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Largest African microfinance company created

In addition to the increase in capital, the company transformed into a permanent capital investment company and changed its name to AfriCap Microfinance Investment Company. AfriCap is now one of the most successful private equity funds in...

09 November 2007

Eskom plans hiking tariffs

Treasury officials say the utility's finances are healthy enough for it to raise the R150bn to expand capacity 60 percent in the next five years on its own, through a combination of electricity price hikes and bond issues. But if Eskom gets the...

09 November 2007

CONSUMER WATCHDOG

Customers get the quality of products and services they deserve. I'm not saying that customers deserve bad treatment. I'm not saying that we deserve to be disrespected. I'm certainly not saying we deserve to be abused. However I do think...

09 November 2007

Gaming law under review

The Acting Director of the department, John Matsheng, said they have assigned the company to look at the impact of gambling in the country. He said they want to find out how the government could resolve the problem of gambling. The idea behind this...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 09 November 2007

F/town in the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping

Retailers are coming up with new campaigns to try and entice customers, though many admit that the coming of cheaper Chinese products is giving them a run for their money. BusinessWeek took to the streets to find out where Francistowners will be...

PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

RIPCO (B) introduces multi-purpose thresher

"With an output ranging from 400 kg per hour for maize and 200 kg per hour for sorghum and beans, the multi-purpose thresher is ideally suited for small and medium scale farmers and will indeed relieve them of manual threshing with its attendant...

09 November 2007

Unavailability of data delay MDG reports

Most representatives of local authorities at a four-day national planners seminar in Selebi-Phikwe cited the unavailability of data or the availability of only the aggregated type as a challenge in their bid to produce the reports. This seminar...

KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 09 November 2007

Diamond attention shifts to Botswana

In an interview with Mineweb, the Managing Director of Tawana, Wolf Marx, said Botswana is one of the lowest-risk countries in the world for exploration and mining and foreign investment. "There had been a distinct shift in the attention of global...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

Survival advert condemns torture of bushmen

The ad shows pictures of ten of the men arrested and beaten, tortured or assaulted in Kaudwane resettlement camp in September, and asks, 'What does it take to let these people live in peace?' The ad reads, 'Last year, the Bushmen of Botswana won an...

09 November 2007

The secret hanging of Sepeni Popo

While we do not condone criminal behaviour, including murder, we nevertheless condemn the use of death penalty in Botswana. The secrecy surrounding the date and time of the execution of Popo, is a continuation of the unacceptable practice of the...

09 November 2007

Archbishop Ncube, don't be ashamed of yourself

I must say right away that I was pleased silly when you denied any ambitions to run for the Zimbabwean presidency using a regional party to achieve such a goal. It was a wise move. You see, Sir, you should be above such tomfoolery. "You are not only...

TANONOKA JOSEPH WHANDE* 09 November 2007

Saleshando responds to the State of the Nation address

1. IntroductionOn the 5th of November 2007, President Festus Mogae delivered his last State of the Nation address. As is constitutionally required, President Mogae is expected to step down as President of the Republic of Botswana, having served...

09 November 2007

MELS's State of the Nation

The speech lacks vision and the ability to guide the nation to greater heights. The BDP has reached a ceiling it has no potential to reform. It is time people realize this. *Matters arising in the speechWhile the President applauds the separation of...

THEMBA JOINA H 09 November 2007

State of the Nation: BNF's perspective

The President has waxed the lyrical as he always does about the country's economic performance. His speech is rich in rhetorical elegance and self-alulation and woefully inadequate in terms of concrete analysis of the country's socio-economic...

09 November 2007

Good times looming for phane harvesters

It has also brought happiness to the harvesters of the much sought after mophane worm-phane in northern part of Botswana. The presence of the big brownish butterfly that produces this worm has added to the joy and great anticipation of the farmers....

DAN MOSEKAPHOFU
Correspondent 09 November 2007

Takeover to give brigades new lease of life

Launching the Brigades Takeover Reference Group at the Gaborone Sun yesterday, Mbaakanyi said the occasion provided an opportunity to acknowledge the relationship and partnership existing between the government and the brigade movement. The group...

CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

Students and examinations

Omphitlhetse Mosweu: said the paper was not difficult at all. "That was the easiest exam paper ever since the exams started." Lesego Boiditswe "The exam was just okay, it was not as diffucult as I thought it would be ,what I can simply say is that...

KARABO SENAME
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

Tonota civil servants form football league

"We met and we decided that we can do something else in Tonota other than what we have come here for and so we decided to form a football league. We chose football because it is a popular and preferred sport in our communities," he said. Chaluza...

09 November 2007

The agony of long queues

The bank, whose campaign theme was a self-assured question "Why Queue?" said it was going to make sure a customer would be served within 20 minutes after arrival in the banking hall. But something seems to have killed the campaign. Queues in banks...

GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 09 November 2007

Zionists bring song and dance to Shoshong

It was taken up by dancing Zion Christian Church (ZCC) men wearing rumpled khaki and black caps with shiny stars on top. Some displayed their stylish ways of dancing as they rolled and tumbled kicking the dust away acrobatically. The weather was...

RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

The departure of a political 'gentleman'

Others say he is a very cultured man that abhors controversy. This week after he announced that he is quitting as an MP, he finds himself at the centre of what could be the biggest controversy of his life. "I cannot lie to you. This has been a very...

GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

Parties condemn raid on vendors and mechanics

The publicity secretary of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), Dumelang Saleshando said chasing away the vendors is not a solution. He said this is an old issue that the council should have long taken care of. He said when the issue cropped up...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 09 November 2007

DCEC reveals snippets of research

This would help put the crime fighting institution in a much more positive light and improve its public image. Journalists said this at yesterday's press conference held by the DCEC Director, Tymon Katlholo to brief the media on the progress made in...

TSHIRELESO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

US makes HIV pledge

The US ambassador to Botswana, Katherine Canavan said at the just ended two-day training workshop at Maharaja that prevention must be addressed in a very forceful way. "Despite the great progress made in Botswana and elsewhere, the number of people...

THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

CEDA and spouses in Parliament

Since its inception, 19 projects were approved for investment out of the fund from which two were withdrawn. Seven projects are citizen owned while 10 others are joint ventures between citizens and foreigners. Eleven application are currently...

09 November 2007

Performance review fails at Administration of Justice?

This emerged in a savingram dated November 2, from the director of ministry management, Gagoope Sebeo addressed to all heads of magisterial stations and supervisors. Sebeo writes that she has noticed that performance reviews seem to have fallen...

OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 09 November 2007

Palapye Development Trust under the hammer

According to the advertisement in the Botswana Gazzette's 'In the matter between section", the sale of the land will take place on November 30. Attached property include the tribal land plot 7384, measuring 4828 square metres include BP filling...

ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

CDC may be sub-divided

The CDC is currently the biggest district in Botswana and its service delivery to the people is sluggish. Serowe/Palapye Senior Assistant Council Secretary Maluleke confirmed in an interview yesterday that they are currently thinking of sub-dividing...

ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

Mfa, Ntuane differences cost BDP?

At the centre of the problem is the last minute change of heart by Specially Elected MP Botsalo Ntuane to challenge incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) and Assistant Minister of Agriculture, Olifant Mfa. Ntuane is now the BDP's 2009 general...

RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

Mathokgwane loses first round of rape case

Last month, lawyer Moses Kadye submitted that Mathokgwane should be acquitted and discharged because the prosecution had failed to link him to the offence. However, Mugoni ruled that though the complainant had contradicted herself when identifying...

OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

Army officers need psychological help

It was the first time he had been violent to anyone close to himself, let alone his wife. He has always known that he was a killing machine but whatever killer resides inside him was always under the wraps of professional standards from rigorous...

TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

Masire the hero leaves automatic succession

Sir Ketumile is not an ordinary personality in Botswana and the international world. Hence it is appropriate for this publication to pay special tribute to him for the ideals and aspirations he stood for as a retired president and now a statesman of...

EDITOR 09 November 2007

NITTY GRITTY

Chicken believes they are ready and qualified to register right away because there are quite a few sportspeople at the Nitty Gritty. "For example," he says, "Ausi Maggie here is a very good goal keeper. Nothing ever goes past her unnoticed." "You...

