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Debswana managers fault restructuring exercise
The employees have written to Marole showing their displeasure with the consultants carrying out the restructuring. "To say their grievances represent the grievances of all senior members, will be deceiving. They are pushing for their own...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 20 April 2007
Storm brewing at Prisons HQ
At the centre of the wrangle are Masire's alleged utterances last Tuesday that some warders were already not happy with the promotions before they were even confirmed and released by the highest authority. The promotions are yet to be confirmed by...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Allure of African nurses wane?
He said the whole process takes about a year before a nurse can take up a foreign job. He said that after an adaptation course, an English test, and acceptance, his agency gives the nurses a pin number. Such nurses can contact recruitment agencies...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Two child rapists given 20 years each
Justice Phumaphi said the accused were 24 and 19 years respectively at the time they committed the offence. "There are first offenders despite being finger printed. On the other hand there are weighty aggravating circumstances to be considered. In...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 20 April 2007
Court throws out Daisy Loo request
In their submissions the defence team led by Duma Boko contended that the Chief Justice Julian Nganunu in his judgment last year on the Daisy Loo case, made some prejudicial findings on the part of the deponents and his co-accused, arguing that the...
Oliver Modise
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Babirwa petitions Ngwato Tribal Authority
They claim that the ward has been unconstitutionally established and they suspect some ulterior motives about it. It is also said that the ward has also installed a headman of arbitration who started drawing a monthly salary since...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Gabs taxi drivers declare war on pirates
The drivers have vowed to disrupt services on Friday morning to hand over a petition to the Minister of Works and Transport, Lesego Motsumi, over the "illegal bus services that have been operating within the Gaborone routing system". Gaborone Taxi...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Revellers kill suspected gangster
Superintendent Andrew Bosilong of Thamaga Police could not release the name of the deceased because relatives have not been informed. He said the youth from Mogoditshane is suspected to a member of a gang of young men who terrorised revellers...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Prisons' officerconvicted of corruption
Ramogapi pleaded guilty to awarding 20 purchase orders worth P160,000 to seven companies that belong to him in 2003. Before the awards, Ramogapi did not disclose to the department of prisons that he had interests in the companies. Chief Magistrate...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Regulations must be in tandem with changing scenarios
The recent court judgement in which Multichoice Botswana dragged the National Broadcasting Board (NBB) to the Lobatse High Court over the issue of licensing, attests to the complexity of regulating communication in this era of new technology. It...
STRYKER MOTLALOSO
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Landmark decision in broadcasting case
In the case Justice Lakhvinder Walia of the Lobatse High Court ruled that services provided by MultiChoice do not amount to broadcasting in the context of the Broadcasting Act. The case arose after the NBB sought to regulate MultiChoice, like a TV...
20 April 2007
Typing her speaker's script
The session also afforded her the opportunity to talk about the challenges she has met along the way and how she overcame some of them; her achievements, and both the low points and the high points in her 'rich' life. In one word, Kokorwe tells us...
20 April 2007
Intelligence and Security Legislation: Botswana and South Africa
Apart from the jokes about stereotypical spies who in their restlessness and eagerness to use their funky gadgets and power get up to no good, many observers insist that a proper legislative mechanism has to be set up to make sure that the...
20 April 2007
Zambia's mines privatisation drive backfires
NDOLA: Mining is risky. Judged empirically, working in underground mining operations is more dangerous than hunting man-eating lions in the Chobe or any other national game reserve in the Southern African region. Far more people - underground miners...
20 April 2007
The April Connection
The unique thing about this fourth month of the year is that many leaders who have helped to change the world, including revolutionaries and dictators like Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussein were born in April. Nearer home, former Rhodesian rebel...
BY HUMPHREY NKONDE
Correspondent 20 April 2007
Sorry plastic, you must go
Our country is very untidy due to indiscriminate disposal of litter; much of this comes from plastic carrying bags that are supplied en masse by retail stores. Not only are these plastics an eyesore and a turn-off, but they also lead to environmental...
EDITOR 20 April 2007
Is climate change caused by rich countries only? Part 2
A 1975 Ministry of Agriculture report summarized the findings of five years of integrated research into cattle production and the rangelands, and recommended improvements - all boiled down (after all that time) to internal fencing, disease control,...
20 April 2007
Inside information is a profitable trade for the rich
A situation where people in positions of power are allowed to use information which they have access to by virtue of their position is undesirable. In developed countries, such laws were prompted by insider trading associated with corporate officers,...
