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Eleven Students perish in road collision

He said the accident happened yesterday morning between 0900 and 1000 hours. Though he said the details were still sketchy, he explained that two trucks and a minibus were involved in that accident. "We heard that two trucks, one of them pulling a...

MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 28 August 2007

OP is Ombudsman's skunk ministry

In the year under review, the Ombudsman received 1,080 complaints from members of the public and the majority of them were about the ministry of the State President. Out of the 1,080 complaints 311 or 29 percent were complaints that emanated from the...

GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 28 August 2007

Defence lawyers ambush DPP in Daisy Loo case

The DPP, Leatile Dambe came prepared for trial yesterday at the Broadhurst Magistrates' Court but she was halted when the lawyers made two applications saying they have not been given all the statements of witnesses the state wishes to call. The...

OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 28 August 2007

Ruthless child-killer to plead guilty

The accused only speaks Senarwa, which is spoken in the Gantsi districts. The defence lawyer, Morris Ndawana had to take time to explain to the accused the facts of the case in the presence of the interpreter, Tsebe Qoma who speaks both Senarwa and...

KOPANO OLESITSE
Correspondent 28 August 2007

Batswana students perish in Malaysia

According to Mosoma Kgotla the deceased students who were studying at Multi-Media University and KDU college and originated in Kanye and Molepolole respectively. "It is true that two students died on the early hours of Saturday but we do not have the...

CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 28 August 2007

Mogae appoints commission for political leaders

The group consists of the President himself, the Vice President, the speaker, ministers, assistant ministers, the deputy speaker, the leader of opposition, members of parliament, the deputy speaker, members of Ntlo ya dikgosi and councillors....

STAFF WRITER 28 August 2007

'It is unjust to regulate freedom' - teachers told

This is a misconception that has to be debunked, said Duma Boko, speaking on 'Trade Union Rights in Botswana and The Violations'. Attorney Duma Boko, BOSETU's legal adviser, also told the teachers that rights are not conferred on anybody by...

OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 28 August 2007

Botswana excels at PMTCT

At a press briefing last week, the visiting UNICEF deputy regional director, Dorothy Rogza said that over 90 percent of mothers are tested and very few babies are born with HIV. "It is extraordinary. It is an example to the rest of the continent; a...

THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 28 August 2007

Release the Zimbabwe report

There is every indication that with every passing hour, the situation is becoming unbearable for ordinary Zimbabweans. Shop shelves are bare of even the basic foodstuff. With the state bullying traders to operate under the most fiscal repressive...

EDITOR 28 August 2007

AS I SEE IT

These talks foundered on the principle of, what model? BAM angled for a merger and the BCP was skeptical about this model, basically influenced by the general membership who were revolted by the suggestion, of name change. In the just ended round...

MICHAEL DINGAKE 28 August 2007

China's threat to Russia

But a new strategic alliance between the two countries is not likely, as it is China that poses the greatest strategic threat to Russia, although many in the Kremlin seem blind to this as they rattle sabers at America and the West. Indeed, China...

ANDREI PIONTKOVSKY* 28 August 2007

Cartoon 28.08.07

28 August 2007

New SADC HQ a public-private partnership project - Salomao

SADC has entered into contract with a local company, Bongwe Investments which will design, finance, construct and maintain the building. The SADC headquarters is going to be built at the new Central Business District (CBD) on a plot offered by the...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 August 2007

JP Morgan acquires controlling shareholding in Diamonex

Mining at the US$18 million Lerala Project is expected to start in the last quarter of this year with first production anticipated in early 2008. Diamonex, which has a primary listing on the Australia Stock Exchange, is now 9.9 percent owned by JP...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 28 August 2007

Debswana finances building of hall in Lentsweletau

The project includes a multi-purpose hall which will be partitioned into exhibition stalls for the annual Kweneng North Agricultural Show. Office space will also be available for rental. Says Ben Mogapi, a community leader who sits on the...

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 28 August 2007

Young farmer's Swiss bull grabs all prizes

Twenty-five year old Mooketsi Tshaakane, a final year student at the Molepolole College of Education, saw his brown Swiss grab the Besturous, the Best Dairy Junior Bull, and the Grand Champion prizes sponsored by Debswana. The coveted Grand...

