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House adopts Intelligence Bill
MP for Gaborone North, Keletso Rakhudu, tabled a motion without notice that the Bill should be committed to a special parliamentary select committee to incorporate the concerns MPs had raised. However, his idea was defeated when 25 MPs, most of...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 27 March 2007
Time to arrest escalating violent crime
Femicides or 'passion killings' became somehow fashionable in the past few years but after a slump in recent times due to harsh criticism by society, it appears the vice is now boldly on the come back trail. For instance, in this issue, we carry a...
EDITOR 27 March 2007
AS I SEE IT
The whips give two different grounds for failure of quorums. One is that MPs waste time in the pub; the other is that cabinet ministers choose to perform their office chores while Parliament is on. The solution to these two problems is simple: close...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 27 March 2007
Is history as a discipline dying a natural death?
The state in which the subject finds itself in is not helped by, the fact that history is not a core. It is an option and its continued existence in the school curriculum depends on 'market forces'. The future of the subject lies in the ability of...
27 March 2007
Getting to 'yes' with Iran
Yet the six governments seem determined to continue with what has been their strategy so far. Their condition for negotiating with Iran is a prior halt of its nuclear enrichment activities. Only in exchange for Iran's permanent renunciation of...
*Christoph Bertram 27 March 2007
Cartoon Strip-27-03-07
27 March 2007
Xstrata agrees to buy LionOre
Xstrata, based in Zug, Switzerland, will pay C$18.50 a share for LionOre, it said yesterday in a statement, 5.8 percent more than the company's closing share price in Toronto on March 23. LionOre's stock rose 6.1 percent to 802.5 pence, or C$18.27,...
27 March 2007
BSE makes the top 10 markets' list
The recent edition of The Motley Fool quoting reputable Birinyi Associates, a US money management and research firm, puts Botswana at position seven in the top 10 performers in 2006. However, Tim Hanson, writing for the publication, revealed that it...
27 March 2007
Mosu sole winner of mines' first awards
Mosu, a mining engineer specialising in drilling and blasting, won the Diamond Award and the Centaurus Award in recognition of his innovative pipes used to protect the mine wall during blasting. Mosu's creation eliminates the need for a second...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Correspondent 27 March 2007
SA airports get money for 2010 facelift
Addressing the annual conference of the Board of Airline Representatives of South Africa in Hermanus last Friday, Radebe said Acsa expected to handle 31-million passengers at its nine airports by 2010 when SA hosts the Soccer World Cup. Acsa's...
27 March 2007
Hollywood movie to be shot in Botswana
An elated director of Camelthorn film production company, Enrst Engels, says the good news is that the multi-million Pula movie will be shot in Botswana in May. It will be the first time ever that a Hollywood movie would have been shot in the...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 27 March 2007
Radibe gets top BFTU post
Radibe polled 100 votes while Tlhagale got 97.President of the Botswana Secondary Teachers' Union (BOSETU), Eric Ditau, is the new BFTU vice president. It was a good outing for teachers' unions which participated in a BFTU national congress for...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 27 March 2007
BACK STAGE
This outstanding Russian film won a Grand Prize at Cannes and an Oscar in 1995 for "Best Foreign-Language Film". Burnt by the Sun is set in 1936. It is the time of Stalin's heightened paranoia and the purges of those he fears might turn against him....
SASA MAJUMA 27 March 2007
Poor sound system spoils pop idols' show
By that time both the audience and the singers' patience had worn out. Even when the show eventually kicked off poor sound from the microphone could still be heard, in forcing the cameramen to stop the recording while the embarrassment was being...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 27 March 2007
Bright might leave Dream Team
He would have left the Under-23 side sometimes back to join Township Rollers but they failed to agree on terms with the Premiership giants. "Some Township Rollers' officials did approach me recently. That is not a secret. But we could not reach an...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 27 March 2007
Rowe gets his own medicine?
But when a repentant Rowe approached the player to come back to the Zebras' fold, he was snubbed. News from the Zebras' camp say Rowe had a change of mind after watching Moatlhaping score in the Olympic qualifier against Tunisia on Thursday. He named...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 27 March 2007
Chess tournament ends in stalemate
However, Notha was crowned champion when tie-break was employed to unlock the deadlock. The tournament was initially billed to be a rapid chess event with each player given 25 minutes. But this was changed to a blitz event with each player getting 15...
KENNETH BOIKHUTSWANE
Correspondent 27 March 2007
Naughty Boys outwit Tlokweng United
Tlokweng United players were still celebrating Sholo Moilwa's goal when Male surprised everybody by awarding a goal-kick. This caused an uproar from players and supporters who felt the referee should have stood by his ground as he was close to the...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 27 March 2007
Woman makes grisly find
Detective Superintendent Mosalagae Moseki said the wife found the body sprawled on the corridor of the house. The deceased was a cobbler and worked from his house, a stone's throw from the tuckshop. "We suspect foul play in the septuagenarian's...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 27 March 2007
Passion-killing survivor sends SOS
Passion-killing survivor Resemelwang Johane, 22, of Botshabelo ward and her 18-year-old son have been left destitute after all their belongings were burnt to ashes. "This skirt and top I'm wearing and what my son is wearing is all we have....
NOMSA NDLOVU
Correspondent 27 March 2007
F/town hosts Belgian delegation
The delegates, who arrived in Botswana last week came to install the new telemetry system which would help the maintenance workers to monitor faults on the sewerage system. The Belgians also donated funds amounting to P6 ,800 to Phathlogo Primary...
