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Botswana Misses Zim Fair
Speaking in a telephone interview from Gaborone, BEDIA's export promotion officer Maxwell Mosinyi said instead of travelling for the show, the authority would arrange contact promotion initiatives."The ZITF is not among the trade fairs that we will...
Fraser Mpofu
Correspondent 23 April 2007
Slow Start For Nigerian Elections
Printing issues meant voting papers for the landmark poll did not arrive from South Africa until Friday evening. An overnight attack on election HQ in Abuja failed when a petrol tanker laden with detonators failed to explode. The election should...
23 April 2007
Beware While In SA
This says a lot about the lack of security of Batswana's vehicles in South Africa. This is not a new phenomenon. It has been happening for a long time now. However, it appears that it gained momentum with the arrival of imported cars. Apparently a...
EDITOR 23 April 2007
Enter Through The Closed Door
When was the last time you made your way through a closed door with a "no entry" notice? Well, I urge you to introspect a little and literally and deliberately count the closed doors that you have gone through. Winning in the game of life is the art...
The Winners Code
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 23 April 2007
Wealth - Friend And Enemy
There have been major recent changes in the landscape of the diamond industry and reports of disaffection and unease in Debswana as a result of re-structuring programmes. There has been the further unrolling of the Zimbabwe tragedy. All of these...
Etcetra ll
SANDY GRANT 23 April 2007
MDC's Brutal Tyrant - Part 1
Even worse were the subsequent revelations made at the enquiry into the Guhu incident that senior ranking MDC officials and employees were either involved or sympathetic to the youths". This account was collaborated by Sokwanele, a Zimbabwean civic...
23 April 2007
Bugalo Chilume Is Incessant With The Vitriolic Mugabe
Ken Rankin, at that timeConsultant Orthopaedic surgeon at Mpilo-Hospital in Bulawayo and Dr. Davis, then mission doctor at St. Luke's Hospital in Lupane documented the atrocities and reported them directly to Robert Mugabe. However nothing changed."...
23 April 2007
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Ecco City Title Express Rolls On
Both teams started the first half at a low pace and only produced a handful of clear-cut chances. ECCO City nearly got an early goal in the seventh minute but Mandlaenkosi 'Sukunyetsa' Sibanda's shot went wide after receiving a good cross from...
Boitumelo Khutsafalo
Staff Writer 23 April 2007
BNSC Secures Athletes' Village
Although there has been a change to the original dream, BNSC chiefs are happy that they have finally struck a deal with the Botswana Housing Corporation (BHC) to sell them two blocks of flats at Block Nine to be used as the athletes' village. The...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 23 April 2007
Notwane Appeal 'Defaulter' Ruling
Notwane Public Relations Officer, James "Ace" Mooki said they have filed their appeal with the Botswana Football Association (BFA) Disciplinary Committee (DC).The Premier League Committee ruled last week that Notwane should forfeit all points they...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 23 April 2007
Botswana Golf Team In Uganda
It was smiles all round for youthful debutants Marcus Smith, Mpho Orapeleng, and Ishmael Nfila as they put on national team suits and ties for the first time. The youngest team member, Smith, is based in Pretoria, South Africa, where he...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 23 April 2007
Vee As Popular As Ever
This came at a time when some critics claimed the young kwaito sensation had lost some of his magic. Vee rose to fame after he released one of his best ever albums Kasi Angel in 2003 when he was still under Eric Ramco's stable. His next album Ntja...
Gasebalwe Seretse
Staff Writer 23 April 2007
I'll Write What I Know
Otherwise, music is just as good a recreational activity as playing soccer (which I also played at the level of captain of a Super League side) or playing war games at the Botswana Defence Force (BDF).l Having already played actively with some of the...
Talking Musika
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 23 April 2007
Sugar Diabetes: Basic Prevention And Management
Diabetes is a medical condition whereby the body is not able to appropriately utilise and manage glucose (the type of sugar in the blood) levels in the system. The causes are numerous, for example lack of the hormone insulin, which regulates...
