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Back Page this week: COVID-19: The show stopper
Staff Writer 25 December 2020
Front page this week: 2020, The year that wasn't
Staff Writer 25 December 2020
Maitewa's passing sums up awful year for minority sports
Boxing: At the beginning of the year boxing started by having a team that competed for slots in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The qualifiers took place in Senegal, which saw only Keamogetse Kenosi booking a place for herself at the summer games....
Calistus Kolantsho
| 25 December 2020
A eo e tlogelwe
Go ya ka polelo Tona Mmusi o ne a supa fa badiri ba sesole ba ba tlogetseng tiro ka bogodi, kana, ka go golafalela mo tirong, go ntse go tsweletse ba thusiwa go ya bongakeng. Fa e tswelela e supa gore mafoko a a fa godio ale a ne a buiwa ke mang,...
Sebofo Motshwane 25 December 2020
How do they get to school?
This is because in Botswana, as in many parts of the world, schools are a long way from home. Elsewhere in the world transporting children to school forms part of the government education budget. In the United States, purpose-built school buses are...
Mmaotho Segotso 25 December 2020
Let us aim to win our country back, in 2021
Sorry, it is hard not to cut a morbid tone when trying to sum up what for all intents and purposes, has been a woeful year, for many. I received a caution, the other day, from a colleague, Attorney Owen Nsala, to count the blessings. Fine, I survived...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 25 December 2020
Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year
Selefu 25 December 2020
There is no need for another lockdown
This country is also fighting the surge of COVID-19 and close to 40 lives have been lost as compared to thousands others that have been lost in neighboring countries. Government made unpopular decisions, that agitated some section of Batswanas, that...
Mmegi Editor
| 25 December 2020
The political economy of COVID-19, anti-Indian rhetoric and the discourse of Citizen Economic Empowerment in Botswana
The government was able to ensure that the supply of most essential goods such as food and medication, which are mostly imported from South Africa, was not affected. Except for petroleum, which ran out for a few months leading to abnormally long...
Correspondent 25 December 2020
A tale of two rivers
Lepashe: Water gives life but it can also take life. Water becomes deadly when the right safety measures are not taken to protect and ensure the safety of citizens or when someone is not doing their job properly. The dangers of water have been...
Correspondent 25 December 2020
The 1884-1985 Berlin conference and declaration of protectorate
This was not true. (Morton and Ramsay, 2017) During 1884-1885 European powers met in Berlin to carve out Africa amongst themselves in a most indiscriminate and devastating manner. Families, tribes and ethnic groups were instantly divided and...
Correspondent 25 December 2020
Clarion call to end Botswana's tobacco crisis
The exposure of non-smokers to toxic tobacco smoke creates a public health emergency that has placed the country on the top spot with the highest number of tobacco users in the region. The Anti-Tobacco Network (ATN) calls upon the leadership of the...
Correspondent 25 December 2020
COVID-19 takes away football shine
Letshwiti retains his seat at the BFA The Botswana Football Association (BFA) leadership faced its most difficult test since it assumed the office in 2016 when Botswana like many other countries experienced the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19)...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 25 December 2020
PrimeTime seeks P90m for projects
Speaking last week during the group’s financial results for the year ended August 31, 2020, managing director Sandy Kelly said PrimeTime also has some capacity in its bond programme, which it will tap into for future capital. "We do intend to...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 25 December 2020
Pension funds continue homeward drift
Latest statistics show that by September, local pension funds held P99.6 billion in assets, their highest ever level, with 36.4% of these invested locally and the balance offshore. Current rules require pension funds to invest a minimum of 30%...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 25 December 2020
How to make better economic policy choices
LONDON– The United Kingdom is entering its deepest recession in 300 years. Millions of jobs are at risk. And national debt has exceeded 100% of GDP. Now is hardly the time to explore the conceptual underpinnings of economic theory, right? In...
