Beer brawl
Man burns brother-in-law for beer A man from Serowe is facing the wrath of the law after hauling his brother in law over the fire during a fight for Autumn Harvest alcohol. Gaone Ofentse, 39 appeared...
View ArticleKgatleng brigade pays striking students
Regional Director of Education in Kgatleng, Sir Wonder Masebola moved swiftly to calm the situation at Kgatleng Brigade last week as angry students threatened to stage a violent strike. Arriving in...
View ArticleWhen it rains it pours for Radithupa
Popular weatherman Radithupa Radithupa this Monday appeared before a Palapye Magistrate to answer for a traffic offence of refusing to give a breath specimen to Serowe police. Radithupa was who was...
View ArticleNDB forks P60 000 towards chess
Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) and National Development Bank (NDB) have renewed their partnership which will see the return of the chess team championships. This year the bank has extended a...
View ArticleSebina arsonist convicted
Mgcini Ncube(33), a Zimbabwean native who reigned terror in Sebina and surrounding area last year was sentenced to five years imprisonment. The man who was nicknamed “Sebina monster” torched two thatch...
View ArticleWhere’s the money?
Balopi implicated in missing P3 million for BDP National Elections Campaign Hardly a month after the Botswana national elections, accusations of stolen campaign funds and slush funding are tumbling...
View ArticleTawana to officiate at Namibian Chief’s inauguration
Kgosi Tawana Moremi will on Saturday leave for Namibia where he has been invited by Namibian Council of Traditional Leaders through Ovambanderu Royal Authority to attend the inauguration of Kgosi...
View ArticleMan of the Moment
From the grass roots of life as a garden boy, Johnson Motshwarakgole has risen from a humble background to become the country’s most powerful trade unionist. Such is the influence of the man at the...
View ArticleDe beer jailed
Youthful drug peddler, Dewald Steyn De Beer was this week slapped with a one year jail sentence for importing drug ephedrine into the country. On top of the jail term, the 23-year old South African...
View ArticleRepent and live
Ex convict warns youth to refrain from crime A 24-year-old ex convict Tiroyaone Marwale from Otse Village has warned the youth to refrain from crime after he learnt the hard way that crime does not...
View ArticleNdb forks p60 000 towards chess
Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) and National Development Bank (NDB) have renewed their partnership which will see the return of the chess team championships. This year the bank has extended a...
View ArticleBare electric wires kill toddler
A woman in Mahalapye came home from a bar to find her 3-year-old son dead after he was shocked by neighbour’s bare electric cables last Saturday. Devastated mother Dipuo Gouwe, 22 of Botalaote ward...
View ArticleStop gender violence
Botswana Police Service (BPS) Women Network launched a campaign against gender based violence (GBV) at Mogoditshane Customary Court last Friday. The theme of their campaign was ‘Stop Gender Based...
View ArticleIWG Botswana targets 1200 participants
The International Working Group (IWG) on Women and Sport Botswana is targeting 1200 participants at their 2018 IWG conference. Addressing the media this week IWG Secretary General Game Mothibi...
View ArticleCrunch Sunday
Sparks to fly in a top of the table clash The Sunday clash between log leaders Township Rollers and second placed Botswana Meat Commission Football Club has all the hallmarks of a thriller. Slated...
View ArticleBoko brands Khama the worst president
Parliament will never be the same again after the leader of opposition Duma Boko branded president Ian Khama the worst president that has run the country into wasteful spending and corruption. His...
View ArticleSankoyo declares war on Letlapeng
Maun based club Sankoyo Bush Bucks are planning to get back to wining ways when they host fellow league debutants Letlapeng FC this Saturday. The fixture expected to attract thousands of football...
View ArticleKhama welcomes new parliament
The Minster of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism Tshekedi Khama has expressed delight at the 11th Parliament. Khama was even happier with the fact that all parties brought in new faces which he said...
View ArticleUnholy Smoke
Church fires keyboard player for smelling of cigarettes Judgment Day came early for a young musician fired from his job at a Francistown church because he was a smoker. 23-year-old Kareya Mushetlho’s...
View ArticleMother tongue vital- UN Expert
A United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights says there is growing worldwide evidence that using mother tongues in the initial years of learning significantly increases the...
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