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Chiefs' management divided on coach

Mochudi  Centre Chiefs have suspended reviewing Michael Sithole’s contract until it runs out at the end of June or alternatively at the end of the season, club spokesman Clifford Mogomotsi confirmed. The decision was taken at Monday’s board...

18 January 2016

Time to filter boys from men

The final push for the P1million beMOBILE Premiership trophy begins this weekend as does the jostling for a place in the top eight and the heated battle to avoid relegation. The race for the league championship is arguably between three teams –...

18 January 2016

Mosutha readies for world event

Botswana’s Thuso Mosutha has started preparations for a tough battle at the 2016 World Amateur Chess Championships in Greece. Mosutha qualified for the world event after he conquered the rest of Africa at the 2015 Africa Amateur Chess...

18 January 2016

Seakanyeng’s move to GU in doubt

Zebras superstar Kabelo Seakanyeng’s proposed moved from BDF XI to Gaborone United remains doubtful as his resignation from the Botswana Defence Force means he can only play for another team in three months’ time, BG Sport has...

18 January 2016

It’s survival of the moneyed

The final half of the beMOBILE Premiership’s marathon stretch takes centre stage this weekend amid an array of unofficial transfer activities by all the sixteen elite league clubs. As at Wednesday afternoon this week, only one transfer had been...

18 January 2016

Kwa Nokeng Oil opens doors of opportunity for Batswana

Kwa Nokeng Oil, Botswana’s leading wholly citizen-owned petroleum distribution company, is offering interested Batswana and small business operators, an opportunity to sell petrol, paraffin and diesel.  “We are aligning ourselves with governing...

18 January 2016

BP says to axe 4 000 jobs globally

British energy major BP said on Tuesday that it will axe more than 4 000 jobs worldwide over the next two years in response to collapsing oil prices. The company said in a statement that it would “reduce BP upstream staff globally from 24 000 to...

18 January 2016

‘Digital shopping is the future’

Digital shopping in Botswana, although new and growing at a snail’s pace, is the future, says Thebe Ditshego Director of Botswana’s first fashion e-commerce website, Fly Franchise. To switch from the tradition of brick and mortar shopping...

18 January 2016

Shoprite turnover sluggish despite rise in SA festive season sales

Africa’s largest grocer Shoprite Holdings on Tuesday released its results for the six months to December 2015, showing a stunted 8.8 percent growth in sales from 13 percent a year earlier. But the retail giant, whose sales figures are said to be...

18 January 2016

AB InBev Chief to conduct road show ahead of JSE listing

Carlos Brito, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) Chief Executive, jetted into the country on Tuesday night to begin a road show and charm offensive ahead of the global brewer’s listing on the JSE on Friday. The world’s largest brewer’s...

18 January 2016

BIHL gets the nod to acquire half of Teledimo

The Competition Authority CA has approved Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited (BIHL) acquisition of 50 percent shares in Teledimo (Pty) Ltd.  Teledimo is a company that owns the country’s largest short-term insurer, Botswana Insurance Company...

18 January 2016

Music, money, fame equals hard work

Following your passion is one thing but living off it is another and when it comes to the creative arts in Botswana, it is especially difficult. Botswana’s own ‘Babyface’ Tshepo Lesole is one of the artists who have taken the bold step of...

18 January 2016

Get your body toned at Summer Boot Camp 2016

Are you worried about those extra pounds you gained during the previous festive season? Worry no more! Instead make it one of your New Year resolutions to hit the gym and keep healthy this year so that you validate the Vision 2016 pillar of ‘a...

18 January 2016

X Caliber defies and breaks genre limits

Their wish is to touch Africa with music that is not only fun and joyful but also inspirational, motivational and uplifting. They are a hip hop group called X Caliber but as their leader Patrick Kabamba explains, the group is not your usual run off...

18 January 2016

Shakespeare’s legacy remembered 400 years on

The British High Commission and British Council in conjunction with some partners in Botswana plan to deliver exciting “Shakespeare o a tshela” activities in the run up to the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death this year. ‘Shakespeare...

18 January 2016

Duma Boko: portrait of a president-in-waiting, or…

To some, Duma Boko is a saviour who, like the Biblical Moses, is destined to deliver the people of Botswana to Canaan or, better still, to transform Botswana into the land of milk and honey. To others, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) leader...

18 January 2016

South Africa honours Prof. Limkokwing

South Africa has honoured Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Dato Sri Dr Limkokwing for his excellent and commendable contribution in the fight against apartheid and the development of education internationally with special focus on Southern...

18 January 2016

Keorapetse and Rakgare smoke the peace pipe

The Publicity Secretary of Botswana Congress Party (BCP), Dithapelo Keorapetse and Youth League leader, Tumiso Rakgare have apologised for their actions. In a joint statement released on Wednesday both leaders said it was never their intention to...

18 January 2016

BTCL poised to make Batswana millionaires

The modern world has advanced at a lightning pace over the past 30 years, largely due to the innovations driven by the world’s developed economies. The process of evolution is a marvel and modernisation has progressed to what it is today as the...

18 January 2016

Florence Kgaboesele: An unsung heroine

In the township of Peleng in Lobatse, where the daily momentum of life is blurred by a deep-seated desire to not only live to see tomorrow, but experience a better life, one would not expect that greatness lies here. But despite the misconceptions...

Sun Reporter | 18 January 2016

Employers warned against hiring out of desperation

Companies and individual employers in the country have been advised to be extra vigilant on whom they employ as the year begins. Botswana Police Service spokesperson Dipheko Motube told this publication that there are some unscrupulous employees who...

Sun Reporter | 18 January 2016

Appeal against registration of homosexuals' body this Friday

Alandmark case, in which government is challenging a High Court decision ordering the registration of Lesbians Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO), is set to be heard before the Court of Appeal this Friday. Judge Terrence Rannowane in November...

Sun Reporter | 18 January 2016