Former Mmegi Sports Editor dies
Thursday, April 26, 2012
He had been hospitalised at Bokamoso Private Hospital since Easter Sunday. Boitumelo retired from active journalism in 2005 and joined Botsogo Health Plan as a Relationship Consultant: Sales and Marketing in the marketing department.
He, together with Mochudi Centre Chiefs' chairman Ernest Molome, were amongst the pioneers of the health scheme during its formative days under the leadership of the then managing director Odirile Merafhe. Boitumelo was born in Kanye on Valentine's Day in 1965. He was the seventh of 10 siblings born to Mokowe Morekwa and Boarona Morekwa of Kanye. He started his education at Letlhakane Primary School near Orapa where he did his standards one to three before moving to Ipeleng Primary School in Lobatse where he finished his PSLE.
Acting Agriculture Minister, Edwin Dikoloti, is right in saying opening an export-ready facility whilst Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is still spreading would risk getting the whole country blacklisted before a single carcass leaves the door.A ban like that would break the already stressed nation. So, the postponement, painful as it is, is the right thing to do. The local economy is being squeezed from both ends. FMD has already slammed the door...