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Court rules complainant not credible, as Majaga walks
Majaga had pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement where prosecutors alleged that between September 2019 and May 2020 at Malelejwe settlement in the Central Administration District, the MP unlawfully had carnal knowledge of the complainant, a...
Staff Writer 22 March 2021
NBFIRA appoints Bluthorn liquidator
This follows a High Court judgment on the 19th February 2021 which placed Bluthorn under liquidation. "Chris Bray has, accordingly, been appointed by the High Court as the provisional liquidator of Bluthorn," reads a statement from the...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 22 March 2021
Judgement in Balete, govt 'war' due May 21
The case was held virtually this morning before a bench of Justices Michael Motlhabi, Gabriel Komboni and Mokwadi Gabanagae, as the government pushed for the cancellation of a title deed covering a portion of Farm Forest, known as Hill...
Mpho Mokwape
| 22 March 2021
Back page this week: Zebras get boost ahead of AFCON qualifiers
Staff Writer 22 March 2021
Front page this week: Father fights children for late wife's inheritance
Staff Writer 22 March 2021
Boxer Mohammed qualifies for Olympics
Mahommed is the second boxer to qualify for the Olympics after Keamogetse Kenosi, a female. Other members of the Olympics team are track stars, Nijel Amos, Amantle Montsho, Christine Botlogetswe and Galefele Moroko. Mahommed earned a place in...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 22 March 2021
Youri Continues To Shine In Spain
Youri lost in the finals of the singles to Valeria Kousenkova 7-5, 6-4. The Barcelona Tennis Academy (BTA) student has been having a good run and at the beginning of this month she won the same tournament beating Cloe Clements Soro 7-5,6-2. The...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 22 March 2021
Keatlholetswe Confirms Galaxy Exit
Keatlholetswe joined Galaxy in October last year, replacing Nikola Kavazovic who has since re-joined Township Rollers. “Yes it is true. I am no longer with Galaxy. The reason I got from the club is that they have decided to part ways with me...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 22 March 2021
Zebras Gets Boost Ahead Of AFCON Qualifiers
The French Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 bosses decided on Wednesday to bar African players from the AFCON qualifiers. This follows a move by some English clubs to ban players from travelling to their home countries. The move means the Zebras’...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 22 March 2021
Women In Tourism Hold Tourism And Hospitality Discussion
The event will feature women of statue across the tourism and hospitality sector as well other well-wishers of the industry. WIT President, Bokani Mathape said they found it fit to celebrate women’s advancement in the tourism and...
Staff Writer 22 March 2021
Berry Heart opens first fashion centre
The award-winning-artist-turned-businesswoman, and now director of Berry Heart Creations has been pushing her clothing line which includes gym wear, amongst others for quite some time online. During the launch, Berry Heart said for the past two...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 22 March 2021
De Beers, Stanford mentorship programme opens
The programme, which is aimed at supporting business leaders in Southern Africa to expand and transform their companies, communities, as well as economies, is a collaboration between Stanford Graduate School of Business and De Beers Group. De Beers...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 22 March 2021
Kgoboko outlines BPC's Green Energy Projects
The envisaged game-changing projects include two 50 MW stations to be built in the former mining town of Selebi-Phikwe and diamond town of Jwaneng. The State-owned power utility intends to play a facilitation role on the Independent Power...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 22 March 2021
Limbo Commercialises Family Agric Business
It was a hand-to-month undertaking with no modern inputs to improve output. For one local entrepreneur, Bwaambo Limbo, there is an opportunity to commercialise what her family has been doing over the years after identifying a niche in way of doing...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 22 March 2021
Anger Is The Seismic Emotion That Interrupts Our Peace
It is a result of how one interprets the actions surrounding them. Therefore, it is an individual choice based on their negative imagination. It can be avoided or be rather applied. Emotions become clouded and leads one into the world of insanity,...
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 22 March 2021
We Can Change Our Culture
Some of those choices are small. Should we have rice or pasta? Should we have chicken or beef? The choice has little impact on our life and those around us. There are other choices we make which have the potential to tremendously bless us and those...
Ashley Thaba
| 22 March 2021
Of Parentification/Emotional Incest As A Form Of Emotional Abuse 2
Adults who were parentified as kids are more likely to suffer from depression and self-destructive behaviours if they do not find healing from the peril of parentification. As mentioned in the last article grown-ups who were parentified have a...
