2020 September 25, Correspondent, “Van Rensburg: Homage to the life and spirit”, in Mmegi[1]:
He was a white man, yes, but one that lived like everybody else, a black life inside an ordinary rondavel in the middle of nowhere, and gained a fulfilling life of botho and self-help, unambiguously.
2020 December 7, Staff Writer, “Hilton’s #PushaBW Brunch Showcases Talent”, in Mmegi[2]:
The incredible number of local products and service providers under the #PushaBW banner are a part of that journey, and we are here to work together and support one another in the spirit of botho and tomagano.
2020 May 18, Monitor Editor, “Blessed Be The Hand That Gives”, in Mmegi[3]:
While there is still a lot of uncertainty with regard to what is to happen in the coming days, Batswana and other nationals showed the spirit of botho by contributing large sums of money to the fund.
2020 December 25, Nnasaretha Kgamanyane, “How pandemic triggered wedding explosion”, in Mmegi[6]:
The guidelines further restricted catering at weddings and also allowed patlo, magadi and pholoso, which are cheaper than the normal weddings where proceedings end up being delayed unnecessarily.
2020 November 6, Thalefang Charles, “Tourism COVID-19 voices: “Bulelang makgoa a tsene!””, in Mmegi[7]:
It has been nine months since makgoa (name used by tourism workers to mean guests or tourists) checked out from the many luxurious camps around the Okavango Delta fleeing back home due to COVID-19 lockdowns.
2020 December 25, Nnasaretha Kgamanyane, “How pandemic triggered wedding explosion”, in Mmegi[9]:
The guidelines further restricted catering at weddings and also allowed patlo, magadi and pholoso, which are cheaper than the normal weddings where proceedings end up being delayed unnecessarily.
2020 December 25, Nnasaretha Kgamanyane, “How pandemic triggered wedding explosion”, in Mmegi[10]:
The guidelines further restricted catering at weddings and also allowed patlo, magadi and pholoso, which are cheaper than the normal weddings where proceedings end up being delayed unnecessarily.
2020 July 10, Mmegi Editor, “A look in the mirror”, in Mmegi[11]:
For a government that won’t allow a contractor to take a pinch of riversand without an Environmental Impact Assessment, the lack of preparedness for the inevitable global backlash against the resumption of hunting was surprising.
2020 December 25, Mbongeni Mguni, “The year that wasn’t”, in Mmegi[12]:
Even mundane activities such as walking to a semausu for bread and milk became illegal at some point, and even when restrictions were lifted, everyday activities such as going to a
2020 December 4, Correspondent, “Mahalapye firm wants to ease govt’s P8bn headache”, in Mmegi[13]:
Corruption is exemplified by the fact that despite its considerable investment in infrastructure and manufacturing capacity, our company (the sole manufacturer of refined sunflower oil in the country) has not been able to secure directly any supply contracts, the majority of which go to tenderprenuer companies with the right connections.
2020 December 4, Mmegi Editor, “One more push”, in Mmegi[14]:
Botswana was built on the principle of therisanyo and to their credit, the authorities have generally listened to the pleas of Batswana on the various interventions introduced to rein in COVID-19.
2020 December 7, Staff Writer, “Hilton’s #PushaBW Brunch Showcases Talent”, in Mmegi[15]:
The incredible number of local products and service providers under the #PushaBW banner are a part of that journey, and we are here to work together and support one another in the spirit of botho and tomagano.
2020 July 17, Mmegi Editor, “The long road to the 4IR”, in Mmegi[16]:
Notwithstanding the obligatory resistance from the State, the Judge agreed with Mmegi that the importance of the case demanded that Batswana see justice in action for themselves, untainted, ‘uneditorialised’, even unvarnished.
2020 December 25, Correspondent, “The 1884-1985 Berlin conference and declaration of protectorate”, in Mmegi[18]:
The Berlin Conference agreed, inter alia, that any European nation that took possession of any part of Africa or named themselves as a ‘protector’ of one, had to inform the other signatories of the Berlin Act of this action and that if this was not done their claim would not be recognised.
2020 July 10, Key Dingake, “Reflections on Malawi's 2019 elections court decisions”, in Mmegi[22]:
Electoral litigation is in my mind sue generis in nature and does not strictly fall within the ambit of conventional civil law amenable to ordinary civil law procedure as they determine the very legitimacy of government.
2021 January 14, Lebogang Mosikare, “Decomposed body of woman found in Tonota”, in Mmegi[23]:
“At this juncture we don’t suspect that the woman was killed, but we will only confirm if there was any foul play after we get the results of the post mortem report.
2020 December 25, Mbongeni Mguni, “The year that wasn’t”, in Mmegi[25]:
The worst case scenario would be visitors from Botswana to South Africa and vice versa carrying the new variant between countries unawares and local testing facilities unable to pick it as well.