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Tafa has last laugh over LSB
The Court also said since LSB did not seek to stay the orders of fidelity and practising certificate pending the finalisation of the appeal they were none issues as Tafa and his firm had complied fully. LSB had only sought the appeal on grounds that...
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Extension: State Of Emergency
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Govt fiscal reserves drop further
The latest Bank of Botswana statements indicate that the reserves, known as the Government Investment Account (GIA), fell to about P5 billion in September then rose to P6.5 billion in October, before the drop to the P5.6 billion in...
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Tatitown police 'arsonist' seeks medical help
He allegedly suffered the wounds after he was burned by the petrol that he used to torch the police station.Bugalo, who was assisted by a police officer to walk to the dock, decried the medical assistance that he was getting in prison saying that he...
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'Alleged serial rapist, murderer' back in Court
Keganeditse was recently arrested and remanded in custody barely two weeks after Justice Matlhogonolo Phuthego granted him bail in December. He was arrested after he allegedly raped another woman at Kgaphamadi location on Christmas Eve....
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Police nab two suspected diamond dealers
According to Superintendent, Ookeditse Moseki of the Criminal Investigations Department, the men aged 27 and 34 were arrested following a tip off from an anonymous source. Moseki said the first suspect aged 27 from Kasane but residing at Block 2...
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Police retrieve alleged deputy stolen goods
FRANCISTOWN:Letlhakane police have managed to retrieve foodstuff worth over P1250 allegedly stolen by the Mokane primary deputy school head and a kitchen handler. When confirming the incident, Letlhakane police station commander,...
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Decomposed body of woman found in Tonota
Station commander of Tonota police, Oteng Ngada said the woman was buried on Monday as her body was badly decomposed following the conduction of post mortem, the results of which are still pending. “We received a report around 1415...
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NBFIRA Restores BOFUS License
Motshegwa said the cancellation which caused confusion among Bosetu members recently, was quickly appealed, and NBFIRA restored it.”I must add that as soon as they heard us, NBFIRA advised us to write an appeal, which they favourably acted...
475,Correspondent,, 14 May 2021
BOSETU PRESIDENT projects 300 teachers deaths by end of year, as 24 die in two weeks
Radikolo in an interview with Mmegi at the end of emergency talks with the Ministry and covid task force on Thursday, said in two weeks alone, 24 teachers have died from covid, adding that the trend with covid is that such numbers usually ...
475,Correspondent,, 14 May 2021
BOSETU Calls for Vaccination of Form 4s before enrolment
Rari says at a meeting with the Covid Taskforce and the Ministry the trade Union called for the vaccination of the Form 4’s as an effective control measure. He added that research has found that although students are mainly asymptomatic,...
475,Correspondent,, 14 May 2021
BIHL sails past COVID-19 to 24% profit jump
BIHL’s performance, set against the difficult operating environment caused by COVID-19 in 2020, underlines how the local financial sector was not only able to withstand the pandemic, but in some cases and sectors, actually registered higher...
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Inflation reaches 8-year high
The increase was driven by the April 1 fuel price increase as well as higher prices of food, alcohol, financial services, house rentals and electricity tariffs. The Bank of Botswana expects inflation to top six percent by June before returning to...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 14 May 2021
Back page this week: Fed-up athletes revive sports body
Staff Writer 14 May 2021
Inside page this week: Dung beetle inspires Senamolela
Staff Writer 14 May 2021
Inside page this week: Inflation spike rattles business confidence
Staff Writer 14 May 2021
Front page this week: Balopi faces pressure to quit politics
Staff Writer 14 May 2021
Masaiti needs P29,000 to participate in Malawi tourney
The championship is scheduled for Lilongwe, Malawi from May 17 to 28, 2021. Masaiti, who is the women’s national champion, told Mmegi Sport she aimed to represent Botswana for the last time before she jets off to study in the United...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 14 May 2021
Financials, a persistent headache for netball
The worrying state of affairs was again confirmed during the last weekend’s elective Annual General Meeting (AGM). Secretary-general of Thamaga Jaspers netball club, Thulaganyo Retshabile asked treasurer Onicah Letshwenyo–Ramocha about...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 14 May 2021
Region 5 Games to go ahead despite inactivity
This is despite the suspension of sport in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As it stands, the team might be handpicked in October to start preparing for the games. Botswana National Sport Commission’s games director, Boitumelo Moagi...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 14 May 2021
The Zebras that rarely disappoint
In the local sport fraternity, the Zebras are symbolic. The Zebra is Botswana’s national animal and the black and white stripes dominate across the spectrum, including sport. The most famous Zebra is the men’s national soccer team....
