When was dikgang publishing company founded

Newspapers on the BW News: 1. Mmegi — news you need to know. Mmegi [The Reporter] is the leading independent source of breaking news, latest news, current affairs, Politics, Business, Sport, debates, analysis, and entertainment news in Botswana. It is published by Dikgang Publishing Company 2. Botswana Guardian — Fearless and Responsible. The Botswana Guardian is an English language weekly newspaper published in Gaborone. The paper was started in Maintained by the UN Dept.

United States. Department of State Use the Search to locate press releases, speeches, articles. The Voice Gaborone Current news and entertainment. Web edition of the weekly print newspaper, "jointly owned by Donald Moore, a British citizen and Beata Kasale, a Botswana citizen.

For each country to U. State Dept. Skip to main content. Unlike other private newspapers at the time, Mmegi was owned by not-for-profit organization, FEP. Besides the little revenue it received from advertising and copy sales Mmegi at that time relied on donor funding.

By the FEP was no longer able to sustain the Mmegi due to lack of funds. Van Rensburg and Methaetsile Leepile then approached some people in the community to form a trust, which could subsequently take over the ownership of the newspaper.

The Trust model experienced similar problems as those encountered by FEP as it also relied on donor funding to balance its budget.

Given the collusive nature of many businesses here in Botswana, especially because many were owned by South Africans, there was a kick back as even local businesses retaliated by not advertising with Mmegi. Against the background of all these challenges, in the MPT Board of Directors decided to corporatize the paper. Investors were invited to invest in the new company.

MPT retained majority shareholding in the new company. As a corporate company the board and management never interfere with editorial independence of the editors. The editors are free to publish what they deem fit. In Mmegi became a daily and introduced the website www. It was the first private newspaper to become a daily production, which consolidated its dominance in the market. Responding to the rise of digital media and falling newspaper sales, Mmegi discontinued the daily publications in and became a weekly again in Hardly a week passes without reports of some monster having defiled an innocent girl, or some irresponsible stepfather having poisoned their children because they do not want to pay child support.