20 April 2007
Where is good governance in our public schools?
Something is amiss and some remedial measures ought to be undertaken to return the situation to normalcy. The Revised National Policy on Education, Botswana's education road map singled out centralization of power as a stumbling block to good...
20 April 2007
Reviving the Quartet
The Quartet has been dormant since 2000, because any peace process requires negotiations between the parties in conflict. Instead, the region has witnessed a policy of unilateral steps. Some measures - Israel's unilateral withdrawal from...
Volker Perthes* 20 April 2007
Is bonyatsi relevant in contemporary society?
According to Isaac Schapera, a leading anthropologist on Setswana customs, bonyatsi is when 'a man who is already married takes a concubine (nyatsi). The concubine maybe a divorcee, or a widow who would formerly have been taken over by one of her...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Isaac Chibua: The humble and gifted artist
"I developed interest in painting when I was still very young and by the time I did Form 5 I decided to be a full-time artist," Isaac said As luck would have it, in 1998, he was sent to Maun to do his national service at Nhabe Museum where he was...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
My African Dream search on
This year, however, the talent search crew only received entries from three areas being Gaborone, Francistown and Maun, despite having sent application forms to Lobatse, Jwaneng, Kanye and Ramotswa amongst others. The team has already started...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Nchunga is a rising star
But how could any less be expected of what was made of them? They whose lives were unknown to those who loved them." These are the words of the fiery young poet, Lesego Nchunga who has taken the world of poetry by storm. The young girl, who comes...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
BOOK REVIEW
It is a product of Mel Gibson's feverish creative energies based on his imagination and lust for violence that he has previously demonstrated in Braveheart (1995) and The Passion of the Christ (2004). Apocalypto received three Oscar nominations, but...
SASA MAJUMA 20 April 2007
Zim raises fare on F/town-Bulawayo train service
Fanuel Masikati, the NRZ public relations manager, said the new fare was effected last week, but argued that it was still lower than road transport fares. "It must be noted that the fare remains affordable if you compare it with other transporters...
FRASER MPOFU
Correspondent 20 April 2007
Are there lessons for Botswana in the Zambian privatisation experience?
NDOLA: Mining work is hazardous. Working underground can be even more dangerous than hunting man-eating lions in the Chobe or any where in the wild of the African savanna. In Zambia, far more people get killed in underground mine accidents each...
20 April 2007
STAYING AHEAD
The amount of mindless anti-American news that is generated from newsrooms - using Apple and Microsoft - is simply mind-boggling. We cannot even put this anti-Americanism to the United State's response to 9/11 because the news slant of many...
DICHABA MOLOBE 20 April 2007
CONSUMER WATCH DOG
I'm in the UKSo, does everything really work like clockwork here? Are the roads really paved with gold? Is every product perfect? Does every customer get treated like a queen or king? Sorry, noI know that the team at Consumer...
20 April 2007
Chiefs seek revenge
While ECCO are sitting comfortably at the top with 54 points from 24 games, Magosi are third with 41 points from 21 games. Chiefs must convincingly beat Santos and wish that ECCO City falter against troubled Lobtrans Gunners at the National Stadium...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
Photo finish in the north
A win for police-dominated GNT will definitely clinch the title but any slip-up will be disastrous if Boteti beat Spurs. GNT leads the pack with 42 points followed by Boteti with 41 points. If both sides win their weekend games, they must play each...
ERNEST KELAPILE
Correspondent 20 April 2007
ITTF expert drills locals
Addressing the students at the opening ceremony at BNSC conference room, Dawlatly said yesterday that he was pleased to be invited to such a significant project aimed at developing the sport in the country. He said he would try to include all the...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 20 April 2007
TASC seek to revive fortunes
In the first round, Matjimenyenga gunned TASC 1-0 and captain Shepard Mosekgwa feels that his team has what it takes to overcome the Tango Boys once again. He said as much as TASC is desperate to survive relegation, TAFIC also has a duty to improve...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 20 April 2007
Phikwe clubs stand on quicksand
Nico is currently 12th - two places above the relegation zone - with 25 points from 25 games while Satmos is rock-bottom with 16 points from 22 games in the 16-team league. So what went wrong? Nico United spent the better of the season hobbled with...
ERNEST KELAPILE
Correspondent 20 April 2007
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