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- amapiano exclude
2020 November 16, Mompati Tlhankane, “Bhezane Releases New Single”, in Mmegi[1]:He focuses on house music, gqom and amapiano genres.
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- badisa exclude
2020 July 13, Lesego Nswahu Nchunga, “The effects of COVI-19 interventions on undocumented migrant workers”, in Mmegi[2]:While many are domestic workers and gardeners, some work as nannies, as babysitters, as badisa or farm labourers, and as security personnel.
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- bagolo exclude
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.
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- bofepusu exclude
2017 June 19, Correspondent, “How BOFEPUSU Reported Botswana To ILO”, in Mmegi[4]:This situation could have been avoided had the powers that be had listened to bofepusu.
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- bogobe exclude
2016 August 22, Sandy Grant, “What Was It Like Before Independence?”, in Mmegi[5]:Unrefined bogobe was a staple which was supplemented by seasonal wild vegetables and fruits.
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- boipelego exclude
2017 November 3, Zolani Kraai, “Genocide survivors reach for a brighter future”, in Mmegi[6]:Embracing the spirit of boipelego, villagers pledged to build their own school.
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- borankana exclude
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.
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- botho exclude
2018 May 21, Lesego Nswahu Nchunga, “WE ARE HERE!”, in Mmegi[8]:As a people, we pride ourselves in ‘botho’, a mutual social agreement of respect, responsibility, and accountability that we have towards each other.
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2017 December 6, Mmegi Editor, “Social media not an excuse for insensitivity”, in Mmegi[9]:But the development of social media seems to have taken away that concept of botho.
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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.
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2019 September 23, Lesego Nswahu Nchunga, “Maybe, Spare The Rod And Save The Society From Another Broken Adult”, in Mmegi[11]:It begs the question, where botho is placed in such considerations.
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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.
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- cardaver exclude
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.
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- cidb exclude
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.
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- codefest exclude
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.
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- coetal exclude
2017 June 9, Kgosietsile Ngakaagae, “Of the ill-conceived campaign and misguided child”, in Mmegi[16]:There is no softer target than a man knocked out by coetal lassitude.
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- datathon exclude
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.
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- dichilas exclude
2020 December 21, Pini Bothoko, “Police Charge 36,000 For Failure To Wear Masks”, in Mmegi[18]:Bagali said that most of the people who attend dichilas indulge in drinking alcohol even disregarding other protocols including social distancing.
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- dikhwaere exclude
2017 December 19, Calistus Kolantsho, “Xmas tournaments fever heightens”, in Mmegi[19]:The organiser, Thuso Palai said he came up with the idea to stage the tournament as an alternative to dikhwaere, which are famous in the region.
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2017 December 22, Bame Piet, “Tips for Festive Season”, in Mmegi[20]:Why not buy beer, or snacks and sell them where there are public gatherings such as dikhwaere or football tournaments.
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- dikwaere exclude
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.
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- ditshaka exclude
2016 October 17, Jeff Ramsay, “The Orphans And Ants Part 25: The Dawn Assault On Dithubaruba”, in Mmegi[22]:While some warriors held back, securing the passes, the bulk of the army rushed forward swinging their two-handed ditshaka at everything in their way.
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- headquaters exclude
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.
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- hotteok exclude
2021 January 22, Correspondent, “My experiences of living in Sejong 'Smart City’”, in Mmegi[24]:All I could smell was tteokbokki (spicy rice cake) and hotteok (Korean sweet pancakes).
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- improprietous exclude
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.
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- jeremane exclude
2017 August 28, Koketso Kgoboge, “Supa Ngwao Museum Rises From Ashes”, in Mmegi[26]:The museum has an in-house dressmaker who specialises in the German print or jeremane, as it is commonly known in Setswana.
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- kgengwe exclude
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.
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- lekhete exclude
2020 December 25, Mompati Tlhankane, “A teary year for creatives”, in Mmegi[28]:Rakgare reached out to meet with the lekhete hitmaker but the latter refused indicating that he wants to meet Masisi.
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- letsholo exclude
2017 April 10, Jeff Ramsay, “Sechele Becomes A Christian”, in Mmegi[29]:The future status of the wives, along with other outstanding questions was finally settled in a two-day letsholo meeting.
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- magadi exclude
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.
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- magosi exclude
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.
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- maitseo exclude
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.
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- makgoa exclude
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.
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- marakanelong exclude
2020 September 14, Monitor Editor, “Moshupa Incident: Was Olden Golden?”, in Mmegi[34]:In the wake of the Moshupa and other similar incidents, is it not time the nation hurriedly treks back to ‘marakanelong’?
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- maxele exclude
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 .