KOPANO OLESITSE
Correspondent 27 March 2007
Zim maintains cordial relations with Botswana - minister
Kembo Mohadi, Zimbabwe's Home Affairs Minister said yesterday that the Botswana government has not notified Zimbabwe of its plan to tighten its border controls or close its embassy in Harare. Mohadi insisted that there is no political tension in...
FRASER MPOFU
Correspondent 27 March 2007
Air-con seizes-up at new MoH building
He indicated that they have long informed the Department of Buildings and Engineering Services (DBES) about the problem but so far, nothing has happened. Officers at the ministry indicated that the heat inside the building becomes unbearable on some...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 27 March 2007
Bangwato in Zim seek repatriation
Professor Neil Parsons of the History Department at the University of Botswana said the residents are descendants and supporters of Raditladi and Mphoeng. The two broke away from the main group following a dispute in the 1890s. Historian Michael...
Gordon Kembley
Correspondent 27 March 2007
Climate change: Populations at greatest risk
The research shows that 634 million people - one 10th of the globalpopulation - live in coastal areas that lie within just 10 metres above sea level. It calls for action to limit the effects of climate change, to help people migrate away from...
27 March 2007
Mogae's limo to be fixed in Mogo
The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) has approved a request seeking a waiver to repair the vehicle at Mogoditshane-based Car World for a whooping P85,737.26. Nkoloi said that most of the presidential fleet is repaired and serviced...
28 March 2007
Union claims GCC owes retired workers
Botswana National Manual Workers Union (NMWU) chairman Johnson Motshwarakgole told Mmegi that GCC retirement packages for the affected workers were based on service from 1991, contrary to a court decision. He said their investigations revealed that...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 28 March 2007
New democracies overtake Botswana - MPs
The duo recently travelled to Angola where they were part of the SADC Parliamentary Forum's delegation that observed voter registration in Luanda. "The process of reform must start now and through education of legislators and the public in...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 28 March 2007
TB notification rates higher for men
Officially opening a seminar to mark International Women's Day and World TB Day at Maharaj yesterday, Professor Sheila Tlou said in 2005, 57 percent of notified TB cases in Botswana were males and 43 percent females. She said the historical ability...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 28 March 2007
Masire forms a foundation
He first hinted at the establishment of the Sir Ketumile Masire Foundation (SKMF) during the launch of his book: Very Brave or Very Foolish ... last September. During yesterday's launch, Sir Ketumile noted that since his retirement from...
KETO SEGWAI
Staff Writer 28 March 2007
Botshabelo residents in tears as D-Day nears
But protests against their relocation - from their present place to Disaneng Block 1, a bush with no social amenities - have fallen on deaf ears. It is against this backdrop that tears are flowing as more than 1, 000 families face an ultimatum of...
NOMSA NDLOVU
Correspondent 28 March 2007
One can have a successful kidney transplant
What is a transplant? A kidney transplant is a major surgical procedure in which a healthy kidney from a human donor is placed inside the patient's lower abdomen. The healthy kidney then takes over the work that the patient's kidney can no longer...
MATABOGE LEE REUBEN and
MOTSEI N MALETE 28 March 2007
The sickness of our democracy
At face value, the process of passing the Bill was democratic because a majority of the MPs endorsed it. After all, a major tenet of democracy is that the will of the majority prevails on the minority. It is not our inclination or desire to invent...
EDITOR 28 March 2007
Response to Minister Nkate
* That the role of teachers' unions is to focus on teachers' "welfare" and that by commenting on public policy, teachers' unions are acting beyond their mandate.* That leaders of teachers' trade unions should not speak on behalf of unions...
28 March 2007
MISA on Intelligence and Security Service Bill, 2006
What is of grave concern is that, despite obvious and clear weaknesses regarding oversight provisions for this Bill which the Minister of Justice himself has publicly acknowledged, he still has pushed for the Bill to go through Parliament without...
28 March 2007
Cartoon Strip-28-03-07
28 March 2007
Big 'guns' marriage propel Mmamabula
A statement making the announcement says the agreement is meant to undertake the development of Phase One 2,100 to 2,460 megawatt power station and related 7.5 to 9.0 million tonne per annum coal mine. Under the deal, CIC and IPR will indirectly...
STAFF WRITER 28 March 2007
BCL takeover must include its debt - Tombale
Tombale was responding to Bloomberg reports that Xstrata, the world's fourth largest nickel producer, was planning a friendly take-over of LionOre Mining International for $4billion (approx. P28.8billion). Sources say the bid only awaits...
GORDON KEMBELY
Correspondent 28 March 2007
Garenamotse honoured
He followed this with another gold at the IAAF Grand Prix in Hamburg, Germany. His good performances continued at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. In the sportsman of the year category, Garenamotse saw off the challenge of Mmoloki...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 28 March 2007
Botswana hosts African Grand Prix
Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) technical officer Bobby Gaseitsiwe says they have been given $30,000 or P180,000 by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) to host the event. He explained that the bulk of the money would go...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 28 March 2007
TASC hold Under-20 trials
The trials involve players between 16-20 years. "We are going to have a full time coach for this young team. Right now, we have asked one of the Botswana Integrated Sports Association (BISA) coaches here to help us," Sethodi told Mmegi Sport. He...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 28 March 2007
2010 Task Force selected
A statement from the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism this week said the Task Force is meant to develop a national strategy on how to attract potential World Cup 2010 qualifiers to use Botswana in their pre-tournament training and...
28 March 2007
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