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Vaccination starts today - Health PS
Without providing details, Ebineng told Mmegi vaccinations would begin using the COVISHIELD vaccines recently donated by India. Botswana recently received 30, 000 doses of the COVISHIELD vaccine which is the brand name of the AstraZeneca-Oxford...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 26 March 2021
Back page this week: Focus on Amrouche as Zebras crash out
Staff Writer 26 March 2021
Inside page this week: Koogotsitse: The boy whose inner artistic fire was unleashed by a P20 note
Staff Writer 26 March 2021
Inside page this week: State of economic crunch to be revealed
Staff Writer 26 March 2021
Front page this week: Gov't broke
Staff Writer 26 March 2021
Independent sport fund to be set up
All Kasi clothing label marketing director, Mokaedi ‘Barnes’ Maplanka told Mmegi Sport on Wednesday that it is almost more than a year without sport activities and the question in everybody’s mind is when would sport...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 26 March 2021
Letsholo calls for return of sport
Sport activities were suspended last year March and most codes have remained on the sidelines. New movement restrictions, announced by President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Tuesday, meant sport and recreational activities remain suspended. Only the national...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 26 March 2021
BNSC to introduce new funding model
The new model, which advocates for a tier system is still being reviewed and NSAs are yet to be engaged. Under the tier system, sport codes will be allocated funds according to their performance. BNSC chairperson, Marumo Morule told Mmegi Sport...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 26 March 2021
A bizarre campaign
Life was still normal when the first round of the Group H ties were played on November 15, 2019. Botswana’s Zebras travelled to Harare to face Zimbabwe’s Warriors without masks, there were no temperature checks. It was the usual physical...
Mqondisi Dube
| 26 March 2021
Botswana miss out on Women's Champions League
The tournament is the first of its kind in the African women club continental football. It will pit eight of the best women football teams on the continent, including the host country. However, local football teams will not have to wait until next...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 26 March 2021
Fans behind design of new Zebras kit – BFA
This followed a competition by the BFA inviting local designers to submit ideas for the new kit. On Wednesday, in a joint statement with the technical sponsor, Umbro, the BFA said the 2021-2022 strips’ designs were inspired by the submissions...
Correspondent 26 March 2021
Officials refute ‘favours' in FRAFA appointments
The development now means that the entire committee, except for Fanyana Fish, is now made of those who many believe vigorously campaigned for president Maclean Letshwiti’s camp at the Botswana Football Association (BFA) National Executive...
Chakalisa Dube
| 26 March 2021
Molemogi wants players to fight injustice
Molemogi, who is also the vice president of the Footballers Union of Botswana (FUB), feels the players have suffered enough for years. He said there is a culture in Botswana where players are deemed to serve the administrators and cannot speak out...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 26 March 2021
Chinyemba open to out of court settlement
The case in which Chinyemba has taken Chiefs to the labour department was supposed to be heard at the labour office on Wednesday, but Chiefs officials are said to have asked for a postponement citing their unavailability. The matter is now set to be...
Chakalisa Dube
| 26 March 2021
Poor supervision leads to P32m school sport bill
The joint task team on school sport chairperson, Tapiwa Masunga told Mmegi Sport her team established that there was no control of how many teachers could be involved in sport. She said as such, the bill went up. “There was no monitoring and...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 26 March 2021
Focus on Amrouche as Zebras crash out
Amrouche signed a three year contract in 2019 with qualification to the 2021 AFCON finals, one of the targets. But after one victory in five games in the qualifying rounds, Amrouche would be a man under pressure. The Zebras travel to Algeria for a...
Staff Writer 26 March 2021
A re go ja eng? (12)
Jaanong le fa mosepele o wa go ja……o ntse o ya pele jaana, re dumela gore e tlaa tla nako ya gore o wele, kana, o khutle, o fele. Go nne jalo o wele. E le oo, o wetse le rona re bone go ikhutsa, boikhutso. Mme ka letsatsi leo, ke leo,...
