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Man kills wife, commits suicide
The murder happened on Tuesday night. Tutume police acting station commander Assistant Superintendent Lesego Kgosiemang yesterday confirmed the incident, which took place at the couple’s home at Timbi ward. The couple ran a small business in...
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COVID-19 strikes Francistown
When  giving the COVID-19  status update here ,Greater  Francistown District  Health Management Team   acting  coordinator,  Dr  Nkele  Ndolumingu   said  their  accumulative ...
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Ex-TAFIC coach gets 10 years rape jail
The convict, Newman Gaobone, 49, committed the offence between January 29 and 30 in 2014 at Gerald Estates in the Francistown Administrative District of the Republic of Botswana. Delivering judgement, Chief Magistrate Thebeetsile Mulalu said ...
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NOPE! No increment.
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Back page this week: Branch left in tears
399,Staff Writer,, 11 May 2021
Front page this week: Ginimbi's Botswana businesses face collapse
399,Staff Writer,, 11 May 2021
Sport Looks To Get On With Business Despite COVID-19
BNOC board tenure The Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) board’s term of office ends this year. The team, led by Botsang Tshenyego lost time due to COVID-19 and it remains to be seen whether they will get a fresh mandate from the...
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Academy Thrives To Change Squash Fortunes
Academy founder, Koketso Ntshebe has opened three branches around Gaborone in a bid to push the game to a new level. Ntshebe told Sport Monitor, the idea of an academy was born in 2015 but it did not materialise until 2019 while he was coaching in...
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BAAs Hands Tied On Montsho Accident
BAA vice president, Oabona Theetso said since the incident occurred outside national team camp, there was nothing the association could do. “We learnt about the incident through social media and there was nothing official that was brought to...
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BFL CEO Search Slows Down Amid Uncertainty
The BFL is the new commercial organ, born out of a decision to grant the Botswana Premier League (BPL) autonomy. The mother body, Botswana Football Association (BFA) granted the BPL autonomy at the last general assembly in October. A four-member...
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Galaxy's Ditsele Warns Pirates
Galaxy who were dumped out of the Champions League by another South African side, Mamelodi Sundowns now face the Soweto giants for a place in the lucrative group stages. Galaxy host Pirates in a Valentine’s Day date, before the return leg at...
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Crash Dents Branch's Dakar Title Hopes
On Sunday, he lost 24 minutes after crashing just 31km from the starting point to finish stage seven placed at number 27 which saw him drop to 15th spot in the overall rankings. This saw his chances of winning the Dakar Rally title, dim. The stage...
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Mannathokos film short-listed for the Indies Short Fest
The film is short-listed under two categories of Best Thriller Short and Best Mystery Short. Blunt is an action thriller short film that tackles the drug world of Gaborone in a supernatural way. The film is about a girl who has gone food blind from...
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Vee Mampeezys new visuals with Makhadzi make waves
The Letlhale hitmaker’s new video Makoti Pitori featuring South African dance queen, Makhadzi and DJ Call Me is now reaching great milestones with close to half a million views on Facebook. Vee Mampeezy, who has become prone to criticism in...
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NBFIRA Warns Pawnshops On Compliance
This follows last February’s notice issued by the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) requesting all exempted pawnshops to provide certain information. The information required included the pawnshops’...
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PrimeTime Looking To Expand Portfolio In SA
The move will be an addition to the already existing acquisitions they had made in South Africa, which include an R85 million mixed-use property in Brynston and a R50 million logistics warehouse in Johannesburg. This was revealed by...
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Losha Lodge: The Perfect Place To Connect With Nature
Losha Bush Lodge, which is strategically located 75km from Gaborone at Medie/ Moetlo in Kweneng East, offers a unique way of connecting with nature in a peaceful scenery way. The lodge manager and chef, Tshepiso Marumo explained to BusinessMonitor...
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Keep On Climbing, The Mountain Peak Propositions An Epic View
You see beyond the view at ground level. The atmosphere and ambience are different. They are very refreshing. But for one to be able to afford it, they have to endure pain, suffering and hostility. The pleasure one earns from the Ariel view is...
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Trials Can Be Good
For example, I could have never imagined a world where it was illegal to take my children to church yet with the limits on how many people can attend religious gatherings, my kids haven’t gone to church since March. I hate that! I feel it is so...
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Welcome to Idiotville
Idiotville stretches from Zimbabwe, through Botswana and right up to South Africa. I reside in one of these countries that make up Idiotville. Zimbabwe is North Idiotville, Botswana Central and South Africa south. This is pretty obvious to many but...
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Palatable Patriarchy 1 Introduction
May we continue to speak with our damn chests, shake these tables, silence our fears, unlock our [voices], decenter the male gaze, understand the manifestations of power and rest. Let this be the year we grow together in our feminism.” Vivian...
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Mutating History
Meanwhile, there is a continuing need to slow the spread of Covid-19 transmission through collective discipline, while being mindful the appearance of new, mutated, strains the virus. We have faced similar challenges. HIV treatments have evolved to...
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Of Femicide Suicide & Why Women Cheat On Their Partners
Femicide suicide is the harshest and most unthinkable form of gender based violence. Popularly referred to as ‘passion killings’ in Botswana, femicide suicide is when the male kills his female partner in an intimate relationship and...
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Thaakaa!
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Its Everyones Responsibility To Curb Spread Of COVID-19
Looking at the way last year turned out, it was perhaps the toughest for many people in recent history. We had the shortest year we have ever had! Many businesses struggled to survive in 2020, while others barely made it. All this is thanks to...
540,Monitor Editor,, 11 May 2021
GBV Cases Decline In Boteti During Festive Season
The village, located in Boteti region, and its surrounding areas have over the past been tormented and famed for recording high numbers of gender-based violence (GBV) cases, mostly rape and defilement. However, this time around, according to...