Mqondisi Dube
| 14 May 2021
Gunners attract 1,000 new members in three months
The club has used the ongoing impasse on competitive football to run a countrywide membership registration campaign that started on February 20, 2021, and will run until May 21, 2021. The club has said prior to the campaign, despite its large...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 14 May 2021
Gilika yet to raise hand for Galaxy's top post
Just a week before an elective Annual General Meeting (AGM) Gilika, the club’s founding chairperson is yet to outline intentions of continuing his reign, Mmegi Sport has learnt. Gilika was voted club chairperson when Galaxy was formed from the...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 14 May 2021
No decision yet on Amrouche
Amrouche signed a two-year deal in August 2019 with an option to extend. He was tasked with taking the Zebras to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations finals, but the campaign ended in agony after Botswana finished bottom of Group H. The group had reigning...
Mqondisi Dube
| 14 May 2021
New Zebras jersey to cost at least P500
The jersey was launched in March 2021 and it is the second instalment of the Botswana Football Association (BFA) and Umbro South Africa (SA) long-term partnership signed in 2019. After the launch, both parties revealed the jerseys would be available...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 14 May 2021
Mares in dream land ahead of Angola tie
The Mares this week were drawn against Angola in the first of the two rounds of the 2022 AWCON qualification to be played next month. The finals of next year’s edition to be held in Morocco will be the first under a new 12-team format...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 14 May 2021
BNOC undecided on sending team to Olympics
Last week, a petition calling for the cancellation of Games due to the COVID-19 pandemic has received more than 200,000 signatures in two days. With two months to go before the Olympics, Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) is yet to...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 14 May 2021
Fed-up athletes revive sports body
Driven by the need to advocate for their welfare, athletes have revived the dormant Association of Botswana Athletes (ABA) formed in 2018. ABA public relations officer, Kabelo Dambe said the association is for active and former national team...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 14 May 2021
BPF must put its house in order
As the youngest political party, the BPF has been the only stable party of recent. However, allegations of sexual conduct levelled against its president Biggie Butale have exposed a lot of things such as the party’s flawed...
Mmegi Editor
| 14 May 2021
A re go ja eng? (16)
Mme le fa namane ya yone e anywa, e anywe e kgore, e tloge e karagane. Jaanong e ne ya re maloba ra re mosepele wa o moleeleele ole wa go ja… o a wela. Re sena go bua jalo, sengwe sa rothegela mme ra bona o sa ntse o ka ya pele. Go...
Sebofo Motshwane 14 May 2021
What on earth is gender fluidity?
But if you were to google this subject, you might get any number from two to just under 400. Owing to moral latitude, the gender millis always in overdrive, churning out complex labels which continue to influence the tenor and tone of the gender...
Kevin Mokento
| 14 May 2021
Masisi must reset his toxic relationship with Khama
The last thing the nation deserved after three years of rule, by him, and 50 years of government, by his party, was to be told that the nation is being taken back to the drawing boards. The nation, had been screaming for a report on milestones, not...
Kgosietsile Ngakaagae
| 14 May 2021
‘Stop stealing our future'
Several local youth believe that corruption is the major cause of poverty and the reason why entrepreneurship is becoming difficult. In their eyes, some of the organisations created and funded by taxpayers to support youth development, help with...
Tshegetsang Tebelelo 14 May 2021
Following the 'Bird Boys' of Gaborone
That is how I met Mabedi Letsholo of Mabedilets Photography, Brians Moneke of Brains Bond Nature Photography and Oteng Lekgowe of Oteng Lekgowe Photography. They are all Gaborone-based nature photographers who are juggling their...
