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Africa's killer gets 10 years
Lesetedi told the fully-packed court that there was a breakdown in the couple's relationship caused by suspicions of infidelity, lack of candidness between the lovers and lack of maturity by Mothudi to know when to let go. The judge found that he had...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 17 August 2007
BDP spares the rod in Masitara bid
It has emerged that the party has written a letter demanding that millionaire and philanthropist Robert Masitara should not be opposed at the party's primaries, ahead of the 2009 general elections. The recently adopted code of conduct for the BDP...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 17 August 2007
GTV goes on air next week
So confident is the GTV that it has already included Botswana, among five African countries where it operates, on its website. The website says GTV coverage is available in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana and Mauritius. At the launch, senior GTV...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 17 August 2007
Batlokwa chief coronation on tomorrow
The guest speaker will be Bangwaketse Paramount Chief Kgosi Seepapitso IV while President Festus Mogae, Batlokwa tribal elders, cabinet ministers, Members of Parliament (MPs), senior government officials, and the general public are expected to...
17 August 2007
Industrial class employee prays for salary increment
Presenting before the Presidential Salaries Review Commission at the Serowe/Palapye Sub District Rural Administration Centre (RAC) Wednesday, Moswena said their cadre was exposed to serious danger, yet when it comes to remunerations "we are...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 17 August 2007
In the matter between ... attaching the deputy sheriff
Last week, a Gaborone deputy sheriff, Cain Mogorosi was advertised as the defendant "in the matter between", where his two vehicles are to be auctioned. The two vehicles have already been attached. This followed a legal dispute that...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 17 August 2007
Police officer faces criminal charges
Constable Boikhutso Mphoeng was allegedly found in possession of meat from stolen livestock. Mphoeng was given P500 cash bail, with two sureties binding themselves in the amount of P1,000 and was ordered to report to the police every week....
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 17 August 2007
Convicts deny defiling imbecile
In rejecting their appeal, Phumaphi concluded that the magistrate considered the evidence before him and believed prosecution witnesses in particular Daniel Mokgala who was the eyewitness. "Mokgala was equally invited by appellants to take part in...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 17 August 2007
Speak with one voice, commissioner tells workers
The Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) and Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority (BEDIA) chairperson expressed her worries after a team of health education personnel had made their presentations at last Wednesday's hearings held...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 17 August 2007
Modise pioneer of opposition unity
Although he has been contesting parliamentary elections on an opposition ticket since 1989 the Francistown based politician has never thought of quitting or even defecting to the ruling party. Modise cut his teeth in politics with the Botswana...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 17 August 2007
Missing luggage haunts major airports
Also transported are the countries valuable resources such as minerals in the case of Botswana. Everyday there are a lot of different airliners dropping out and taking off passengers to different destinations carrying luggage. But the services at...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
orrespondent 17 August 2007
SA mines poaching qualified Batswana
A senior officer at The Employment Bureau of Africa (TEBA), a company responsible for recruitment for South African Mines, Ratanang Maruping confirmed this week that in May, 2007, there was an advertisement for 45 jobs in South African mines and over...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 17 August 2007
Private equity funding buoyant
The recent allocation of five percent of the funds mandated to the private asset managers by Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund (BPOPF), which totals a staggering amount of P29 billion to the alternative assets class is, according to Selotate, a...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Correspondent 17 August 2007
Chinese delegation propose project
The delegation presented a three-year development plan with an investment amounting to US$50 million for the proposed scheme it styled the China-Botswana trade area. It involves transforming Botswana into a light industry hub for the assembling,...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 17 August 2007
The experiences of Ndaba and his Foamex Industries
Foamex has had more than its fair share of pitfalls and come close to going to the wall more than once. Ask its owner and Managing Director, Lisani Ndaba, who has been with the company since 1996 when he was appointed General Manager. He sums it up...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Correspondent 17 August 2007
CONSUMER WATCH DOG
Are we sufficiently patriotic? Or are we? Do we have a national inferiority complex? Do we think we are somehow less talented than our cousins in other countries? Do we think that because someone is in a bigger, better-known country then they are...
17 August 2007
STAYING AHEAD
But once they got hold of the mighty pen, they thought - for reasons that will always be best known to them - that this alone imbued them with intellectual firepower. They offer audacious counsel to everyone on every subject ranging from the...
