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Back page this week: Staff shake-up looms at BFA
Staff Writer 16 April 2021
Inside page this week: Former beauty queen unveils clothing line
Staff Writer 16 April 2021
Inside page this week: Financiers join in as Bots, Nam sign 5GW solar deal
Staff Writer 16 April 2021
Front page this week: Panic as SPEDU is auctioned
Staff Writer 16 April 2021
Mhotsha gets invite to US prestigious golf tourney
The championship will take place from May 3 to 5 at the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida in the US. The tournament is the most culturally significant championship in collegiate golf. Speaking to Mmegi Sport, Mhotsha said the championship is...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 16 April 2021
Bathai, Bakwadi trade blows on eve of contest
Mmegi: Please introduce yourselfBathai: I was born in Kanye but grew up in Lobatse. I hold a Degree in Computer Science and I went on to do my Master’s degree in Strategic Management. I am currently doing a PhD in Business and Management. I...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 16 April 2021
Elite Scholarship guidelines criticised
The BNSC has informed affiliates that, for athletes to benefit from the Fund, they must amongst others, submit the scholar’s personal profile endorsed by Botswana Integrated Sport Association (BISA) and Botswana Tertiary School Sport...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 16 April 2021
Zebras down 100 places since historic qualification
The Zebras journey up and down football’s ladder has been littered with extreme contrasts. There was a period when the team was largely acknowledged as ‘whipping boys’ before light emerged at the end of the tunnel between 2004 to...
Mqondisi Dube
| 16 April 2021
BFA embraces CAF's decision on COVID tests
There has been controversy around COVID-19 testing, with concerns, it is used as a weapon by host teams. Hosts are allowed to conduct COVID-19 tests on visiting teams, with complaints results are ‘cooked’ to disadvantage opponents. Even...
Mqondisi Dube
| 16 April 2021
BAA, Thebe urged to smoke peace pipe
BAA and the athlete are at loggerheads after Thebe flew to Ivory Coast where he is training, but the mother body said he had not been granted permission. However, reports are that BAA did not attend to his request despite a letter being...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 16 April 2021
Staff shake-up looms at BFA
However, Taylor said she was unaware of looming changes at the mother body. Reports are the new head of the secretariat is preparing for a staff clean-up, in order to achieve the organisation’s goals. Targeted, sources said, are employees who...
Chakalisa Dube
| 16 April 2021
Are you a COVID-19 vaccine Vergligte or Verkampte?
Senselessly claiming that this disease is at best a tempest in a teapot. Owing to modern technological advances, such conspiracies have reached almost every nook and corner of the global village. At the heart of the current social discourse is the...
Kevin Mokento
| 16 April 2021
Tribute to Lizo Zola Ngcongco
We were clustered in Office 6, on the fourth floor of the Barclays Bank Building where the Prosecutions Department, of the Attorney General’s Chambers, was housed, before it moved to the grand offices of the Attorneys General’s Chambers...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 16 April 2021
No permanent friends in Politics
Selefu 16 April 2021
The dilemma of sending troops to Mozambique
However, there is another war in the region that could be of distraction to the fight against the pandemic. These wars are all resource straining and the country is faced with a dilemma of whether to send troops to help in Mozambique. Like the...
Mmegi Editor
| 16 April 2021
Showa's many hats
FRANCISTOWN: As the BBS boardroom hoo-hah rages on, a pertinent question is: who really is Showa? Already there is gossip in the corporate space that the main target in the BBS saga could be Molefe whilst Showa is just but collateral damage. That...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 16 April 2021
A man well acquainted with battles
Justice Tebogo Tau delivers a judgement on whether the board was right to dismiss Molefe and company secretary Sipho Showa, a potential legal end to two weeks of highly public sparring between the sides. Ahead of the judgement, Molefe will remember...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 16 April 2021
BDF goes to war, but at what cost?
On April 8, 2021, the presidential jet OK1 landed at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport just after 8pm and before President Mokgweetsi Masisi could sit behind the wheel to drive his Toyota GD6 home, he met the press in a televised media...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 16 April 2021
Mozambique's uncertainty: Implications for Botswana's place in the region
This conflict-driven development and prospect of instability in the region challenges Botswana’s interests. President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s persistent adamance on immediate intervention is almost a revival of former president Sir Ketumile...
Bakang Ntshingane 16 April 2021
Why we must industrialise now
However, the advent of Corona has shown us that we are just another poor African country. Nothing exceptional about us. At the drop of a hat, government ran out of ideas and revenue. The first instinct became to tax citizens more and more. As well,...
Correspondent 16 April 2021
The impact of COVID-19 and the role of Parliaments in responding to national disasters
History teaches that humanity has always been plagued by disasters and Covid-19 is most certainly not the last. It is therefore important to reflect on the role of Parliaments in responding to disasters using COVID-19 merely as a spring board, for...
Key Dingake 16 April 2021
Are we a nation of haters?
One traces the origins of bad press against Choppies when it emerged that the then Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) chief, Isaac Kgosi acquired shares at this company. Out of ignorance, the media started a smear campaign that Kgosi got...
