2018 December 17, Lesego Nswahu Nchunga, “Why We Should All Be Feminists (III) - How Has Feminism Developed? The Waves Of Feminism”, in Mmegi[3]:
Because of how bold it is, and how it confronts absolutely everyone, bagolo often misunderstand it to be disrespectful, too boisterous, and departing from the previous confines of activism and advocacy.
2017 December 18, Thalefang Charles, “Carnival At The Heart Of The City”, in Mmegi[7]:
During the day, the carnival parade passed through the city centre with various traditional groups doing Setswana dances like borankana, setapa, phathisi, seperu, and polka.
2020 September 25, Correspondent, “Van Rensburg: Homage to the life and spirit”, in Mmegi[10]:
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 May 11, Lesego Nswahu Nchunga, “The Effects Of COVID-19 Induced Lockdown On Women In Botswana”, in Mmegi[12]:
Often, the dance between maitseo and botho results in an understanding of caring for family members as compulsory for women, and selective for men in the family.
2017 December 1, Kgosietsile Ngakaagae, “Enough with drunken driving”, in Mmegi[13]:
He looked at me with an expressionless face; “Kgosi” he said, “each time a cardaver lies on the table, I remind myself that just a day ago, maybe two, he was just like me.
2017 October 6, Correspondent, “Khato Civils, the Pride of Black Owned Construction Giants”, in Mmegi[14]:
Khato Civils’ celebrations of their Grade 9 ratings comes at a time when the CIDB report shows that about 24 per cent of contractors struggled to maintain their cidb grading at three year renewal during the period under review due to poor economic conditions and diminishing work opportunities.
2021 January 15, Mphoeng Mphoeng, “Hackathons: Corporate Social Investment or antithetical to innovation and empowerment?”, in Mmegi[15]:
According to Wikipedia, a hackathon (also known as hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest) is an event organised in which computer programmers and software developers collaborate intensely on a challenge that will result in software projects.
2021 January 15, Mphoeng Mphoeng, “Hackathons: Corporate Social Investment or antithetical to innovation and empowerment?”, in Mmegi[17]:
According to Wikipedia, a hackathon (also known as hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest) is an event organised in which computer programmers and software developers collaborate intensely on a challenge that will result in software projects.
2017 December 20, Koketso Kgoboge, “Lala vuka returns”, in Mmegi[21]:
To top it all off, top performers on the day will be dikwaere music giant, Dr Vom who is always there to own the crowd with his Thobane trademark song.
2017 October 6, Correspondent, “Khato Civils, the Pride of Black Owned Construction Giants”, in Mmegi[23]:
Mnyani says the location of their headquaters, at Midrand, as well as the size of resources they put towards erecting their state of the art headquaters, over R600 million, attest to their seriousness.
2021 January 8, Kevin Mokento, “Justice is blind – Really? Part 1”, in Mmegi[25]:
For all the wrong reasons, it is possible for a crooked subset of the judicial value chain to bend rules and compromise the integrity of the justice system, in some cases impelled by improprietous opportunism and selfish gain.
2020 December 18, Correspondent, “COVID-19: Social disparities, lessons learnt and the New World Order”, in Mmegi[27]:
At this point, we should be using drought resistance properties of kgengwe watermelon plant to enhance food security by propagating it with indigenous crops such as maize and sorghum for better yields as they would be more drought tolerant.
2020 December 25, Nnasaretha Kgamanyane, “How pandemic triggered wedding explosion”, in Mmegi[30]:
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.
2019 January 28, Correspondent, “Lentswe La Batswapong Responds To Maele”, in Mmegi[31]:
(vi) Batswapong are pro-unity of the nation and protection of the bogosi institution; something we expect our Members of Parliament and magosi to encourage.
2020 May 11, Lesego Nswahu Nchunga, “The Effects Of COVID-19 Induced Lockdown On Women In Botswana”, in Mmegi[32]:
Often, the dance between maitseo and botho results in an understanding of caring for family members as compulsory for women, and selective for men in the family.
2020 November 6, Thalefang Charles, “Tourism COVID-19 voices: “Bulelang makgoa a tsene!””, in Mmegi[33]:
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.
2017 October 6, Correspondent, “Khato Civils, the Pride of Black Owned Construction Giants”, in Mmegi[35]:
The Khato Civils impressive rating interestingly comes out in a year when seven of the leading construction giants were involved in a scandal of bid collusion and price fixing, while the report also observes that the year under review exposed poor adherence to safety by some of the leading companies as shown by the charlotte maxele roof collapse expansion project .
2020 August 3, Lesego Nswahu Nchunga, “The Pandemic Pool – A Socio-Cultural Reflection Of Meming Through The Pandemic”, in Mmegi[38]:
By definition, a meme, derived from mimeme, a word coined by Richard Dawkins, is defined as a unit of cultural information, as a concept, belief or practice, that spreads from one person to another in a similar ways to genes.
2020 July 13, Lesego Nswahu Nchunga, “The effects of COVI-19 interventions on undocumented migrant workers”, in Mmegi[39]:
The infamous mmaboipelego social workers who were tasked with identifying people in need of food relief and the COVID-19 food relief fund, were only issuing food relief to Batswana locals, and nobody else.
2020 December 25, Nnasaretha Kgamanyane, “How pandemic triggered wedding explosion”, in Mmegi[43]:
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.
2017 December 18, Thalefang Charles, “Carnival At The Heart Of The City”, in Mmegi[44]:
During the day, the carnival parade passed through the city centre with various traditional groups doing Setswana dances like borankana, setapa, phathisi, seperu, and polka.
