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Back page this week: 404 days and counting...
Staff Writer 23 April 2021
Inside page this week: Signature art exhibition combines five distinctive artists' styles
Staff Writer 23 April 2021
Inside page this week: Bona Life bounces back yet again
Staff Writer 23 April 2021
Front page this week: Kgosi demands P50m for 'unlawful' airport arrest
Staff Writer 23 April 2021
Olympics team's vaccine options open
There are growing concerns over the safety of the games as Japan continues to record rising COVID-19 cases, and has vaccinated only one percent of its population. Last week Tuesday, marked 100 days to the games but the mood was of concern due to...
Mqondisi Dube
| 23 April 2021
Confusion over Elite Scholarship
The BNSC sent out the 2021 Elite Scholarship application guidelines to solicit feedback from sport codes, but some maintain they were not consulted. BNSC director-sport development, Bobby Gaseitsiwe said the document was sent out to NSAs last...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 April 2021
Propellers club changes the swimming tide
However, a group of young swimmers is turning the tide after establishing a local club in 2013, Propellers Swimming Academy. The academy is located at Molapo Crossing in Gaborone. However, this was not just your normal business operation, but an...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 April 2021
Tough cleaning job awaits new softball brooms
Katlholo Mosimanegape would finally get a chance to lead softball after losing to Thabo Thamane in the past elections. He is unopposed for the top job. At press time, there was no nomination for the position of public relations officer while Badika...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 April 2021
Top cop out to arrest softball ‘slide'
Mosimanagape, who is the Botswana Police Service director of traffic, is unopposed for the Botswana Softball Association (BSA) presidency. Softball holds a meeting at a time when some members feel the sport’s fortunes are on the wane....
Calistus Kolantsho
| 23 April 2021
Mares prepare for life after Bebeto
Retirement is inevitable for 34-year-old skipper, Bonang Otlhagile. She has more than a decade-long service in the senior team having made her debut as a teenager. ‘Bebeto’ as she is commonly known, started as an attacker but it was her...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 April 2021
Hockey's giant leap ends in mighty fall
The last time the sticks were out was in May 2019, at the Spar International Indoor Hockey Test Series. The national hockey teams returned to action after a 23-month hiatus, which was mainly due to COVID-19. As the competitive play opened and events...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 April 2021
FUB ‘confused' after cancellation of season
On Saturday, the Botswana Football Association (BFA) National Executive Committee met to declare the 2020-2021 season null and void. The decision comes after numerous false starts to the season that was scheduled to kick off on March 6. The situation...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 23 April 2021
Dambe accuses BFA of failing players
Dambe launched an attack on the association on social media this week. “Yes people will never understand until they are also captured (it is not about what is happening inside the field of play but what is happening at the top, that...
Chakalisa Dube
| 23 April 2021
404 days and counting...
March 15, 2020, was the last day a local top-flight football competition was played as teams battled it out in the Orange FA Cup round of 16. Only two matches, featuring Nico United and Mogoditshane Fighters took place, as the teams played for a spot...
Mqondisi Dube
| 23 April 2021
404 days and counting...
March 15, 2020, was the last day a local top-flight football competition was played as teams battled it out in the Orange FA Cup round of 16. Only two matches, featuring Nico United and Mogoditshane Fighters took place, as the teams played for a spot...
Mqondisi Dube
| 23 April 2021
Molefe, Showa fight BBS board over suspensions
In a notice to the Botswana Stock Exchange this morning, BBS board chair, Pelani Siwawa-Ndai said the pair was suspended on Tuesday pending the finalisation of litigation brought against the company by Molefe and Showa. "The stakeholders are...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 23 April 2021
A re go ja eng? (14)
Re re o dirwa jaana ke gore ga e re Motswana a natetsha Setswana a itsape. O a se natetsha, a se loise, ka tsela tse dintsi. Gompieno re utlwe a re go na le go ja mohuhutso wa phatla. Gone fa, e re ntswa re itse gore mohuhutso ke eng, re botse...
Sebofo Motshwane 23 April 2021
Contending with negative peer pressure
Teary, unable to raise his head, and deliberately avoiding eye contact. Clearly at the end of his tether. He gently shook his head with a sense of helplessness. While standing before my desk, with a quivering voice he poured his heart out,...
