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Back page this week: BNSC in P90M Deficit
Staff Writer 01 February 2021
Front page this week: GCC in P74 Million Lawsuit
Staff Writer 01 February 2021
Rugby National Team Player Passes on
Dithupa passed on Friday morning in Zimbabwe, where she was residing. Sport Monitor has been informed that the player committed suicide and was buried on Saturday. At club level, Dithupa was played for Canon Jaguars. The club chairperson, Feddy...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 01 February 2021
Former Chiefs' Players Demand P195K Payment
Amongst the issues that arose at the meeting was the letter in which some former players are demanding payment amounting to a total of just over P195, 000,through their lawyers, Howard Tainton Attorneys. The attorney yesterday confirmed to Sport...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 01 February 2021
Twists and Turns in CAF Elections
At the same time, the world soccer governing body reinstated suspended CAF president, Ahmad Ahmad. Despite being cleared by FIFA, Motsepe was due to face further scrutiny from CAF’’s Governance Committee last week Thursday, for further...
Mqondisi Dube
| 01 February 2021
Ramoraka Unhappy At TS Galaxy
He was not registered for TS Galaxy for the first half of the 2021/22 season because he was nursing a serious knee injury. There was an indication that the club (Galaxy) will register him in January this year because it was anticipated that he would...
Chakalisa Dube
| 01 February 2021
Contact Sports Activities Suspended Again
Rakgare made the announcement at former Zebras coach, David Bright’s funeral in Gaborone. Bright succumbed to Covid-19 related illness on Monday morning at Sir Ketumile Masire hospital. Some Sua Flamingoes players, who were under the tutelage...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 01 February 2021
BNSC chokes in financial Deficit
Auditors, Grant Thornton submitted a financial report for thee year ended March 2020 to the BNSC painting a negative picture about the state of affairs at the sports body..The auditors said without qualifying their report, the Commission has an...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 01 February 2021
MYSC Appoints Former Maitisong Director
Lemmenyane has many years of experience producing and directing creative projects. In 2020 and 2018, he was appointed Consultant and Producer for MTV Show Shuga Down South, BW radio drama and digital platform production by UNICEF and MTV Staying...
Staff Writer 01 February 2021
Botswana Affected As Musica Closes Shop
The music and device store has advised that it will close its doors at the end of May. The owner, retail group Clicks Group said Musica was unable to keep up with the rise of digital streaming and online entertainment. Clicks announced that they...
Staff Writer 01 February 2021
‘CEDA assisted businesses have better survival rate'
CEO of the DDevelopment Finance Institution, Thabo Thamane noted that the figure includes those that are struggling to pay back their loans, but are still in operation and employing people. “Most of CEDA-assisted businesses stand a better...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 01 February 2021
Milk shortages Hits Sefalana's Delta fresh Production
The listed retailer produces milk in 500ml and one litre cartons under the Delta Fresh brand. Therefore, the group bemoanded that insufficient milk supply has affected the production of milk for local manufacturers. In his comments on the...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 01 February 2021
Mogotsi provides unique boarding facility in Gabs
Mogotsi’s company, Metsiatsile Student Accommodation provides a boarding housing for students and pupils from the outskirts of Gaborone and those who are returning from international schools due to the COVID-19. The facility is located in...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 01 February 2021
The loss and gain concept- The pair that govern life yields
I have got to appreciate that life is mathematics. There is addition, subtraction, division as well as multiplication. But the biggest equation is between the addition and subtraction and it yields multiplied results. Our individual spiritual worlds...
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 01 February 2021
Where is God in Corona
Maybe Trump! People seem to have strong opinions when his name is mentioned! Ha! All jokes aside, Corona has shaken the core of the world as we know it. Everyone’s home has been touched. The longer this pandemic continues the more then numbers...
Ashley Thaba
| 01 February 2021
The vast footprint of toxic masculinity
At a political rally in 2018/19, a local opposition politician, while campaigning in an area particularly gripped with high numbers of sexual gender based violence, rape and child molestation, when addressing his opponent’s dangerous...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 01 February 2021
The Bakgatla Baga Mmanaana (Part 3)
In the wake of the Sand River Convention, in which the British had agreed to cooperate with Pretorius in supressing the continued sale of firearms to Batswana, the only thing delaying armed confrontation was divisions in the Boer ranks. In early...
