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Mogae addresses round-table on democracy,human rights
The Round-table was convened and chaired by the US President, George W. Bush. It was attended by an additional 25 Heads of State and Government from Asia, Europe and Latin America, as well as Africa. In addition to Botswana, SADC was represented by...
27 September 2007
International firm finances Gabane CHBC
The donation by Gleeds was handed over by British peer Lord Nigel Jones accompanied by his wife Katy and daughter Amy. The money will be used to help complete classrooms currently under construction at the CHBC plot. "In April this year, I was one...
ARNOLD LETSHOLO
Correspondent 27 September 2007
BAM-BCP appoint coordinating committee
Following the signing of an electoral accord between the two parties, the committee has been tasked with coordinating the overall activities and political programmes of the two parties. BAM's Wanke Wanke, Dennis Alexander, Lingisani kuli and BCP's...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 27 September 2007
Mahalapye court arsonists convicted
The court, situated along the A1 Highway, was valued at P865, 415.80. The goods in the house were worth P132, 732. The house has not been rebuilt. A security guard, Botshelo Keobokile told the court that three men attacked and hit him...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 27 September 2007
Gap in HIV response to 'homos', prostitutes
Oratile Moseki said at a media briefing held in Gaborone on universal access issues in Botswana on Tuesday that in a national spending assessment commissioned by NACA last year it was found that there is no spending on these groups. This is despite...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 27 September 2007
Hunt for BIUST vice chancellor starts
Deputy project coordinator Mogotsa Kewagamang told Mmegi in Gaborone yesterday that a contract was yet to be signed with Academic Partners, "a specialised recruitment company to begin the recruitment process of the founding vice chancellor". He...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 27 September 2007
Windscreens havoc on Mahalapye road
Acting Station Traffic Officer, Inspector Samuel Kgomo of Mahalapye said his station received reports from Monday this week. The police are assisting the motorists so that they can make claims from the insurance companies. Other complaints are...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 27 September 2007
Minister should clear Mahalapye-Dibete road mess
The development can only help to further erode the credibility of the company in Botswana. It was obvious that the road was not going to be ready for use by Friday. Still the company management saw it fit to insist otherwise. It was a wide-off the...
EDITOR 27 September 2007
Lets support Burmese struggle
Led by thousands of Buddhist monks the Burmese people are demanding the right to free speech, the right to free movement and a right to vote in an election whose results, all of which we in Botswana take for granted. The latest reports suggest that...
27 September 2007
Why does BTV have no money for Batswana?
They have no money for BFA's Premier league rights. They have no money for Billy Kokorwe's documentary. They have no money at all for Batswana. Buying foreign material however, has been easy for them. That really makes me jump out of my skin. But...
27 September 2007
Is Mugabe old?
We relax and wait for sometime, maybe a day or two for the medicine to work but only to realise that the condition of the person keeps on deteriorating. We panic and take the patient back to the same doctor even before the review date is due with a...
27 September 2007
Cartoon Strip 27.09.07
27 September 2007
Visually impaired singers release album
The tracks in the album, chronicle the weekend's hectic activities. Of the five members of the group, only Onnetse Pitoro is sighted. However, the disability of the other group members has not affected their singing skills. Lentswe la...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 27 September 2007
Rockas album launch
Performers on the programme included Franco, Culture Spears, Mogote, Tselakgopo, T.H.A.B.O., Stompi and many other upcoming artists. The launch started on a low note, but more revellers came in later to enjoy some outstanding performances by the...
SERWALO MAZWIDUMA
Correspondent 27 September 2007
Local bands rearrange sets
Over the last seven years Nnunu Ramogotsi, Suggie Fisher, Nono Siile, Shanti Lo and Kearoma Rantao had become popular, singing behind giants such as the late Duncan Senyatso, Socca Moruakgomo, Ndingo Johwa, and Punah Gabasiane. In the beginning...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Correspondent 27 September 2007
Ozone to stage independence festivals
The club will host two festivals in the car park over the holidays. All the festivals will featuring local artists only. The first festival on Saturday would be billing the likes of Maxy Sedumedi, Scar Matlhabaphiri,...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 27 September 2007
FNBB launches Business Banking unit
This was revealed at a breakfast meeting hosted by FNBB to launch its new business unit, Business Banking, at the Gaborone International Conference Centre (GICC) yesterday. Delivering the keynote address, Tsholo Kokorwe, who will head the new...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 27 September 2007
NBB revamps licensing system
The Botswana Telecommunications Authority (NBA), the body under which NBB falls, recently kicked off the process by opening a tender for the initial stages of the process. The new framework is expected to adjust the range of mechanisms through which...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 27 September 2007
Botswana confirms participation in Zone VI softball
The Botswana Softball Association (BSA) president Tirelo Mukokomani said this week that they made a commitment to take part in the tournament in a meeting over the weekend. Botswana was the only country that did not confirm participation at the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 27 September 2007
Debswana donates to Kgalagadi school
The donation of 50 chess sets and 40 clocks was presented to the schools by the mine's security manager Moagi Ndlovu at a ceremony attended by officials from the Botswana Chess Federation (BCF), the mine and the school. Speaking at the ceremony,...