2020 December 25, Nnasaretha Kgamanyane, “How pandemic triggered wedding explosion”, in Mmegi[45]:
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.
2018 January 12, Mbongeni Mguni, “Five things to watch for in 2018”, in Mmegi[46]:
At a budget pitso held after the release of the strategy paper, Matambo told stakeholders government was concerned about the widening budget deficits and would tighten spending supervision this year and beyond.
2020 December 25, Correspondent, “The political economy of COVID-19, anti-Indian rhetoric and the discourse of Citizen Economic Empowerment in Botswana”, in Mmegi[47]:
I am speaking about people who came here dirt-poor [wearing humble rampeechane sandals] yet today they are super-rich, they are demonstrating to us that they don’t care about Batswana.
2020 July 10, Mmegi Editor, “A look in the mirror”, in Mmegi[48]:
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.
2017 October 6, Correspondent, “Khato Civils, the Pride of Black Owned Construction Giants”, in Mmegi[49]:
We realized our little profit from completing projects on time and within budget and this allowed us to invest in advanced technology like tesmic trenchers, also known as rockeaters; each machines accomplishes in one day, what would otherwise take 20 excavators; we have all the machinery we need and are able to establish a site within one day after being appointed”, the CEO said proudly.
2020 December 25, Mbongeni Mguni, “The year that wasn’t”, in Mmegi[52]:
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
2017 December 18, Thalefang Charles, “Carnival At The Heart Of The City”, in Mmegi[53]:
During the day, the carnival parade passed through the city centre with various traditional groups doing Setswana dances like borankana, setapa, phathisi, seperu, and polka.
2017 December 18, Thalefang Charles, “Carnival At The Heart Of The City”, in Mmegi[55]:
During the day, the carnival parade passed through the city centre with various traditional groups doing Setswana dances like borankana, setapa, phathisi, seperu, and polka.
2017 April 10, Jeff Ramsay, “Sechele Becomes A Christian”, in Mmegi[56]:
Thereafter Selemang, daughter of Kgorwe, was placed in the deceased MmaOpe’s house, an act justified in terms of her taking her sister’s place in accordance with seyantlo.
2020 December 4, Correspondent, “Mahalapye firm wants to ease govt’s P8bn headache”, in Mmegi[57]:
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.
2017 October 6, Correspondent, “Khato Civils, the Pride of Black Owned Construction Giants”, in Mmegi[58]:
We realized our little profit from completing projects on time and within budget and this allowed us to invest in advanced technology like tesmic trenchers, also known as rockeaters; each machines accomplishes in one day, what would otherwise take 20 excavators; we have all the machinery we need and are able to establish a site within one day after being appointed”, the CEO said proudly.
2020 December 4, Mmegi Editor, “One more push”, in Mmegi[59]:
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[61]:
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[62]:
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.
2017 July 24, Jeff Ramsay, “The Exodus”, in Mmegi[64]:
Within the Boer volksraad, which much like the Setswana lekgotla of the time were fora that were essentially open to the opinions of all male Boer family heads, discontent about the war was increasingly voiced.
2020 December 25, Correspondent, “The 1884-1985 Berlin conference and declaration of protectorate”, in Mmegi[65]:
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.
2021 January 8, Kevin Mokento, “Justice is blind – Really? Part 1”, in Mmegi[68]:
The principle captured in the Latin expression, Nemo judex in sua causa, meaning No one shall be a judge in his own case, wards off the possibility of conflict of interest.
2020 July 10, Key Dingake, “Reflections on Malawi's 2019 elections court decisions”, in Mmegi[70]:
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 8, Kevin Mokento, “Justice is blind – Really? Part 1”, in Mmegi[71]:
The principle captured in the Latin expression, Nemo judex in sua causa, meaning No one shall be a judge in his own case, wards off the possibility of conflict of interest.
2020 October 19, Lesego Nswahu Nchunga, “No Room For Apologists, Enablers In GBV War”, in Mmegi[72]:
Gobotswang, for presenting the Botswana Child Rights Network, for Polson Majaga, accused of defilement, to take a step back from participating in matters of Parliament until his sub judice matter is concluded, has all the makings of enabling.
2021 January 8, Kevin Mokento, “Justice is blind – Really? Part 1”, in Mmegi[73]:
This view is supported by the Latin ethical maxim, ‘Fiat justitia, ruat caelum,’ meaning, ‘let justice be done, though the heavens fall.’ Consistent with this axiom, in matters of litigation brought before courts of law, the views of the plaintiffs, the defendants and the justices converge around the central principle that all considered verdicts would be guided by the lofty principle of execution of justice, not injustice.
2021 January 14, Lebogang Mosikare, “Decomposed body of woman found in Tonota”, in Mmegi[75]:
“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.
2021 January 8, Kevin Mokento, “Justice is blind – Really? Part 1”, in Mmegi[77]:
This view is supported by the Latin ethical maxim, ‘Fiat justitia, ruat caelum,’ meaning, ‘let justice be done, though the heavens fall.’ Consistent with this axiom, in matters of litigation brought before courts of law, the views of the plaintiffs, the defendants and the justices converge around the central principle that all considered verdicts would be guided by the lofty principle of execution of justice, not injustice.
2021 January 8, Kevin Mokento, “Justice is blind – Really? Part 1”, in Mmegi[78]:
The principle captured in the Latin expression, Nemo judex in sua causa, meaning No one shall be a judge in his own case, wards off the possibility of conflict of interest.
2020 December 25, Mbongeni Mguni, “The year that wasn’t”, in Mmegi[79]:
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.
