Khama and Masisi

Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!In this very edition, there is an...

The Monitor Editor | 11 August 2026

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Khama and Masisi

SMILES, FOR NOW: Former President Ian Khama and President Mokgweetsi Masisi posing for pictures at the President's Day Celebrations Awards Ceremony at GICC earlier this afternoon. PIC. KENNEDY RAMOKONE

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