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SPEDU auctioned
Marcian Concepts has instructed sheriff or his deputy to attach and take into execution the movable goods of SPEDU and of the same to be caused to be realised by public auction the total sum of P31, 823, 337.71 following failure to reach compliance...
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Mosimane! Ke tla go!!..
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Mr. Kennafela. What prompted you to be a politician?
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Bill and Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage
"After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage," the pair tweeted. They first met in the 1980s when Melinda joined Bill's Microsoft firm. The billionaire couple have three...
BBC.COM 04 May 2021
Police nab 29-year-old for footballer's murder
The alleged killer is reportedly 29-years old. “We arrested the alleged killer after an intensive investigation. We did not arrest him through a tip off. He was arrested at a certain location in Francistown where he resides but for now I...
Chakalisa Dube
| 04 May 2021
Back page this week: Makwala Powers Relay Team To Olympics
Staff Writer 04 May 2021
Front page this week: We Will Meet In 2024- Unions Warn MPS
Staff Writer 04 May 2021
Former Ecco Star Turns To Nursing Career
Madamombe recently completed his three year Diploma at Harare Central Hospital and is currently awaiting graduation. He returned to Zimbabwe to enrol for a nursing Diploma in 2018, two years after suffering a terrible knee injury while on the books...
Chakalisa Dube
| 04 May 2021
Prisons XI Confident Ahead of Champions League Adventure
The team’s coach, Quelch Moroke said his troops are motivated by the national team performances and hopes the results would spill into their continental club journey. “If you look at the trend in women football, our national team has been...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 04 May 2021
FUB Reiterates Stance On Current Football ‘Crisis'
The players’ union has been vocal about what it regards as lack of commitment from the Botswana Football Association (BFA) to return to play. Local football has been inactive for more than 400 days since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 04 May 2021
Botswana's Football Value Chain Sits At P55m – BFA
The BFA made the revelation during its presentation to the Botswana National Sports Commission (BNSC) on how it will return to play last week. At the same virtual meeting between the two bodies, the BFA, led by Tico Kamati, also demonstrated how the...
Staff Writer 04 May 2021
Makwala Powers Relay Team To Olympics
The quartet of Isaac Makwala, Leungo Scotch, Boitumelo Masilo and Ditiro Ndzamani booked a place at the 2020 Olympic Games scheduled late this winter in Tokyo, Japan. The team finished in the first position of heat three of the event on Saturday...
Correspondent 04 May 2021
Mdu Tha Party Unveils Top 10 Hip-Hop List For 2020/21
For this year’s list he partnered with The Voice Newspaper, Yarona FM, NCC and Plugged In Media (PIM) along with other production companies to create the show and make it available on various platforms. Mdu started the list in 2014. ...
Cavin Kanoko
| 04 May 2021
Lefika Crowned Miss Teen Africa Botswana
Although the 19-year-old did not scoop any award during the preliminary judging, she was adjudged the overall winner after impressing during the question session at the fiercely contested pageant. The Mochudi born, former St Joseph’s College...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 04 May 2021
Revised AGOA Plan To Spur US-Bound Exports
The strategy, which was approved in March, will assist local businesses take advantage of the non-reciprocal trade arrangement. Exports through the AGOA programme will provide local entrepreneurs with a chance to revive their firms that suffered...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 04 May 2021
Weathering Covid Storm though Chilli Sauce
For Phetogo, the pandemic was not gloom and doom after all as his pastime love for cooking has given birth to a chilli sauce enterprise. Many households have traditionally used chilli sauce as a condiment to lift any meal for many households,...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 04 May 2021
Tolerance- The Highest Level Of Maturity
Relationships are fins of our dreams, goal, and/ or aspirations. The bigger network you create, the high the probable of success. What connects us to one another is our characters and attitudes towards those we relate to. The secret to accommodate...