Sebofo Motshwane 26 March 2021
I did not have sexual relations with that woman
I recall seeing him, blushing scarlet from a deserved avalanche of public opprobrium, flashing a chilling stare at his audience. Both hands solidly resting on the lectern. Like an incensed general issuing a precursive signal to his firing squad to...
Kevin Mokento
| 26 March 2021
It is time to teach other local languages – The time for tribal bigotry is over
They have a point. Swahili, is not useful to us, as Batswana. It is nothing, but a pretence by African kleptocrats, to be seen to be doing something for Africa. If Swahili is any useful, as a unifying language, the leaders must model it along...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 26 March 2021
Magosi for SADC
Selefu 26 March 2021
Arms ready, where are the jabs?
In recent days, Mmegi has reached out, repeatedly for that matter, to the officials involved in this exercise was met with a wall of resistance when trying to clarify the status of the vaccination roll out programme. Batswana are asking...
Mmegi Editor
| 26 March 2021
International hunting bounces back in Botswana after a long absence
For a country that missed hunting like the deserts miss the rain over a six-year period, Botswana bounces back on the international hunting map in April 2021; to quench the international hunters’ thirst in a country with the biggest, most...
Emmanuel Koro 26 March 2021
After COVID-19 misfire, hunting season beckons again
In times past, groups of men would depart before dawn from the cattle posts on hunting excursions, indulging in a practice as old as humankind. Using skills inherited from their forebears and polished by cattle herders, the teams would diligently...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 26 March 2021
Masisi in desert geopolitics, emerging power aspirations
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has tested the country’s domestic resilience, as well as its ambitions for the role it desires to play in the emerging post-pandemic world. Like his predecessors, President Mokgweetsi Masisi is actively...
Bakang Ntshingane 26 March 2021
Fighting a losing battle against glaucoma
But, as fate would have it, Mogokgwane who on a casual look appears as fit as a fiddle, has unfortunately been battling against glaucoma that is threatening to cut his career short and possibly render him completely blind. Amongst many other things,...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 26 March 2021
Melemo breaks the glass ceiling in Rwanda
Melemo has found her place in a market that used to be male dominated. The 26-year-old from Mahalapye is currently working as a Technology Development Officer for UNICEF Rwanda. Melemo is a graduate from the University of Sunderland in the United...
Tshegetsang Tebelelo 26 March 2021
When the coronavirus hits your family
Perhaps, the recent rising mortalities of COVID-19 related ailments in our shores are the source of societal fears and worries. When a report is mentioned that a family member has tested positive for the virus, people tend to surrender everything to...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 26 March 2021
CEDA creates 600 jobs in F/town
The creation of additional jobs is welcome news to the economy of Francistown, which has been struggling over the last few years. Francistown city mayor, Godisang Radisigo shared the figures during an ordinary full council meeting, which began...
Chakalisa Dube
| 26 March 2021
Payroll microlenders brace for civil service job cuts
In his budget speech last month, Finance and Economic Development minister, Thapelo Matsheka said the government would review the size of public service in the upcoming fiscal year that starts on April 1, as a way of curbing the...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 26 March 2021
Your Emergency Fund - How much is enough?
I don’t know what to do. My car started making a clunking noise last week, and today it stopped working completely.” “My job (I’m a sales rep) requires me to have a car. If it’s not working I can’t...
Correspondent 26 March 2021
Gov't moves to ease poultry monopolies
Small scale poultry farmers have previously raised concerns about their industry noting that it has grown into a vertical integration model where large scale producers are partaking in all stages of the value chain. It has also been observed that...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 26 March 2021
State of economic crunch to be revealed
Statistics Botswana will release the fourth quarter GDP figures next week, which will in turn show the full year economic performance. Ahead of the official figures, forecasts by different authorities indicate the economy will be shown to have...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 26 March 2021
Mokotedi talks plus size modelling, self-acceptance
The ample-bossomed model, currently a Medical Science Laboratory student at the University of Botswana (UB) declared, in an interview with Arts & Culture: “I’ve learnt a lot”. Mokotedi quickly revealed that other plus-size...