Kevin Mokento
| 23 April 2021
Where is the promised constitutional review?
To be sure, talk of a constitutional review had been with us for a long time, seen generally, as an opposition pretext, to better their electoral fortunes. Each time, the subject has been raised, ruling party stalwarts have maintained that the...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 23 April 2021
The worst crisis at the worst time
Cabinet is regarded as the principal advisory body to the President while the BDP is the party currently in power. These are significant bodies whose actions are critical to the growth of the country’s economy as well as the smooth running of...
Mmegi Editor
| 23 April 2021
We don't focus on the man but on what he did
Selefu 23 April 2021
AfCFTA and you: A bartender's lay view
The AfCFTA is a trade agreement signed by almost all African countries sometime in 2018 in the Rwanda capital, Kigali. The agreement is to commit the countries to remove tariffs on over 90% of tradeable goods, make trade in services simpler and...
Correspondent 23 April 2021
Nostalgia, aha!
Then the motto of the NYT was ‘Expect The World’, and in so writing about Botswana, it gave us a glimpse of that world, however incomplete that might have been. In any case, it might be that for a reader of that newspaper, these radio...
Bongi D D M Radipati 23 April 2021
The Kalahari Copperbelt's electrifying new
Sixty years after explorers first noted the “quartz veins rich in copper, silver and lead” in what was then referred to as ‘North Ghanziland’, the Kalahari Copperbelt appears to have lined up all the variables needed for the...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 23 April 2021
Seven days of tension
To use an exhausted cliché, it was already raining for the BBS Ltd directors this week, when it began pouring. BBS shareholder and Botswana Centre for Public Integrity executive director, Pusetso Morapedi sued the directors at the High Court...
Mpho Mokwape
| 23 April 2021
Tribute to Lizo Zola Ngcongco - An extra-ordinary lawyer - a force of nature
When news circulated of his passing I was in a state of denial, until I spoke to his sister, Nandi, who confirmed that it was true that her brother was no more. I had not met Lizo for a while since he last acted as a master of ceremonies at my...
Key Dingake 23 April 2021
The festival of Ridvan
The Ridvan Festival commemorates the anniversary of the garden sojourn where Baha’u’llah declared His mission outside Baghdad during the 12 days before His banishment to Istanbul (then called Constantinople) in 1863....
Correspondent 23 April 2021
Competition Tribunal defers NAP's appeal
BusinessWeek has learnt that the appeal hearing scheduled for this week was deferred to give the CCA an opportunity to test the accuracy of new evidence submitted by NAP. The Botswana Stock Exchange-listed property group was appealing a recent...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 23 April 2021
Stanchart's ‘slow and steady' approach pays dividends
In the 2017 financial year, SCBB posted one of the local banking sector’s worst losses, due to impairments associated with over-exposure to a client in the diamond industry. In 2015 and 2016, the bank again had its performance dampened by...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 23 April 2021
Banks and sustainability in a post COVID-19-environment
For the majority of organisations, sustainability became less of a priority, or was, at the very least, relegated to the bottom of the boardroom agenda. Despite this, many argue that in a post-pandemic world, Environmental, Social and Governance...
