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This year's winner of the Five Roses-Thari ya Sechaba award is Shirley Madikwe, who founded and runs the Gamodubu Child Care Trust.
The decision by Gaborone United (GU) to suspend coach Mike Sithole ahead of the crucial league game against Mochudi Centre Chiefs on Sunday afternoon backfired.
World leading industrial solutions group, Atlas Copco, plans to expand its operations in Botswana, using its newly opened headquarters to penetrate the mining and construction industries.
The police have said they are still on the trail of smugglers suspected to have driven trucks loaded with high quality cigarettes into Botswana from Zimbabwe.
We understand that President Ian Khama has instructed the Minister of Local Government, Lebonaamang Mokalake, that he should ensure that Home Based Care volunteers and Ipelegeng workers in Kweneng District should be paid their dues on time.
Financial counters dominated activity on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) last week as investors continue to come back to the market.
Recently, a visit to Broadhurst Police Station revealed what could be a daily occurrence at many other police stations.
Zimbabwean asylum-seekers convened last Thursday to get an update on the fragile unity government in their country.
A husband and wife are recuperating from wounds and fractures at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital after being assaulted by gangsters who broke into their house at Chadibe Village near Francistown.
A woman, who has been pinpointed by a prisoner living at Francistown Centre for Illegal Immigrants (Monitor, November 9) as his mother has - flatly denied that she is the prisoner's mother.
A new gym opened at Molapo Crossing in Gaborone is expected to bring new dimensions to the local fitness industry. Superfit Gym and Wellness Centre is located at Molapo Crossing shopping mall. The gym's operating times of 24-hours is what sets it apart from other entities in the market.
Next August Botswana will sign a treaty to formalise the establishment of the Trans-frontier Conservation Area (TFCA) in Namibia.
A Motswana fitness consultant staying in the United States of America (US) has brought a weight loss boot camp to Botswana. Obert Morgan has been living in Miami, Florida, but since September, he has been in Botswana to do consultancy about health issues.
Dance stars Vee and Slizer picked the theme of passion in their first collaboration work released last week, but Vee has claimed playing lovers would not rub his love of many years, Kagiso, the wrong way.
Struggling Notwane launched a late rally to avoid defeat in 1-1 draw with visiting Nico United at Molepolole Sports Complex on Saturday.
Gaborone United (GU) dropped a bombshell on Friday by announcing the suspension of their coach Mike 'Dubula Dubula' Sithole for 'professional misconduct'. Assistant coach, Zaahid Jalaal will be handling the team during the suspension of the Zambian.
Township Rollers continued to set the pace in the be MOBILE Premier League when they beat Police XI 2-0 at the UB Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The game was initially pencilled for Friday but was moved because of rainy weather.
It took Palapye United nearly three decades to gain promotion from the Second Division to the First Division.
Fund management companies offering private equity capital have expressed a significant interest in setting up in Botswana, chief of Botswana International Financial Services Centre (IFCS) has said.
The interim president of the Botswana People's Party (BPP), Whyte Marobela has his work cut out for him. The BPP has been in the intensive care unit for a long time and previous attempts to revive the party have failed.
The MP for Gaborone West South, Botsalo Ntuane has challenged Vice -President Mompati Merafhe to assure Batswana that they are in safe hands following the alleged harassment of citizens by security agents.
For East Africans it's the kanga, saris for Indians and kimono for the Japanese, and here, in Botswana the German print - widely known as leteisi in the vernacular - is the fabric material that has a space in almost every woman's wardrobe.
The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) has begun installing smart meters in Gaborone in the latest initiative to steady the country's energy supply-demand imbalance. The gadgets are capable of remotely switching off customers' geysers and electricity supply.
The local property market has not been hit by the world economic recession. This is according to the newly elected president of the Real Estate Institute of Botswana (REIB), Outule Bale.
Do you ever stop to wonder whether Setswana is like other languages when it comes to using metaphors or speaking in such a way that the uninitiated would find it difficult to comprehend?
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