source: Mmegi Botswana has over the years managed to reduce the level of poverty, President Ian Khama told the inaugural Pitso ya go Nyeletsa Lehuma in Mahalapye yesterday. President Khama said statistics also show that the number of people living below the poverty datum line in Botswana has reduced from 59 percent in 1985/86 to [...]
source: Mmegi DIRANG LEKUNTWANE Correspondent MAHALAPYE: Kgosi Moses Maherero says the merger of Local Police and the Botswana Police Service has serious problems of service delivery at tribal authorities, especially customary court summons. “We used to have vehicles with which we delivered summons,” he says. “The court clerks alternated with police officers – even the [...]
source: Mmegi The construction of Morupule B Power Station, a glass manufacturing factory, a coal wash plant at Morupule, the presence of a regional BURS office, in addition to being the site of Botswana’s ambitious University of Science and Technology, are just some of many indicators that MP Goya and others point out to make [...]
source: Mmegi ONALENNA MODIKWA Staff Writer MAHALAPYE: The Sub District Council is considering commercialising the harvesting of sand from Mahalapye River to generate money. This is necessary because the village is already experiencing an influx of companies from as far away as Gaborone to harvest sand. The village is also experiencing increased sand harvesting due [...]
source: BOPA 26 April, 2010 MAHALAPYE – Home brewed alcohol has, for a longtime, been left unregulated and many people continue to partake of it without having to be subjected to any regulations. The Vice President, Lt Gen. Mompati Merafhe said government was working to enact some regulations that will control home brewed alcohol. Speaking [...]
source: BOPA 07 April, 2010 MAHALAPYE – Mahalapye Sub-district officer, Mr Mothibi Monyakeng says his office has decided to perform marriage solemnisation at Sefhare in an effort to take services closer to people. Speaking at a kgotla meeting in Sefhare recently, Mr Monyakeng said his office would like to meet its customers half way as [...]