Thalefang Charles
| 14 May 2021
A troubled bridge over calm waters
The completion of the Kazungula Bridge is a feather in the caps of both President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his Zambian counterpart, Edgar Lungu, who this week delivered a rare infrastructural milestone for Southern African Development Community’s...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 14 May 2021
Should Moody's credit rating downgrades worry the average Motswana?
It should be noted that the rating had been adjusted in May 2020 from A2 with a stable outlook to A2 with a negative outlook, essentially forecasting the current downgrade. Previously, Botswana had been rated as A2 and stable since November 2011 but...
Mphoeng Mphoeng 14 May 2021
Preferred Life eager to shake cut-throat insurance market
If successfully registered by the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) , the new firm, to be known as Preferred Life, will be the ninth life insurer in a market dominated by established giants whose collective assets amounted...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 14 May 2021
Corporate valuations - An art or science?
These terms are often included in clauses which govern options, sale or transfer of shares, or other shareholder exit mechanisms, and are used to determine the valuation of the business or a block of shares. For many this begs the question, what is...
Correspondent 14 May 2021
NBFIRA scrambles to regulate 'fast-growing' pawn sector
In a recent research report, NBFIRA said the industry’s loan book was believed to be higher, as more data was yet to be collected. The regulator says the pawnshop business is a major contributor towards the financial inclusion agenda, as loans...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 14 May 2021
Inflation spike rattles business confidence
The Bank of Botswana’s (BoB) latest business confidence survey covering the first quarter of the year shows that firms are concerned that input costs will rise in the second quarter in line with an uptick in inflation. The central bank...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 14 May 2021
Caiphus pens The Girl Code
The inspiration to write the book came from the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihood of Batswana. Caiphus explained to Arts & Culture that The Girl Code is a play written originally to discuss current hot topics such...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 14 May 2021
Keloilwe soldiers on artistically
When the 24-year-old finished school that year, he did not make it to university and life became hard for him. As a way of fending for himself, the young talent started painting because it was the most selling type of art form for him. Keloilwe told...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 14 May 2021
DJ Jigga-yo releases Music in Me
Music in Me is a mixed genre album. DJ Jigga-yo told Arts & Culture he was planning to release a 10-track house album before COVID-19, but due to the pandemic his plans have changed. The DJ, who is a Network Engineering graduate from Botho...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 14 May 2021
Call for 2021 BOMU awards open
Artists, managers, agents, labels, publishers, music directors, music video producers, album graphic designers and producers can submit their profiles for adjudication with effect from May 6, 2021 to May 31, 2021. The awards, to be staged virtually,...
Staff Writer 14 May 2021
Ko Seronga hitmaker talks about big break
Videos of people singing and dancing to the song then started circulating on social media platforms and that’s when the stage name Koolkat surfaced in what was a big break for the artist. Real name Thato Kavinja, Koolkat was born in Seronga...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 14 May 2021
Dung beetle inspires Senamolela
Emmanuel Senamolena, the multi award winning ceramist’s work currently exhibited at Thapong Visual Arts Centre is great breath of fresh air and is somewhat an antidote to the frantic life. The crafts at the gallery teach us how to look at...
Mompati Tlhankane
| 14 May 2021
Broadhust Extension 27: Hub for petty crimes
This location is the first stop for the majority of people who relocate from far-flung villages for greener pastures in Gaborone because of its cheaper or affordable accommodation. The police have cited the location as a hot spot for criminals with...
Pini Bothoko
| 14 May 2021
Kweneng Board chairperson accused of lying
Kgang Ontlametse Kgang representing the Kweneng Land Board was accused of lying, using the virus and isolation after the board failed to respond to Court documents filed by seven residents who are clashing with the board over allocation of plots....
Mpho Mokwape
| 14 May 2021
Kweneng Board, employees clash
The nine employees accuse the board of failing to subdivide and allocate their ploughing fields despite the approval of their application to that effect in 2019. According to their Court application, the nine employees are holders of ploughing field...
Mpho Mokwape
| 14 May 2021
CEDA gets lifeline to recover its assets
The agency that has been struggling through the years to recover some of its money from borrowers is seeking to recover P1 326 653.62 from Shikas Express to no avail and having suffered at the High Court when the matter was dismissed. The Court of...
Mpho Mokwape
| 14 May 2021
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