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Monkagedi Gaothobogwe
  • Rival BOPEU factions each submit lists for Babereki investments AGM

    Just when Monakwe’s faction thought it would have the singular honor to submit the list for the AGM to the Babereki Investments board, Topias Marenga and Masego Mogwera, buoyed by November 2020’s three Judges panel which found that they...

  • NBFIRA Clears BOFUS To Renew Annual License

    The latest decision announced on March 10, now paves the way for the insurance broking firm to renew its annual practicing licence and continue normal trading after the renewal. BOFUS Insurance Brokers filed a successful appeal with NBFIRA following...

  • Monakwe fails to 'gatecrash' Babereki Investments

    However, ‘gate crashing’ into the chairmanship of BOPEU’s lucrative cash loan company, Babereki Investments has been an illusive exercise ever since. An attempt last year to remove Babereki Investment chairperson Masego Mogwera,...

  • Judges panel to decide on BOPEU business

    Representing Babereki Investments, Advocate Sidney Pilane raised two objections, firstly arguing at length that the round robin format adopted by BOPEU to remove and add certain members was not a procedure recognised by the law at Babereki...

  • P5 billion mega water projects awarded across 10 entities during SoE

    Despite wild allegations that Khato Civils had been the dominant beneficiary of mega water projects tenders during the State of Emergency after bagging two widely publicised mega water projects tenders, the Masama 100km (P781, 555, 356. 90) and the...

  • COVID Hits 25 Schools, 3 Close

    Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) has made the call to have schools closed for the government to tackle and address the spate of COVID-19 cases. Despite the alarming COVID-19 statistics in schools during the second wave, only three...

  • Subsidised Loans, P4M Dividends Mark Radikolo's Legacy

    The BOSETU community held the then newly elected president in high regard as a serious-minded, no-nonsense revolutionist, who would not tolerate mediocrity. Before long BOSETU parted ways with its executive secretary, amidst accusations of...

  • Man Sets Up Estate On Disputed Land

    The land has already been subdivided into a total of 114 plots feared to have been sold to various plot owners where the developer was setting up his own version of Phakalane after buying the ploughing field belonging to a deceased person. A year...

  • Law Of Death Denies Heirs Fortune

    Not only are they barred by law from selling the land, but they also cannot inherit it. For the Ramakgathi siblings, Boiki, Thapelo, Khumanego, and Tumelo, they know the land as belonging to them; they grew up farming and harvesting such traditional...

  • Simbi Phiri hints at setting up multi-million Pula water pipes plant in Botswana

    This is thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is making it too prohibitive for contractors to continue importing such materials from overseas in countries like Italy, China, or Brazil. Water infrastructure expert and contractor, Khato Civils, have...

  • Monakwe's faction fails on Marenga interdiction

    Marenga had approached the Court with an urgent application after learning that the rival faction had last week, unbeknown to him, got an interdict against him, barring him from discharging his duties as BOPEU general secretary.  Marenga had...

  • Kanye to build Sir Ketumile Masire Library

    The case for The Sir Ketumile Masire Presidential Library is anchored on the immense contribution and sacrifice that the late statesman made to this nation and its people, According to the mover of the motion, who describes Sir Ketumile as “one...

  • Botswana Launches Ambitious Space Orbit Programme

    The programme will shoot into orbit its own home-grown miniature space crafts, the smallest and modern satellite cubes that are fast replacing the traditional gigantic space ships in space missions. The launch of the space programme is consonant...

  • Judge advises Monakwe faction not to remove Mogwera

    Addressing the factions’ attorneys on Thursday at a status hearing, Justice Gaongalelwe said while he could not issue an interim order to urge the other party to stay its actions of removing Masego Mogwera and company from the directorship of...

  • BBS Releases Results, Shares Resume Trading On BSE

    The release of the 2019 preliminary financial statements saw the BBSL shares and BBS005 Bond resuming trading on Friday, with trading in the company’s securities open to all BBS security holders. This is in exception of “BBS Key...

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