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Rights And Responsibilities
Take, for instance, on the domestic front, we have the negligent parent who spends time and money everywhere else and with anyone else except the home and family, and still expects to come home and demand recognition and respect. This sort of...
OUT TO LUNCH
SHAMEELA WINSTON 23 July 2007
All Eyes On BDP Mavericks As Parley Resumes
The four ruling party politicians provided the nation with some rare intellectual and frank debates on pertinent issues as the rest of their BDP colleagues shied away or sided with cabinet. The current parliamentary session is even more interesting...
23 July 2007
The Language Of Failures 2
Language coupled with strong belief has great power. Perhaps one of the greatest illustrations of the transformational potency of language is that of Swiss doctor Emile Coue. In 1895 in Geneva, Switzerland, Dr Coue's clinic was recording recovery...
The Winners Code
GEORGE CHINGARANDE 23 July 2007
The Onion Tower
The film revolves around Alex as he contrives to deceive his mother in order to perpetuate the fiction of a communist state. In Luanda, the mausoleum of the founding president is situated on 1st May Avenue. Its centre piece is a statue...
Etcetra
SANDY GRANT 23 July 2007
A Letter From Luanda
She sleeps through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the invasion of her country by western consumer products. Knowing his mother's devotion to communism, and owing to the doctor's warning that the patient would suffer a fatal heart attack were she to...
GUEST CULUMN
BOTSALO NTUANE 23 July 2007
The Cartoon Wasn't Derogatory
For starters, cartoons are meant to entertain and communicate. One prominent feature about cartoons is that they convey the message with little or no words at all. Again, most often than not, cartoons depict what is happening in current affairs...
23 July 2007
Your Newspaper Is Anti-Women
We would like to state that we find it unacceptable that a newspaper would go out of its way to publish a demeaning cartoon and then react to criticism by launching further anti-women attacks and, in the process, adding insult to injury by dragging...
23 July 2007
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23 July 2007
A Bird's Eye View Of Francistown
The office is strategically located on the second floor of Ngilichi House, a yellow edifice that sits at the corner of Selous Avenue and Haskins Street above Meriting Spar.It is not only the slow-moving traffic along the long and meandering street...
Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 23 July 2007
The Other Side Of Hospitality
He is a naturalised Motswana and as he shows me around the house, he delivers his full-throated sales pitch in mangled Setswana. The furniture is very basic, the floor uncarpeted and stuck on the wall is an A4 size paper that acquaints guests with...
Bashi Letsididi
Correspondent 23 July 2007
No Development, No Peace
When a war erupts, as in Darfur, most policymakers look for a political explanation and a political solution. This is understandable, but it misses a basic point. By understanding the role of geography, climate, and population growth in the conflict,...
*By Jeffrey D. Sachs 23 July 2007
Chief Magistrate Moves To Lobatse
He was admitted to bar in Ghana in 1974 and he came to Botswana as a senior magistrate. After a stint as a magistrate in Botswana he left to practice privately in Palapye and Selebi-Phikwe. The 64-year-old Obeng has been all over the country either...
Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 23 July 2007
Mooketsi Sparkles As Botswana Wins Rugby Cup
Against a robust Mauritian side that had already defeated tournament favorites Reunion 53-3, Botswana entered the last tie of the tournament with slim chances. However impressive goal tallies accrued against Swaziland (46-0) and Zambia (52-6)...
23 July 2007
Mafolofolo Maul Victory Seekers
The win was their third in the last four games they played. They have only lost once against Desert Kings and defeated Police and Prisons before their game against Teletswana who they played later on Saturday. Mafolofolo dominated from the onset....
23 July 2007
Chipolopolo Coach Hail Zebras
Speaking after the international friendly to mark the re-opening of the renovated and expanded Itekeng Stadium in Orapa, the Zambian said the Zebras gave his boys a tough time. "Although this was a friendly game, we took it seriously as our...
Ryder Gabathuse
Staff Writer 23 July 2007
BMC Striker Goes AWOL
When the transfer window opened in June, it was reported that Ledikwe's former club (GU) had liked to re-register him for the 2007-08 season. BMC team manager Thabo Motswetla told Monitor Sport at the weekend that he has tried several times to get...
Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 23 July 2007
Olympic Day To Be Commemorated In Gantsi
Kamanga said BNOC has adopted a rotational system to host the event. As a result, last year's event was held in Molepolole. The BNOC boss stated that they are also embarking on preaching the gospel of the Olympics to Batswana. He explained that...
Mosah Mokganedi
Correspondent 23 July 2007
Beckham In Mission Unnecessary
After all, Beckham is coming to America to save football. Isn't he? Well, actually, probably not. The perception is that Beckham will do for soccer what Pele could not do and put it right at the heart of sport in the United States. But the...
23 July 2007
Mfa Scores Own Goal
He said that people take drought relief as a form of employment and they end up living their farms to work under the programme. "It is very sad to see our people abandoning agriculture which for a very long time has been the mainstay of the economy...
