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Back page this week: Fighters back in the Premiership

Staff Writer 14 December 2020

Front page this week: Yet another woman stabbed to death

Staff Writer 14 December 2020

Boxing Tackles Gender Based Violence

The campaign is meant to challenge violence against women and girls. On Friday evening, boxing lovers gathered at Botswana Craft to witness history as Luzboy and Robbie Rob stepped in to the ring. The much-anticipated bout was set for four rounds....

Calistus Kolantsho | 14 December 2020

Hardy Retains Basketball Presidency

She is also the first BBA president to complete her term. Her vice is Phineas Makgale while Thatayaone Kgoadi is the secretary general. Tirafalo Matsetse is technical director, Mmoloki Njemela is the treasurer while the public relations officer is...

Calistus Kolantsho | 14 December 2020

Flamingoes To Play Home Matches In Sowa

Initially indications were that the club will have to seek alternative venues outside Sowa Town to play its matches. This was because the Sua Town Council Stadium, owned by the city council was said to be not up to the required standards accommodate...

Chakalisa Dube | 14 December 2020

Fighters Back In The Premiership

Substitute, Tumo Kgosiedirang struck late to guide his side into promotion in a game played at the National Stadium on Saturday afternoon as Fighters won the two-legged encounter 1-0. The two teams had played to a 0-0 draw in the first leg last...

Kabelo Boranabi | 14 December 2020

Suave Restaurant To Host Gin & Tapas Event

The restaurant's marketing coordinator, Laura Sekwalabe told the media recently that they want to combine food with gin because the latter has become so popular. She said the Tapas part is to give guests a variety of starters while they enjoy their...

Mompati Tlhankane | 14 December 2020

Motlogelwa, Maleke Win Big At Thapong Awards

Tlotlo Maleke from Naledi Senior Secondary School in Gaborone won the 2021 BTC phonebook cover competition which is exclusive to all secondary school students. Both Maleke and Motlogelwa won prizes worth P50 000 and an exchange program in the SADC...

Mompati Tlhankane | 14 December 2020

BBS' Non-Performing Loans On The Rise

In a statement accompanying unaudited preliminary BBSL financials for the year ended December 31, 2019,  managing  director, Pius Molefe  said their customers defaulted on their loan repayments  due to loss of income and/or...

Pauline Dikuelo | 14 December 2020

BBS Releases Results, Shares Resume Trading On BSE

The release of the 2019 preliminary financial statements saw the BBSL shares and BBS005 Bond resuming trading on Friday, with trading in the company’s securities open to all BBS security holders. This is in exception of “BBS Key...

Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 14 December 2020

TheNeoHub Pivots Entrepreneurs Out of COVID-19 Adversity

Letsididi told Business Monitor that she decided to open a one stop shop innovation lab after realising a need in the market.  The company was established early this year. Through the lab, TheNeoHub offers mentorship, monitoring, legal...

Pauline Dikuelo | 14 December 2020

New Project To Grow Citrus Fruit Sub-Sector

This followed the launch of a multi-million pula Citrus Project in Selebi-Phikwe by President Mokgweetsi Masisi who said the project will reduce the country’s import bill. “The process that led to the establishment of this project...

Pauline Dikuelo | 14 December 2020

Understanding Earns Life An Upbeat Groove- A Key For Unlocking Greatness

The story narrates that they were all speaking the same language and during their preliminary days, they were successful in starting the mission. While they were busy at it, their tongues netted alien languages, differing one from each another....

Kealeboga Ngwigwa | 14 December 2020

No Condemnation

“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:17 Who doesn’t know John 3:16? Verse 17 is not so popular; however, I think it is so powerful as it states Jesus...

Ashley Thaba | 14 December 2020

International Human Rights Day

After a year of commemorating other days, which remind us of the universality of human rights and their applicability to all persons, indivisibly, it’s as if the day reminds us to pause and reflect on the holistic protection and promotion of...

Lesego Nswahu Nchunga | 14 December 2020

The Blackman's War (3)

Surmon’s deputy Jules Ellenberger would later recall:“If I remember correctly, it was on October 24th that we evacuated Gaberone's. It was about 2 p.m. when we rode out of the Camp, making for the village of Morwa, on the Metsimotlhaba...

Jeff Ramsay | 14 December 2020

The Differences Between Men & Women And Gender Based Violence

The differences between men and women espoused in this article have been largely derived from Myles Munroe’s findings on the said two genders. Their relationship with gender based violence originates from my experiences in the field as a...

Gaone Monau | 14 December 2020

Commit 365 Days To Activism

Stakeholders hosted different activities geared towards ending gender-based violence (GBV), particularly focusing on women and girls as research shows that they are in the majority of those that are on the receiving end. Botswana Police Service (BPS)...

Monitor Editor 14 December 2020

Ka tlhagolela mookane...

Selefu 14 December 2020

Sebina Residents Applaud Sefalana

The Sebina store brings to 29 the total number of retail supermarkets under the name Sefalana Shopper brand, 24  Sefalana Cash and Carry outlets and four Sefalana Hyper stores countrywide. During the official opening ceremony of Sefalana...

Lesedi Mkhutshwa | 14 December 2020

Batswana To Engage In Innovative Agriculture

In an effort to improve the agricultural sector in Botswana, different stakeholders exchanged ideas, experiences, and possible solutions to challenges facing the industry. In his welcoming remarks the managing director of African Agriculture (Pty)...

Staff Writer 14 December 2020

Boy, 9, Drowns

The police were told about the boy who accidentally fell into a flowing trench, following heavy rains on Thursday late afternoon. The police started searching for the young boy, whose lifeless body was recovered a few kilometres from where he drowned...

Pini Bothoko | 14 December 2020

Boys challenged to be change agents

Deputy commissioner Dinah Marathe made the call during a youth dialogue that was held in Gaborone recently at Boipuso Hall. The youth dialogue that was conducted against the increasing reports of GBV targeted male students from St Joseph College,...

Pini Bothoko | 14 December 2020

Researcher Narrates How He Escaped Jaws Of A Hungry Lion

Neef, who is a Namibian and experienced biodiversity researcher, was on a research field trip to monitor the spread of the highly invasive aquatic plant Salvinia molesta (originally from South America), which is spreading across parts of the Okavango...

Thalefang Charles | 14 December 2020

Electoral System Needs To Be Gender Inclusive

Recently, Gender Links hosted a media training session on women’s political participation and one of the issues that the panellists identified as a hurdle was poor support of women by fellow women. The Monitor looked into the issue to establish...

Pini Bothoko | 14 December 2020

Yet Another Woman Stabbed To Death

The 30-year-old mother of one, a Mochudi native, was allegedly stabbed to death with a sharp object on the throat by the father of her child at Mogoditshane's Maulwane ward. Crime Investigation Department officer in charge, assistant superintendent...

Pini Bothoko | 14 December 2020

Govt To Charge P500 For COVID-19 Testing

“The government has decided that all those travelling outside the country should pay P500 before they get tested at Sir Ketumile Masire Teaching Hospital while clinics will continue testing contacts and those with COVID-19 symptoms,” the...

Innocent Selatlhwa | 14 December 2020

Ex-BERA Board Members Lose

The duo, Sydney Mogapi and Marang Motswetla, had sued the then Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security Molale and BERA after he fired them from the BERA board in 2019. They wanted the court to review and set aside the...

Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 14 December 2020