49080,Lesedi Mkhutshwa,, 11 May 2021
Women Participation In Politics Critical Sibisibi
The Monitor carried out snap research to find out how Botswana’s patriarchal system impedes women’s political aspirations. The history of Botswana is replete with talk, whether genuine or not, men are deliberately protecting the...
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BTU Welcomes Decision To Delay Re-Opening For Some Grades
The decision to have different levels not to open at the same time was taken by both Ministry of Basic Education and Teachers Unions. The Monitor has learnt that the assessment of school environment will be on going this week as the schools re-opens....
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Young Couple Breaks Stereotypes To Get Married
The bridegroom at the time was aged 23 while the bride was 19. Fast forward to 2021, another young couple has decided to get into holy matrimony. The latest to marry are a young man who has his own church in Selibe-Phikwe, Soul Defence Force...
399,Staff Writer,, 11 May 2021
Mzwinila Family Sends Plea To Repatriate Body From Zambia
The former Member of Parliament (MP) for Gaborone North died last Wednesday and it is not yet clear what the deceased had gone to do in Zambia. MP for Tonota, where Mzwinila originates, Pono Moatlhodi said in an interview deceased’s family has...
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Ginimbis Botswana Businesses Face Collapse
The court is set to hear an update on the matter in which Darangwa and Kadungure’s family are fighting over his companies with Leo Chiweshe, whom Kadungure had appointed to manage the Botswana assets through a power of attorney. In her...
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BONU Slams Divisive Frontline Reward Initiative
The union labels the initiative dubbed “The Frontline Worker Sweepstake Celebrating Bagaka Ba Rona” as a divisive gambling initiative. BONU president, Obonolo Rahube said in a statement they were shocked the initiative comes up to reward...
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Gov't Slashes Fire Controllers Allowance
This follows a decision by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to discontinue the fixed 30% allowances for the said officers effective immediately. The move leaves the two at loggerheads with a possible lawsuit looming. Speaking...
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Khama demands Peloetletse pays P1.5m for defamation PIC: FACEBOOK
Khama demands Peloetletse pays P1.5m for defamation
Khama has instructed his attorneys to demand a retraction and an unconditional apology from Peloetletse over a statement the latter allegedly published on the Gabz FM news page, with contents about his former BDP leader. On top of that, Khama is...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo | 11 May 2021
Help us locate family - Pleads the police
In an interview with MmegiOnline, Pitsane Molopo Police Station Commander, Superintendent Thusego Kenyafetse pleaded with members of the public to help with any information that could lead to the identification of the man's family. Kenyafeste said...
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Canadian firm to invest US$26m to revive BCL
A memo apparently written by the BCL liquidator, Trevor Glaum, to the remaining workers conducting care and maintenance activities, indicates that the Canadian firm will now conduct a comprehensive due diligence process on the BCL...
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Back page this week: Chiefs in talks to buy Premiership status
399,Staff Writer,, 12 May 2021
Inside page this week: Francistown Arts Meeting returns
399,Staff Writer,, 12 May 2021
Inside page this week: BPC waits on 5% tariff review request
399,Staff Writer,, 12 May 2021
Front page this week: 20,000 jobs gone
399,Staff Writer,, 12 May 2021
From Phikwes smoke to The Big Apple
Innocent Tidimane’s tennis journey started in 2010 at the modest Selebi-Phikwe tennis courts located in Area One. Some of his friends, who were already tennis players, invited him to the tennis court. Then a tiny 11-year-old boy, Tidimane did...
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Athletics mourns loss of dedicated soldier
The army Colonel held the posts of Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) vice president and public relations officer during his tenure. BDF athletics club chairperson, Edward Joseph said Masalila’s death had come as a shock. “He has been...
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Karate, BNSC meet over Commonwealth tourney
BOKA was provisionally awarded the rights to host the championships and the meeting is expected to make the decision official. Botswana faced competition from Sri Lanka and Barbados. BNSC acting chief executive officer (CEO), Tuelo Serufho said it...
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BNSC wont assist in individual tests
Acting BNSC chief executive officer, Tuelo Serufho said individual athletes and clubs will have to foot their own bill if they require coronavirus (COVID-19) tests. Speaking at a press briefing this week, Serufho said the government would only fund...
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BFA faces enquiries over league return
Competitive football is set to return in March after teams went for a year without kicking a ball due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The season is expected to run between March and June, a significant reduction from the normal minimum of 10...
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Ditseles Zebras woes persist
The Jwaneng Galaxy midfielder remains a key component in midfield and possesses crucial experience garnered from his brief stint in the South African Premiership between 2016 and 2017, where he featured for Highlands Park. Former Zebras coach, Peter...
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No love lost as Pirates, Galaxy clash
Galaxy will play their home fixture at the National Stadium, looking to upset their more established counterparts, with Lourceno under the spotlight following his offseason switch. Lourceno had shown great promise in the playmaking role and...
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Mungus swift and spectacular rise
Since debuting for Great North Tigers (GNT) in the Debswana First Division North in the 2018-2019 season, Mungu’s rise in the local football circles has been swift and spectacular.  Following his GNT debut, the attacking midfielder...
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BNSC suspends senior official
Finance manager, Leonard Mogomotsi and Kabo Magola, an electrician with the Commission’s department of lands and facilities, were recently suspended on charges yet to be known. BNSC acting chief executive officer, Tuelo Serufho confirmed the...
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Chiefs in talks to buy Premiership status
Magosi were relegated to the First Division in 2018 and after finding no success on the field for a quick return, the club is seeking an alternative route powered by an ambitious executive committee elected last month. Mmegi Sport is informed that...
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