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Onalenna Kelebeile
  • Councillors accuse mayor of misuse of funds

    Councillors expressed their concerns during the just ended full council meeting where they criticised the mayor for having channelled council funds towards the recent National Phikwe Marathon as well as the purchase of a new mayoral vehicle valued at...

  • Cllrs want private airstrips closed

    Yesterday, councillor Dorcas Letlhogela moved a motion saying the closure would enable Selebi-Phikwe airport to become operational. SPEDU refurbished Selebi-Phikwe airport at a cost of P14 million last year, but the facility remains...

  • Masisi yet to respond to BMWU petition

    The union petitioned Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi in April this year but nothing has come out of that. The union has called for a comprehensive commission of enquiry to probe both the economic, operational and health and safety problems together...

  • Cllrs scoff at Presidential task team composition

    They said only retired politicians who were rejected by their electorate made the team and that it was a "poverty eradication" scheme for the retired politicians. The miffed councillors were speaking in a full council meeting Wednesday saying that...

  • Mmadinare agric show fails

    Show committee chairman Joseph Seipato said it will not have been ideal to run the show without exhibits. He explained that usually about 15,000 hectares of land is ploughed annually in the Mmadinare area but this year only 1,080 hectares were...

  • Creation of SPEDU chamber of commerce delayed

    The MoU was expected to kick start a collaboration between the two organisations in the establishment of a regional chamber of commerce and informal sector. SPEDU chief executive officer, Mokubung Mokubung said they postponed the signing, which was...

  • Beef industry under heightened measles threat

    Speaking in an interview, Ralotsia said Botswana Meat Commission records a six percent loss in all the cattle it receives for slaughter due to the disease. He added that the most affected are cattle from communal areas especially those around the...

  • Citizen firms eye BCL stake in Pula Steel

    Speaking in an interview, Pula Steel chief executive officer, Ranvir Kumar Verma said his cash-strapped company has already applied for funding from an international financier. “We have already written a letter of intent to BCL and as one of...

  • Rubella and de-worming campaign going smooth

    The Government Hospital’s public relations officer, Onalethata Nkwe has said so far the campaign has been going well with good turn out looking at the population within their catchment area. “We appreciate parents and guardians who were...

  • Pula Steel board to appoint new CEO

    Pula Steel has already advertised the position and it is reported that a senior official from BCL mine will be appointed to replace Verma. The company’s director of corporate services, Brian Mosenene confirmed that the recruitment process is...

  • Tobane murders haunt Botshabelo police

    Senior superintendent Gothusamang Badubi of Botshabelo police said they received reports on Sunday afternoon that three men at a drinking spot had murdered a 32-year-old man. She said it was reported that the three men aged between 19 and 32 years...

  • Pula Steel extends employees� unpaid leave

    This is despite the fact that the parties went for mediation at the labour department early this week where Mmegi Business is informed that Pula Steel was ordered to pay the employees as it was found to be in contravention of Section 16 of the...

  • Debswana safety team tours BCL mine

    Mmegi is privy to the details that the presence of the Debswana safety managers is to assist BCL management identify where things have been going wrong at the oldest and fatality-prone copper/nickel mine. Besides the four miners who perished...

  • BCL MD dismisses allegations of mine closure

    In a business update targeting over 4,000 direct staff members of the BCL mine, the mine’s managing director, Dan Mahupela has vehemently refuted allegations of the impending mine closure. “We inform you that at this session Botswana...

  • BMWU hampered by legislation

    The Minister of Infrastructure, Science and Technology and area MP Nonofho Molefhi highlighted this during a visit to the union recently. Molefhi had advised the union to engage an independent evaluator so that it helps them to have a major...

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