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Neo Kolantsho
  • Public warned of dangerous InDrive imposters

    InDrive Botswana has warned the public to be on the look-out for people masquerading as inDrive operators.Public Relations Manager at InDrive Africa Lineo Thakisi, told The Midweek Sun that they have recently become aware of several unauthorised...

  • FINALLY BURIED

    After lying in a mortuary for close to a year becuase of a family dispute, Xao Xashe of Qangwa village in the North West District has finally been buried.But there was another twist in the drama surrounding his death. Xao’s corpse left Iphitlhe...

  • Rape of woman linked to four escapees still on the run

    By Tuesday noon this week, Botswana Prisons Service (BPS) in conjunction with the police were still hard at work trying to locate four Zimbabwean men who escaped from Mahalapye prison on Sunday midnight.It has been more than three days, and the law...

  • Shock as two lovers found hanging from the same tree

    Councilor Tsabahule Kgotlhang of Ditshegwane says his village seems to be possessed by demons because things that happen there are spine-chilling and mystifying.This past weekend, a young man and woman believed to be lovers and both aged 18 years...

  • Molepolole water woes not over despite new connection

    Molepolole started receiving water from the Gamononyane-Molepolole NSC Water connection in November 2023 resulting in improved supply but still not sufficient to feed the entire village.Molepolole is among areas which have been experiencing acute...

  • Mom arrested after terminating daughter's pregnancy

    A 16-year-old girl of Lephaneng ward in Tonota on Monday informed the police that her mother forced her to terminate a pregnancy back in 2021.According to sources close to the matter, the underage girl fell pregnant sometime in 2021 and in early...

  • Lack of funds cripple NGOs' fight against HIV/AIDS

    Time has come for government to consider doing more to financially assist Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) fighting HIV in the country because they do much work, an HIV Activist, Bonosi Bino Kgotlaetsile, has suggested.Kgotlaetsile works as a...

  • Public servants cry as IEC pays them P6 000 instead of P9 000

    Some of the public servants that were engaged by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) as voter registration clerks are shocked and unhappy with the amount of money they have been paid for service rendered.Registration for the 2024 elections...

  • Ten months on, suspicious father refuses to bury his son

    The body of Xao Xashe of Qangwa village in the North West District has been lying in the morgue for close to a year now because the family is bitterly divided over its burial.According to the deceased’s uncle Xumae Xao (63), when Xao Xashe died in...

  • Heavy rains leave student hostels, property in ruin

    A group of tertiary students renting an accommodation hostel of more than 40 units lost all their belongings following the heavy rains that battered Tlokweng and nearby places throughout Saturday night.Early this week, The Midweek Sun to affected and...

  • INSIDE JOB: Prisoners scam people from inside prison cells

    Most of the popular scam trends such as those where people get swindled by unknown people claiming to be employees of network providers such as Mascom, BTC and Orange, emanate from inside prisons, The Midweek Sun has learnt.What happens is, prisoners...

  • 9-year-old girl raped by her 36-year-old uncle

    A 36-year-old man is in police custody for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl of Seleka village situated in the Tswapong area.The accused is uncle to the 32-year-old mother of the Tumasera Primary School standard four pupil.It is suspected that...

  • RAPED AND ROBBED

    A 65-year-old woman of Madimo ward, Mabalane village, in the Kgatleng District woke up in the early hours of Monday to an intruder standing inside her house and demanding to have sex with her.Confused and scared at the same time, the woman rubbed off...

  • Murdered wife's body finally comes to Botswana

    The corpse of Keotshepile Naso Isaacs who was allegedly killed by husband Mompati Christopher Dodo Isaacs on New Year’s Day is expected to arrive in Botswana this month.Naso, as Keotshepile was affectionately known, met her demise while residing in...

  • Facelift for Gabane with additional infrastructure development

    Gabane South East Village Development Committee (VDC) chairperson, Obakeng Sekolokwane has announced that Gabane internal road will soon get a facelift.Speaking to The Midweek Sun this week, Sekolokwane expressed delight that government has finally...

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