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 04 May 2021
The End Goal
Below are her words. My husband and I have four children and live in America. We don’t “have it all together” and we are still learning as we raise our children. Over the next three weeks, I will share with you some of the...
Ashley Thaba
| 04 May 2021
Of Emotional Abuse & Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a type of emotional abuse where the gaslighter manipulates the gaslightee emotionally in order for the gaslightee to doubt their own judgement, perceptions and view of the world. Gaslighting can happen in all types of relationships...
Gaone Monau
| 04 May 2021
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Intersexism and Biphobia- How Far Has Botswana Come
When commemorating international days, the inclination is usually to explore the history of the recognition of that day. Although that is of great importance, for this day, I think it would profit us more if we explored the rich and peculiar history...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 04 May 2021
The Rod Of Moleta
An example is Motswaledi-Kgosi Sebego I (regency 1825 – 1844) of the Bangwaketse who was certainly one of Southern Africa’s most formidable early 19th-century military leaders. While consistent with the general popular neglect of...
Jeff Ramsay
| 04 May 2021
Funeral Characters And Issues
Technology nowadays is much more sinister than that. For instance it is not entirely farfetched for someone to whisper and ask you something like ‘What is the hashtag for this funeral?’ We are currently waddling through the fourth...
Thulaganyo Jankie 04 May 2021
Stuffed & Wrapped
I spent the whole day deciding on what to share with you but l came across a Facebook memory post my husband shared this evening and I thought; well that was a great meal! Chicken breast and chicken fillet (white meat) has such a bad reputation...
Michelle Phetlhe
| 04 May 2021
Remove legislative impediments to media freedom
This year's commemoration comes when Botswana made a slight jump from number 39 to 38 in the World Press Index. When President Masisi ascended to power in 2018, he spoke the language which the media fraternity wanted to hear. For years calls to...
Monitor Editor 04 May 2021
Rari's Final Lap at BOSETU
Rari secured a fourth term after defeating Innocent Mannathoko, Sekgwama Gobusamang and Wabo Tshosa at the union’s elective congress last week. The elections were coordinated from Palapye, but voting was in six centres across the...
Chakalisa Dube
| 04 May 2021
BOSETU Retains Rari, Radikolo
Winston Radikolo will continue as BOSETU president as he beat his challenger, Mpho Maruping by 174 votes to 115. Radikolo was first elected president in 2017. Rari, meanwhile, defeated his challenger Innocent Mannathoko by 160 votes to 109...
Staff Writer 04 May 2021
SADC Told To Brace For Complex Cabo Delgado ‘War'
The April 8 meeting of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security resolved to assist Mozambique to fight Islamic insurgents who have caused terror in the oil-rich province. Hundreds have died while humanitarian organisations estimate that at...
Mqondisi Dube
| 04 May 2021
Mogoditshane Police Investigate Two Rape Cases
Mogoditshane’s assistant police station commander, assistant superintendent Zachariah Tshenyego told The Monitor the two rape cases occurred on Thursday night in Ledumadumane and Metsimotlhabe. He said in one incident a 33-year-old Motswana...
Pini Bothoko
| 04 May 2021
Missing Ramotswa Man Found Dead In SA
The body of the 37-year-old man, who reportedly suffered from autism, was discovered by the South African police last Wednesday. Ramotswa Police Station assistant commander, assistant superintendent Zibisani Mathumo said the deceased’s...
Pini Bothoko
| 04 May 2021
Rakops Late Chief's Family Pleads For Justice
The then 96-year-old went missing on August 15, 2019, driving a silver-grey Honda CRV and his remains were discovered a month later, just a few kilometres outside the village. His body was found burnt to ashes inside the vehicle. To date, the...
Pini Bothoko
| 04 May 2021
No Arrests Yet For Slain Footballer's Killers
Lowani, a footballer in the Division Two league in Francistown, was killed on the evening of April 16, 2021, near the Francistown interchange, widely referred to as the Spaghetti road. Early last week the police released CCTV footage of the alleged...
