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Back page this week: Women Football Players Call For Equal Opportunities
Staff Writer 07 June 2021
Front page this week: The High Cost Of COVID-19 Hospitalisation
Staff Writer 07 June 2021
Cricket team slumps to crushing defeats
The team was in high spirits when it departed for the annual tournament held in remembrance of the 1994 genocide victims. But there has been an early reality check after the Innocent Chando-coached side were outplayed by Rwanda on Sunday. Botswana...
Mqondisi Dube
| 07 June 2021
Motorsport Pleads For Sponsorship
BMS confirmed last week that it will send the national team to the annual event, but faces an uphill battle to raise funds for the trip. Speaking to The Monitor Sport recently, BMS’ public relations officer, Daryll Ellitson, said the...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 07 June 2021
BAA Switches To Plan B As Snr Champs Are Cancelled
The event was scheduled to be held in Lagos, Nigeria from June 23 to 28. According to a letter written by Nigeria Minister of Sport, Sunday Dare, the government had raised health concerns over the hosting of the African Championships in Lagos,...
Calistus Kolantsho
| 07 June 2021
BFA, Players Union Wars Rage on
The Players’ Union had reportedly written a letter to the association citing allegations of players suffering unpleasant treatment from an employee of the association and calling for engagement between the parties. However, the BFA last week...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 07 June 2021
Nico Elects New Committee
The committee is expected to push for the club’s return to the elite league after failed attempts last season. Majombolo finished second last season behind Sua Flamingoes in the Debswana First Division North League after the season was cut...
Staff Writer 07 June 2021
Kgaswane Left Out Of Zebras Squad
With the current football season on suspension, Amrouche included all the players based abroad due to their activity, but there was no place for Kgaswane. The left footed attacker has been one of the most active players as he made 13 appearances for...
Kabelo Boranabi
| 07 June 2021
Women Football Players Call For Equal Opportunities
The campaign seeks to lay a foundation for women football players to receive the same treatment and opportunities like their male counterparts. “The campaign cuts across everyone involved in the game including media, sponsors and supporters....
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
| 07 June 2021
ASAP competitions Raise Drug Abuse Awareness
In an interview with Showtime, Colourful People Entertainment founder, David Letshwiti said alcohol and drug abuse continues to pose great challenges to the world’s population health including Botswana. He explained that there is an increasing...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 07 June 2021
Prince and Princess Botswana Children's Pageants Back
The event was postponed last year due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pageantry’s grand finale will be held on August 7 at Westwood International School in Phase 4. This year the pageantry will be hosted as Little Miss...
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane
| 07 June 2021
Coca Cola Brings Sugar Alternatives To The Market
This comes on the backdrop of the World Health Organisation’s current recommendation that consumers should limit their intake of added sugar to no more than 10% of their total energy consumption. Presenting the group’s 2020 annual...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 07 June 2021
Bokomo Empowers Local Farmers
The miller added the move is also another way to lead the country towards becoming self-reliant in food production and thus creating jobs and cutting the import bill. Bokomo’s chief executive officer (CEO), Werner de Beer told Business Monitor...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 07 June 2021
Stopton Holdings Find Niche In Organic Fertilisers
The company manufactures and distributes yield enhancers, pesticides and liquid fertilisers in one litre, five litres and 25 litres. The organic fertilisers enhance crop yield and soil properties while restraining pests and diseases, it has been...
Pauline Dikuelo
| 07 June 2021
Jealousy- The Master That Misfortunes The Dainty
Competitive people feel that they are far much better than others are, hence all great things should be seen or witnessed through them. Their ego is always inflated and their pride cannot accept that others performed well thus need a pat on the back....
Kealeboga Ngwigwa
| 07 June 2021
Promised Land Still Had Battles
He feels the Lord has told him she is the one. Let me share a story that I believe helped him, and I hope it will help you with whatever it is you are struggling with today. I am going to do a mixture of paraphrasing and quoting directly from...
Ashley Thaba
| 07 June 2021
Of Emotional Abuse & Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Part1)
A narcissist is someone who has been diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Narcissists may either be covert or overt. Narcissistic personality disorder is one of several types of personality disorders-it’s a mental condition...
Gaone Monau
| 07 June 2021
The Environment Affects All of Us
We went straight from the blazing heat to the great need for heaters, with a cold front coming in from Cape Town, which brought with it the rudest announcement that the seasons had changed and we are now in the midst of winter. The summer we just...