Correspondent 23 April 2021
Gambling Authority, Grow Mine restart national lottery talks
BusinessWeek has established that the South African lottery company Ithuba lost its case against the Gambling Authority, in which it demanded that the Authority halts negotiations with the preferred bidder, Grow Mine. The Authority’s CEO,...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 23 April 2021
Bona Life bounces back yet again
With a portfolio of over P700 million in policies, Bona Life was placed under statutory management last January, after it failed to meet the prudential capital thresholds set by the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA). The...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 23 April 2021
Granny's tales inspire Mavuna
This was a norm for many extended families in Botswana as it was part of entertainment. The story-telling nights shaped many young people into responsible adults. Those were the days when there was hardly any television sets and only a few...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 23 April 2021
Upcoming Afro Soul artist focuses on inspirational music
The artist who does his production at Raindrop Music Studio in Molepolole sings Afro Soul and most of his songs are about love. “I compose and write my songs which are mostly inspired by the events that we see or experience every day. Through...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 23 April 2021
Latty, Yung Amazing release Amapiano single
It was recorded at Drumsonic Studios, produced by DP Ramz and engineered by Lord Rage also known as Leggacy DG. “In this song I collaborated with Yung Amazing and we both contributed to the writing of the song. This gender is a party song and...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 23 April 2021
DJ Bunny crosses to SA for gigs
The artist who started disc jockeying back in 2010 at one of the bars in Goodhope will share the stage with SA’s multi-talented artist, Zakes Bantwini on May 1. “After being hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, I managed to be appointed by...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 23 April 2021
COSBOTS still cagey about Selotate's suspension
As skeletons tumble out of the closet following the suspension of Selotate, a source close to the issue told Arts & Culture that the issue started last month at the AGM where some of the members in the current board were involved in the vetting...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 23 April 2021
Signature art exhibition combines five distinctive artists' styles
The five visual artists are Totang Motoloki, Tshediso Kedumetse, Mpho Kgopiso, Moleboge Mokgosi and Loretta Mekgwe. The exhibition curator,Thabo Kgatlhwane who is the director of an artist management agency called Cellar Door Arts said they...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 23 April 2021
Batswana are against marital rape-BONELA
FRANCISTOWN: In most African countries, it is a well-known fact from time immemorial that although culture has its advantages, it also has its negatives. This, expert remark, is reinforced by the fact that in most African societies, Botswana...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 23 April 2021
BOSETU wins war for teachers threatened by salary scale reversals
The teachers had been living in fear of having to pay back some over-payments as well as having their salary scales and notches of the last eight years reversed. The Industrial Court ruled in favour of BOSETU and the 21 teachers, and went further to...
Staff Writer 23 April 2021
Two more Judges retire
Makhwade and Phadi have reached retirement age of 70. Earlier this week the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) announced that President Mokgweetsi Masisi has accepted a resignation from Judge Mothobi. It was said that Mothobi submitted an early...
Staff Writer 23 April 2021
Civil society makes submissions to APRM
A report compiled by civil society organisations in Botswana in 2020/ 2021 as part of their submissions to the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) headlined ‘The Big Governance Issues in Botswana’ indicates that the state of affairs has...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 23 April 2021
BPP leadership race: Gopolang shows interest, Bulawa, Moswaane cryptic
FRANCISTOWN: Molapisi’s announcement during the welcome ceremony of Ignatius Moswaane to the BPP-a constituent party of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) over the weekend, opened up the race for the party presidency. The BPP elective...
Lebogang Mosikare
| 23 April 2021
Illegal fishing hits Lake Ngami
Over the past years, villagers in the proximity of Lake Ngami have been involved in fishing during the closed season at the same lake despite numerous interventions by Lake Ngami Conversation Trust (LNCT), DWNP together with the police. Last week,...
Lesedi Mkhutshwa
| 23 April 2021
Over 100 nurses' contracts not renewed
The Ministry has not renewed contracts for over 100 temporary nurses across the country, Mmegi has learnt. “The Ministry has not given reasons why it cannot absorb or renew those nurses’ contracts during this time where there is...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 23 April 2021
BOSETU wants unruly learners rehabilitated
Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU), secretary general, Tobokani Rari made the remarks when reached for a comment following a statement that was made by the Minister of Basic Education, Fidelis Molao in Parliament recently. Molao had...
Pini Bothoko
| 23 April 2021
Court grants Ministry permission to award P60m tender
On Tuesday, Justice Tebogo Tau dismissed an urgent application by AIPB (PTY) Ltd seeking the Court to temporarily interdict the Attorney General (government legal representative), the chairperson of the Ministerial tender committee of the MTC, the...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 23 April 2021
BBS shareholder sues board over AGM
Morapedi who is also the director of Botswana Centre for Public Integrity, a non-governmental organisation focused on governance made an urgent application before court asking to enforce her rights as a shareholder and to prevent the current board of...
Mpho Mokwape
| 23 April 2021
Khan's radical 'fear fokol' tagline that spewed revulsion
Mmegi: Generally Fear fokol is associated with loose cannons or at worst ‘renegades’ who tended to work against the established norms and in this case of the opposition BNF. What’s your comment? Khan: The tagline fear fokol has...
Ryder Gabathuse
| 23 April 2021
Nkate leads new BDP faction
Exactly three years under President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s leadership, the country’s longest reigning political party is showing new and viciously widening cracks. Tsosolosa Mokgatlho is the new movement within the BDP led by some party...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 23 April 2021
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