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Onalenna Kelebeile
  • The village of brown teeth

    SELEBI-PHIKWE: It is easy to identify children from Mokobeng, Ngwapa and Matlhako villages. Their teeth are stained a distinctive brown due to years of drinking water with a high mineral and salt content. What is unusual is the fact that villagers...

  • BB calls for Fund to diversify mining towns

    Vice president, Palalani Moitlhobogi said at a Pitso held recently that the seed funding should be made up of mine closure plan funds and that pension funds should be incentivised to invest. He explained that the specialised Fund that would focus on...

  • SPTC introduces �Call a Cab� strategy

    The strategy also addresses the issue where some vehicles were associated with certain departments while others were suffering. town clerk, Godimo Garegope said his experience of having had to work under conditions where a council had to run and...

  • SPTC abattoir closure affects butchery businesses

    The facility has been shutdown for five weeks now and some operators have suggested to the veterinary department to waiver its regulations and allow them to use the slaughter slabs to reduce costs of using the Palapye facility. They said using the...

  • Sex work, HIV cases climb after BCL�s fall

    SELEBI-PHIKWE: The first case of HIV/AIDS was discovered here in the mid-1980s and from then, the copper and nickel mining town has been the epicentre of the epidemic. Various interventions by Government, Non-Governmental Organsations (NGOs) and...

  • Remaining BCL employees rescue Nico

    Nico plunged into financial turmoil last year when BCL Mine was placed under provisional liquidation, which saw the club fail to shell players’ dues.  The team’s wage bill stands at P80,000 per month and the club has gone for four months...

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