Lesego Nswahu Nchunga
| 07 June 2021
The High Commission Territories
At the same time, it was agreed, as part of the legislation establishing the Union of South Africa, that conditions be specified under which their ultimate transfer could be carried out. These conditions, which included the establishment of a High...
Jeff Ramsay
| 07 June 2021
Tariffs, Tariffs And More Tariffs
Lately there has been a spike in all sorts of tariffs. Water tariffs have gone up. The Covid messages have laid on thick the advantages of proper hygiene. Just as we were getting in stride to help thwart the potency of Covid by frequently washing our...
Thulaganyo Jankie 07 June 2021
Breakfast Box- Strawberry Scones
It had been a while since we experimented with baking at Chellzkitchen, so we went out and grabbed a 2.5kg of Bokomo Cake Flour and Nutriday Plain Yoghurt, sat down and penned down some ideas. We came up with a variety of Breakfast Box. This box...
Michelle Phetlhe
| 07 June 2021
Peace, Perfect Peace
Selefu 07 June 2021
What Happened To 'Best Practice'
While it still would not be acceptable for the sub-standard items to be supplied to adults, it is even sadder that these people have total disregard for the best practices and find it reasonable to supply 'their counterfeits' to schools, in the...
Monitor Editor 07 June 2021
Cuban envoy bemoans US imposed blockade
The blockade violates the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, hinder the normal development of international relations and seriously harm the legitimate interests of many States, institutions and individuals...
Correspondent 07 June 2021
IEC Shares Revealing Insights
She noted that the national stakeholder evaluation report has uncovered that the delayed repeal of the Electoral Amendment (2016) hurt preparations for the 2019 General Election. Serumula added the high number of election petitions offered a...
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe
| 07 June 2021
Supplier Fixes ‘Fake' Peanut Butter Mess
Early this year an investigation by The Monitor’s sister publication, Mmegi unearthed that the council reportedly spent over P312,000 on the allegedly fake peanut butter supplies. Immediately after Mmegi commenced its investigations into the...
Chakalisa Dube
| 07 June 2021
Ex-CMB Director's Property To Be Auctioned
Okaile was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the asset management company, CMB, which is now under liquidation. He has had a long run-in with the law facing accusations of fund mismanagement of security institutions, criminal charges, and civil...
Mpho Mokwape
| 07 June 2021
Batswana Pay Tribute To TB Joshua
TB Joshua reportedly died on Saturday at age of 57. He was the leader and founder of the Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), a church that runs the Emmanuel television station in Lagos, Nigeria. Joshua has a huge following locally. Some of his...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 07 June 2021
Monakwe's Road To The Top
In August 2018, four months towards the BOPEU elective congress, Monakwe was nowhere near the seat of power. Masego Mogwera was the president, Martin Gabobake, the first deputy president and Ogaufi Tilly Masame the second deputy president, with...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 07 June 2021
COA Smokes Out Monakwe ‘The Trouble Maker'
CoA’s Justice Isaac Lesetedi in his long-awaited judgement on Friday that dedicated a chunk of his ruling on Monakwe, singling him out as the troublemaker in all of BOPEU’s long-running instabilities of the last three years. Justice...
Monkagedi Gaothobogwe 07 June 2021
Rising COVID-19 Cases in SA Threaten Imports
Tlokweng, Pioneer and Ramatlabama, which reopened on Sunday after closing on Saturday, represent the busiest borders with South Africa. The other major border post, Martin’s Drift, was unaffected but local officials said they were monitoring...
Mbongeni Mguni
| 07 June 2021
Teacher Unions Renew School Closure Call
The latest call to close schools was made during the National Teachers’ Day celebrations in Gaborone on Friday. Speaking on behalf of teacher trade unions, the Botswana Teachers Union president, Gotlamang Oitsile said they are concerned that...
Goitsemodimo Kaelo
| 07 June 2021
Land Board From Hell
Christopher Moeng of Borejane Lands is the latest ‘victim’ decrying abuse at the hands of the Kgatleng Land Board. He has documentation similar to those of other Batswana landowners, but is losing grip on his land. Speaking to The...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 07 June 2021
High Cost Of COVID-19 Hospitalisation
The memo from chief executive officer Joe Van Der Walt reads: “In an effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Botswana, we have decided to admit COVID patients. As you may be aware this service comes at a cost and as such the hospital has...
Innocent Selatlhwa
| 07 June 2021
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