Mmegi

Mmegi
TypeWeekly Friday newspaper
OwnerMmegi Investment Holdings
PublisherDikgang Publishing Company
EditorRyder Gabathusi (Acting)
Founded1984
HeadquartersGaborone, Botswana[1]
PriceP10.00
Websitemmegi.bw

Mmegi is an English-language national newspaper in Botswana, with occasional articles or comments in Setswana.[2] Established in 1984, it is now published daily online and weekly in print format by Dikgang Publishing House in the capital, Gaborone.[3][4] Mmegi used to be Botswana's only independent newspaper to be published daily.[5][6]

The newspaper's name means "the reporter" in Setswana and its strapline is "News we need to know daily". Until 1989, it was called Mmegi wa Dikgang/The Reporter.[7][8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mmegi Online :: Home". mmegi.bw. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Online, Mmegi (27 April 2026). "About Us". Mmegi Online. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
  3. ↑ "Media wars far from over". The Voice. 11 February 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
  4. ↑ "Mmegi Archives". Committee to Protect Journalists. 21 July 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
  5. ↑ "Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
  6. ↑ Makgala, Christian John (2008). "Nation-Building and Debates on 'Perfect' Country Name: An Appraisal of Letters to Newspapers in Botswana, 1981 and 2002". Botswana Notes and Records. 40: 88–99. ISSN 0525-5090.
  7. ↑ unesdoc.unesco.org https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000389703. Retrieved 27 April 2026. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ Shillington, Kevin, ed. (2020), "Return to Botswana", Patrick van Rensburg: Rebel, Visionary and Radical Educationist, a Biography, Wits University Press, pp. 285–300, ISBN 978-1-77614-605-5, retrieved 27 April 2026