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A o a mmona Vee? Wa baa tsile!
Hitmaker explains controversial song He says that he is not fazed by the criticism Vee Mampeezy made kwaito fashionable and brought pride to kasi life several years ago when he burst into the music scene with hits such as Pompa Tswidi and Taku...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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SK Seshoboloko emerges winners of Kgatleng dikhwaere challenge
  Incentives meant to motivate them to do better Scores of revellers flocked to Segale Primary School in Mochudi this past weekend for the much awaited Thootho Cultural Festival that saw several dikhwaere groups battle it out to emerge winners of...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Next Best DJ Academy unveils new faces behind the decks
Next Best DJ Academy recently held the Spring Music to prepare aspirant DJs for the world of entertainment, which coincided with the reveal of the top ten finalists of the Next Best DJ competition. Held under the theme, ‘Heels, Hats and...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Seakane improve lives through physical training
Tshenolo Seakane is a fairly dedicated young man who is fashioning his own legacy through the Amenzone tyre movement with a mandate of motivating inspiring and training people from schools to the entire community of Letlhakane where he was born and...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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"Music is my Business" seminar to empower local artists
Director of Association of Music Friends (AMF) Tony Petros is adamant that music is serious business and that artists should be accorded the opportunity to network and learn from each other. He said this is what would happen at the upcoming first...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Bang! Gae drops True B-dub Stories Volume 2
The tagline ‘BaengGaelzreal!’ is familiar to most people who enjoy local music. After all the music stable Bang! Gae is home to some of the most talented artists in the urban music sphere. On Independence Day the label released the True B-dub...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Kefus Leo takes event MCing to another level
Kefilwe Leonard better known by her stage name Kefus Leo, is one of Botswana’s most vivacious MCs. The vibrant Kefus Leo has sparked off an engaging career in entertainment and seems destined for greatness. Coupled with her hot looks and humorous...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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USA based record label exports local talent
USA-based Goal Marks Entertainment Record label, owned by a Motswana named Marothodi Fresher Seosenyeng, has signed three local artists with the aim to help them break into the global music market. Seosenyeng, who traded as Sekwata in the local music...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Edison drops Kasi la me
Edison Matthews says his first official single, ‘Kasi lame’ is dedicated to everyone and inspires them to appreciate their roots as well as the people who have helped them in life. “Kasi lame basically talks about where one is from and it could...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Jazz Exchange slated for later this month
The sixth Jazz Exchange gig, and the last this year, will be held on the 29th October and will feature Tafadzwa Nazare better known as Tafnaz. Jazz X Change would like to take this opportunity to thank all that have attended our events this year....
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Aggrieved BW artists approach Registry of Societies to nullify BOMU recent AGM and looming awards
Aggrieved local artists have informed VIBE that they have served the Registrar of Societies with a letter demanding that the recent Annual General Meeting and elections for Botswana Musician Union (BOMU) be nullified, citing grave irregularities...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Van Niekerk, Semenya for GIM
South African superstar sprinter Wayde Van Niekerk and middle-distance heroine Caster Semenya may be on their way to local shores. The 2018 Gaborone International Meet (GIM) Local Organising Committee (LOC) is currently hatching a plan to bring the...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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BNOC elections this weekend
The Botswana sports landscape is expected to change drastically this Saturday when the watershed, Botswana National Olympic Committee elects new leadership in Gaborone. As things stand, there is no clear favourite to succeed long time BNOC president...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Zebras take on Namibia
After securing his first win since taking over as the national team coach, Major David Bright is confident that the Zebras will be oozing confidence when they play Namibia in a friendly game this weekend. After their staggering 2-0 win against...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Dormant Vball team for Zone IV
The once vibrant and successful Botswana Volleyball Association (BVF) and its affiliates are going through a rough patch. The situation is made even worse by the fact that the national team is preparing for the 2017 Zone 6 and African championships....
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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CLOSE CALL
Batswana escaped a terror attack on Sunday in America when retired accountant Stephen Paddock, 64, sent bullets on thousands attending a Jason Aldean concert in Las Vegas from his adjacent Mandalay hotel room. The hotel is situated in the Las Vegas...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Calls for safe, legal abortion resurface
The Aids and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), Alliance for Women Advocating for Change (AWAC), SAfAIDS and Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) recently led other African Rights Organisations in calling for safe, legal and accessible...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Doctors' shoddy work costs youth
A kidney donated to Obakeng Kgosi by a Pakistan donor in Pakistan in August 2006 has since failed him five years after the operation. The kidney cost him P15000 and he had hoped it would save him from pain and the dreaded kidney dialysis procedure....