Tshegetsang Tebelelo 26 March 2021
Sbinjolo hitmakers Makau release gospel single
In an interview, Bakang Mphele of Makau music said their new single is one of the most healing pieces of gospel hymns, adding that they call it a song of hope. He explained that while the lyrics are gospel, the instruments are a mixture of amapiano...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 26 March 2021
Thapong start artists help campaign
The coronavirus pandemic has brought the whole creative industry to a halt, and through the campaign, Thapong seeks assistance from the business community and individuals. COVID-19 cases are increasing nationwide and curfew hours are changing,...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 26 March 2021
Yarona FM launches game changer presenter search
The station is looking for new voices who “live and breathe Urban Youth Culture” and have a passion for reporting on music, current affairs, and entertainment. While the search does focus on applicants whose strengths lie in presenting,...
Staff Writer 26 March 2021
BOMU suspends members in a ‘cleaning house' exercise
BOMU suspended duo, Trinity Mpho and Mmapula Charity Moatswi for allegedly condemning the union’s decision to appoint Total Music Group (Pty) Ltd as the union’s Music Awards Consulting Firm. “BOMU Executive Committee, after...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 26 March 2021
Koogotsitse: The boy whose inner artistic fire was unleashed by a P20 note
This is what happened to local fine artist, Thabang Koogotsitse when he was only five years-old. The artist who is now a grown man recalls how he used to draw a two dimensional bus with his finger on the ground. “My father’s friend gave...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 26 March 2021
John Magufuli, the ‘bulldozer' elected as an agent of reform
He was 61. The death was announced in a statement by Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who cited “heart complications” as the cause. There had been earlier unconfirmed reports from opposition leaders, which Magufuli’s...
Correspondent 26 March 2021
The political implications of Majaga's acquittal
FRANCISTOWN: In life in general, people who lead others such as politicians are expected to be the moral compasses of society. For politicians, the burden of behaving ethically is heavy and comes with perks like being voted into office again. If...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 26 March 2021
The February attempted coup
Apparently there had been some murmurs from some Cabinet ministers to the President. What was not clear was what these were all about. It did not take long to find out. Let’s rewind to 2015 to complete the narration. In 2015, the BDP as was a...
Sadique Kebonang 26 March 2021
BOPEU's BI AGM set for April 24
In a Notice issued on Wednesday by Mogwera to the shareholders, who included BOPEU National Executive Committee, National Office Bearers, Board of Trustees and Board of directors issued, the meeting will be held on April 24, 2021 at Majestic...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 26 March 2021
Manyapetsa concerned about city fraud
Briefing the Councillors this week, the deputy mayor, Lotty Manyapetsa said: “of recent, I have received reports of fraud within Ward Development Committees especially in engagement of Ipelegeng beneficiaries. Reported cases are of ghost...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 26 March 2021
Ex CAAB employee murder trial begins
The incidents allegedly happened after the love relationship between the former aircraft marshal and his ex-girlfriend, Unami Sibanda, went sour. The state alleges that Motlatsi Khoto, 47, raped and murdered Metlha Sibanda on January 17, 2018 at...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 26 March 2021
FCC, contractor wrangle delays road construction
The tender for the construction of the road was awarded on December 29, 2019. However, for some time, there has been confusion as to why the project is yet to take off. Despite being one of the up market locations in the city, Molapo Estate has poor...
Chakalisa Dube
| 26 March 2021
Gov't broke
The company that is owed half a million Pula moved a non- compliance application late November last year at Court of Appeal seeking a writ of execution order for the property after the state failed to settle a bill of P501, 142.20 as...
Mpho Mokwape
| 26 March 2021
Balete deny Kgale Farm acquisition consent
Instead, the tribe that is currently in a bitter war with the state over the ownership of the farm says before the legal wars government had shown interest in purchasing the farm as the fight to get hold of the it intensified on Monday before the...
Mpho Mokwape
| 26 March 2021
Majaga holds no grudges against complainant
This was after the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) parliamentarian was acquitted and discharged from defilement charges after the Magistrate ruled that the complainant in the matter had not presented a credible case. Majaga had pleaded not guilty to...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 26 March 2021
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