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15 Apr 2019
BY BOTLHALE KOOTHUPILE
When it comes to misappropriation of monies and Tariq Babitseng, nothing is ever certain. Either he is a culprit or victim.
But for the man who has faced countless charges, nothing ever seems to ever stick for the man who has morphed into the ‘Teflon Man’ of Botswana football.
15 Apr 2019
BY GODFREY MOWANENG
Portuguese giants, Sport Lisboa Benfica is said to be in talks with a South African football consultancy firm to set up one of the biggest football academy in Africa, and Botswana may be the destination.
15 Apr 2019
BY ANITA RANNOBA
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) and the Slovak Football Federation this past Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the latter to help compliment and supplement youth development programmes in Botswana.
15 Apr 2019
BY BOTLHALE KOOTHUPILE
In the chaotic world of the Botswana Premier League (BPL), one man, Thabo Ntshinogang stands accused of failing to manage the league.
Not without cause though. As the BPL chief executive officer, (CEO) and the head of the league secretariat, the buck at the BPL ‘stops’ with him.
15 Apr 2019
BY PATIENCE LEPHOGOLE
The Botswana Cricket Association (BCA) hosted the just ended ICC Southern Africa Level 1 coaches’ course between the 8th and the 12th of April.
The course was conducted by Cricket South Africa (CSA) through the auspices of the ICC.
15 Apr 2019
BY ANITA RANNOBA
The Botswana Football Association (BFA)’s cry for FIFA to help take local women’s football out of its figurative intensive care unit (ICU) has finally been heard.
The world football governing body delegation led by Chief Women’s Football Officer Sarai Bareman will be in the country to determine a strategy for the women football in the country.
15 Apr 2019
"UDC victory is by no means inevitable." Almost like a mantra this is what Umbrella for Democratic Change leader Duma Boko needs to say every morning when he wakes up and every evening when he goes to bed.
The reason is simple.
BNF of which Boko is also the leader happens to be the linchpin of the UDC.
15 Apr 2019
“Man to man is so unjust, you don’t know who to trust. “Some will hate you, pretend they love you, then behind, they try to eliminate you”.
You may be wondering as to why I am making reference to Bob Marley’s song?
15 Apr 2019
Schadenfreude is a word that incites anger in me.
It is vile; it is incendiary. It describes the worst a person could ever be.
Schadenfreude sums up a person’s personality to the extent of suffocating whatever might be good about a person.
The word mixes harm, joy and damage and the outcome is foul.
15 Apr 2019
In an apparent last minute bid to save the Kazungula Bridge, last week President Mokgweetsi Masisi flew to Lusaka to hold meetings with his Zambian counterpart.
The contractor had been complaining that clients – Botswana Government and Zambian Government had not paid and as such had instructed workers not to come to work.
15 Apr 2019
By Richard Moleofe
If you live anywhere along the Trans Kgalagadi highway, one would never have missed the security deployment that was organized for Kang where the BDP congress was held this past weekend. This was total Armageddon.
12 Apr 2019
A former Botswana Defence Force (BDF) commando has been linked to the killing of South African businessman and Bakang Seretse’s former business associate Vusi Mhlanzi.
Mhlanzi was gunned down in Sandton, South Africa in 2017 by a hitman.
12 Apr 2019
By Thobo Motlhoka
The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) President Mokgweetsi Masisi has promised the party faithful that he will ‘return’ the BDP to its glory days.
12 Apr 2019
By Joseph Balise
By consent of both parties, the long legal tussle in which Botswana Congress Party (BCP) challenged the use of electronic voting machines has been finally withdrawn.
This follows the repeal of the Act providing for the use of the electronic gadgets.
12 Apr 2019
By Basadi Morokotso
Participants at a four-day Physco Social Support training for hostel support staff at various boarding primary schools in the Okavango Sub district have been urged to be extra patient when dealing with vulnerable children..
Majority of these children admitted at the primary boarding schools are Basarwa.
12 Apr 2019
KANG: In setting the tone for the National Council, the ruling party President Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi said that they should always bear at heart that they constitute the government, whose primary agenda is the social responsibility to its people.
12 Apr 2019
The Directorate on Intelligence and Security (DIS) is to divert P50 000 000,00 from a budget intended to refurbish the Orapa House to fortify security at the country’s ports of entry.