicide
According to Dibete Police acting station commander, assistant superintendent Edward Williams other students freed their colleague who was found hanging by the neck in the hostels. “We received the report on Thursday from the school...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 28 September 2020
ADvTECH Acquires Progressive GIS For P70M
The school had a change of ownership in 2015 when ADvTECH schools acquired the school from its previous owner Craig Chow for P70 million. The acquisition of GIS by ADvTECH was the company’s first acquisition outside of South Africa and aligned...
Cavin Kanoko
| 28 September 2020
F/Town Cllrs Propose Ydf Increase
On Friday an ordinary council full meeting passed a motion by Botsalano ward councillor Ontiretse Bakaile calling on the Francistown City Council (FCC) to approach the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development (MYSEC) with a view...
Chakalisa Dube
| 28 September 2020
Seduke, Aviation Academy Take Parly To Court
Seduke’s move comes as an effort to stop giving students transcripts they withheld while they demand payment from government. Committee members also listed as respondents in the matter include Wynter Mmolotsi, Caterpillar Hikuama, Polson...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 28 September 2020
Police Foil A Scam In Kasane
Upon return from my Chobe River escapade to Chiloto Lodge – my place of lodging – tucked in the middle of a shanty Kgaphamadi neighbourhood, a conman’s attempt to swindle three men of their P100,000 miscarried when the police caught...
Koketso Kgoboge 28 September 2020
COVID-19: 55 Greater F/Town Students Test Positive
Munyere was giving the Francistown COVID-19 cases update on Thursday during a full council meeting at the Civic Centre. Munyere said the virus had affected both students and staff members of seven schools in the area. She said a total of 35...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 28 September 2020
Montshiwa's Murder Accused To Take A Plea
The Gaborone-based lawyer, Modise David and Tumelo Tshukudu are implicated in the murder of Montshiwa. The duo appeared before Justice Michael Mothobi for a roll call on Friday. Justice Mothobi revealed to have set November 27, 2020 for case...
Pini Bothoko
| 28 September 2020
Councillors Want Conditions Of Service Reviewed
The president of the Botswana Association of Local Authorities (BALA), Jeffrey Sibisibi disclosed councillors’ grievances to The Monitor after a countrywide tour of councils following the commencement of his tenure. Sibisibi was elected the...
Pini Bothoko
| 28 September 2020
Khama Threatens To Sue State
Khama states through his lawyers that his demands relate to the defamatory statements made by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) lead investigator Jako Hubona. The investigator had accused Khama of siphoning off billions of pula...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 28 September 2020
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