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Back page this week: BFA pushes ahead with 2027 AFCON bid
Staff Writer 08 January 2021
Inside page this week: World famous Ratau in top 12 Fabulous UK magazine
Staff Writer 08 January 2021
Inside page this week: Budget cuts planned to push down deficit
Staff Writer 08 January 2021
Front page this week: Welcome to hard times
Staff Writer 08 January 2021
Babui's boxing career shifts gears
Babui has boundless energy and confidence but has remained an underdog in professional boxing. He has had a tough start from an early age after losing his month when he was eight. His mother’s death shattered his dreams of pursing a career in...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 08 January 2021
Africa sports group launches 2021 programmes
The programmes are Africa Empire Warrior, Africa awards and a song contest. Speaking to journalists from across the continent, ASVG chief executive officer (CEO), Leslie Koroma said Africa Empire Warrior is a flagship sports entertainment show whose...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 08 January 2021
Boxer Tswiigi cries foul after chop
The team would travel to France for the World qualifiers scheduled for May. Tswiigi was part of the team that competed at the Africa qualifiers held in Senegal last February. The boxer told Mmegi Sport he was shocked when he was dropped from the team...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 08 January 2021
Branch in steady push for Dakar title
Branch is in Saudi Arabia competing in his third Dakar Rally. He finished as the best rookie in his debut race in 2019. Last year, he did not have the best time on the bike as he settled for 21st place. This time around, the 'Kalahari Ferrari' said...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 08 January 2021
COVID could delay football return
It is almost a full year since the leagues were suspended last March, following the outbreak of the pandemic, which has vastly altered the sport landscape. The Botswana Football Association (BFA) had set February as the month football would swing...
Mqondisi Dube
| 08 January 2021
Slow start to COVID-19 hit transfer window
Football activities were suspended in March, and only the play-offs and national team activities have been held. The transfer window opened at the beginning of December in anticipation of a return to action in February. However, with COVID-19...
Mqondisi Dube
| 08 January 2021
New twist to Chiefs' unending fight
A group led by Ramocha Tsieng and Molefi Sexton Kowa has written to the current Chiefs leadership demanding the committee hands over the running of the affairs of the club. The Chiefs committee, led by Thapelo Tsheole has been involved in a lengthy...
Mqondisi Dube
| 08 January 2021
BNOC holds BAA at ransom over accident
The two were involved in a car crash while in national team camp, preparing for the Tokyo Olympic Games. The national team was due to return to camp, but the Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) wants the athletics body to produce the accident...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 08 January 2021
BFA pushes ahead with 2027 AFCON bid
The BFA is pushing ahead with plans to host the finals in seven years time. If Botswana succeeds, it would become the third Southern African country, after Angola and South Africa to host the tournament in its 64-year history. The Minister of Youth...
Mqondisi Dube
| 08 January 2021
A re go ja eng? (1)
A dira jalo, bangwe ba latlhege ba se ke ba tlhaloganye, kgotsa, ba utlwe sentle gore tota a reng. Jalo he, e tlaa re gompieno re bue ka lenatetshapuo la, papisapuo ya, go ja go utlwa gore fa Motswana a re go ja ….. o a bo a raya eng. E a re...
Sebofo Motshwane 08 January 2021
Helping children transition into a new school environment
How children adjust to a new school at different ages 1. Toddler transition to a new daycare Toddlers typically do not handle change well, so it helps to accept that the transition may be difficult especially if the child is also dealing with a new...
Mmaotho Segotso 08 January 2021
Let us pray for our President
Let us continue to explore topical national issues that affect our nation without fear or favour. Free speech should be a tradition, engendered in all of us. It is the most potent weapon, in holding our leaders to account and in asserting our rights...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 08 January 2021
Horses bolted, wrong stable doors closed
Indeed, the extension of the curfew limits movement while at the same time allowing a level of economic activity required to sustain livelihoods to some extent. The suspension of alcohol, meanwhile, removes one of the potential...
Mmegi Editor
| 08 January 2021
Justice is blind – Really? Part 1
Oaths or affirmations taken by judges vary slightly from country to country, but all tend to capture the salient elements in the oath taken by justices serving in the US, “I ____ ____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer...
Kevin Mokento
| 08 January 2021
Cresta to take over Phakalane Golf Estate Hotel
Cresta and Phakalane Estates recently signed a 10-year lease agreement for the hotel and the golf course, with an option to renew for further ten year periods. In addition, Cresta will pay Phakalane P10.7 million as a once-off for moveable assets...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 08 January 2021
Lucara closes in on budget for Karowe's P6bn underground project
The Karowe mine, situated near Letlhakane has become world famous for large diamond discoveries such Lesedi la Rona, the Constellation and Sewelo. The underground mine, due to be developed over five years to 2026, represents Karowe’s future In...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 08 January 2021
The Seven Secrets of 2020
ATHENS – A house of cards. A set of lies we have unconsciously accepted. That’s what our certainties seem like during profound crises. Such episodes shock us into recognizing how unsafe our assumptions are. That is why this year has...
