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Botswana bids Mbaka goodbye
The farewell dinner in honour of Mbaka was held at Gaborone Sun on Monday evening.Merafhe commended Mbaka for his efforts to bring the countries closer together. He said it was through Mbaka's efforts that Kenya hosted the first meeting of...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 01 November 2007
Mahalapye BOPEU donates to children's centre
The centre holds 20 orphans aged between one and three years. Welcoming guests, Kgosi Goareng Mosinyi of Kalamare said BOPEU was not a 'mokgatlho' but a union. He said it was encouraging that BOPEU follows one of the pillars of Vision 2016, which...
01 November 2007
'Attorney' in illegal practice?
The judge therefore annulled the application of Chamkani Investments and Bashi Makhulo against Chaudry Ahmed and others because Armstrong Maruping, who prepared and signed the papers for the applicants, is not duly admitted to practise as an...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 01 November 2007
Letloreng celebrates village status
Letloreng was declared an illegal settlement in 2004 and residents were ordered to relocate or face forceful evictions. Residents who thronged the Kgotla spoke in one voice to express their joy and a sigh of relief after what they said were...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 01 November 2007
Quirk healers lead flock to dump ARVs?
Acting superintendent, Dr. Lowe Chansa, says: "This is the only way we can improve the quality of life of the HIV/AIDS patients. This is the only effective way," he emphasised. His comments come after the discovery of piles of ARV tablets found...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 01 November 2007
Chinese envoy, police chief in tete-a-tete
The ambassador said this during a courtesy call on the commissioner of the Botswana Police Service, Thebeyame Tsimako yesterday. Xiaowen said compliance with the country's labour laws by Chinese companies operating in Botswana and Chinese nationals...
01 November 2007
Ipotseng disclaims P200,000 claim
When he awarded the tender in 2005, Tlharese was deputy council chairman. The matter has now gone to court as Tlharese is suing the Gantsi District Council and the two individuals whom he awarded the tender. The contract was for drawing the...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 01 November 2007
Cabinet storm over PEEPA board
Marole's denial comes in the background of reports reaching Mmegi to the effect that lawyer, Parks Tafa, Botswana Housing Corporation's chief executive officer, Reginald Motswaiso and Irene Tlhase have not been appointed again to the PEEPA board. "I...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 01 November 2007
Decent work, not sex for pay
And other groups that are vulnerable to sexually communicable diseases, among them, long haul truck drivers. In our perception, any intervention of consequence must take full account of the often conflicting remedies to the social aberration,...
EDITOR 01 November 2007
Can Risk Management aid CEDA projects?
CEDA should not be blamed for finding itself in such a situation. We all know that CEDA is not in the business of selling oranges! CEDA is about funding different types of projects over a period of time, and in any such undertaking it is inevitable...
01 November 2007
Managing customer dissatisfaction: turning lemons into lemonades
Complaints of poor service delivery, unwelcoming attitudes, preferential customer treatment, and the ironical national productivity level of 25 percent against the international benchmark of 75 percent are but common features of our mundane...
*MASOKO MASOKO H 01 November 2007
Cartoon 01.11.07
01 November 2007
BACKSTAGE
This is the fourth and final film in a Cuban Film Festival. After the film closes Cuban dancers will perform to the theme music from the film. Birds Will Fly is a comedy about love relationships across two couples representing different...
SASA MAJUMA 01 November 2007
Beauty therapist takes services to the people
In fact, therapist Onalenna Rannoane says her ambition has always been to take beauty to the people. Now Rannoane is part of a team of mobile massense in Kasane who take care of clients in hotels and tourist lodges. "I work for Cathari Health and...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 01 November 2007
Ditshimega aims for the sky
Survivors then enjoy enormous airplay on local radio stations and pull crowds at their festivals. One such group that has stood the test of time is Ditshimega of the ko Mokwena song fame. Group leader and lead singer Arnold Sekgee takes pride in...
AKEEM HASAAN
Correspondent 01 November 2007
IAMGold seeks new deposits
This emerged at the ongoing Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) stakeholders' consultations regarding mining deposits at Signal Hill, 15 kilometres south-east of Mupane. The Country Manager of IAMGold in Botswana, Isaac Mangole, said Monday at...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Correspondent 01 November 2007
Fuel prices likely to go up
The Acting Director in the Department of Energy Affairs, Kesetsenao Molosiwa, said Tuesday that he could not say when his department would make the announcement. If it is made, the announcement would be a departure from the news blackout on fuel...