BAROLONG SEBONI 09 November 2007

You too are guilty of too much English

It reads in part "If there is any major criticism of Mogae's presidency, it will be his preference for English over Setswana..." Yes indeed langauge is part of a poeples way of life;we dissect nature along the lines laid down by our mother...

09 November 2007

BOBS pay attention

The introduction of electrical appliances should be highly monitored since we don't want to lose our houses due to fire from these cheap materials. On three occasions, I nearly found my house in ashes due to an electrical plug made from Shangai...

09 November 2007

Govt has not been honest on CKGR

The government campaign against the so called allegations held by Survival International on the real reason for relocating. The government now seems to condone the diamond mining within the same place which was designated a game reserve under...

09 November 2007

Abolish the death penalty

We all acknowledge that to murder another person is wrong and those that perpetrate the crime should be punished. However, they should not be killed. The death penality is not the answer. Murder is wrong but the death penality does not make that...

09 November 2007

A litigious tax payer

In those rare cases where the commissioner decides to do so, it is necessary for the taxpayer (in most cases an ordinary citizen with little tax knowledge) to try as much as possible to cooperate with the tax man to avoid unnecessary hurdles and...

09 November 2007

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09 November 2007

Mining boom pushes property prices up

Even property agents admit the boom is something of a mixed blessing for ordinary Francistowners. Stephina Molefe, a property agent at Willy Kathurima Associates there is in no doubt that locals are now struggling with property, whether renting or...

PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

BOOK REVIEW

Blind Faith is a political thriller straight out of South Africa's recent past. It spans the years 1989 to 1997. It is sophisticated, extremely well written and most entertaining. It is also a "quick read" because it absorbs the reader and moves...

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SHERIDAN GRISWOLD 09 November 2007

BACK STAGE

It is based loosely on Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull (1999 and 2002), her extraordinary exploration of what the TRC was all about. Antjie Krog is first and foremost a poet (she has published ten books of poetry) and this perspective...

SASA MAJUMA 09 November 2007

Breaking the silence with Mmusi

The 30-year-old from Goo-Tau in Tswapong says that as a presenter of a 'serious' programme, he cannot afford to mislead his viewers so he has to carry out thorough research before going on air. Mmusi asserts that Talk Back is a programme for...

GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

Culture Spears hail the 'French connection'

He revealed that their trip to Paris was sponsored by their South African-based marketing and distribution company, DD Promotions. He said the objective of the trip was essentially to promote the group in Europe, and France in particular,...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 09 November 2007

Of Khama, orphans, modernity and Motsu

One such artwork is Probability, a sculpture whose subject is Vice-President Seretse Khama Ian Khama who looks set to succeed President Festus Mogae early next year. The 26-year-old artist from Tutume in the North East District did the sculpture,...

GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

Phikwe hosts bowling tournament

The Botsogo Tuli Trophy is one of the major events under the Botswana Bowling Association (BBA) calendar. Six clubs, Orapa, Francistown, Gaborone, Lobatse, Jwaneng and the hosts Phikwe would battle out for top honours in the tournament. Each is...

KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 09 November 2007

FIRST CUT

Rugby was one of those sports that many Batswana never took interest in. The old man I spoke to, had blood veins loaded with rugby. He slept rugby, lived rugby and never got tired of spreading the gospel about the sport. How sad that Mike Small...

TSHIMOLOGO BOITUMELO 09 November 2007

Rankgomo enjoying life at Santos

The Molepolole-born striker has scored three goals for the Gabane side since the start of the current Mascom Premier League campaign and if this early success is anything to go by, then he is on his way to great things. He does not rule out that...

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 09 November 2007

The dazzling magic of Dirang Moloi

But Moloi has now buried the hatchet with the club managers and is back in the fold. He has produced some sterling performances, which left fans asking for more. Opposition supporters now attend Notwane games to see the talented star in action. He...

TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 09 November 2007

We shall overcome, vows Nico boss

Nico are bottom of the log after managing a paltry four points from six games. Majombolo, who travel to Orapa to meet fellow strugglers Boteti Young Fighters, were at the receiving end when resurgent Township Rollers gave them a 4-1 drubbing at...

KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 09 November 2007

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