Correspondent 08 January 2021
Budget cuts planned to push down deficit
In October, the draft Budget Strategy Paper, an annual budget blueprint, had forecast the 2021/22 deficit at P12.6 billion or 5.9% of GDP, above the prescribed fiscal limit of four percent. Each deficit requires additional funding by government but...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 08 January 2021
ESTeRES aims to weather storms ahead
Life can be full of challenges and tests, and none more so than in business it is how people respond and adapt to these tests and challenges that determines whether such people are to succeed or fail. Becoming obsolete was not an option for ESTeRES...
Staff Writer 08 January 2021
Heroshima debuts with ‘A re yeng'
Heroshima is a band composed of three members namely, Kagiso 'Mivavo' Rabothako, Aron 'Chencha' Kulube and Kennedy 'Shintos' Segone. A Re Yeng is an Afro house song infused with ancestral and cultural flavors. The single explains the spiritual path...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 08 January 2021
Local interior design brand hits the market
Founded by Design Practitioner, Gofaone Mlauzi, Something Sincere uses pure cotton and organic products to create vibrant, contemporary designs for sustainable home decor. The brand set out to collaborate with skilled urban migrant artisans and...
Staff Writer 08 January 2021
Creatives fear for the worst in 2021
DJ KSB – Music producer and DJ The industry experienced the worst from my point of view ever since the first lockdown where I lost my annual event and never got a form of relief from the government even though I tried to reach out. So I have...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 08 January 2021
World famous Ratau in top 12 Fabulous UK mag
Botswana's Katlo Ratau, who was once Little Miss Princess World-Botswana, was selected among the best. It was all narrowed down to the best 50, where she still made it and was recently selected among the best 12 worldwide as the only African in the...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 08 January 2021
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits
Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay official visits to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Botswana, the United Republic of Tanzania and the Republic of Seychelles between January 4 -9, 2021. Upon...
Chedza Mogae 08 January 2021
Good rains, bumper harvest forecast
Botswana’s rain season runs from October to December and January to March each year. Yesterday, Deputy Director in the Department of Meteorological Services, Radithupa Radithupa said their analysis of the seasonal rainfall outlook for the...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 08 January 2021
Fresh Zim lockdown stuns F/Town
The businesses along the same street were primed with hope that after the reopening of land borders early in December, they would see an improvement in their revenues. Zimbabwe cross-border traders are a strong source of revenue for formal and...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 08 January 2021
Simbi Phiri hints at setting up multi-million Pula water pipes plant in Botswana
This is thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is making it too prohibitive for contractors to continue importing such materials from overseas in countries like Italy, China, or Brazil. Water infrastructure expert and contractor, Khato Civils, have...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 08 January 2021
Civilian in military uniform ‘steals car', commits crimes
When 20-year-old Bapaki Maifala of Bokaa ward in Mochudi appeared before Chief Magistrate Mareledi Dipate on Thursday for arraignment, Inspector Mengistu Chigala applied for his plea to be reserved since investigations were at their infancy. While...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 08 January 2021
State eyes ‘redemption'' after tough 2020
Last year was not such a great one for the government legally as most of its high profile cases ended not with a bang but a whimper despite the high expectations that had been set among the public. Despite the many defeats suffered by the State, all...
Mpho Mokwape
| 08 January 2021
Police accused of curfew brutalities
Over the festive, several incidents popped up on social media with Batswana claiming police had used heavy handed tactics on them including beatings, to enforce the curfew and COVID- 19 regulations around public gatherings. Although the curfew has...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 08 January 2021
Man allegedly rapes woman, two minors
On Thursday, Washington Edward, 27, of Natale village in the Central District, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Mareledi Dipate to face a single count of rape. The court was however, then stunned when investigators revealed that Edward escaped...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 08 January 2021
Welcome to hard times
Beside the likely spread of a new, more dangerous Covid-19 strain in the country, the cost of living in 2021 will be considerably higher and more difficult for the majority of Batswana. By comparison, businesses and the general economy may see slight...
Staff Writer 08 January 2021
Will BNF, BCP feud split UDC ?
If events of the recent past are anything to go by, the two leading opposition parties within the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), being Botswana National Front (BNF) and Botswana Congress Party (BCP), may be headed for a fight that could result...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 08 January 2021
BPF ready to intervene in BCP, BNF row
Prominent members of both parties have of late been attacking each other on social media platforms, in highly public disputes that have forced leadership from both parties to issue statements criticising the behaviour. The BCP and the BNF are...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 08 January 2021
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