Food For The Soul
BOITSHEPO GIYOSE 23 April 2007
NDB Pays Govt P13m In Dividends
Mojalemotho pointed out that based on the 12-month period - between April 2005 and March 2006 - the net profit rose by P13.2 million, or 35 percent, to P51 million."That notwithstanding, the bank experienced a reduction in interest income of P2.4...
Martin Nyirenda
Correspondent 23 April 2007
Equinox Secures Funds For Huge Copper Mine
Lumwana Mine mining manager Harry Michael says that the total investment for the development of the mine is pegged at US $ 762 million.Michael said that the remaining amount of US $178 million would be sourced from shareholders. The total would be...
Given Chikeu
Correspondent 23 April 2007
Capital Securities Hosts Financial Services Conference
Head of Client Services Leutlwetse Tumelo revealed that the objective of the conference is to "provide a platform for investors to identify investment opportunities in the financial services sector".Representatives of blue chips like Barclays Bank of...
23 April 2007
Moroka Off For EPA Talks
Moroka is expected to chair the eighth SADC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) involving Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Tanzania.The main objective of the meeting is to prepare for the start of the negotiations between...
23 April 2007
Intelligence Service Our Baby - Batshu
It is good for a country to have someone responsible for intelligence gathering to ensure nationBatshu told a farewell press conference in Gaborone last Friday. He said at the moment the commissioner of police "is the overseer of intelligence...
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 23 April 2007
Trans-Kgalagadi Highway Fencing On Cards?
When the 595km road was completed in April 1998, it was left unfenced, primarily to accommodate wildlife's natural migratory routes. Whether those routes have changed since its opening, is one of the questions to be answered by the study. Of late...
Keto Segwai
Staff Writer 23 April 2007
Academic Lawyer Contends Minister Was Bribed
Bugalo Maripe was responding to news that the Minister of Works and Transport had received five computers from Infradev Botswana a day before her ministry and the company signed a Memorandum of Agreement under which the company will supply Botswana...
Chandapiwa Baputaki
Staff Writer 23 April 2007
Angolan Refugee Gets Away With Six Strokes
Prosecutor Mokiya Mokiya told court that the incident took place on Independence Day last year. The assault occurred next to a water standpipe at Etsha 6 while the estranged couple were heading to the victim's yard. Passing sentence, Magistrate...
Nomsa Ndlovu
Correspondent 23 April 2007
Canadian Universities Officials To Visit
The goal of this mission is to provide a unique opportunity for Canadian university and college representatives to identify partnership opportunities through engagement with senior University of Botswana faculty, other tertiary institutions including...
23 April 2007
SA Criminals Grab Masisi's Car
"I still have the keys with me, but the car is gone," said a flabbergasted Masisi. His main worry is that car thefts at the hospital seem to be rampant as he learned that his car was the seventh to be stolen from the health facility so far this year....
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 23 April 2007
Domestic Violence Bill In The Offing
Kokorwe, who is also the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, told Monitor that she feels there is need for such legislation to address the escalating domestic violence in Botswana. Kokorwe is hopeful that her male colleagues will support...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 23 April 2007
Lifeline Botswana, Tshedisa Get Cash Boost
Explaining its role at a celebration last week, while registering appreciation for the donations, Lifeline Botswana president Elsie Alexander said they serve the community by promoting emotional well-being to people who need support.Alexander said...
Thato Chwaane
Staff Writer 23 April 2007
They Are 'As Thick As Thieves' At F/town's Bus Station
Their illicit 'business' thrives largely because people - mainly travellers - detest formalities, queues and commission charges at banks. The foreign exchange trade is mainly in the hands of foreigners of Shona stock and the Zezuru - their ethnic...
Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 23 April 2007
A Revolutionary vaccine for Africa in our grasp
The world's most advanced malaria vaccine, RTS,S made history in 2004 when results from a trial of 2,000 young children in Mozambique showed that a vaccine could reduce severe malaria by 49percent. Since severe malaria kills up to a million...
*Dr. Salim Abdulla 24 April 2007
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24 April 2007
'No time for complacency' Marole tells elite HATAB summit
Marole, who was the guest speaker at this year's 'Open Season', told his audience that it is necessary to raise the level of competition in the tourism sector. 'Open Season' is the annual gathering of players in Botswana's leisure and tourism sector...