DICHABA MOLOBE 17 August 2007
DCEC should up its game
In a society where openness and transparency are lip-service ideals, perceptions could mean more than impressions, perceptions could be the difference between truth and fantasy. Every time the public cites acts of corruption, such cases are rudely...
17 August 2007
QUESTION TIME
In fact, I went further, in that column, to express my left-of-centre position, that Government should itself, and through public sector agencies, initiate appropriate and necessary, broad social and material development which the local private...
PATRICK VAN RENSBURG 17 August 2007
Metropolitan is not committed to localisation
In my view, Metropolitan is not committed to localisation. I will explain. Metropolitan officials are quoted saying they could not stop people leaving their company. That is true. But they know where the real problem lies. It was rather...
17 August 2007
We salute you comrade Gugah!
It has never happened since the formation of BCP that when BNF members become fed up with their party, they would join the BCP. Their usual destination would always be the ruling Botswana Democratic party (BDP) where they hope to find manna. Even...
17 August 2007
'False' allegations by SI
We would be grateful if you would tell us which particular allegation or allegations made by Survival is said to be false, and why. If appropriate, we will withdraw them. We would particularly appreciate your assistance in relation to the hunting...
17 August 2007
NITTY GRITTY
Ausi Maggie picks up the joke and throws it back to the fellowship gathered around the oblong table: "You mean the very Nikita with several degrees in things political, economical, theoretical, domestical and problematical?" "I refer to the very...
BAROLONG SEBONI 17 August 2007
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17 August 2007
Bahurutshe Cultural Lodge: The custodians of Setswana culture
The place, which is the brainchild of Mmankudu Glickman and Victoria Massey, was primarily set up to preserve the culture of the Bahurutshe in 2005. A tour through the idyllic place takes one at least a century back and gives the visitor a glimpse...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 17 August 2007
BACK STAGE
In its first two weeks, according to 20th Century Fox, The Simpsons Movie has sold P2 billion worth of tickets worldwide. And it hadn't even opened yet in Botswana! If you liked them on TV you may love their first flick. Compared to the Flintstones...
SASA MAJUMA 17 August 2007
BOOK REVIEW
Thembelani Ngenelwa's story is, unfortunately, an all too frequent one. What is unusual is that he has taken the time to share it with us and Kwela Books has published it. The author talks to us warmly and in a soft voice abut his life and his...
Reviewed by Sheridan Griswold 17 August 2007
Gora breaks silence
He told Mmegi Sport yesterday that after writing many letters to TAFIC to settle the money they owe him, club officials made more promises that were never honoured. He said the club still owes him money. "Sometimes they would never pay me. Sometimes...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 17 August 2007
Bright takes full squad to Francistown
The game has been organised by Botswana Football Association (BFA) Francistown branch to raise funds to pay outstanding fees to referees. The game is also meant to take the Dream Team to the people and act as a build-up ahead of Olympic Games'...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 17 August 2007
ECCO City to hold awards night
The team, under the tutelage of Zimbabwean-born Barry Daka, is the first and only side that has won the Premier League title in the northern side of the country. This was despite the fact that they had been in the elite league for only three seasons....
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 17 August 2007
Referees' Cooper test tomorrow
The referees' commission secretary general Harris Lebotse said those who fail the test would be demoted. He said the test includes running. Assessment on the laws of the game would be arranged at a later date. He said it was important for referees to...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 17 August 2007
The flaws in the Rollers' game plan
There is no doubt that Township Rollers is an institution and has to perform to the expectations of its supporters. Since 2005 when they won the Coca-Cola Cup and Premier League double, Mapalastina have struggled to stamp their authority in local...
17 August 2007
Tlokweng: a village at the crossroads
As a former footballer and football coach Deputy Chief Spokes Gaborone would know what tight marking means. Well, if Tlokweng were a striker he would be in crowded spaces with men on all sides, spatially and culturally. Spatially Tlokweng is stuck...
17 August 2007
Mahalapye: Ko diponeng
Something about the bulbs of the lights caused colours to appear different than they actually were and for the young Tshipe and his cohorts, this was a cause for fascination. Those very lights, the only ones outside of Lobatse in the whole of the...
LAURI KUBUITSILE 17 August 2007
The lamentations of ba-ga-Mmanaana
Thamaga, which is in the Kweneng District, lies about 40km from the city of Gaborone. Some village elders in the Mogobjwa ward in Thamaga are disgruntled. For close to 131 years, they have lived as a subject morafe under the Bakwena and...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 17 August 2007
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