Chakalisa Dube
| 04 May 2021
Police Nab Mascom Battery Suspects
Lesetedi issued the advice following the arrest of three men; two Zimbabweans and a Motswana who were found with stolen Mascom batteries and cables valued at P100,000. The three are believed to be part of a crime syndicate. The police seized...
Pini Bothoko
| 04 May 2021
BBS Board Stares at Defeat
The terms of the five directors, who include chair Pelani Siwawa-Ndai, expired on April 26 and an attempt by them to extend tenures by 90 days set up an acrimonious clash with the managing director, Pius Molefe. The public dispute, which has seen...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 04 May 2021
Babereki Investments' AGM Faces More Delays
This is after the court last week granted the warring factions a consent order for the meeting to be postponed again. When all looked set for the overdue meeting, Justice Jennifer Dube ordered the meeting to be postponed indefinitely, pending...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 04 May 2021
Masisi Makes Bargaining Council Promise Amid Discontent
Masisi had committed to resuscitating the PSBC by September 2018 soon after he came into office. The promise was also reiterated during his party’s campaign prior to the 2019 General Election. Three years on, the PSBC remains dissolved, with...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 04 May 2021
Unions Warn 'Self-Serving' Politicians
Trade union leaders who spoke on the occasion to commemorate Workers Day hosted by Botswana Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU) and the Botswana Federation of Public Private & Parastatal Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) on Saturday. The unionists expressed...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 04 May 2021
Diamond rebound powers first trade surplus in 11mths
The economy has suffered rolling trade deficits since February 2020, which describes a situation where the country is consistently importing more goods than it is exporting. Economists have warned that when deficits persist, they weaken a...
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Back Page this week: COVID-19: A game on its knees!
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Inside page this week: Art teacher turns to watercolor
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Inside page this week: Hope glitters after diamond distress
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Front page this week: COVID-19 vaccines could arrive in March
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Poanes tennis journey takes her to Grand Slam
The journey started at the tennis court, where the initial intention was to shed a few kilogrammes, but that has escalated to a blossoming career which has taken her to the sport’s highest point; the grand slams. As an umpire, she has...
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Early kicks in karate contest
Bathai had initially announced he would not seek re-election, but he is now reportedly keen to contest. He assumed office in April 2017. There is a feeling he has run his race and it is time to hand over the baton to new leadership. Speaking to...
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Recipients fail to meet IDM requirements
IDM had pledged sponsorship of tuition fees for the Botswana Sport Awards’ overall sportsperson of the year, female sportsperson of the year and male sportsperson of the year. Oarabile Tshosa and Bernard Olesitse won the 2018 Botswana National...
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Cheerleading expels secretary-general
This week, the BCF expelled its secretary-general Tony Petrus for ‘lack of commitment’. BCF president, Neo Selwe stated in a letter to Petrus that the constitution was clear that any member of the executive committee who was absent...
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Clubs reduced to beggars
The clubs have gone for almost a year without paying their players’ full salaries owing to lack of football activity. With indications that the league might not resume anytime soon, teams are on the brink of collapse. In a bid to contain the...
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Womens Champions League gives BFA headache
The continental body has proposed that for the first time in history, an African women’s club tournament will be played this year. CAF announced it intends to kick off the preliminary qualification round between May and July. However, plans for...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 05 May 2021
Sport in doldrums
It is almost a year since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the suspension of sports activities. The impact has been devastating with athletes’ livelihoods disrupted. The government recently announced the suspension of football activities,...
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Coaches in limbo
Local teams have not played since sports activities were suspended last year March. It only got worse this week as teams were preparing for a return, the Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sports and Culture Development announced a fresh decision to...
49272,Kabelo Boranabi,, 05 May 2021
FUB awaits BFA on return of football
Expectations were that the football season will start this month with the Orange FA Cup quarterfinals, which were not concluded last season, but the excitement has since died following the recent suspension of all contact sports activities. FUB...
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