24 April 2007
Orange executives pledge more to customers
Until the award of the new licences, Orange was limited to mobile phones while the BTC was confined to fixed lines. Orange has said although they were still working out a strategy to take them into the increasingly converging communications industry,...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 24 April 2007
Unique cheetah DVD to benefit schools
The film chronicles the lives of two farmers - a traditional one and the other a modern one or rather more appropriately a "weekend farmer." The DVD starts by setting the tone of being a wildlife-based show, depicting snippets of game at...
KETO SEGWAI
Staff Writer 24 April 2007
Rabotsima's drama skills go on test
The play was written and directed early this year by Thomas Mpoeleng, of Mama Theatre. Rabotsima is proud that he will be taking to the theatre a brand new product. "It is a completely new script. We started rehearsing it last month," says the...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 24 April 2007
Dargie returns
"I want to clear my name, that is my priority now because all the stories said about me were untrue. I owe no one here and if that was the case I would not be walking tall like this," Dargie said. The producer who launched the career of the late...
Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 24 April 2007
BACK STAGE
This is an unusual film that captures a moment in time and space in a small town in Catalonia in Spain in 1935, and up to the onset of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Little Moncho, "The Sparrow" (Manuel Lozano when he was eight), is seven-years-old,...
SASA MAJUMA 24 April 2007
Red-hot Sandaka strikes again
Sandaka joined GU at the start of the second round but he has already scored 10 goals. His exploits have made life very difficult for the Jwaneng side in their fight against relegation. For GU, it was yet another good day after a terrible first...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 24 April 2007
Fighters make hay as GNT, Mosquito sink again
The task was not very difficult given that they were perched on top of the log and facing bottom club Sua Flamingos in the last match of the campaign. But contrary to expectations, GNT were humiliated 3-0 by the visiting minnows while Young Fighters...
ERNEST KELAPILE
Correspondent 24 April 2007
Who is telling the truth?
Opposition MPs have expressed concern at statements made by President Festus Mogae at a ruling party Women's Wing dinner in Serowe over the weekend. Mogae said in Serowe that the MPs wanted to hold government at ransom by demanding that they can only...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 24 April 2007
Mass Media defend Kakapa Cup
The victors made it to the final after beating the Botswana Gazette 4-1 in the first semi-final while SABC North West came from behind to force a 1-1 draw and eventually beat Kakapa FC (Mmegi) 4-3 in a penalty shout out. The final started on a high...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 24 April 2007
Mogae reveals MPs' blackmail
"They maintained that they wanted their pay structure reviewed before they could pass the Judges Bill. We disagreed hence we suspended the issue and are still to engage in talks." The President said the government cannot fail to address national...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 24 April 2007
BNF is dying - BCP activist
"The BNF congress is going to be another world war," he said. To the crowd's amusement, Phage revealed that people in Molepolole are on high extra alert as police, soldiers and prison guards have already been told about the congress. "Many are...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 24 April 2007
Mahalapye, the nation lose a tireless servant
The Mahalapye community was shocked to hear about Dr Sheea's untimely death due to complications from diabetes in the early morning hours of the 14th of April. Not only was she a committed medical doctor, her dedication to her religion and her work...
LAURI KUBUITSILE
Correpondent 24 April 2007
Accident survivor relives experiences
Speaking at the Children's Traffic School, he said that about three years ago, everything was going well for him until the accident. He was just about to get married and to celebrate his son's first birthday. But all these were interrupted when he...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 24 April 2007
Skelemani links Intelligence Bill to economy
"The Kimberley Process which was established to guard against the sale of blood diamonds is not really enough because there could be crooks looking for a loophole to use and they would probably bring some of those diamonds to our country and then...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 24 April 2007
Not this time Mr President
Speaking outside his script, Mogae seized the opportunity to address MPs who have become increasingly assertive in the just ended session of Parliament to the chagrin of his government. Their rejection and vehemence in opposing the intention to...
EDITOR 24 April 2007
AS I SEE IT
After forty years of democratic rule in Botswana, it is time we interrogated the accolade from outside observers that we are a "shining example of democracy." Students of democracy agree that democracy is a process, not a finished product or a...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 24 April 2007
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