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 28 August 2007

Punah's music goes online

And Gabasiane says she decided to take her music online in order to expose her products and services to the international audience. Gabasiane, who has just released a third Afro-jazz album, says she was prompted to go online because the local market...

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 28 August 2007

Music: Elvis took pop music to new crescendo

Evils died of drug related complications in August 1977. He did not event rock 'n' roll but made it immensely popular, especially in the early 1950s and 1960s. He was a charismatic and handsome performer who enthralled his audiences with his...

ALFRED MULENGA
Correspondent 28 August 2007

BACK STAGE

It is the last of four films in a Herzog-Kinski Festival. Writer and director Werner Herzog loosely based his script for Cobra Verde (or the green snake) on the novel by Bruce Chatwin The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980). Chatwin had heard of Francisco...

SASA MAJUMA 28 August 2007

Bright is Rollers' coach

Rollers communications' manager Kaizer Sekaba confirmed that they have agreed terms with the tactician. "He's starting work today (yesterday) and we're happy to have brought him into our stable. There is no doubt that Bright is an experienced coach...

TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 28 August 2007

Magosi advance in Independence Cup

Chiefs showed that they want to go all the way to win the cup as they fielded a full strength squad including new signings Tshepo 'Talk Talk' Motlhabankwe, Mpho 'Jomo' Mabogo and Thato 'Sister Bertina' Siska. Magosi would like to get back on track...

TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 28 August 2007

No contest in TAFIC polls

The clubs retained their positions save for assistant manager Simon Mapolelo who was relegated to additional member. Thomas Maika is still the TAFIC chairman with Bushy Moswate as his vice. Emmanuel Dube is the manager and Rapula Changana as...

MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 28 August 2007

Lucas wins Northern Golf Open

This was Lucas' third victory in succession this year after he won the Orapa and Jwaneng tournaments. Though he got serious competition from Peter Podise and Dion Frost from Francistown, a confident Lucas escaped with two shots ahead of his rivals....

MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 28 August 2007

Botswana's Justice becomes first BB2 evictee

Contrary to the emotions and gloom that usually prevail when a housemate is evicted, Justice was cheerful even when the presenter said that he should leave the house immediately. First the housemates sat in the house nervously waiting for the...

MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 28 August 2007

Ministry launches solar energy curriculum

He said Botswana has limited energy sources but is blessed with abundant sunshine for most of the year. He said the government has decided to install solar water heating systems in its houses. He said that the systems have not worked satisfactorily...

THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 29 August 2007

DNA test to identify the dead

Among the dead are Sedie Community Junior Secondary School (CJSS) students and teachers who were returning to Maun from a successful sports trip in Gaborone. Their 27-seater minibus collided with a truck near Mashoro and the two vehicles caught...

MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 29 August 2007

Phikwe cemeteries full

Selebi-Phikwe Mayor, Benjamin Bagayi told a full council meeting, Tuesday, that the mining town's cemeteries were almost full. Bagayi said a new site near the town's landfill had been identified. "The township cemeteries, which are located in the...

KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 29 August 2007

For male eyes only?

The sorry-looking convict would be ordered to lower his trousers and underpants to receive the lashes on bare-buttocks. At a Gaborone Customary Court, the flogging was so serious that blood splashed on the walls. In another incident in Mogoditshane,...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 29 August 2007

Tshabalala to appear in court in October

Chief prosecution counsel, Matlhogonolo Phuthego of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said yesterday that Tshabalala volunteered to come to Botswana to face trial after there were many unsuccessful attempts to extradite him. He said...

BAME PIET
Staff Writer 29 August 2007

Kasane man gets claim processed after 25 years

About a year later, in 1981, he suffered 30 percent permanent-partial injury to his back when he fell off a moving tractor belonging to his employer. His compensation claim for the injury was not processed until years later when the poor man had...

29 August 2007

Mma-Ten Days at your service if you wanna tipple

Otherwise take any taxi plying the Blue Town route at the busy taxi rank and tell the driver- as confidently as possible, or with a good dose of Dutch courage- to take you to Mma-Ten Days. He will deliver you at the place with not much ado,...

GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 29 August 2007

Every dog has its day

In the recent past they have attacked, killed and then consumed small livestock like goats and sheep and there is fear that they may resort to killing and eating their best friend- a man- in the long run. Elderly Lasaro Lulani was a pitiful sight...

GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 29 August 2007

Eland could be the next kgomo

For years, the eland or 'phofu' in Setswana has remained one of the most endangered species that can never be hunted. It is rarely seen too due to its dwindling population in the wild. The picture could soon change though thanks to a pilot...

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 29 August 2007

Someone is sleeping on the job

The latest report covers the 2005-2006 operation year and it is only made public towards the end of 2007 when everybody has forgotten what issues were reported. Strike when the iron is hot! Does anybody at the Office of the President has any idea...

EDITOR 29 August 2007

A ritual whose origin nobody knows

For all these years not once have I ever paused to ask myself why is this being done. What is it meant to signify? For what reason should people have to view the deceased before burial? How did the practice originate? What were the circumstances that...

29 August 2007

Mogoditshane North councillor is out of order

All I was looking forward to was to arrive home, get a refreshing warm shower, and have a short catch up conversation with family members before I retire to a relaxing sleep. But when I was just about some 300 metres to my place, the car I was...

29 August 2007

Badminton must put its house in order

I wish to comment critically through your newspaper to the words alleged to have been aired by a certain Botswana Badminton Association National under 19 Team Manager Kele Mogege in an interview with Mmegi Sport, concerning the performance of the...

29 August 2007

Japanese firm to buy stake in Mmamabula Project

Canadian-listed CICC Energy and Britain's International Power (IPR) previously held a 50 percent stake in the coal mine and thermal power station project each. The plant, which is expected to begin operations in 2012, will supply electricity to the...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 29 August 2007

Africans resent criticism of 'snooty' evaluators - Director

Ellen Madisa, the Director of Finance at MFDP, says what came out during the closed session of the Eastern and Southern African Anti-money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) conference at the Gaborone International Convention Centre last week is that most...

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 29 August 2007

African Bank considers hefty buyout of Ellerines

ABIL is looking at acquiring the entire issued ordinary share capital of the company at a price of P73.95 per share. The board of directors of Ellerines has already received a request letter from ABIL and has expressed interest in...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 29 August 2007

Masiela fund-raising for Hugh Masekela?

Officials confirmed that Masekela is going to perform at the fund-raising event next month. According to sources, the South African veteran muso wants P80,000 for the show and this might push the bill to P100,000 once accommodation costs are added. A...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 29 August 2007

Kwaito stars Mapetla, Skazzo come out 'smokin'

There is no doubt that Skazzo is a thoroughbred on the microphone. The first round came with a killer track, Abaswe, where Skazzo tapped our chins with an impressive flurry of his street banger. This is the song that showed how talented and...

BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 29 August 2007

Artiste releases 'best' gospel album

The Sikwane-born, third year University of Botswana (UB) student has a rich background of gospel music from childhood. "I listened to Phempheretlhe, Joel, South Africa's Lundi Tymara, Rebecca Malope and other gospel artistes. They all influenced my...

AKEEM HASAAN
Correspondent 29 August 2007

Maxy's 'mystery' producer a Zim maestro?

Angry musicians have decided to let the cat out of the bag and told Showtime there was "no special reason" why the producer's name should have remained mysterious. Two musicians interviewed by Showbiz, but who preferred anonymity, said what...

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 29 August 2007

Miss Farmers: Where did youthful show-goers go?

To make matters worse, the showground itself was virtually empty, with government departments' tents as the only visible structures. It is 9am as Showbiz arrives, fearing the morning events had started. The programme indicates that by 8.30am, Orapa...

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 29 August 2007

Masomere parts ways with GU

At the time of his arrival, the Gaborone giants were performing under par and he immediately turned things around. He achieved some notable results after he roped in three quality Zimbabwean players in Sageby Sandaka, Edmore Mufema and Itayi Gwandu....

TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 29 August 2007

Kelebale set to leave Majombolo

He plans to join a new club during the January transfer window. Kelebale said he wants to move to a new environment and he has nothing against Nico, a side that injected life into his career. The dread-locked player had to undergo surgery after he...

KENNETH BANDA
Sport Correspondent 29 August 2007

BISA contingent leaves for COSSASA Games

The games take place on Friday and Saturday. BISA publicity secretary, Etlhomilwe Raditshego told Mmegi Sport that they are ready for the games after very good preparations. He said that all the teams except the boys' football side have been in camp...

BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 29 August 2007

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