STAFF WRITER 01 November 2007
Tsalaile still in the dark
But one person who did not hide his disappointment about that decision was veteran defender David 'Teenage' Tsalaile. But little did he realise that his decision of questioning his bosses would land him in trouble. He was banned and has not been...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 01 November 2007
Mmegi staffers scoop Coke awards
It was the second year running that Molwane scooped the award and beat Dubani Dubani to the award. As for Tsebetsame, he recently scooped the photojournalist award during the MISA Awards held at the Gaborone Sun. Speaking at the ceremony, Kgalagadi...
01 November 2007
Santos for pole position?
With log leaders Mochudi Centre Chiefs playing away to TASC on Saturday, Santos need maximum points to nudge Chiefs into second place for the first time this season. The Gabane side has 13 points against Chiefs' 15 points. But Santos face a...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 01 November 2007
Youth prone to road accidents
Records indicate that the most common cause of road accidents include, drunken driving, over-speeding, driver carelessness and pedestrian error, mostly involving young people. During the past week, the Botswana Police recorded 340 accidents in which...
02 November 2007
Botswana journalist visits Soweto
Saturday 20th October 2007 (0900hrs): A few minutes before we left The Town Lodge in Midrand, our driver, Johan Hough, a white man, introduced us to a young black man with scruffy hair as Thamsanqa Ndemande. He was going to be the guide on our trip...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Rape case rests on identification parade
The last prosecution witness, Inspector Christopher Molobe, who conducted an identification parade to identify the suspects, testified on Wednesday. The accused persons are Samuel Seshabo, Pako Tlhabaki, Thato Bojosi, Moagi Samson and Kodziba...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 02 November 2007
Ramaotwana takes leave of absence
"That's not true. I have decided to take a month's leave of absence from the operations of the BNFYL and of course the BNF central committee, which I attend by virtue of my being the BNFYL president," explained Ramaotwana yesterday. He has taken the...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Church adherent steers clear of hospital
Today, as she goes about attending to her chores, Kegone (not her real name) is in a pair of faded jeans that accentuates her figure ala Kaone Kario and a Botswana flag headscarf covering a braided head. She shoulders a stylish handbag, courtesy of...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 02 November 2007
Sefhare hospital auditors smell a rat
The report also makes claims about the hospital management's lack of compliance with government rules and procedure. The report recommended that the Directorate on Economic Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) should investigate their findings. The...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Planning, striving and perseverance at Tloga
Matlhape was speaking at the school's prize giving ceremony recently. The theme of the prize giving ceremony was 'planning, striving and perseverance: a way to realisation of academic excellence'. She said their mission is to provide quality...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 02 November 2007
UNDP boosts Kgetsi-Ya-Tsie
Donations from the Department of Women's Affairs in the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs and the African Development Foundation were stopped in 2004, leaving the organisation so financially stranded it could not even meet its debts....
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Facelift of State House reaches advanced stage
According to a public notice from the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board, (PPADB), eight contractors were shortlisted for Phase Five of the project this week. They are Fairdeal Shopfitters, Rimu Enterprises, Mido Construction,...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Nkate rubbishes allegations
It is alleged that the officer wrote letters to the students prohibiting them from returning home for holidays until they have completed their studies. The officer is also said to have threatened to reduce the students' allowances, as what they had...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Breast cancer curable if detected early
An oncologist based at the Gaborone Private Hospital (GPH), Dr Joseph Kasese, says the potential to cure breast cancer rises with early detection. "If detected early, breast cancer is highly curable," Dr Kasese says. Symptoms of breast cancer...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Thugs terrorise villagers
This follows a series of break-ins and robberies that hit some of the villages early this week. Although he could not immediately provide supporting statistics, Ditshweu described the reported cases at Tshesebe, Ramokgwebana and Moroka villages as...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Lunchtime raid leaves food vendors with heavy losses
The unannounced raid took place at a time when the vendors were expecting feedback from the City Clerk on negotiations, they claim. George Mafifi, one of the vendors, is fuming after he was fined P200 by the police on Wednesday. Mafifi wonders why...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 02 November 2007
Distraught mother mourns missing son
"He disappeared after he was sent to collect some money from the father who was working on some electrical installations at the grandmother's place at Block Nine from our residence in Block-Eight," revealed the distraught Lillian Phenyego. She could...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Competition law urgently needed - PS
"These anti-competition practices continue and that is why we urgently need competition legislation," she said. Molosiwa was opening a consultative workshop for stakeholders on the draft competition bill held at the Gaborone International...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Tracing the AIDS money - BHIP
Study Programme Manager, Gillian Moalosi, says that the overall purpose of it was to 'estimate the magnitude of overall financial flows by ultimate sources of finance and providers of health services for health and HIV/AIDS and project the share of...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Masitara evades tax man's noose
Yesterday, lawyers acting for BURS, Sadique Kebonang Attorneys, challenged Masitara's lawyer, Doreen Khama's application asking the court to suspend action on the judgment requiring her client to comply with the Commissioner General's finding that he...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
What's in Mogae's last Parly speech?