KENNETH BOIKHUTSWANE
Correspondent 27 September 2007
Aussie karate expert impressed
They (local karatekas) move fluently and almost naturally. They are amazingly athletic," said the Australian. Kassis told Mmegi Sport at his second training session with some of the national team karatekas and coaches on Tuesday that having raw...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 27 September 2007
Kuru's resolve to combat TB
However, obviously with the advent of HIV and AIDS, by 2005 that rate had shot to a staggering 602 per 100 000, which by the ministry of health's admission is "one of the highest globally, with mortality of about 10.6 per cent compared to 2-3 per...
27 September 2007
Gaborone Set For Building Boom
Some of the notable structures in recent years are the Riverwalk Mall, Game City and Molapo Crossing. The fast-growing city is earmarked for more architectural masterpieces in the next few years as the country prepares for the 2010 World Cup in...
Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
Correspondent 28 September 2007
ATM Blaster Gets Five Years In Jail
Molale and two others, Hama Mapine and Kesebonye Male, are said to have used explosives to destroy the ATM in March this year. The two did not plead guilty. Molale, who walks with the support of a stick, was shot in the leg when the police...
Bame Piet
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
Lack of equipment stalls schools softball development
He explained that though his office is faced with a number of hiccups, shortage of equipment is the major one. Kopano asserted that softball equipment is expensive and that his office does not have enough funds to buy them in bulk. He said the...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 28 September 2007
Gunners set to blast Majombolo?
After gunning down league champions, ECCO City Greens 2-1 last weekend, all eyes will be on the Lobatse side if they continue with the winning streak. The win against ECCO came as a relief to coach Clever Hunda who was criticised from some...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
Bafana confirm Zebras tie
There has been uncertainty whether the game will go on as scheduled because a number of players have been withdrawn from the Bafana Bafana squad due to the Telkom Knockout Cup. Though COSAFA secretary-general Ashford Mamelodi said during the week...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
Senegal Threatens Sudan Withdrawal After Killings
In addition to the Botswana soldier killed in the attack, a Senegalese, seven Nigerians and one Malian were part of the casualties while dozens more were reported missing. The commander of the new hybrid peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan, Gen...
28 September 2007
Tackle Unemployment Now
At the various wards in every village and town, people ate and drank as government contributed funds to enable the nation to celebrate Boipuso with great pomp. President Mogae gave an inspirational message on national television as well, narrating...
EDITOR 28 September 2007
CBNRM: Reducing The Urban - Rural Development Divide
My focus then was on the exploitation of wildlife resources and the community based natural resource management (CBNRM) concept. Recently, Botsalo Ntuane vehemently argued against the CBNRM. The concept does not seem to enjoy support from the head of...
28 September 2007
Uncommon Wisdom: Winning With Emotional Intelligence
It does not matter how talented and well endowed you are, in order to succeed it is imperative that you win with people. The greatest challenges that most people will ever face will be relationship centered. Customers and suppliers; subordinates and...
28 September 2007
Guest Column
That was during the murder trial of Marietta Bosch, the South African woman resident in Botswana who had snuffed out the life of a friend so she may have the cuckold's husband to herself. The arrest and trial of a white South African in...
DOUGLAS TSIAKO 28 September 2007
Behaviour responses of Basarwa to HIV/Aids (part 2)
The responses that emerged were the following:HIV ke bolwetse jo bo maswe thata bo bo feditseng batho.Which literally translates to HIV is a dangerous disease that has killed a lot of people.HIV ke loso which translates to; HIV is death HIV ke...
28 September 2007
A history of Botswana cinema Part 2
As such, there was no more enthusiastic exponent than the young district commissioner stationed with Kgosi Bathoen at Kanye in 1944-45, one Hugh Ashton, PhD. Ashton was already a cinema buff. He had worked with the film-maker Bill Lewis of...
