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Back page this week: Makwala Blasts 'Amateurish' BAA
Staff Writer 21 December 2020
Front page this week: Botswana launches Space Orbit Programme
Staff Writer 21 December 2020
BNSC Suspends Snooker Over Leadership Impasse
BNSC acting chief executive officer Tuelo Serufho told Mmegi Sport that the recognition of BBC has been suspended until its leadership impasse has been resolved. According to information reaching this publication, the BNSC has handed the matter to...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 21 December 2020
Table Tennis Team Fires Blanks At SA Championships
The team failed to make it past the quarterfinal stage in the two-day tournament that ended on Saturday. The Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) sent a four-member team for the championship, two athletes per gender category. The team had new...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 21 December 2020
Makwala Blasts ‘Amateurish' BAA
Makwala was reacting to the schedule mix up that happened on Saturday at the BAA Inter zonal track and field competition that was held at the National Stadium. The schedule mix-up caused confusion. Top athletes did not participate in the event...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 21 December 2020
We are hitting the right chord – ATI
ATI has been charged with three counts of unlawful possession of illicit substances, failure to wear a mask and common nuisance on Friday. Extension 2 Magistrate Ntombizodwa Ncube granted the lekhete hitmaker bail on the conditions that he...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 21 December 2020
Botswana Life Relishes Industry Transformation
Botswana Life Executive Head of Tied Agents, Thabo Lejowa said this evolution breeds competition which encourages best practice, innovation and competitive pricing. “Regulation changes have also been observed and one must admit there was a...
Staff Writer 21 December 2020
Dial-A-Skill In Next Round Of Seedstars Comp
This is an international contest that scouts for the most promising early-stage start-ups and build the largest entrepreneurial community in emerging markets. The local HR tech startup is a labour-to-market connectivity platform that provides on...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 21 December 2020
Pandemic frustrates 2020 SMME, Business growth
Many of the enterprises in this bracket struggled to survive and this was worsened by the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the year. The pandemic pushed most of them to the brink and many faced severe losses in revenues while...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 21 December 2020
Hope Is The Seed Of Life And Success
Life is bundled on one thing; hope. I hope this article will awake something in you and because I believe so, I have invested my entire being on it so that the impact could last more than that of the Hiroshima bomb. The question jarring on my mind...
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 21 December 2020
What To Give Your Kids For Christmas
Sadly, in an effort to please and demonstrate our love, we actually end up inadvertently hurting them…particularly around this time of year. Let me quote 1 Timothy 6:6-11. Then, let’s dissect it for lessons we can learn around Christmas...
Ashley Thaba
| 21 December 2020
The Legend of Mum at Christmas time
Well, we left last Christmas season and so there is an element of inevitability to go to the village. There’s an element of ticking the box. The long incessant calls from mum will finally be somewhat warded Mum’s are unique beings. There...
Thulaganyo Jankie 21 December 2020
5 Lessons from 2020: a necessary reflection
Some of the questions are honestly not questions but ponderings with no end to them – inconclusive ponderings. When all is said and done, at the end of each year, taking stock is important. The questions and the realisations alike. 1....
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 21 December 2020
Of Femicide Suicide & Why Women Cheat On Their Partners
Femicide suicide is the harshest and most unthinkable form of gender based violence. Popularly referred to as ‘passion killings’ in Botswana, femicide suicide is when the male kills his female partner in an intimate relationship and...
Gaone Monau
| 21 December 2020
Ratshosa's Account Of The Christmas Season Return Of Three Kings From Britain
Both the translation and original Setswana text may be found in Mgadla and Volz’s book “Words of Batswana, Letters to Mahoko a Becwana 1883-1896”. "Dear editor, I am informing readers of the newspaper about our happiness. Our...
Jeff Ramsay
| 21 December 2020
'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas'
This year, however, it looks like Christmas will be a sombre affair all thanks to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has left many lives devastated and continues to wreak havoc in different countries across the world. Most of the time when we...
Monitor Editor 21 December 2020
A re chenche!
Selefu 21 December 2020
Polygamous Union not for women- Kgosi Mosielele
Followers had mixed feelings over the trio’s union with some supporting the polygamous marriage pointing out it could be used to curb escalating divorce on grounds of infidelity amongst married couples. However, women took the debate to another...
Pini Bothoko
| 21 December 2020
Mbo Releases 13th Novel
The book was published in October, roughly three months after publishing yet another novel, 'The Stolen Documents', which came out in August of this year. Mbo, in a brief interview with The Monitor, said he wrote his latest offing in a space of...
Maureen Odubeng
| 21 December 2020
Police Charge 36,000 For Failure To Wear Masks
BPS public relations officer, senior superintendent Near Bagali said that failure to properly wear masks remains a challenge in the country amidst the increasing number of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections. He said that failure to wear masks properly...
Pini Bothoko
| 21 December 2020
Northbound Serowe-Letlhakane Motorists Warned
Letlhakane Police Station commander, superintendent Michael Maphephu made the plea saying they registered three single-vehicle accidents on Saturday along the Letlhakane-Francistown road. Mapeu said even though they were minor accidents with the...
Pini Bothoko
| 21 December 2020
BOPEU's Mogwera Asserts Authority
The Monitor is reliably informed that despite being kept away from the premises by a team of bouncers at the behest of her rivals, Mogwera has since announced her victory to BOPEU structures, as well as stakeholders such as Botswana trade unions, the...
Staff Writer 21 December 2020
Victim Of Own Circumstance: Judge Tells Bail Applicant
Sechele bluntly told the applicant, Phumulani Ndebele, that he was not a good candidate for bail since Ndebele has shown Botswana’s Immigration laws the middle finger when he crossed to Botswana illegally and thereafter committed crimes during...
Correspondent 21 December 2020
'Not You' – Judge Tells Murder Accused
After Tefo Montshwari's bail application blew up in his face, the murder accused left the dock disappointed before prison officials handcuffed him on his way back to prison. Montshwari had made an application for bail pending trial. His application...
Correspondent 21 December 2020
Botswana Launches Ambitious Space Orbit Programme
The programme will shoot into orbit its own home-grown miniature space crafts, the smallest and modern satellite cubes that are fast replacing the traditional gigantic space ships in space missions. The launch of the space programme is consonant...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 21 December 2020
A1 Highway By Foley Village Opens
The bridge was closed due to the overflowing Motloutse River caused by ongoing heavy rains that resulted in the water submerging the bridge in the process causing the bridge and the road to be inaccessible. Confirming the reopening of the road to...
Pini Bothoko
| 21 December 2020
The Year COVID- 19 Disrupted Our Lives
A person arriving from China aboard Ethiopian Airways showed symptoms consistent with the virus. The man was detained at Block 8 clinic soon after his flight from China landed at Gaborone's Sir Seretse Khama Airport. Staff Writer Innocent Selatlhwa...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 21 December 2020
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