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CULTURAL FEAST
May. 17 | All roads lead to Marobela for Zhizha next weekend Whet your appetite and put on your dancing shoes. Ikalanga cuisine and songs will be in abundance next weekend at Marobela, in celebration of’Zhizha’ a fast fading tradition for Bakalanga. The...
GROOVING IN THE GHETTO
May. 17 | SA NOTSHI SET TO ROCK F/TOWN Southern Africa’s next Motswako king, Notshi is scheduled to set burning Lizard Entertainment on fire in Francistown tomorrow night. Popularly known as the Killer Bee, Notshi is a South African-born artist and will...
GLOVES OFF
May. 17 | COMBATANT MOOD:Bright ARMY MAJORS LEAD THEIR TROOPS TO WAR Football lovers are expected to come in mass to witness two army Majors put their combat tactics on show this Saturday at Lobatse stadium. The weekend’s Mascom Top 8 final between BDF...
CHURCH GOING AND MEAT EATING
May. 17 | On Monday morning, The Voice cartoonist, Lesole Ntshole was on his way to the library in Mochudi when he overheard a conversation between the Combi driver, woman passenger, and the conductor. Woman passenger: I do not understand why some people never...
ASK GASE 17.05.13
May. 17 | MY 12-YEAR-OLD SON’S BEHAVIOUR IS WORRYING DEAR GASE, My first-born child stays at Sowa town with my aunt, but there are serious problems. Every day he is reported for unbecoming behaviour such as breaking into neighbours’ houses, but he is only 12-years...
CHILLIN’ OUT 17.05.13
May. 17 | MC MASWE UNDERWENT OPERATION Popular and energetic mbanxanga musician MC Maswe is currently on bed rest after he underwent an operation in South Africa last week. Followers of the great entertainer are expected to bear with his disappearance from the...
WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN TO WRITE FROM CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE?
May. 17 | Chimamanda Adichie The Farafina Trust Workshop is being held again in Lagos Nigeria. The main teacher for the workshop is Orange Prize winner and author of Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Adichie. You will need to pay for all cost...
LEADING FROM THE FRONT
May. 17 | THE CAPTAIN: Gade Capital Bank Chief Executive Officer, Sriram Gade has been a banker all his working life, but the ‘family’ man says it was not even his first career choice. The modest banker even suggests that we should change the name of...
SHOROBE HOST WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION DAY
May. 17 | The Ministry of Transport and Communications together with different ICT stakeholders will commemorate the annual World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD) in Shorobe this Friday. The purpose of this event to be conducted under the...
BONA, SPAR PARTNER IN COACHING DEVELOPMENT
May. 17 | INTERNATIONAL FACILITATOR: Elize Kotze Botswana Netball Association (BONA) has partnered with their sponsor; Spar Supermarket in supporting the association’s coaching staff. This is after BONA has identified coaching as a glaring area of concern...
STINKING POLITICS
May. 17 | DRUNK YOUTH RELIEVES HIMSELF IN COUNCILOR’S YARD CONCERNED: Kaelo Monarch West councilor, Godfrey Kaelo, strongly believes that a teenager who allegedly defecated in front of his house a week ago was sent by his political opponents. A staunch member...
Obituary- Booster Oeme Galesekegwe 1979-2013
May. 17 | May his Soul Rest In Eternal Peace R.I.P: Booster Booster Oeme Galesekegwe, (34), photojournalist turned businessman will be laid to rest on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at Goo Tawana Ward next to Spar, in Letlhakane, Central District. He was born on March15,1979. Booster...
WE HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO BEGGARS
May. 17 | Recurring Foot and mouth disease ruin Zone 6 farmers After waiting in anticipation for government to restock their empty kraals following a 2011 cattle culling to fight Foot and Mouth Disease, Tati East farmers got impoverished. UNDER FIRE: De Graaf The...
WHY TAWANA DIDN’T MAKE IT TO BMD CENTRAL COMMITTEE
May. 17 | BMD: Logo He did not contest for any of the Central Committee positions during the Botswana Movement for Democracy Party’s congress in Maun over the weekend which heightened rumours that Tawana Moremi is on his way back to the BDP. To be eligible for...
SERIAL RAPIST STRIKES TERROR IN THE NORTH EAST
May. 17 | Police have launched an extensive manhunt for a rapist who attacked three elderly women in Maitengwe, Tutume and Matobo villages in less than a month. The rapist who has been described as dark in complexion by his victims has been terrorising residents...
THE LAND CURSE
May. 17 | Area Map The small group gathered inside the Lobatse Civic Centre could have been easily mistaken for mourners. But their eyes excitedly light up at the sight of a camera. The council official who was addressing the group as we arrived immediately toned...
TRIO VIE FOR BCF PRESIDENCY
May. 17 | Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) goes for an elective Annual General Meeting (AGM) tomorrow (Saturday) morning to choose the new executive committee in accordance with the newly approved constitution. Incumbent BCF vice president, Tshenolo Maruatona and...
BATAWANA ROYAL THROWS WEIGHT BEHIND UDC
May. 17 | ROYAL WEIGHT: Letsholathebe KGOSI Charles Letsholathebe of Maun Customary Court has urged opposition parties to stick together to unseat the ruling Botswana Democratic Party. “With your cooperation as an Umbrella body, one day the giant will fall,”...
Consumer’s Voice – 3rd May 2013
May. 17 | Dear Consumer’s Voice #1 I ordered some clothes to be made from a dressmaker and paid a deposit on the 15th March. The agreement was I will collect my skirt and blouse end of March and pay the remaining balance then. He failed to deliver on time and...