NEIL PARSONS 28 September 2007
'Botswana, South Africa rated least corrupt African nations'
Both countries scored more than 5 from a possible score of 10 on the CPI, and are rated among the top 50 least corrupt nations in the world. According to the CPI, the top 10 least corrupt Africa nations also include Cape Verde (4.9), Mauritius...
28 September 2007
On a quest to find the modern Motswana hero
Out here in the rural regions of the country, one may not find the usual hero. At least not the type that fits the mainstream storyline. Mainstream definitions of a national hero have not been very open lately, particularly the urban and...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
At independence; Bongaka
Every now and then he looks up at a tall tree, or down at a shrub. He squints in concentration, as if it were the tree or the shrub that is the patient. He holds the leaf for some time, rubbing it with his fingers. He looks at the tree with eyes a...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
Seretse Khama's farmhands miss the good old days
They peer through their overgrown tlhare-setala to look at the big yellow house that lies to the north west of their Palama-o-kuwe yard in Serowe. After surveying the breadth of the big yellow house and satisfied that all is fine they feel spiritual...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
Serowe: the village of presidents and firsts
On this Sunday morning he went to a funeral before he could rush to a church service at the United Congregational Church of Sourthern Africa. After two hours of service the church disperses for the day. Before he goes home he passes through the...
GIDEON NKALA
28 September 2007
Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Mnangagwa take Zimbabweans for granted
Go ahead; count the skeletons. It is all part of the grotesque act because, you see, Zimbabwe's parliamentary circus plays with skulls, not balloons. And these our parliamentarians, supposed custodians of our democracy, are the authors of the...
*TANONOKA JOSEPH WHANDE 28 September 2007
Poverty a factor in TB transmission to children
Since 1989, the national TB notification rate has shot up from 202 per 100 000 to an all-time high of 602 per 100 000 in 2006. For the country as a whole, 10 percent of TB cases are children aged between 0 to 14 years. The Deputy Permanent Secretary...
KETO SEGWAI
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
Etcetera II
Building new top grade hotels for all those visitors is fine but how many are expected, two thousand a day for three weeks, or perhaps five thousand? Do the figures projected by the companies investing in those hotels coincide with those of the...
SANDY GRANT 28 September 2007
Men break limbs at Nata 'Mbidzi'
When the work is done the host reciprocates with traditional "mukuru" beer to thank them. The occasion is called "Mbidzi". A witness in the case in which Balashiki "Ndu" Ketlhabanetswe is facing an assault charge had the court at sixes and...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 28 September 2007
Man's body discovered in river
The 23-year old man, who was attacked and dragged into the river by a crocodile last week Friday, met his death while swimming in the Chobe River. Kazungula police station commander, Frankel Mohutsiwa, says his officers told him that the man's body...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
Magistrate in quandary over rape evidence
Nthebolang, 27, a resident of 'New Stands' in Francistown is accused of raping Shathisani Machuka, who was 16 years at the time of the alleged offence on 10 March 2005. Walking in the corridors of the magisterial courtrooms after the trial presided...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 28 September 2007
Assailants leave woman unconscious
The assailants had reportedly trailed the woman from a drinking spot. Acting Selebi-Phikwe police station commander, Cornelius Matlapeng said the two suspects, who are at large, kept teasing the woman while she was having a drink at a bar. The woman...
KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 28 September 2007
Seabelo's Express in refund wrangle with clients
Seabelo's Express is being accused of refusing to refund travelers who had already secured tickets before the company's permit was repealed. One mother of two who had secured two tickets for her children who are schooling in Queenstown in South...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
Yes, Mbanga has defected to BCP
Two weeks ago, BPP secretary general Edward Mpoloka issued a strongly worded letter, denying that Mbanga had resigned and attacked what he described as "Botswana Congress Party (BCP) zealots masquerading as journalists". Mpoloka's bone of...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 28 September 2007
Moatlhodi faces uphill battle in Tonota
Moatlhodi, a maverick in his own right, will complete two terms in 2009, after wrestling the constituency from the late Lemme Makgekgenene. The retiring Senior Assistant Commissioner of Prisons, Ntsima, who was based at the Prisons headquarters, is...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
IMF urges privatisation for diversification
Addressing a press conference at the Bank of Botswana yesterday, Kato said he was impressed by the commitment of Botswana's leadership to diversify the economy. He indicated that Vice-President Ian Khama and other authorities have shown a keen...
STRYKER MOTLALOSO
Staff Writer 28 September 2007
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