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Nando’s Celebrates Botswana’s Kabomo as Champion of the International Grillers Challenge  Nando’s Botswana welcomed back it’s very own Odirile Kabomo as the International Grillers Challenge winner at Nando’s Game City Drive Thru. Kabomo emerged victorious at the event held in Kasane this past September. He graced the competition alongside some of the top grillers from over 27 markets. However, Kabomo showcased exceptional skill and creativity, e…

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Kabomo is King of the grill

Recently Bomaid conducted a series of stakeholder engagements in Maun as part of its ongoing ‘Rhythm of Life Campaign,’ an initiative aimed at strengthening relationships and addressing key concerns among stakeholders. The Maun engagements followed successful interactions with customers, members, corporate clients, and healthcare providers in Gaborone, Palapye and Francistown. In addition to courtesy visits to customers and health facilities, Bo…

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Calls on voters to guard against possible election rigging  There is no legal provision that bars voters from standing within 200 metres of a polling station to observe elections, UDC president Duma Boko has said. Boko made the above assertion over the weekend at the launch of three UDC parliamentary candidates being, former North West District Council’s Chairman, Kebareeditse Ntsogotlho in Maun North, Royal Lekaba in Maun East and Tiego Mpho in…

Boko launches Maun UDC candidates

Maun North BDP candidate spearheads the project  Prophet Thato Elias, who is also the BDP Maun North parliamentary candidate is spearheading a multi Million Pula project in which Matlapana Community seeks to build its own Satellite Police station. The idea, Elias has explained was motivated by the government’s call for individuals to adopt a police station Estimated to cost at least P18 Million, the construction works is expected to involve ever…

Matlapana Community Unite Over Construction of Police Station

Botswana’s Okavango Delta, one of the largest inland deltas in the world, offers an extraordinary experience for those seeking a unique perspective on African wildlife. Spanning an area of over 15,000 square kilometers, the delta is a vast network of waterways, lagoons, and islands that flood seasonally, creating a stunning wetland teeming with wildlife. One of the best ways to witness this natural spectacle is through an aerial safari. Flying a…

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Exploring Botswana’s Okavango Delta by air

An average of 20 people are killed or injured by wild animals including elephants on annual basis, Environment and Tourism Minister, Wilhemina Nnaniki Makwinja has revealed. Officially opening the ongoing CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wilde Fauna and Flora) African Elephant dialogue in Maun on Monday this week, Makwinja noted that the country spends an estimated P30 million annually on compensation expenditure…

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Makwinja opens CITES African elephant dialogue in Maun

A youth accused of the brutal murder of his young sister in an incident that stunned Maun two years ago insists he is completely innocent, pointing the finger of blame at his father instead. On Sunday 4th September 2022, Ogona Tlhabologang, 23, is said to have hacked his 12-year-old sister, Lesego Thabologang to death in her sleep, cutting her in the head with a hoe at their family home in Sedie ward. After killing her, he reportedly carried her…

Maun youth accused of killing sister blames father

A drunken fall-out between two Shorobe villagers back in March resulted in painful consequences for both men; one was left nursing stab wounds to the shoulder and ribs while his neighbour ended up with a sore bottom after receiving five strokes for unlawful wounding. The sentencing took place before Maun Magistrates Court on Tuesday, after 24-year-old Kebame Zambo admitted stabbing Kago Wuleba with an Okapi knife. The incident, which occurred on…

Whipped for stabbing neighbour

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DC alleged to have illicitly obtained a P150 000 from Sankuyo  A case in which Sankuyo Tshwaragano Management Trust is suing North West District former deputy district commissioner Boammaaruri Otlhogile over a P150 000 loan is set to be heard next month before Maun High Court. During the case’s status hearing on Tuesday (October 8, 2024) this week, the High court agreed to set another status hearing before then in case the two parties reach a se…

Sankuyo trust sues former deputy district commissioner

A robbery suspect currently in police custody has begged to be released on bail so he can cast his ballot at the upcoming general elections on October 30, 2024. Kagisanyo Manyema, 41, is among four suspects who were arrested this Sunday for allegedly robbing a 77-year-old woman of Tsanekona settlement in the outskirts of Maun of a riffle, ammunition, mobile-phone and undisclosed sum of money. The suspects, Moneedi Oneilwe, Kabelo Ramalepa, Brigh…

Robbery suspect pleads for bail to vote

“We want to make use of the 50km buffer zone from the river to develop community business like artefact market, restaurants and volleyball beaches along the river” In 2004 a young and ambitious Ronald Shamukuni lost to the late Duncan Mlazie (MHSRIP) in the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) primary elections in the Chobe Constituency. In the corner of the losing candidate was a feisty 24-year old Chartered Accountant, Oscar Simasiku Mapulanga who …

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