Jeff Ramsay
| 01 February 2021
Of Personalities, Love & Gender Based Violence
Research shows that there are four personality types i.e choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholic. It is noteworthy to mention that we all have a dominant and recessive personality. Therefore, it is possible to have a mixture of some of the...
Gaone Monau
| 01 February 2021
Protect Yourself, But Don't Stigmatise Others
As previously revealed by the Presidential COVID-19 Task Force, travel and mingling over the Christmas holidays seemed to have raised the rate of infection greatly, which translated to Botswana recording an increase in the COVID-19 mortality....
Monitor Editor 01 February 2021
To drink or not to drink,,,
Selefu 01 February 2021
TOTUMA Proposes Extension Of Ploughing Season
This comes after the eastern part of the country has been experiencing moderate to heavy rainfall in the last few days following tropical cyclone ‘Eloise’ descending on the region. The Department of Metrological Services reported that...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 01 February 2021
Curfew Delinquents Overwhelm Gamodubu roadblock
This was revealed to The Monitor by officer commanding, senior superintendent Modise Gabatshwane in an interview. He stated that Batswana do not respect the set times and they encounter multitudes of people who advance various reasons every evening....
Pini Bothoko
| 01 February 2021
Petty Crimes Plague Tlokweng
The once calm Tlokweng has now turned into a haven for criminals. According to the police, the village is experiencing an upsurge in crime that has left law-abiding residents in constant fear of their lives. Residents’ goods are stolen every...
Pini Bothoko
| 01 February 2021
Sefalana Supports Customers Through Tough COVID
The competition started on October 15 last year, ran for 13 weeks and ended on January 5, 2021. It ran across all Sefalana Shopper stores in the country. Customers from across the stores walked away with shopping vouchers at the Grand Finale draw...
Cavin Kanoko
| 01 February 2021
World Bank Offers Africa $12Bn Vaccination Loans
The commitment comes as the continent lags behind the rest of the world in the deployment of available COVID-19 vaccines, a situation that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called “a global moral failure”. Botswana is amongst...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 01 February 2021
AP Target 5,000 Underway
The Alliance for Progressives (AP) has come up with a model called AP Target 5,000 in which people are requested to contribute at least P500 for a year. The party believes that it would be able to raise money, which could help it navigate and survive...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 01 February 2021
Bere/Kaqcae Councillor Makes U-Turn
This comes after Isang Saidoo, the councillor for Bere-Kaqcae ward in Gantsi South constituency, defected to the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) only to retrace his steps to the UDC the following day. Bere/Kaqcae ward has been under ruling party...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 01 February 2021
COVID Hits 25 Schools, 3 Close
Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) has made the call to have schools closed for the government to tackle and address the spate of COVID-19 cases. Despite the alarming COVID-19 statistics in schools during the second wave, only three...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 01 February 2021
BOSETU, Gov't To Thrash COVID Issues Out
Already BOSETU has called on the Ministry of Education to close schools for at least 14 days for the cases to go down and the spread of the virus to subside. Schools around the country have been registering positive cases for both teachers and...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 01 February 2021
Private sector bemoans curfew, liquor ban extension
Just before departing for Namibia last week, President Mokgweetsi Masisi extended the curfew period to the end of February. He further extended the alcohol ban for the same period. This is despite an outcry from the business community that they are...
Staff Writer 01 February 2021
Unregistered Products Worry BoMRA
The regulatory body has listed Grand Pa, AG Cera and STC 30 as substances that continue to exist illegally in the local market despite being prohibited. Manufacturer Glaxosmithkline suspended Grand Pa, a popular amongst locals go-to remedy for...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 01 February 2021
Advertiser Sues GCC For P74M
This comes after the GCC Town Clerk in February 2019 issued an enforcement in terms of Section 30 of the Town and Country Planning Act alleging that the developments in terms of the approval had been carried out without Physical Planning Department...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 01 February 2021
VAT raised, sugar tax launched as deficit balloons
According to his budget speech delivered to a virtual parliament, the 2020/21 financial year which ends on March 31 is expected to reflect a deficit of P21 billion, the highest in history according to available statistics. “This is an...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 01 February 2021
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