Zebras put up a brave fight and settled for a 1-1 draw against Ivory Coast at the National Stadium on Saturday. Sports Journalist Tshepo Molwane attended the game and once again rated the players on a ten-point scale.

The 2007/2008 Mascom Premier League champions Mochudi Centre Chiefs were the stars of the night on Saturday when they walked away with P145, 000 with three of their players going home P5, 000 richer each during the league awards ceremony.

It all started as a wild rumour that nurses at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital had gone on strike.

The Zebras maintained their position at the top of Group Seven after they held visiting Ivory Coast to a 1-1 draw in the 2010 World Cup/African Nations Cup qualifier at the National Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

After more than 30 years in the teaching service, veteran head teacher Mosimanegape "Marx" Mophuthing is retiring. Mophuthing is the headmaster of Gaborone Senior Secondary School (GSS).

It is hard not to get emotional once you come face to face with the Pelontle family and listen to their sad tales. Life has dealt them blow after blow but giving up is not in the cards, they say.

Botswana Red Cross Society (BRCS) lived up to its reputation of being a humanitarian relief agency of note by distributing disaster relief aid to residents affected by floods early this year at Nata, Zhoroga and Gweta villages.

One can never tire of emphasising that optimum nutrition is the first line of defence for almost if not all human disease conditions we are plagued with today.

African Copper announced on Friday that it is reorganising its management ahead of the commissioning of Mowana mine in Botswana.

Stanbic Bank Botswana plans to use the capital raised through the just listed P2 billion bonds to support the fledging downstream diamond beneficiation industry and other infrastructure developments.

Forty-one urban court presidents and their deputies have unanimously decided that the Minister of Local Government Margaret Nasha should be imprisoned for 30 days for contempt of court.

You will excuse me for using terminology that may be dismissed by some as 'street', but I think you may find it appropriate if you can just temporarily suspend any distaste you may have for gangsta flicks and pop culture.

There have been reports emanating from Parliament suggesting that the Information Communications Technology policy recently passed by Parliament will amount to no more than a 'pipedream' in the words of one of the opposition members.

One of the suspects in the Central Medical Stores (CMS) P17 million case was convicted on Friday after he pleaded guilty to all the charges at the Extension II Magistrates' Court in Gaborone.

Children from Shining Star Orphan Centre in Monarch have gone back the streets because the institution is facing acute financial problems.

Botswana National Front Youth League (BNFYL) has not yet decided on a date to get a new president after the resignation of Nelson Ramaotwana on May 31.

The famous annual Ghantsi Agricultural Show is here again. It will be held from June 26-28 with a theme aimed at encouraging Botswana farmers to produce more for the country as global food prices continue to rise.

Pop Star Botswana continues to be full of surprises and last Friday one of the 'shockers' had nothing to do with the 7 remaining contestants.

Gaborone Village Chief Magistrate Lot Moroka has reserved judgement in an application for bail, to June 18 in a case in which 10 people are accused of stealing P17 million from Central Medical Stores (CMS) in what the state alleges

The Botswana Police have launched a new war "on crime and road fatalities that have now made the freedom of movement a very difficult dream to achieve in the country".