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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BPP in the horns a dilemma
The formation of Alliance for Progressives (AP) by Ndaba Gaolathe and his supporters after falling out with Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), has reportedly put Botswana Peoples’ Party (BPP) in a quagmine. Indications are that, the majority of...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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BMD Youth League prepare for elective congress
The troubled Botswana Movement for Democracy Youth League (BMDYL) is scheduled to go for its elective congress next month (November). The last known congress held in Ramotswa was later nullified by the party leadership in what was part of a...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Civil servants free to partake in BDP's Bulela Ditswe
Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) says it will not block civil servants from participating in the primary elections. In the next two weeks, the party will be holding its first phase of elections in the constituencies held by opposition. Speaking in an...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Goaba goes after the ka-ching
 Still mum on BBC contract Plans to get hitched to his sweetheart next year It appears that now former Duma FM breakfast show host, Goaba Mojakgomo, became too expensive for the radio station and left the company, enticed by a fatter pay cheque....
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Mystery murder rocks Matsiloje village
Matsiloje residents are still shocked by the death of a 24-year old man on September 29 who died from stab wounds at the same bar where his late father was shot to death by armed robbers in 2013. Residents interviewed by The Midweek Sun said the...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Matenge slams Domboshaba Board
Former diplomat Edwin Matenge has chided the board of the Domboshaba Cutural Trust (DCT) which organises the annual Domboshaba Cultural Festival for tardiness. Officially opening the event over the weekend near the Domboshaba hill in Kalakamati,...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Poverty is a threat to national security – BOPEU
Botswana Public Service Employee Union (BOPEU) says the government is sitting on a ticking-time bomb by failing to address poverty, inequality and unemployment. The union said this in their pre-budget paper tabled last week at an event organised by...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Mapantsula join crusade against crime
 Challenge stereotypes of mapantsula being criminals Scores of Mapantsula recently flocked to Mochudi for the Pantsula Festival Walk, held under the theme, ‘Unearthing young talent and integrity to accelerate our economy.’ Decked in their best...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Nail biting is bad for oral health
It seems such an innocuous habit but medical experts say nail biting, clinically known as Onychophagia, has adverse health effects aiding in disease transmission. It is an impulse control disorder, in which sufferers start biting their nails and the...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Best treatment for fibroids available
For years Gorata Moabi (34) wondered why it felt like her body was turning against her. The primary school teacher was in constant pain, suffering from heavy periods and bloating. She says it felt like there was a constant weight inside of her....
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Internet Cafés dying a slow painful death
As the country is rapidly catching up with Information Communication Technology developments, Small Medium Enterprises in the Information Communication Technology industry are not benefiting from the developments. Recently visiting the Internet...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Avani Gaborone Resort & Casino reopens after a major facelift
AVANI Gaborone Resort & Casino, the business and social hub of Gaborone, is celebrating the completion of a P79-million renovation. 156 guest rooms and public spaces including the main entrance and porte cochere have been renovated with the aim of...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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G4S resolute on growing revenue
G4S Botswana remains focused on the new strategy to deliver profitable revenue growth for the company despite the tough economic conditions says Managing Director, Mokgethi Magapa. In its half year ended June 2017, the group recorded a marginal...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Shumba turns to low cost power production
Shumba Energy Chairman Alan Glegg says they continue to focus on low cost of production to drive and sustain power production to supply the regional industrial market as the international market is heading for deficit within three to five years....
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Mpho Masupe appointed the Stanchart CEO
The Board of Standard Chartered Bank Botswana Limited (SCBB) last week appointed Mpho Masupe as the new Chief Executive Officer of Botswana effective from 1 October 2017. Masupe was the Acting Chief Executive Officer since April 2017 after the...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017
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Matambo calls for prudence
The 2018/19 financial year budget points to a constrained fiscal space, which continues to characterise the domestic economy. Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Kenneth Matambo says this is mainly a result of slow growth in revenues,...
Sun Reporter | 04 October 2017

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