Tumelo Setshogo
Correspondent 23 July 2007
Retrenchments Threaten Legacy Of IDM Boss
She says poor communication and consultations are to blame for the confusion that reign among IDM workers in the three branches in Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho. The workers fear they will get peanuts when they are retrenched anytime after the IDM...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 23 July 2007
Ministry Signs Agreement On Second Varsity
Speaking at the signing ceremony event held at the ministry headquarters on Friday, Nkate stated that his earlier concern about the slow progress in the process of making the university a reality have been put to rest. "I was concerned that for the...
Chandapiwa Baputaki
Staff Writer 23 July 2007
Indigenous Medicine: Potential And Pitfalls
Stepping into the spa, one encounters the feathery aroma of lotions and herbs. Soft lights give objects around a soft glow. To the right is a table and on top of it a plaque with the inscription "Spa of the Month Award, May 2007. Congratulations...
23 July 2007
Bontleng Marketplace Still A Void
Be that as it may, the edifice was put up by the council as a marketplace in the mid-1980s. But it became an instant white elephant because vendors, for whom it was built, said it was not strategically located and that there was no business in the...
Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 23 July 2007
TEC Aims To Streamline Registration
Public Relations Officer Donny Dithato said in Gaborone last week that the workshop would also present lessons learnt on the basis of which recommendations for improvement would be made drawing from a critique of the post-registration Report and...
Chandapiwa Bapukati
Staff Writer 23 July 2007
BNF To Resuscitate Puo-phaa
The conference resolved that BNF should develop a comprehensive policy document on agriculture. The document should include the creation of a farmers/agricultural bank; and agricultural cooperatives and a central market. The party intends to advocate...
Staff Writer 23 July 2007
Repeat Offender Rebukes Magistrate
After the elderly Obeng handed down six years for the first count of burglary and four years for the second count of stealing from a dwelling house in Tonota on Dallas Benoni, the youthful Benoni pleaded with Obeng to order the sentences to run...
Oarabile Mosikare
Correspondent 23 July 2007
US Church Donates To Kanye Destitute Families
Two orphans centres, the Bona Lesedi and Lesedi Counselling Centre also got P1, 000 and P1, 500 respectively. Granny Mmantho Wasilabele and her nine grand children have been sleeping dangerously in two small separate rooms without proper doors, one...
Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 23 July 2007
MAD Chooses Senior Category Finalists
The competition kicked off with Total Musica, a kwasa-kwasa dance group from Francistown. They were followed by another group from the 'Ghetto' - Scandals - whose incredible dance routines left revellers screaming for more. Scandals is a kwaito dance...
Gasebalwe Seretse
Staff Writer 23 July 2007
'Peacock' Changes Tune
Releases like Italente and Ndizize Nkosi have failed to create the same hype, which followed Isiponono's release. Like many others, who left their home countries to try their luck in Botswana, Mazolwana moved from East London, South Africa, to...
Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 23 July 2007
Nation Doing Little To Jack Up Music In Schools
But that should not stop us from asking questions about the apparent boycott of the event by the private sector. How much is the private sector contributing towards the good running of the music contests which help to complete the cycle of education...
Talking Musika
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 23 July 2007
Nutrition In Middle Age: What To Look Out For
We all know that as kids, we were constantly forced to dress up warmly and we never seemed to feel cold. But now? Hmm, tell me about it! We fight overweight and obesity, heart problems, rheumatism, sugar diabetes and plain old age. As a young active...
Food For The Soul
BOITUMELO GIYOSE 23 July 2007
Mandlebe To Go On Secondment To The ADB
Wilfred Mandlebe, presently Secretary for Financial Affairs at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, will leave the Botswana treasury at the end of July to join the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Tunis on secondment effective from...
Business Reporter 23 July 2007
Nickel Prices Lift Export Earnings
The BoB financial statistics show that first quarter growth was 'extremely sharp', rising from P592.5 million of the first quarter of 2006 to P1 745.1 million in 2007."This is due mainly to much higher nickel prices, which grew by about 180 percent...
23 July 2007
Orange Is In No Kneejerk Reaction PRO
"Orange is not being reactive," Tlhabiwe says. "We introduce new products and services for the benefit of our customers according to a business strategy set out well in advance. "While cognisance is taken of market trends, our decision-making...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 23 July 2007
SA Mining Minister Unhappy With De Beers
South Africa and other regional diamond producers have been pressuring De Beers to distribute more rough diamonds locally to create jobs in the polishing and jewellery sectors. Jonathan Oppenheimer was quoted as telling a presentation that subsidies...
23 July 2007
Oil Prices Bracing For All Time High
What's even more striking is that the OPEC Basket, which is composed of heavier, lower-quality crude oils, hit an all-time peak of $73.23 (about P443.04) per barrel on July 19. The OPEC Basket usually trades at a substantial discount to the Western...
23 July 2007
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