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Mogae Locked Out Of Opera Concert
By the time he arrived at the venue doors were closed, everyone was inside the theatre - and he gave up. The opera night was graced by a number of diplomats from the Chinese, German, French and the European Commission (EC) embassies among...
By Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 14 May 2007
Whither F/town Street Vendors?
In Botswana however the SMMEs especially the street vendors, have in the past clashed with local authorities over the spaces they are allocated for their operations. The Francistown City Council (FCC) is a case in point. The congestion at the...
By Oarabile Mosikare
Correspondent
| 14 May 2007
Sourcing Information From Govt Huge Nightmare
Two weeks ago, we sent a questionnaire to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. We wanted to know more about the copyright law and the establishment of the collecting society for artists and musicians royalties. Up to now there is no answer. In...
14 May 2007
The Winners Code
Warren Buffet, the famed American investor who for many years was ranked as the world's second richest man seemingly agrees with Shakespeare. Concerning himself he declared, "I was wired at birth to allocate capital." Where does this leave the rest...
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 14 May 2007
Issues In Education
Children can grow up without ever holding, let alone owning, a colourful illustrated children's book. Years ago Botswana embraced the idea of a "Book Flood" to primary schools through trunks of books and trying to start school libraries. This has...
D. MOLEFE
O. PANSIRI and
S. WEEKS 14 May 2007
Etcetera II
Maunge talked about a study on the Gaborone Dam catchment area, which had recently been undertaken by UB. He cited this report when suggesting that there are numerous small dams in the 4,000 square kilometres catchment area which...
SANDY GRANT 14 May 2007
Open Letter To SADC Leaders
Honourable elders, we write to invoke your memories, conscience and probably sympathy. Most of us as you might remember were born in the numerous refugee camps that were scattered throughout the region in the 70's. We are Zimbabweans by citizenship...
14 May 2007
Minister, Is This All That You Could Say?
The Honourable Minister is reported to have invited the expatriate male doctors to marry Batswana women so that they could easily get citizenship after five years. Does this reflect the current government's position on increasing the number of...
14 May 2007
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14 May 2007
BOBS Bans Plastics
At a special seminar recently, strong objections were met with an equally obstinate rhetoric from a standards officer: "What do you do with expired products? There will be measures taken against anyone found supplying the old plastic bags (after...
By Business Correspondent 14 May 2007
New Partnership To Boost Dukwe Mine Project
The terms of contract include mobilisation of the mining fleet, which, at full contingent, will consist of three face-loading shovels and twenty-six 100-ton haul trucks. African Copper says on its website that it expects this fleet to mobilise over...
By Wanetsha Mosinyi
Correspondent 14 May 2007
Cattle And Goats Return To Northern Trade Fair
This year's fair - whose theme will be 'Innovative Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Economic Diversification', is scheduled to be opened by Peter Breese, the Operations Director of LionOre. Already 70 institutions have booked exhibition spaces, but...
By Wanetsha Mosinyi
Correspondent 14 May 2007
Out To Lunch
While we know that retrenchment is often nothing more than an awkward business decision, and while we accept that in many cases management was objective, transparent and not at all malicious in their selection of candidates, we must acknowledge that...
SHAMEELA WINSTON 14 May 2007
Wacko-Jacko Antics Can't Save Michael
He had begun the week in grand style, copying Michael Jackson's famous moonwalk dance. Garbed in red white, a black suit, a black hat with a white strap around it, a white glove on one hand, the Francistown-born singer must have thought...
By Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 14 May 2007
South African Musos To Support Botswana's Sports
The programme has over the years produced football stars for the national squad, which reached group stages of the Olympic Games qualifiers this year. Volleyball has been admitted into the programme, while golf has also shown interest in taking...
By Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 14 May 2007
BDF XI Stumble In Title Race
They now face a daunting task in the remaining four games to catch up with title favourites ECCO City Greens who did not play at the weekend. ECCO have 60 points with three games remaining while BDF XI have 52 points. The two sides still have to play...
By Boitumelo Khutsafalo
Staff Writer 14 May 2007
Chiefs Win Again
It was not a good show as Chiefs were found wanting in defence and midfield and had they met a forceful side, they could have lost the match. TAFIC started well but Magosi hit them in the fourth minute when Oteng Moalosi headed home from close range....
