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Masisi's Choppies Conflict THE BOTSWANA GAZEttE WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2020 MASISI’S PAGE 1 CHOPPIES CONFLICT WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2020 FREE! In March 2018, exactly four “Kitso ke maatla” days before Mokgweetsi Masisi became President, Choppies employees went on strike to demand CHOPPIES better living wages. Sixty of these Batswana were summarily dismissed from work. In June 2018, BAGS P270M the BDP used its majority in Parliament to defeat a motion to introduce a decent living wage in Botswana. At that PENSION DEAL time President Masisi’s company that he co-owns • Deal signed during State of Emergency with Choppies CEO Ram • No tendering process had already pocketed over P6 million from the • Choppies CEO and President Masisi are business partners Choppies relationship. PAGE 4 & 5 MOGAE,MASIRE RESISTED BUSINESS DEALS • Masire, Mogae rejected Dada's invitation to buy shares • "I rejected those who offered me shares free of any payment - Masire • " A President who owns shares without conflict may still exploit the situation" - Masire PAGE 2 HERE’S 1 PAG’sE SHEKA CHE DR. MATHEADA …tough times ahead for Botswana 3 PAGE 2019 ECEMBER VER 04 - 10 D SH O 7 EDNESDAY SINCE 1984 W S CLA Y GAZETTE IE T SWANA BOT H BOD THE CHURC “Kitso ke maatla”WE THE DEATH PENAL ) VAT NCL ANA O B1 BATSW BANKS P33BN 04 - 10 DECEMBER 2019 P9.50 (I 2 WEDNESDAY Y SUE BOPEU TO A NEW WERA MA MOG FOR EXPELLING HER doomsday: kgosi's THE BOTSWANA GAZETTE WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 2020 PAGE 1 day in 4 4 PAGE PAGE ROSE SERETSE court WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 2020 P9.50 (INCL) VAT “Kitso ke maatla” SINCE 1984 FACES POSSIBLE THE BOTSWANA GAZETTE WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER - 05 NOVEMBER 2019 PAGE 1 DISCIPLINARY ... faces arrest today BURS IMPOUNDS ACTION AT BERA PAGE 5 Law Society summonses DPP over forged evidence BAAITSE'S • DPP insist that they have evidence of looting P100bn from BoB AIRCRAFT 'I WANT MY • Governor says no P100bn is missing from BoB WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER - 05 NOVEMBER 2019 P9.50 (INCL) VAT SINCE 1984 8 MONEY BACK' “Kitso ke maatla” Make the big step up and apply for a new personal loan - ISAAC KGOSI and stand a chance to big. Grand prizes: Holiday for 2 to Cape Town or payment of IEC ACT FORCES MPS TO GOV'T DECLINES TO UDC YET TO FIND EVIDENCE • 8000 school fees for 1 child for a year TELLS DPP • 5 monthly winners of P5,000 each DECLARE FUNDERS 3 PAY COUNCILLORS 4 ON 'RIGGING' CLAIMS 2 BEGINNING! Disgraced former director of Promotion runs runs from 21 October 2019 to 21 January 2020 travellers Intelligence and Security Services For more information, call us on 361 5800. (DISS), Isaac Kgosi accused the Director of Public Prosecutions, bw sc.com/ from Corona infested Stephen Tiroyakgosi, of turning him into a pauper by seizing his assets and not proceeding to court for a Countries in Botswana final determination of the matter. Get up to P600,000 for a PAGE 3 PAGE 2 personal loan. BOTSWANA BANS ENTRY Way past the hour for the much-anticipated return of embattled former head of the Directorate of Intelligence and Terms and Conditions apply UDc FROM CORONA- Security Service (DISS), Isaac Kgosi - who may or may not be here - confusion was reigning supreme within the law HIT COUNTRIES enforcement community last night regarding how the matter should be handled, writes TEFO PHEAGE heaDeD for • Public Health expert worries that Gov’t may have acted impulsively • Ex-Health Ministry PS, WHO advisor says Botswana collapse should have waited • Gov’t in the process of drafting corona virus legal framework - Dibeela 2 PAGE 2 It is official that UDC leader Duma Boko’s embrace of Botswana’s divisive ex-president Ian Khama is the one major factor to blame BDP YOUTH for the hopeless performance of the coalition in the just-ended general elections. BNF vice president Reverend Prince Dibeela describes the larger-than-life character that is Boko as a one-man show who scuppered the UDC’s electability by consulting no one WING WANTS and unleashing the ‘Fear Fokol brigade’ on dissenters. As oppossed to Boko, Dibeela has accepted elections results. Since January this year, around 8 000 people have entered Botswana POLITICAL coming from the top ten countries with the highest number of APPOINTEES confirmed Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and deaths, increasing TO RUN PUBLIC risks especially for immigration and aviation employees.However no SERVICE infections have been