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- mechova exclude
2018 January 12, Keneilwe Ramphopho, “Frustrations of a taxi operator”, in Mmegi[36]:Matebesi said they are on a competing panel with pirate taxis or mechova for customers.
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- megagolwane exclude
2017 October 16, Nnasaretha Kgamanyane, “Motlhasedi Scoops Mrs Botswana Title”, in Mmegi[37]:The pageant started off with Magadi introductory parade where the contestants looked stunning on their German print attire and blue megagolwane.
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- mimeme exclude
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.
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- mmaboipelego exclude
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.
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- mophane exclude
2020 December 18, Thalefang Charles, “Wet, wild safari at Khwai”, in Mmegi[40]:The mophane trees that withstood the elephant herds’ assaults are now all green.
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- mosetlha exclude
2016 November 28, Sandy Grant, “Does It Come Down To Fighter Jets Or Phikwe?”, in Mmegi[41]:But now it’s green and many trees, not least the lovely mosetlha, are in flower, and the birds are everywhere.
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- passby exclude
2018 January 12, Keneilwe Ramphopho, “Frustrations of a taxi operator”, in Mmegi[42]:It does not even seem safe anymore for people who passby daily.
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- patlo exclude
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.
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- phathisi exclude
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.
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- pholoso exclude
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.
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- pitso exclude
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.
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- rampeechane exclude
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.
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- riversand exclude
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.
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- rockeaters exclude
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.
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- sbujwa exclude
2017 August 7, Nnasaretha Kgamanyane, “Urban Empire Dance Crew Displays Exquisite Moves”, in Mmegi[50]:Evolution of Dance is a dance and theatrical event that comprises mostly hip-hop, animation, sbujwa, afro fusion and hip-hop contemporary.
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- seantlo exclude
2016 December 12, Jeff Ramsay, “Sekgoma And The Amandebele”, in Mmegi[51]:During this time Sedimo, in accordance with the old custom of seantlo, entered Bobjwale’s house to “raise seed” on behalf of Kgari.
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- semausu exclude
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
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- seperu exclude
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.
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- seshabana exclude
2017 September 28, Correspondent, “The ripple effect of seshabana on Bakwena dynasty”, in Mmegi[54]:The word seshabana generally refers to a flat open place on a hill or a mountain, ideal for out-door meetings or picnics.
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- setapa exclude
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.
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- seyantlo exclude
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.
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- tenderprenuer exclude
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.
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- tesmic exclude
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.
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- therisanyo exclude
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.
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- tjale exclude
2020 December 4, Nnasaretha Kgamanyane, “Mguni's neckpieces embody Setswana twist”, in Mmegi[60]:I added the tassels to somewhat symbolise our traditional tjale.
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- tomagano exclude
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.
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- uneditorialised exclude
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.
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- ungazzetted exclude
2020 March 30, Monitor Editor, “COVID-19: Together We Can Beat It”, in Mmegi[63]:There are individuals who still continue to find ways of travelling to South Africa, even entering through ungazzetted points.
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- volksraad exclude
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.
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- alia exclude
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.
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2020 July 10, Key Dingake, “Reflections on Malawi's 2019 elections court decisions”, in Mmegi[66]:The court found that the EC in tallying the national result, inter alia, used tally sheets that had not been so signed.
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- bua exclude
2021 January 8, Sebofo Motshwane, “A re go ja eng? (1)”, in Mmegi[67]:A raya eng? Go bua jalo Motswana o a bo a raya go eta.
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- causa exclude
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.
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- dramatis exclude
2020 June 26, Mmegi Editor, “Botswana's Diplomatic Nightmare”, in Mmegi[69]:And the dramatis personae in this discredited case certainly are delusional.
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- generis exclude
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.
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- judex exclude
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.
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- judice exclude
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.
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- justitia exclude
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.
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- moratus exclude
2021 January 8, Kevin Mokento, “Justice is blind – Really? Part 1”, in Mmegi[74]:The commonly held view in legal circles is ‘Iustitia negative moratus est iustitia,’ meaning that justice delayed is justice denied.
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- mortem exclude
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.
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- quoi exclude
2020 October 30, Kevin Mokento, “Gaborone City! What City! - Pt 1”, in Mmegi[76]:It is an established fact that cities with squares have an appealing je ne sais quoi about them.
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- ruat exclude
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.
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- sua exclude
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.
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- versa exclude
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.
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- vin exclude
2020 November 23, Mompati Tlhankane, “Beaujolais Wine Tasting Defies Rain”, in Mmegi[80]:It’s the country’s most famous “vin primeur” (young wine), produced in the vineyard of Beaujolais, located in the centre of France, north of Lyon.
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