After battling it out with seventeen other beauties from all major financial institutions in Botswana, Mphoentle Motswagae from Botswana Building Society (BBS) was crowned the 2016 Miss Inter Bank Queen.
Sunday, 21 August 2016
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18 Aug 2016
Known as the ‘art’ of roasting meat over an open fire,shisanyama or peso has become synonymous with any family get-together or vibrant occasion.
18 Aug 2016
“They only live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.” It is such words as these from Hinduism philosopher Swami Vivekanada that drive the local Hindu society to care for the less fortunate.
11 Aug 2016
South Africa’s Ringo Madlingozi is expected to make his return to Botswana Craft again later this month (Friday August 26) alongside Amantle Brown for the Mascom Live Sessions. The incredibly talented Afro jazz singer makes his return to the sessions after mesmerising fans back in 2012.
11 Aug 2016
In a bid to improve sexual reproductive health, the Ministry of Health has introduced two more contraceptive methods. The two methods - implanon NXT & Jadelle and the vaginal ring both fall under the implants category. Implanon NXT is composed of tiny flexible plastic rods, with about 4cm radius.
11 Aug 2016
For those yearning for a magazine that embraces and acknowledges African beauty, accomplishments and the colourful stories of Batswana making strides through their ambitions, African Gem Botswana might be what you have been waiting for.
01 Aug 2016
Not quite as Elizabethan as Williams Shakespeare’s To Be Or Not Be but a similar concept nonetheless regarding taking a stand in society. Peer pressure was once relegated to being a problem encountered by teens during their formative years when deciding the kind of personality they wanted to develop and live with.
04 Aug 2016
It is a year ago, July 2015 to be precise, that Vusi Mtokufa set the GICC alight with a mesmirising performance that our sister publication, The Telegraph, aptly described as undoubtedly the best ever live feat by a local artist.
It was a night the gospel star raised the bar a few notches up and delivered the kind of stuff most had only seen on television.
28 Jul 2016
As a way to raise funds and awareness about kidney disease Be Active Sports Management will partner with Bomaid and the Botswana Kidney Society to host the Up Kgale Hill Charity Climb on the 6th of August.
28 Jul 2016
As part of efforts to unite and expose local poetry talent, local poet Kealeboga Mosekiemang also known to poetry lovers as “Black Gypsy” has established a poetry association dubbed Word of Mouth.
28 Jul 2016
Re Batswana Music Ensemble which is a vibrantly spirited showcase of Traditional, Folk, Afro Jazz and Contemporary Music of Botswana is set to entertain at the 8th Dr Kim’s memorial golf tournament. The ensemble is collectively led by Lister Boleseng, the song bird Nnunu Ramogotsi, the legendary Ndingo Johwa and the ever cheerful Lekofi Sejeso.
24 Jul 2016
The hash-tag (#) era in which we live in has been taken a notch higher by going as far as threatening to get the youth across the country boycott the furore around the Botswana’s Golden Jubilee of 50 years of independence if their plea to government to take unemployment seriously is not responded to.
24 Jul 2016
Sereetsi & the Natives has announced a tour of South Africa beginning August 12th 2016 to September 6th that will see the band playing a number of dates in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Mafikeng and Pietermaritzburg.
24 Jul 2016
Kuru Development Trust with the support of Barclays Bank of Botswana who are the main sponsors and Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sports is proud to present once again nationally known fresh, entertaining and thought – provoking and informative Kuru San Dance Festival on the weekend of the full moon from 19th – 20th August 2016 at Dqae Qare San Lodge.
24 Jul 2016
Looking to inspire wellness across Botswana, the leading annual health and wellness expo has now been revamped to Botswana Health & Expo and will run simultaneously at Airport Junction in Gaborone and the Galo Mall in Francistown, from Friday 29th to Saturday 30th July 2016, staging an array of activities.
24 Jul 2016
The little man jumps from one couch to the next, shifts from one television channel to the other in seconds, highly elusive and moving from door to door without saying much (if anything at all).
14 Jul 2016
It was all about the aroma, flavour and picturesque displays of all things culinary this past Saturday, 9 July at Gaborone’s Cresta Lodge. The hotel played host to the fifth Annual Chefs Culinary Competition. Forty-five chefs from all Cresta hotels across the country, and Zambia were looking to outclass each other as they competed in various categories for the competition’s biggest prize.
14 Jul 2016
Thabo Keorapetse won the first prize under the photography section of the President’s Day Competitions which were held this past Friday. Keorapetse who has undoubtedly been one of the few gifted individuals from Botswana has given a fresh face to contemporary photography in the country.
14 Jul 2016
A group of young Batswana have come up with an alternative form of smoking by pushing the idea of providing Shisha to the people. Shisha Lifestyle is a hookah service concept which focuses on a collective of urban customers from the age of 21 and above and aims to offer a more mature alternative hookah service to the working, middle and upper class clientele.
10 Jul 2016
It is the kind of music my close friends and I have always refused to be associated with. Having grown up to the sounds of American Hip Hop and R&B music, we wouldn’t be caught dead listening to any of it. We were just too cool for it. It is the type of music that has always been associated mostly with the young unruly, deeply rural township and village folk.
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