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Neo Kolantsho
  • Balete men claim they might go crazy or die if not allowed to go for Bogwera

    A group of Ramotswa men who say they want to be allowed to go to Bogwera find themselves stuck with traditional medicine smeared on their bodies after Judge Tshepo Motswagole threw out their urgent application on Tuesday.Maphalaola a Pitse Cultural...

  • Man kills his own son to get back at baby mama

    Tshepiso Mooketsana of Bobonong has allegedly confessed to killing his five-year-old son Lesego Lesole this past Sunday.Mooketsana allegedly murdered his son as a way of getting back at his baby mama, Gorata Wendy Lesole who had fallen out of love...

  • Early Childhood teachers feel unwanted

    Graduates of Early Childhood Education feel that the Ministry of Education is side-lining them when it comes to hiring teachers in schools.The graduates say government is seemingly overlooking them because they cannot recall the last time any of them...

  • HOW POVERTY LEADS TO POOR HEALTH

    The Botswana government has introduced social protection schemes of old age, disability and destitute allowances in an effort to save Batswana from starvation.Oldies get P730, destitute get P450, while people living with disabilities get...

  • Shock as Mmatseta Kgotla occupies land illegally

    Kweneng Land board chairperson Kgang Kgang has informed residents of Mmatseta village, located some 30km away from Gaborone, that their village Kgotla has no plot certificate, suggesting that the Kgotla is illegally occupying the land.The...

  • HORRIFIC SIGHT

    The dead body of former soldier John Boitumelo fell out of its coffin after a tyre burst caused the hearse transporting his body to roll over some 20km away from Letlhakane village in the Boteti area last week.According to sources close to the...

  • Man burns to death inside his car

    Sir Seretse Khama International Airport Police are investigating a case in which an unidentified person burnt to ashes inside a car in Ledumadumane this past Monday.According to SSKIA Station commander, Mmoloke Mpho Sebako, they received a report...

  • TICKING BOMB

    - Ministry says no patient should go home without medication - 'Always ask for officer in charge of clinic'The Ministry of Health says patients should not return home without prescribed medications after doing consultations at public health...

  • Church collapses as freebies for villagers stop

    Free food and money is what appears to have been attracting worshippers to Mabuo Muslim Church, a few kilometres to the west of Serowe. When the church was introduced to the small village some years back, many thronged it, but now numbers are...

  • Villagers at war over donated 65-seater bus

    A 65-seater bus worth over P600 000 that was donated to Mabuo villagers by local business AT Bus Body Builders back in 2021 has been dumped in the middle of the village and going to waste.The bus was donated to assist with transporting students from...

  • DESPERATE MEASURES

    Kgosi Ontiretse Godirilweng of Mabuo village in the Serowe West constituency is worried that unemployment is leading her people into prostitution because of empty stomachs.Godirilweng said this week that the youth in his village are idling with...

  • Dogs eat aborted human foetus

    The community of Tonota village in the central district woke up to dogs feasting on what seemed like a human foetus last week at Seroto ward. The horror sight of a figure that resembled the body of a baby boy covered in blood shocked residents who...

  • Confusion and frustration reign as villages are separated

    When the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse visited Tumasera kgotla a fortnight ago, there was no telling what he was bringing to the people of Tswapong area.They could not have guessed that he was coming to tell...

  • TRAGIC END

    Friends and neighbours of deceased Mompati Parks Keatlhotswe say they do not know how they will be able to go on with life knowing that they lost their loved one at the hands of an ‘abusive' girlfriend.They blame themselves and keep thinking...

  • Thieves now target churches

    Onamile Reotsweleng (56) of Gabane village is being held in custody for stealing a caravan measuring six metres belonging to Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Gabane.Post Commander at Gabane police post, Assistant Superintendent Mbiganyi said once they...

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