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Onalenna Kelebeile
  • Gov't Assembles A Team Of Experts To Look Into BCL

    The team is expected to commence work this Monday, according to the Minister of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, Eric Molale who toured the mine last Friday. “I will make sure that the team is constituted before I leave...

  • Selebi-Phikwe economy still in ICU

    The announcement has already sown seeds of hopelessness about the town’s future and more so that it comes at a time when hopes were recently raised with the false announcement that the mine would be reopened soon. All is literally not well,...

  • Inaugural car expo billed for S/Phikwe

    Contrary to the usual spinning, racing and risky games that car competitions embark on, this unique competition would determine the winners according to colour, sound, interior, exhaust mag wheels as well as the uniqueness of the parade that the car...

  • Liquidator cuts BCL, Tati Nickel skeletal staff

    The review that would determine the number of positions that would be required going forward, would be undertaken in the next six weeks while formal termination letters would be issued to all employees by the end of this month. According to the...

  • Illegal phane harvesters outsmart beneficiaries

    Fifty-six-year-old beneficiary, Gabobofane Nthomphe was enrolled into the programme in 2012 and got assisted with a package that comprises tent, 25kg three-legged pot, 250-litre drum, food basket and transport to and from the harvest camp. She said...

  • Granting bail a thorn on the side of the justice system

    Speaking at the official opening of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions office in Selebi-Phikwe recently, Kgathi said they are trying to interrogate and debate the issue of bail, and said it is very difficult to explain to someone outside the...

  • Warren-Dixon to sell BCL for P5 billion

    Nixon-Warren said they were currently seeking proposals from the business community to acquire rights to run the properties on a commercial scale. Speaking during the SPEDU consultative forum, Dixon-Warren said he was also working with Pula Steel...

  • SPEDU, BB sign MoU

    SPEDU and Business Botswana signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to uplift the region and ensure that it becomes prosperous and create wealth. For the past several months the two have been working together to formalise a working...

  • Implement teachers' right to withdraw labour - Keorapetse

    Speaking at a prize-giving ceremony at Lebogang Junior Secondary School this week, Keorapetse decried sour industrial relations between government and unions, added that issues such as teachers’ allowances, the 26 days issue and others related...

  • Dance troupe seeks positive change

    Kalatsakgale aims to venture into business to diversify opportunities as they look for sponsorships. Group spokesperson, Tshepo Tsela took Arts & Culture in to their confidence talking about their serious ambitions.  First, they do not only...

  • Gov't Raising Two Trafficked 'Spiritual' Babies

    The babies who are still very young, according to the principal prosecutions counsel Keletso Mfosi, have been taken away from their “suspects” mothers as the DNA has proven that they are not their biological babies. This information was...

  • BCL evicts illegal occupants

    As some occupants relocated after the mine’s closure, those remaining decided to illegally allocate themselves rooms adjacent to theirs in a bid to better their living conditions as a majority of them stayed sandwiched with families in one...

  • 20 Ex-BCL Miners In Jail for Loan Defaults

    This was revealed during the Alternative Mining Indaba by Botswana Council of Churches (BCC) in Sefhophe on Friday where Botswana Mine Workers Union representative David Lesejane said they have approached commercial banks about the ex-miners’...

  • Cllrs still rue day of BCL closure

    In the midst of all the BCL Mine reopening hype, the councillors suspect it is a political prank ahead of the general elections. They said during a full council meeting late last week that authorities choose to make major announcements in the media...

  • 'Fire-spitting' Saleshando upbeat about UDC project

    Speaking at a rally on Sunday, Saleshando said upon his party signing agreements to be a member of the UDC, they told whoever has a problem with the decision to forever maintain their silence. “The marriage is intact and the outcome is visible...

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