Correspondent 16 April 2021
Gov't reserves fall further to P3.4bn
The reserves were P5.6 billion in November and were steadily declining throughout 2020 as the government tapped into them to support the budget after main revenues such as mining, collapsed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The latest Bank...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 16 April 2021
The threat of organised crime and knowing who the beneficial owner is
A recent incident reported by Europol highlights the danger posed by organised crime and the industries and professions at risk. In December 2020, Europol announced that the Spanish National Police, with its support, had dismantled a large organised...
Correspondent 16 April 2021
Local firms not ready for AfCFTA – BB
The agreement is expected to give Batswana the opportunity to benefit from inter-regional trade within the African continent, and greatly contribute to the growth and diversification of the country’s economy. However, briefing the media this...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 16 April 2021
Financiers join in as Bots, Nam sign 5GW solar deal
The AfDB, International Finance Corporation and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development inked the Memorandum of Intent with Botswana, Namibia and Power Africa, a US-government entity aimed at boosting electricity investment in Africa....
Mbongeni Mguni
| 16 April 2021
DJ HarryCane eager for a big break
He has now finished producing an EP called Bogosi. The EP was recorded at MN Entertainment record label. “I love to do Amapiano music because Kabza de Small and DJ Maphorisa really inspired me a lot. The public has accepted my music. I share...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 16 April 2021
Love for Setswana language lands Letona La Poko into poetry
“I am a Setswana poet. I do not think at any day I would opt to do poetry in another language apart from my beautiful mother tongue. I often refer to my craft as poetry with a vision; that is because I do not just do poetry for the sake of...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 16 April 2021
Giri hopeful about pursuing fine art fulltime
In an interview with Arts & Culture, Giri said he was confident about his artistic talent no wonder he decided to pursue fine art full time. He added that he chose the kind of art that is easy to explore at the same time enabling him to easily...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 16 April 2021
Dipalema Tym releases ‘Mokgwenyane'
Ngwako whose stage name is Dipalema Tym started her music career in 2020 does Afro pop music. Her new single Mokgwenyane was produced at Raindrop Productions by Thatie Sgubhu and written by Lucia Dottie. In an interview, the songstress said the new...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 16 April 2021
Orange Botswana customer drives away in a brand new Benz
The draw which was witnessed by a regulated crowd saw Boitumelo Gaeboloke walk away as the winner out of three finalists, driving away in a brand-new Mercedes Benz. The Orange Win-A-Benz Competition started on October 31, 2020 until March 20,...
Staff Writer 16 April 2021
Batswana' arts and crafts to be exhibited at Dubai 2020 expo
The event is scheduled for October 1, 2021 to March, 31 2022. Botswana will be among the international exhibitors who will participate at the expo after it was postponed last year due to the Covid19 pandemic. During Expo 2020 Dubai, which lasts six...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 16 April 2021
Former beauty queen unveils clothing line
The now all grown up Kgwadi who won the Miss Teen Universe Botswana crown at the age of 17 told Arts & Culture in an interview that what prompted her to start a new clothing line was the confidence that she had in fashion and being always willing...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 16 April 2021
Rari at the wheel, as BOSETU membership growth doubles
To double that number and reach 18, 000 members is no small feat for the trade union in a sector where teachers countrywide number not more than 25, 000. Long serving BOSETU secretary general, Tobokani Rari says the leadership stability, and...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 16 April 2021
BancABC parent faces liquidation over P110m debt
Officials at the local bank, however, have been quick to disassociate BancABC Botswana from the legal tussle, explaining that the local operations continue as normal with a strong capital position being maintained and robust capital adequacy...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 16 April 2021
COVID-19 funeral stalemate: Family dares gov't to bury father
The cause of conflict between the family of the late healer, Gaborapelwe Mazwimbo, and the Land Board arose after the family wanted to bury him traditionally as per his wishes since he was a traditional doctor. The family wanted Mazwimbo to be...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 16 April 2021
Babereki Investments AGM in jeopardy as factions battle in Court
While it was expected that preparations for the AGM were in full swing, it seems that such is not the case as the rival factions this week appeared in court battling an urgent application filed by Olefile Monakwe’s faction. The faction is...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 16 April 2021
BCP cadres fight for elective positions
All positions are reportedly open for interested parties to contest according to lobby lists but only BCP presidency currently held by Dumelang Saleshando will be unopposed. Former BCP Women’s League president, Daisy Bathusi is set to...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 16 April 2021
Mogalakwe's troubles deepen
Mogalakwe who lost his election petition has filed an application seeking for the review of his costs and their taxation, which stands at the sum of P392, 000. According to Mogalakwe’s attorney Faustino Ngandu they want Court to review...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 16 April 2021
Panic as SPEDU goes under the hammer
This follows a writ of execution obtained against SPEDU last month by a company that won a works contract for the design and build of Phase I infrastructure in Bolelanoto and Senwelo industrial sites in Selebi-Phikwe. Attorneys for Marcian Concepts,...
Oarabile Mosikare 16 April 2021
Ex-BAMB CEO laughs off nepotism allegations
Morakaladi, who was fired under dubious circumstances, said he was aware of the report and at its first appearance two years ago, there was supposed to be an investigation into the allegations. “While I was happy to have these allegations...
Oarabile Mosikare 16 April 2021
Molefe, Showa want interdict discharged
The duo who were last week served dismissal letters by board chairperson, Pelani Siwawa-Ndai and later interdicted to enter the company’s premises through a court order, say they were not dismissed in accordance with the company’s...
Mpho Mokwape
| 16 April 2021
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