South African professional boxers under Kalakoda Promotions will arrive in Gaborone sometime in July 2017 to honour late local pro boxer Hebert Nkabiti.
The boxers will take compete in a tribute tournament organised by the said stable.
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07 May 2017
After a long battle to try and get the Botswana Premier League forensic audit report debated in the open court, former BPL Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bennett Mamelodi, may finally get his wish.
This past Tuesday (May 2), Mamelodi served the Botswana Football Association (BFA) with court papers showing his intentions to challenge the report.
07 May 2017
Gaborone International Meet (GIM) organisers have promised an improved and better event next year.
Formerly known as Sports View International Meet, the GIM was held on April 29 at the National Stadium.
While this year’s event had attracted a good number of high profile athletes from and outside Botswana, it was marred by poor organisation.
07 May 2017
Four candidates vying for the Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) presidency claims to know what it takes to take the organisation to another level.
All the candidates have gone through the ranks of the federation as national team players and some at administration level.
07 May 2017
The Chief Executive Officer at Botswana power Corporation insists that what is ongoing at the state owned energy company is reorganization.
He takes thinly veiled offence at media’s continual reference to the process as restructuring.
Early on in our interview, Stefan Schwarzfischer embarks on a long frolic to explain the difference between restructuring and reorganization.
07 May 2017
In terms of the Liquor Act that was introduced in 2008, an establishment that sells alcohol is not allowed to trade less than 500 metres away from a major road or a school. Armed with this knowledge, Luc Vandecasteele, the Managing Director of Sphinx Associates, the company that owns Molapo Crossing in Gaborone, queried why two such establishments had been given trading licences.
07 May 2017
Victory for the Botswana Democratic Party is not inevitable at the next General Elections due in 2019.
If such victory happens, it will be mainly as a result of a weak opposition rather than a strong BDP.
For a party that has known nothing else but power, this is an altogether new territory for the BDP.
07 May 2017
Donald Trump has jump-started America’s psyche in uncontrollable, opposing directions and, only 107 days into his presidency, has sharply polarized the nation along political, party, legal and racial lines.
07 May 2017
The 10-member Board of the Advisory and Arbitration Council as per the 2016 amendment of the Societies’ Act, was unveiled recently. No doubt gender parity was perfectly achieved in constituting the Board, and they are all men and women of impeccable qualifications and experience for the work before them.
02 May 2017
Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DIS), Director General Isaac Kgosi plans to complete his jet set lifestyle with a P100 million business aircraft financed by tax payers.
Kgosi will be the only public official apart from President Ian Khama to travel on a BizJet. Even the Vice President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, only has to do with Botswana Defence Force (BDF) aircrafts.
02 May 2017
Botswana Federation of Public Sector Union (BOFEPUSU) on Friday took a decision to terminate its membership in the Public Service Bargaining Council (PSBC).
A document from the federation passed to Sunday Standard shows that the union will demand a P4-million refund from PSBC.
02 May 2017
By going to the highest court in the land to assert constitutional authority to appoint High Court judges, President Ian Khama joined a club of Commonwealth heads of state who have made similar effort and failed dismally.
02 May 2017
A First National Bank Botswana whistleblower’s report reveals how some senior managers at the bank are allegedly involved in massive fraud in which false documents are used to buy estates of deceased customers as well as fixing property prices.
02 May 2017
At the last count (2014), a particular category of respondents in an Afrobarometer survey roundly applauded Botswana’s judges and magistrates for not accepting bribes.
02 May 2017
Norilsk Nickel is seeking its “pound of flesh” to the tune of US$270 million (about P2,5 million) from the Botswana government over a botched deal by BCL to buy a 50-percent stake of its Nkomati Mine in South Africa last year.
02 May 2017
Acting Attorney General Morulaganyi Chamme is at the centre of controversy after he allegedly obstructed the Police from arresting the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture Boipelo Khumomatlhare.
02 May 2017
A 25-year old man who unleashed untold sexual fury on two primary school girls has had his 20-year jail sentence halved by the Lobatse High Court.
02 May 2017
That would be Sunday Standard‘s response to public expression of gratitude by the Law Society of Botswana (LSB) for the paper’s role in its historic win at the Court of Appeal.
02 May 2017
At a young age of 24 years most young people are grappling with their lives after completing their undergraduate degrees but for Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe it is a different story.
On Tuesday she graduated with a PhD in Management Perspectives on a Talent Value Proposition for Academic Staff at the Northwest University in South Africa.
02 May 2017
It is exactly 24 hours since my record breaking 30-minutes SA 8459 flight from Gaborone to Johannesburg enroute to Cairo on Wednesday April 26.
“Ladies and gentlemen it looks like we are ready to descend 30 minutes ahead of schedule,” the cabin announcement said. A cue for me to down the glass of wine I had barely touched.