According to police statistics 458 people have gone missing, 190 murders were recorded, 1, 598 armed robberies, 386 deaths in road accidents, 1,150 rape cases and 393 motor theft cases recorded since January this year. These figures represent a...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
Mogae's last word?
This year's last session of Parliament presents President Festus Mogae with just such an opportunity, and he should not let it pass uneventfully. Many will recall that on his initial entry into active party politics, President Masire appointed...
EDITORIAL 02 November 2007
BCP - 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!'
As one former BCP member who is now a proud member of the BNF put it, they are like empty drums which make a lot of noise. They seem to excel in blowing their own trumpets and hurling insults, particularly at the BNF. We are writing this article...
COMRADE MOORE 02 November 2007
NITTY GRITTY
The discussions are especially heated, not only by the fact that there is a lot of hot stuff doing the rounds, but also because the fellows cannot agree on what constitutes "sports." Chicken believes they are ready and qualified to register right...
BAROLONG SEBONI 02 November 2007
Cartoon 02.11.07
02 November 2007
BAC students 'walk for Merafe'
The walk will start from college premises at the Fair Grounds at 0600 hours. Project Thuso deputy chairperson and media coordinator Merapelo Disang, said the sponsored walk is intended to help raise more awareness about their colleague Goitsemang...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
CONSUMER WATCHDOG
The 1974 Control of Good (Marking of Goods) Regulations and the things that stores must do if they want to stay in business.You may have heard of the new National Credit Act that was passed in South Africa in 2005 but that actually came into force in...
02 November 2007
Basarwa not averse to mining in the CKGR-Gem Diamonds
About 50,000 Bushmen live in Botswana, where they have hunted in the Kalahari Desert for more than 22,000 years, making them the region's oldest inhabitants. Diamond exploration was one of the main issues San Bushmen raised when they took the...
02 November 2007
Walvis Bay links Botswana to Europe
During the past 10 years, the port has invested more than N$ 600 million to do upgrades in infrastructure to facilitate the increase in demand for handling more imports and exports for the southern African region. The Port of Walvis Bay provides a...
02 November 2007
Barclays fills funding gap for small businesses
Speaking at the signing ceremony that was held at the LEA head office in Gaborone, its Chief Executive Officer Tebogo Matome said it had always been their wish to close the funding gap. "We had taken a conscious effort as LEA that we were not going...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff writer 02 November 2007
Firestone announces encouraging results for Tsabong
The advanced programme covered 14 kimberlites including the diamondiferous 75-hectare MK31 kimberlite. "With 81 kimberlites discovered to date in Tsabong, of which 14 are diamondiferous, the objective for Firestone is to identify and evaluate the...
02 November 2007
Activox project on course
Floyd Botha from engineering firm, Hatch said on Tuesday that they are on course to complete construction between June and September 2009 as scheduled. The Activox refinery is meant to start producing nickel from ore concentrates in June 2010. On...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Correspondent 02 November 2007
Botswana down in global rankings
This was revealed at the launch of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2007/08 Global Competitiveness report by the Botswana National Productivity Centre in Gaborone on Wednesday. The report showed that Botswana has slipped down the ranks to...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 02 November 2007
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