By Tshepo Molwane
Staff Writer 14 May 2007
Rollers Humiliate GU
It was Rollers' second consecutive win after the 3-1 drubbing they handed to FC Satmos while GU was suffering a second 3-0 humiliation in less than a week. The defeat comes days after the Reds fell 3-0 to another cross town rival Notwane. Against...
By Tshepo Molwane
Staff Writer 14 May 2007
Cry For A Primary School
The death of Dineo Lesetedi last week was yet another incident in which a child's life has been ended by a motorist in the estate and residents now say enough is enough. They say children in the estate have to brave crossing many busy roads on their...
By Chandapiwa Baputaki
Staff Writer 14 May 2007
Women Plan To Push For Marital Rape
At the meeting, the MP briefed the women about the proposed Domestic Violence Bill. Kokorwe intends to table the bill in the next session of Parliament. She consulted the NGOs to have their input in the bill. The bill does not prohibit marital rape...
By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 14 May 2007
Botswana Lawyer Leads Zim Probe
Speaking from Harare, Boko told Monitor that the delegation had interviewed a number of high-ranking government officials. So far, the delegation has grilled the Commissioner of Police, Judge President, Chief Justice and the Minister of the...
By Oliver Modise
Staff Writer 14 May 2007
Unionists Face Privatisation Challenges
Once upon a time, the trade unionist visited a sweatshop (name withheld) at a Gaborone complex to check the working conditions. But he ended up badly when he was bundled out by police officers and company owners. "Ka tsewa fela jaaka lepai ka...
By Tshireletso Motlogelwa
Staff Writer 14 May 2007
Mogae To Officiate At Limkokwing Event
A speech from the Malaysian Minister of Higher Education will be read at the event. The president of the Malaysian university, Dr Lim Kok Wing said the Botswana branch that opened its doors with 1,500 students in March is part of a network of...
By Chandapiwa Baputaki
Staff Writer 14 May 2007
School Kitchen Still Unfinished After Seven Years
The facility, which upon completion would enable the school to cook using either gas or electricity, remains incomplete seven years after construction started. The school is in Mmopane, approximately 26 kilometres north-west of Gaborone. Curiously,...
By Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 14 May 2007
Toilets Demolished After False Alarm Of Missing Pupil
After a frantic search by rescue teams that were immediately dispatched to the scene, including heavy plant operators, it was established that no pupil was missing. But a block of six toilets had been wrecked by the machines, which did not stop...
By Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 14 May 2007
Batswana Have Dim View Of Children's Rights - Research
Research conducted by Ditshwanelo - the Botswana Centre for Human Rights - indicate that Batswana believe the notion of children's rights is in conflict with the traditional manner in which children should behave. The study found that most people...
By Oliver Modise
Staff Writer 14 May 2007
States Appeals Against Nigerian Medic
Earlier this year a magistrate's court in Ghanzi acquitted and discharged Solomon Okon Inyang after the presiding magistrate ruled that the charge sheet filed by the Ghanzi police for the state was embarrassing, unclear and sketchy in details. In the...
By Oliver Modise
Staff Writer 14 May 2007
Mothers' Day Evokes Mixed Emotions
It is at this time that mothers are pampered and given all the attention that they rarely get during the year. They are given presents as a sign of appreciation for all the things that they have done for their children and families. For children...
By Chandapiwa Baputaki 14 May 2007
It's plastic business as usual
Shoppers were still using the same plastics notwithstanding the environment inspired ban. According to the Botswana Bureau of Standards(BOBS) there are punitive measures which would carry a P 5000 fine or a prison term of three years for non...
15 May 2007
De Beers Prospecting shuts lab, relocates to SA
This comes five months after the company was faced with allegations of "quietly retrenching" its employees and heightening speculation that it was trying to provide employment for South African employees left jobless following the closure of its main...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
No corruption in Eltel saga - DCEC
Katlholo told journalists and members of the public at a press conference in Gaborone yesterday that after extensive investigations, the graft-busting organ had found no wrongdoing in the awarding of the P200 million project. "Corruption is the...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
DC calls for Red Cross building upgrade
She said that for the work done by the Red Cross volunteers, they deserve a better place to work in. Muzila who was a guest speaker at the World Red Cross Red Crescent Day in Francistown said that other buildings that are as old as the Red Cross have...
Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
Mogae urges Batswana to have compassion
Mogae said this at the World Red Cross Red Crescent Day held in Francistown last Friday. Mogae narrated how she was touched by a story that appeared in the local newspapers sometime last month that talked about a Zimbabwean woman who was left...
Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
Limkokwing to make Botswana an education exporter
Officially opening the temporary campus of the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology in Botswana yesterday, Mogae said the institution brings with it an international reputation for being practical trendsetters. "We have seen this from the...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
UB celebrates silver jubilee
He was speaking at the celebration of UB's 25th anniversary held at the UB Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) campus. "Out of the 400 doctors in Francistown, only 48 are Batswana and with the new fauculty of medicine, the number of local doctors...
KOPANO OLESITSE
Correspondent 15 May 2007
Weld your act together, scrap metal dealers told
They are also expected to form an association to regulate their business and maintain adequate health and safety procedures as required by the law. These are some of the far-reaching decisions announced after a meeting between police and the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
Mbaakanyi tutors women on assertiveness
She maintained that when women are given opportunities for education, access to resources, and a place at the political table their quality of life would improve. The minister linked the empowerement of women with a vibrant society, stating ...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
Media takes tourism to Xade - Beslag
Speaking in an interview, New Xade Sub-Chief Lobatse Beslag disclosed that villages and settlements in the region were slated to record sustainable growth on many societal fronts in the wake of plans to introduce television, radio reception and...
MARTIN NYIRENDA 15 May 2007
Mogae to declare 2007 a drought year
"I think it is premature to have an interview on the subject. But it is highly likely that this could be a drought year," said Ramsay. Further, Ramsay pointed out the before Mogae could declare that this is a drought year, the Office of the...
STRYKER MOTLALOSO
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
Botswana's first arts school on drawing board
The project has been on the cards for some time, he said in an interview in Gaborone over the weekend. "The BSA has been pushing to get a school of arts for the past 10 years. Now our dream will soon be realised," he said. Engels, who is a...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 15 May 2007
Tide turning for visual artists
Rantefe Mothebe, a veteran who is based at Thapong Visual Arts Centre, recently summed up the frustration of local artists when he said: " Nna ke ba reile kare ke batla go ya gae ka ya go innela teng. Botaki ga bo duele mo Botswana." It seems that...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
Freshly Ground to set Maitisong ablaze
The multinational band, which plays Afro-fusion, was formed in Cape Town in 2002. Some believe that the group has taken the crown from the now defunct Mango Groove whose leader/singer Claire Johnston has been compared to the young Zolani Mahola....
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
BACK STAGE
The Edukators is a complex film that is very multi-layered and is best enjoyed as a romantic farce with a cutting political edge. It calls on the viewers to recognise injustice and then take action. But will any? Jule (the expressive Julia Jentsch)...
SASA MAJUMA 15 May 2007
Moalosi's brace saves BMC
With two key strikers, Tiroyamodimo Mohambi and Kenny Ledikwe on the bench, young Edwin Moalosi stepped forward and gave BMC the all-important victory. On the other hand, TAFIC missed the scoring prowess of their top marksman Nicholas Gora who was...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
Majombolo on the rise
The narrow win came after 'Majombolo' thrashed Mochudi Centre Chiefs 3-1 at home two weeks ago. The BCL sponsored side is now sure of dodging the dreaded relegation axe after a long struggle. With only two games remaining, Nico is in 11th position on...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 15 May 2007
BNSC boss applauds Bonwatlou CJSS
Makgato-Malesu said it has been proven that teamwork produces better results than when people work in isolation. She was speaking after the school's 20km sponsored walk where she was the guest walker. The walk was hosted under the theme 'Team work...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 15 May 2007
Botswana to sign investment agreement with Zim
The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) president for the Bulawayo region, Charles Chiponda, says the organisation encourages Zimbabwean companies to take advantage of the Botswana market, describing it as "lucrative". Expanding their...
FRASER MPOFU
Correspondent 15 May 2007
Radio stations prepare to go nationwide
Yarona FM is looking over the horizon at Christmas 2007, while Gabz FM is planning for Independence in September. Gabz FM is targeting major villages like Palapye, Serowe and Maun. Station Manager Kennedy Otsheleng says he plans to keep the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 15 May 2007
Drought: Has our Early Warning System collapsed?
The limitation of the arrangements that the country has been on disaster management are also clear, thus making the very process of dealing sufficiently with the natural causes of drought difficult. Perhaps it is not far fetched to say that the...
EDITOR 15 May 2007
The minister lied Promises are promises
At the beginning of the introduction of school fees as a cost-sharing and cost-cutting measure, the Minister of Education made assurances to the public during the consultation process that students would not be sent home. Instead of sending children...
15 May 2007
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