Gaone Monau
| 22 March 2021
The weights at the table
So it is, in fact quite critical to consider whether or not women who are not privileged with visibility and palatability, even want to be at the table. Sure, they may be able to bring their own foldable chair, and a cup and they may insist on what...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 22 March 2021
Bakgatla Bagammanaana (Part 10)
The motive for this dramatic decision was apparently Rey’s own misunderstanding of the content of Gobuamang’s protest against Kgosi Bathoen II’s then innovative imposition of a health levy across his reserve, an initiative Rey had...
Jeff Ramsay
| 22 March 2021
Alcohol Is Back And Don't You Forget It
Some news is... There was a huge sense of anticipation when it was announced the President would address the nation on Friday. With the calls of unbanning the sale of alcohol having reached a crescendo, there was an air of anticipation that The...
Thulaganyo Jankie 22 March 2021
We are Cha'wing
Perhaps its the experience and procedure of eating them. Do you eat yours from the big end (mini-drumstick) to the small or the other way round? There are those that cut in half. I’ve seen a video where someone cut theirs in 3 and personally I...
Michelle Phetlhe
| 22 March 2021
BDP, UDC members
Selefu 22 March 2021
SDEC Communities To Feel New Tariffs Pinch
While it is understandable that the tariffs had not been increased in a long while, it is also a fact that the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected communities in different ways. Some breadwinners have lost their jobs, some have had...
Monitor Editor 22 March 2021
Mma Matante: The Matriarch Falls
But it will be amiss of me not to try. To the world beyond, Mma Matante was a powerhouse of sorts but to us, she was a loving ever-present mother to the neighbourhood children, as she was to her own. So here I am, writing an obituary of one that I...
Pamela Dube
| 22 March 2021
UB Student Launches Course Guide App
With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic restricting gatherings and career clinics, which before the virus used to aid students in the selection of courses, are now impossible. This led to the University of Botswana (UB) fourth-year psychology...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 22 March 2021
New SDEC Tariffs Effect In April
The Monitor has learnt that implementation of the new tariffs was delayed in the advent of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has now created a dilemma for the council that has noted its negative effects on people’s lives. The revised...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 22 March 2021
Councillors bemoan public's unrealistic expectations
Some councillors have complained to the Botswana Association of Local Authorities (BALA) over their condition of service to be clearly defined, and for the public to be made aware of what the role of the councillors is. “As BALA we have...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 22 March 2021
IDM, BPSC Sign MoU
The two signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in several areas of mutual interest where both institutions will jointly develop and deliver short-term programmes geared towards capacitating individuals in their...
Correspondent 22 March 2021
Nation Needs Clarity On Covid-19 – Keorapetse
When raising a question in Parliament that was directed to the Leader of the House and Vice President, Slumber Tsogwane, the MP said it has been nearly a year since the coronavirus was first detected in Botswana and the nation needs an update on how...
Pini Bothoko
| 22 March 2021
Unavailability Of Police Station Fuels Crime – Molao
Alarmed by the crime rate in his area as a result of the unavailability of a police station, Member of Parliament (MP) for Shashe West, Fidelis Molao has appealed to the Minister of Defence, Justice and Security, Kagiso Mmusi to consider the...
Pini Bothoko
| 22 March 2021
Three Inmates Die From Covid-19
The Minister of Defence, Justice and Security, Kagiso Mmusi revealed this recently in Parliament when presenting his ministry’s 2021-2022 recurrent and development budget proposals. He said as of March 15, 2021, the Prison Service had recorded...
Pini Bothoko
| 22 March 2021
Decomposed Body Found At Seitsantle Cattle Post
Letlhakeng Police station commander, superintendent Mogomotsi Kesupile said the old man was buried the same day after the arrival of the police at the scene. He revealed that the police found the old man’s decomposed body, and suspected that he...
Pini Bothoko
| 22 March 2021
Road Tender Case To Be Heard Urgently
CoA’s Justice Isaac Lesetedi last Thursday ruled that the matter deserved an expedited hearing and ordered that the appeals be listed for hearing in the April 2021 Session of the CoA. This decision followed applications for an expedited...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 22 March 2021
Father Fights Children For Inheritance
Morubana believes his elder son and sister-in-law connived with the University of Botswana (UB) to deny him a stake from his late wife’s death benefit. He feels authorities failed him and is now taking the matter to court. Pearl Morubana, who...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 22 March 2021
Four GCC councillors test positive
The deputy mayor Lotty Manyapetsa told full council today that the four councillors have recovered. Amongst the four, is the mayor for GCC Father Maphongo and he is in isolation. “To date, four councillors have tested positive and have...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 22 March 2021
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