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Who behaved worse: Zinedine Zidane or Materazzi?
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." When I was a school boy in Durban in 1930s and early 1940s, it was what we said to each other when we traded insults. Zinedine Zidane would not have heard of this advice, and if he had, may not have taken it because Marco Materazzi had, he said, insulted his mother and sister. That, we never did!Response to Merafhe's letter
The article by Lt. Gen. Mompati Merafhe "Moupo, the quintessence of blunder and inconsequence" which appeared in Mmegi 14 July 2006, has prompted this response. Merafhe said, "I again issue a public challenge that anybody who can offer us some evidence, clue or lead on any of these allegations must come forward, offer it and it will be thoroughly investigated".Put people first not the disability
This is in response to an article, "Disabled persons left behind" (19 July 2006). People living with disabilities (PWDs) have been forgotten, consciously and unconsciously. Despite the long road travelled in order to link the issues of disabilities and HIV/AIDS, PWDs remain a long way from the finish lines. With a disability or not, we are all at deadly risk of HIV/AIDS infection. We are all part of an infected and affected nation and past of the solution.Opposition cooperation: give flies honey not vinegar
The 2005 President holidays will go down in history as the catalyst in opposition cooperation in Botswana. During that period, the major opposition parties converged at various locations to discuss the opposition cooperation with the goal of unseating the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power at the next general elections. Though not a new phenomenon to opposition politics, never before had the enthusiasm for opposition cooperation captivated the ordinary voter since the days of the PPF.
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