Mmegi is an English-language national newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 in Botswana

Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" . Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...

. Established in 1984, it is now published daily by Dikgang Publishing House in the capital, Gaborone

Gaborone

' is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 191,776 based on a 2006 survey, about 10% of the total population of Botswana....

. , Mmegi is Botswana's only independent newspaper to be published daily.

The newspaper's name means "the reporter" in Setswana

Tswana language

Tswana or Setswana is a language spoken in Southern Africa by about 4.5 million people. It is a Bantu language belonging to the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho languages branch of Zone S , and is closely related to the Northern- and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi...

and its strapline is "News we need to know". Until 1989 it was called "Mmegi wa Dikgang/The Reporter".

External links

• Mmegi Online
• "Unbundling Botswana’s State Media" Media Institute of Southern Africa. Accessed 2006-08-17