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Archive for February, 2013
YOUTH STILL IGNORANT ON HIV/AIDS ISSUES HEALTH OFFICER CLAIMS
Feb. 22 | CONCERNED: YOHO Regional Manager Phineas Botlhale More than half of Botswana’s youth are ignorant of the risks HIV/AIDS poses to their lives health officers have claimed. According to Youth Health Organization (YOHO), an institute that focuses...
CHOUKA THRASHES TAFIC
Feb. 22 | ON THE LOSING END: Tafic Players Motlakase Power Dynamos made it two out of two wins against Tafic this season after an impressive Wednesday 3-1 triumph at Francistown stadium. Chouka were awarded soft points in the first round after Tafic players...
ASKE GASE 22.02.13
Feb. 22 | I REALLY LOVE MY MAN BUT I’VE BEEN CHEATING Dear Gase, I’m a 24-year-old lady and I have been dating this guy for 5 years now. My problem is that I have been cheating on him since last year because most of the time he is away on work-trips. The...
BATAWANA MOURN DEPUTY CHIEF MOREMI
Feb. 22 | LATE: Pitsoyabosigo Moremi Deputy Paramount Chief of the Batawana, Pitsoyabosigo Moremi has died. Moremi 60, plunged the tourist village of Maun in deep sorrow when he passed away on Wednesday night on his bed at home. The chief’s colleagues at...
Creatures of Habit
Feb. 22 | A while back I wrote a column about going to my first yoga class over here in England. It was supposed to be a bit of a laugh since I didn’t know enough about the discipline to write anything too serious. I didn’t really expect to stick with it for...
BOSA’S NET 22.02.13
Feb. 22 | JUMP FOR BASA’S NET Felicity Hunter (BOSASNet Board Member) and Cathy Malejane (Host of Duma FM’s ‘The Cookie Jar’) are tandem skydiving to raise money for Botswana Substance Abuse Support Network (BOSASNet). BOSASNet is a non-governmental...
WOMEN’S DIALOGUES
Feb. 22 | INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day will be celebrated in style by Marobela residents on March 16 at Kuminda Farm. Former Ms Botswana Lucy Hinchliffe (nee Mosinyi), a renowned woman entrepreneur who was born and bred in Marobela Village with a high interest in...
WHEN LOVE AND MARRIAGE BECOME UNCOMFORTABLE BEDFELLOWS
Feb. 22 | You might have heard me in a panel discussion on national radio last week in a series of stimulating and at times heated debates on marriage. Actually the discussions were more about the shocking divorce statistics and exploring how the institution of...
Business Briefs 22.02.2013
Feb. 22 | TATI NICKEL MINING COMPANY DONATES TO OPERATION SAFE SCHOLAR PATROL Tati Nickel Mining Company recently donated P15, 000 worth of reflective vests and other road signs to the Botswana Police Service in an effort to assist teachers in Francistown curb...
I WILL MAKE BFA PROFITABLE-Masters
Feb. 22 | SHOWING THE WAY:Masters *We have the right man for the job-Sebego The newly appointed Botswana Football Association Chief Executive Officer Keith Masters has vowed to turn BFA’s financial fortunes around. Kent served resigned from hi s post as Kent...
FIRST DIVISION IN DEBT DUE TO SPONSORSHIP DELAY
Feb. 22 | First Division North teams find themselves in debt after they were promised some money from Debswana sponsorship. The league has run for seven years without sponsors after the then sponsors Med Rescue did not extend their contract. After their game against...
BOTSWANA TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS TARGET SA MARKET
Feb. 22 | Education hub holds expo in Jo’burg, Rustenburg to attract foreign students. The Botswana education hub under the Ministry of Education and Skills Development held a week long education exhibition in South Africa with various institutes which are based...
Writing About Love
Feb. 20 | Photo: Anything to do with Valentine’s Day Since it’s Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d write about love. I have four published romance novellas (Kwaito Love, Can He Be The One?, Mr Not Quite Good Enough and Love in the Shadows) all published in...
A MOTHER’S NIGHTMARE
Feb. 15 | HIJACKED: Chedza Ngeza HIJACKER STEALS CAR WITH BABY INSIDE A Tsolamosese mother watched in horror on Wednesday morning as a knife wielding hijacker sped off with her two- year- old daughter at Extension 10 in Gaborone. Chadza Ngeza, 47, an Assistant...
POVERTY EARADICATION PARTY EXPOSED
Feb. 15 | NOT AMUSED: Dicheleketo GOVT TO SPEND OVER P 5 MILLION TO HAND OVER P100. 000 WORTH POVERTY ERADICATION PROJECTS Preparations for the Poverty Eradication Pitso which will be held in the North West District on the 1st to the 3rd of March have not gone...
MONEY IN BAGS
Feb. 15 | BAG LADY: Mokgatle All women like to dress up and many of them do not mind to part with extra notes of their hard earned cash just to look smashing and make the right impression. This is the kind of predicament, Yaona Sebedi Mokgatle was in when she couldn’t...
MAYHEM IN MAUN SCHOOL
Feb. 15 | TSHWARAGANO CJSS STUDENT STABS ANOTHER WHILE COOK HIT WITH A TOD Tshwaragano CJSS in Maun was turned into a battle ground when two boys faced off in a fight that landed the older boy in hospital on Wednesday. The younger boy had apparently been bullied...
POLICE ANNOUNCE NEW DIAMOND AND MINERALS PROTECTION UNIT
Feb. 15 | UNIT LEADER: Tlhasang In preparation of the relocation of the Diamond Trading Centre(DTC) to Gaborone, the Botswana Police Service(BPS) has set up a separate Diamond and Minerals Protection Unit operating at national level. The new protection Unit started...
METROPOLITAN TEAMS UP WITH SPONSOR A CHILD
Feb. 15 | CHARITABLE: Mothibatsela Following on from a long tadition of working to better the communities in which it operates, Metropolitan Botswana last Friday, sponsored the ZimBots Golf Society. Metropolitan contributed to the ‘Sponsor a Child’ Charity...
