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Monkagedi Gaothobogwe
  • The YAMAs a night to savour

    A larger-than-life LED screen displaying the live performances was a marvel to behold.  Perhaps the most eye- catching of those was  K-boss’ performance of his traditional music inspired hip-hop track with Mafitlhakgosi. As performances were...

  • Kgafela Nowhere as Nyalala transforms Moruleng

    The week-long festivities in Moruleng  were part of  those held in commemoration of 20 years of democracy in South Africa. Nyalala used the occasion to host various cabinet ministers, provincial governors and mayors, at a royal banquet and music...

  • Mmegi retrenches

    The Company employs just over 120 people. The lay-offs took place across all departments including the printing factory. The restructuring exercise was announced in September. Speaking on Friday, the Managing Director of Dikgang Publishing Company,...

  • Kero: The voice behind Makwakwa�s hit song, Makgarebe

    Keromemang K Mothibamele aka Kero, is both the composer and lead singer of the hit song, Kgarebe (Tsholetsa makgabe), whose poetic melody is being celebrated across Botswana and in South Africa. The hit has earned Makwakwa three BOMU nominations;...

  • BOMU awards nomination unveiled

    Rewind to last year, the unveiling had many artists turning up, giving the event the celebrity status it deserved. Fast track to Thursday:  The turn up was pathetic and many artists who were announced as the nominees were not there. The event...

  • Court labels milk producer fraudster

    Sigwele, the promoter of the first citizen milk company Delta Dairies, had filed opposing papers before the High Court trying to stop the liquidation of the milk company he founded in 2007. In the document filed before the High Court Sigwele claimed...

  • Delta Dairies to be liquidated

    Sigwele had tried in vain to stop the court from shutting down the company after it was put under provisional liquidation in August. In granting orders that the milk company winds up, justice Rannowane said its finances were in a perilous state, and...

  • Rev John Philip secures P14m college

    Since 2010 the board has been working on a plan to turn the bible training institute, a non profit organisation into a commercial university, a transformation process driven by the Reverend John Philip himself. But last week, the BBTI board chaired...

  • New twist to Delta dairies saga

    De Lange says he was with the liquidator on Thursday the day before the story appeared, when CEDA assured them that they terminated all discussions of a sell back with Sigwele after the company was put under provisional liquidation on August...

  • Sigwele�s Last Kicks To Salvage Milk Company

    Unpaid workers have resolved that liquidation, paving the way for prospective buyers to conclude the deal, is the way to go. In July unpaid workers got a court order from the Industrial Court to auction the company and pay themselves. However,...

  • I Used To Hide My Long Legs In Pants

    “I was a tomboy growing up. I used to hear peers cheering me as a Naomi Campbell, a Tyra Banks; but it didn’t click to me what they saw me in me; I liked wearing long pants all the time until in 2009, a certain woman approached me and told me how...

  • Botswana: the face of terror in Africa

    That is in the past. Wake up to a new crooked Botswana that makes the rest of Africa look like Europe with their  comparatively cleaner face. Lately Batswana have been showing the world a newly found adventurous side of break-ins and stealing, and...

  • Kgafela revisits high school sexual bliss

    Stories of people climbing the hallowed and mythical Otse hill are few. Kgafela writes in the biography that  he climbed the hill twice with his friend Tiro, although he does not treat the readers to his experience atop the hallowed hill. Kgafela ...

  • Ketho reckons chess is not a sport

    “If chess is to be considered as an Olympic sport, then knitting and maths should also follow suit,” said Khetho who in April blasted the Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) for low prize money immediately after he was crowned the national champion...

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