Select Year:

2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
2021 |
2020 |
2019 |
2018 |
2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
2011 |
2010 |
2009 |
2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
2005 |
2004 |
2003 |

Select Month:

Archives:

Sponsors fight for turf at National Stadium

Zebras’ main sponsors, Orange Botswana on Wednesday summoned Tebogo Sebego and his committee to Orange head office at 4pm but later postponed the meeting to early next year. Information reaching BG Sports is that Orange has been offended by the...

19 December 2014

Gaborone derby: Not quite to the hype

The overrated Gaborone derby between Township Rollers and Gaborone United is once again upon us this weekend, and what a great way to end the first half of the beMOBILE Premier League season - and more especially, to bring the 2014 calendar year to a...

19 December 2014

Local player vying for Grand Master title

The Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) has sent Fide Master Thato Olebile to represent the country at the ongoing 2014 Individual Chess Championships (AICC). The tournament that started on December 13 will conclude on December 23 in Windhoek,...

19 December 2014

Sebego’s 2014 blunders

2014 was certainly a difficult year for Botswana Football Association (BFA) president Tebogo Sebego. He faced serious opposition from his NEC members and the football governing body in his choice of Technical Director, Benny Kgomela but employed him...

19 December 2014

Discovery set to shut Boseto

Copper miner Discovery Metals on Wednesday announced that it would mothball its Boseto open pit operation, in Botswana, within the next six months. The miner told shareholders that a review of the open pit operation had been launched earlier this...

19 December 2014

The best, the worst

ABCHIt has been busy year for the regional banking group. Top on the list has been African Banking Corporation Holdings’ (ABCH) acquisition by London-listed boutique, Atlas Mara. Ex-Barclays boss, Bob Diamond backs the latter. In a new twist, the...

19 December 2014

Jwaneng Cut 8 is on course-Bonyongo

Debswana Jwaneng Mine Cut 8 project has recorded an increase in volumes of waste from 82 million in 2012 to 116 million tonnes during this financial year. Debswana Managing Director, Balisi Bonyongo recently said Cut 8 was on course to produce its...

19 December 2014

FedEx 2nd-quarter profit rises, but misses expectations

Package delivery company FedEx Corp reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday as U.S. domestic package and international export volumes rose, and reaffirmed its full-year profit outlook. Both FedEx and main rival United Parcel...

19 December 2014

BPP to challenge special nominations

Two legal minds of the Botswana People’s Party have hinted at the possibility of the party challenging the constitutionality of the special nomination provision.Former High Court Judge, Justice John Mosojane who is also a former BPP secretary...

19 December 2014

Francistown plans to be economic hub by 2019

Francistown has positioned itself to become the country’s economic hub by the year 2019. This follows its groundbreaking investment forum held in August under the theme, ‘City of Francistown: An investment centre of choice by 2022- A step forward...

19 December 2014

’Born in Africa’ screens at Little Theatre

Donald Molosi, Botswana’s award-winning Broadway performer, Hollywood writer and actor has partnered with the Botswana National Museum this December and January to create awareness about HIV/AIDS. As part of this campaign, Molosi will be launching...

19 December 2014

Is this the globe’s most eligible woman?

She beat 120 international contestants each deemed to be not only the most beautiful in their home countries, but the best example of what it means to be a modern woman. So, who is Rolene Strauss - aka Miss World 2014 - and is she really one of the...

19 December 2014

Trevor Hall revives live reggae entertainment

The acclaimed cultural activist, Trevor Hall, aka Ras Jabulani, who traces his ancestry to the Griots in West Africa, set Soul to Soul in Tlokweng on fire on Saturday, as he revived live reggae entertainment. Hall was born in Jamaica but relocated...

19 December 2014

Value of tenders awarded by PPADB drops

The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board adjudicated at least 536 submissions during the current financial year.This is an increase from the 485 recorded during the 2012/13 financial year. In terms of value, tenders for 2013/14 amounted to...

19 December 2014

Advertising ban Memo

The local media industry has been unsettled by reports of an “unofficial” Government Memorandum instructing all departments and Parastatals to only advertise with Media houses approved by Government. The Directive was allegedly issued by the...

19 December 2014

Taxpayers fork out P140 m for SSKA expansion

Botswana Government is spending another P140 million on the completion of the Sir Seretse Khama Airport expansion project while she awaits the arbitration decision against Chinese contractor, Sinohydro in 2016. Displeased with progress in the...

19 December 2014

Capital market impressive in 2014

Analysis of Equity IndicesThe Domestic Company Index (DCI) declined by 1.1 percent in Quarter 1 and appreciated by 2.0 percent, 3.3 percent and 0.7 percent in Quarter 2, Quarter 3 and Quarter 4 (period up to 12 December 2014) respectively. On a year...

19 December 2014

Mathiba-Madibela: A true gender legend moves on

Chinua Achebe in his 1983 book, ‘The trouble with Nigeria,’ states: “Some men wish to change men’s minds. Others wish to change the world men live in.” This encapsulated my appreciation of Magdeline Madibela’s decision to give up a...

19 December 2014

Christians are the most homophobic- report

Christians in Botswana are the most homophobic and intolerant of individuals involved in same sex relationships. The latest report of the Afrobarometer information measuring tool that tracks attitude and perceptions of citizens on civil liberties and...

19 December 2014

SDC Chairman outlines vision for district

The new man at the helm of political leadership of Southern District Council, Mephato Reatile is beaming with inspiring economic empowerment ideas.In his first full council address on Monday, Reatile outlined his vision for the district promising...

19 December 2014

Botswana loses another Professor

First it was the Political Scientist, Professor Kenneth Good who was kicked out of the country. Now renowned Senior Research Fellow at Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA), Prof. Roman Grynberg is leaving the country to join the...

19 December 2014

Fisherman says Khama stole his Island

Soon after Lt Gen Ian Khama’s inauguration as Vice President, a team of Botswana Defence Force (BDF) officers was allegedly dispatched to Diseta Island in Shakawe to evict a frail old fisherman out of his ancestral land. Construction of President...

19 December 2014

Khama, Aarone: Birds of the same feather

Okavango MP, Bagalatia Aarone prefers to pass time in a personal Island resort away from the hustle and bustle of dusty Shakawe.“Yes, there is one I am eyeing. I cannot deny that. I want to use it for residential purpose,” he says in a dramatic...

19 December 2014

The plight of hotel workers in the Delta

Hotel workers have been advised to join hotel union since it can equip them with knowledge about the rights of workers.Officially opening the Botswana Hotel Travel and Tourism Workers Union (BHTTWU) elective delegate’s congress in Palapye over the...

19 December 2014

A peep into Khama’s paradise

A trip to Diseta begins with a speedboat. Eliot Hange* is crawling upstream towards the mouth of Okavango River and is flattening an endless curtain of mangrove. The scenery is breathtaking. Aside from the grassy bank where Drosky Lodge and Shakawe...

19 December 2014

Archives

Explore

More

Select Year:

Select Month:

Archives:

Have a Story?

Archives

Explore

More

Select Year:

Select Month:

Archives:

Subscribe

Have a Story?