confirmed, Government has said. 2 AGE Make the big step up and apply for a new personal loan P 3 and stand a chance to big. • Grand prizes: Holiday for 2 to Cape Town or payment of school fees for 1 child for a year • 5 monthly winners of P5,000 each Promotion runs runs from 21 October 2019 to 21 January 2020 Get up to P600,000 for a For more information, call us on 361 5800. personal loan. sc.com/bw Terms and Conditions apply It is with a sense of excitement and great hope for the future, that The Botswana Gazette will no longer be printed and we are now available online. For the past 34 years we have been dedicated to delivering objective, truthful and entertaining content in support of democracy and an informed Nation. As our cover page demonstrates, we have been at the forefront of holding those in power- whether Government, business, NGOs or individuals, accountable to the public. The last few years have been challenging for the print media as an increasing number of papers struggle to attract advertisers and compete for readers. 1 PAG’sE SHEKA CHE DR. MATHEADA …tough times ahead for Botswana 3 Since 2014PAGE we have been developing our online presence on social 2019 ECEMBER VER 04 - 10 D SH O 7 EDNESDAY SINCE 1984 W S CLA Y GAZETTE IE T SWANA BOT H BOD THE mediaCHURC and, from the beginning of the year, an online edition alongside “Kitso ke maatla”WE THE DEATH PENAL ) VAT NCL ANA O B1 BATSW BANKS P33BN 04 - 10 DECEMBER 2019 P9.50 (I 2 the printed paper. WEDNESDAY Y SUE BOPEU WERA MA MOG FOR EXPELLING HER doomsday:The lockdown has accelerated our online offerings and we have decided to take the bold step of becoming fully online through our digital kgosi's THE BOTSWANA GAZETTE WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 2020 PAGE 1 day in platforms, and stop printing our hardcopy. 4 4 PAGE PAGE ROSE SERETSE court WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 2020 P9.50 (INCL) VAT “Kitso ke maatla” SINCE 1984 FACES POSSIBLE THE BOTSWANA GAZETTE WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER - 05 NOVEMBER 2019 PAGE 1 DISCIPLINARY ... faces arrest today BURS IMPOUNDS ACTION AT BERA PAGE 5 Law Society summonses DPP over forged evidence BAAITSE'S • DPP insist that they have evidenceThis of looting P100bn is from BoBan intrepid move, full of challenges and opportunitiesAIRCRAFT but we will 'I WANT MY • Governor says no P100bn is missing from BoB WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER - 05 NOVEMBER 2019 P9.50 (INCL) VAT SINCE 1984 8 MONEY BACK' “Kitso ke maatla” Make the big step up and apply for a new personal loan - ISAAC KGOSI and stand a chance to big. Grand prizes: Holiday for 2 to Cape Town or payment of IEC ACT FORCES MPS TO GOV'T DECLINES TO UDC YET TO FIND EVIDENCE • 8000 school fees for 1 child for a year TELLS DPP 5 monthly winners of P5,000 each DECLARE FUNDERS remain• committed to our values of objectivity,3 PAY COUNCILLORS 4 truthfulnessON 'RIGGING' CLAIMS 2 which have Disgraced former director of Promotion runs runs from 21 October 2019 to 21 January 2020 travellers Intelligence and Security Services For more information, call us on 361 5800. (DISS), Isaac Kgosi accused the Director of Public Prosecutions, bw sc.com/ from Corona infested Stephen Tiroyakgosi, of turning him given The Gazette the reputation as the paper of record. into a pauper by seizing his assets and not proceeding to court for a Countries in Botswana final determination of the matter. Get up to P600,000 for a PAGE 3 PAGE 2 personal loan. BOTSWANA BANS ENTRY Way past the hour for the much-anticipated return of embattled former head of the Directorate of Intelligence and Terms and Conditions apply UDc FROM CORONA- Security Service (DISS), Isaac Kgosi - who may or may not be here - confusion was reigning supreme within the law For the time being access to our weekly on line edition and daily updates HIT COUNTRIES enforcement community last night regarding how the matter should be handled, writes TEFO PHEAGE heaDeD for • Public Health expert worries that Gov’t may have acted impulsively • Ex-Health Ministry PS, WHO is free and we hope our loyal readers will continue to support our paper, advisor says Botswana collapse should have waited • Gov’t in the process of drafting corona virus legal 2 framework and new readers will join the more than 200 - Dibeela000 people who access PAGE 2 It is official that UDC leader Duma Boko’s embrace of Botswana’s divisive ex-president Ian Khama is the one major factor to blame BDP YOUTH for the hopeless performance of the coalition in the just-ended general elections. 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