Correspondent 25 December 2020
Silver linings appear on economic clouds
The latest numbers, helped by improvements across most sectors, not only underline an emerging recovery in the economy, but also the depth of the hole it had dropped into. Analysts say a six percent contraction in the economy in any other year would...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 25 December 2020
Ugly year for beauty pageants
This year has left many local creative minds stranded, hungry, angry and depressed as many lost their gigs and have not worked almost for the whole year due to COVID-19. The pandemic resulted in the government totally closing events to avoid mass...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 25 December 2020
How pandemic triggered wedding explosion
Most importantly, It is proving to be cheaper! Marriage a union of two people who intend on building a family together, is in the air all over the country, be it in Gaborone, Molepolole, Kanye, Francistown, Letlhakane, infact every direction you may...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 25 December 2020
A teary year for creatives
Franco set to make history No one really anticipated that this year was not going to be a great ‘one ‘ because in January Arts & Culture was the first to break the story that legendary Rhumba musician Frank Lesokwane popularly known...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 25 December 2020
Tan Sri Limkokwing Front Line Heros Campaign launched
In Africa, Europe and Asia, through the 14 universities that he has established, he has provided access and opportunities for education on a philanthropic model. Over the years, he has established partnerships with UNICEF, UNESCO, UNDP, The...
Correspondent 25 December 2020
Govt fights BCL court order
The Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security Lefoko Moagi recently told Parliament that they have had issues with the previous liquidator. He said the former liquidator decided to stop pumping out water from South East and...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 25 December 2020
BUAN, MarketVest partnership to power Botswana
The project is aimed towards the production of solar power along with growing of vegetables. BUAN vice chancellor Professor Jasper Rees said: “We are about to make a renewable energy project on a field that we call the 2 hectare project which...
Cavin Kanoko
| 25 December 2020
Kanye to build Sir Ketumile Masire Library
The case for The Sir Ketumile Masire Presidential Library is anchored on the immense contribution and sacrifice that the late statesman made to this nation and its people, According to the mover of the motion, who describes Sir Ketumile as “one...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 25 December 2020
2020: The year electorate followed MPs live on Btv
The proceedings have exposed some Cabinet Ministers’ arrogance when answering questions, some MPs' failure to research on some on topics and how political caucus from all parties could affect topical issues or problems people encounter. Failure...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 25 December 2020
COVID-19 exacerbates media industry struggle
It has been told many times since the advent of the global pandemic early this year. The reality is now fast catching up with the vulnerable industry. Media practitioners and scholars have been highlighting the challenges facing the...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 25 December 2020
Monakwe's faction fails on Marenga interdiction
Marenga had approached the Court with an urgent application after learning that the rival faction had last week, unbeknown to him, got an interdict against him, barring him from discharging his duties as BOPEU general secretary. Marenga had...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 25 December 2020
State's weakest link: Focus on the DPP
Many of the cases involved allegations among them misuse of office, misuse of public funds, money laundering and corruption giving members of public hope that the government was finally taking charge in dealing with corruption issues. But instead of...
Mpho Mokwape
| 25 December 2020
It was a busy year at the Courts of law
Kgosi finally indicted in NPF case Early this year former spy chief, Isaac Kgosi was indicted in the in the infamous National Petroleum Fund (NPF) as accused number 18. The case involved P250 million, which the then Director General of the...
Mpho Mokwape
| 25 December 2020
Bang goes whimper as NPF case crumbles
Little did the public know that the excitement and expectation of looking forward to see some of the biggest names fingered in the case being prosecuted in the historical matter was just a daydream far-fetched. The money laundering case when it...
Mpho Mokwape
| 25 December 2020
CAAB averts shutdown, airspace closure
Government has reportedly stepped in to support the cash-strapped parastatal’s operations beyond December. On Wednesday, Transport and Communications minister, Thulaganyo Segokgo told Mmegi government would support the CAAB and it would not be...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 25 December 2020
The year that wasn't
As if coronavirus (COVID-19) had afflicted Batswana enough, a new variant appeared days before Christmas, threatening all the testing, numbers of cases and ultimately the economy all citizens have been trying to protect in a year better left...
Thalefang Charles
| 25 December 2020
The 2020 'politricks'
Parly goes live The year 2020 saw government finally implement a motion passed by the National Assembly in 2013 to air parliamentary proceedings on state broadcaster Botswana Television (Btv). Passed in the 10th Parliament, the motion to air...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 25 December 2020
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