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Thursday, 02 February 2012  |  Issue: Vol.29 No.16

Opposition dismiss Matambo's budget


The opposition has dismissed the budget speech as an anticlimax that illustrates the failure of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) to manage the economy.  Read more

Four ministries get lion's share

 

Botswana population grows at diminishing rate - Matambo

Four ministries account for 71 percent of the total ministerial recurrent budget while the rest share the remaining 29 percent.  In his Budget Speech yesterday, Finance and Development Planning Minister Kenneth Matambo said the preliminary results of last year's national populat...

Damtshaa targets 300,000 carats

 

S/Phikwe Co-op retrenches

With a target of 300,000 carats this year, production at Debswana's smallest mine, Damtshaa, is well underway following a nearly four-year long shutdo... SELEBI-PHIKWE: Following an audit that unveiled serious indebtedness last year, the Selebi-Phikwe Consumers' Co-operative Society has started retrench...

Dignified exit for Zebras

 

Busy end to transfer window

LIBREVILLE, GABON: The Zebras bowed out of the 2012 Orange Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals without a win or a point, after going down 2-1 against... Clubs upped activity on the last day of the transfer window as 95 players switched homes.Log leaders, Mochudi Centre Chiefs signed diminutive midfield...

our heritage

 

We need a budget with a human face

For the moment, I will continue to stick to bridges - poor things which get minimal publicity in this country partly because it's not really a bridge ... Once again this year, the Minister of Finance Kenneth Matambo shall walk to the parliamentary podium to perform the budget ritual before the eyes of ...

Electricity, railways and economic decline

 
Botswana needs a modern heavy gauge railway to transport 70 - 90 million tonnes of coal to the sea and on to India and China.Whether the route it take... 

Project syndicate

 

Mmualebe

Blaming capitalism for corporatism
NEW YORK: The future of capitalism is again a question. Will it survive the ongoing crisis in its current form?...
 Dibui kgotsa babui?
Ba ba fitlhetseng Setswana e santse e le sone, ba bolela fa phitlho ya malatsing ano e farologana thata le ya malatsi a maloba...

ANC's big guns aimed at media

 
JOHANNESBURG: The AfricanNational Congress has reintroduced its controversial plan to establish a media appeals tribunal to clip the wings of the pres... 

BOMU condemns plans to boycott polls

 

Shumba to go on East African (Easter) safari

The Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU) has condemned plans by some artists to boycott the country's 2014 general elections.  Local traditional music icon Shumba Ratshega is set to continue to make inroads into the East African music market with shows lined up in Burundi and ...
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