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Ex-Zim bishop trashing Anglican Church of Botswana
In a telephone interview yesterday, Bishop Mwamba stated that the bishop and other members, who were recently chased from the church, were using the Zimbabwean media to tarnish his image and that of the church after failing to do so through proper...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 29 November 2007
Museum holds 'Stop HIV/AIDS' exhibition
It is scheduled to run until (will add the date later). The exhibition, which has grown by leaps and bounds since its inception in 2001, is themed: "Leadership Starts in the Family - Stop AIDS - Keep the Promise", will feature art works aimed at...
STAFF WRITER 29 November 2007
Young entrepreneur releases debut album
Nthume has released his debut album titled The KNN Project, which features three different music genres - hip-hop, kwaito, and house. He says the reason for doing that is quite simple. Apart from doing music Nthume is also an entrepreneur of great...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 29 November 2007
Preserving culture through clothing
Two of such young innovative entrepreneurs are 24-year-old Dimakatso Kebuang and Chose Ntsheme, 23, who have in fact gone a step further by creating a label promoting their native Kalanga language. They told Showbiz that while studying...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 29 November 2007
Hard water delays Kgalagadi road project
The new all-weather road will be 99.17 kilometres long and will include 0.583 km of access roads to village kgotlas along the main road in accordance with the Access Roads Policy. The contractor, Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) of Kuwait, has...
29 November 2007
Power shortages threaten BCL Mine
The General Manager of the mine Montwedi Mphathi said the mine "has to do something" to minimise the effects of the impending power shortages. With electricity bills of up to P120 million per year, BCL Mine is one of Botswana's largest consumers of...
KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 29 November 2007
Hark 'Sixteen Days of Activism'
The days mark a very important event on the calendar. This is an opportunity to raise awareness about gender violence and its effects. Although increasing awareness over this period is commendable, perhaps having a year long campaign would bear...
EDITOR 29 November 2007
Botswana's poor culture of road safety
Road accidents are now the number two killer and very soon, they are going to overtake HIV/AIDS. Observation tells me that Botswana does not have a good culture of road safety. A pedestrian like I have plenty of stories to narrate as far as our...
29 November 2007
I agree with Bungu on accuracy
As a Journalist (Who is still borrowed to the field of Public Relations), I am also perturbed by lack of accuracy in some articles which I read in some local papers. Even during my days at Radio Botswana, I was always irked by some mistakes which...
29 November 2007
Cartoon 29.11.07
29 November 2007
Softball teams leave for Zone VI event
The coaches told Mmegi Sport that the teams could not train properly because of unforeseen circumstances. The teams left by road yesterday for the tournament scheduled for the weekend. The tournament was postponed early this year after Zambia failed...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 29 November 2007
Saleshando warns BCP over wrangling in Phikwe
Saleshando issued the warning after a BCP parliamentary hopeful Itumeleng 'Shine' Ngakaetsile moved to court to stop the party primaries in the constituency. Both Selebi-Phikwe East and West are considered as BCP strongholds, but recent events have...
KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 29 November 2007
Jungle Kings face wounded GU
The last time the two teams met was during the last 16 stage of the Coca-Cola Cup in Mochudi early this year and GU hammered the Jungle Kings 4-2. In tonight's match, GU will be hoping to recover their poise after the embarrassing loss to Chiefs....
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 29 November 2007
Pheto discloses Rowe's pay
Pheto added that the outgoing Under-23 coach David Bright is earning P10,000 per month plus a winning bonus of P3,000. He said the payment was according to Bright's letter of appointment. The minister who is in charge of Youth, Sport and Culture was...
STAFF WRITER 29 November 2007
Cost recovery essential - Gaolathe
Commenting on President Festus Mogae's State of the Nation address on Monday evening, Gaolathe expressed concern that close to 30 percent of the country's annual budget is spent on education. He said that government had decided to introduce school...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 29 November 2007
Men urged to donate blood
Kenneth Segokgo was telling the employees on Monday evening about the importance of donating blood, in a wellness week that will also includes screening ofor diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure, cancer, voluntary counseling and HIV testing. He...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 29 November 2007
Mogae joins other leaders for Cahora Bassa celebration
While in Songo he joined the Mozambican President, Armando Guebuza in celebrating the handover to the Mozambican state of a majority participation in the Cahora Bassa dam and hydro-electric plant on the Zambezi River. In addition to Presidents...
29 November 2007
TEC vows to get tough with bogus colleges
Speaking to Mmegi yesterday, Patrick Molutsi said that there are still institutions that have not registered with them and would face the music next January. "What we are doing is public education to advise students not to fall prey to these...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 29 November 2007
Merafhe annoys MPs with his "slang"
Merafhe is also Leader of the House and MP for Mahalapye West. With two well-prepared speeches he took the floor on Tuesday describing the MPs contributions as ill informed, misleading and that to some extent they were "a load of crap". This did...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 29 November 2007
Mhlauli faces judgement in two weeks
After listening to the submissions, Magistrate Moroka pledged that despite the copious court records, he would deliver his judgement on December 13. Leading the prosecution submissions, Wesson Manchwe, said that their case on the count of abuse of...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 29 November 2007
Mphathi is innocent - DCEC
Motshoganetsi said the DCEC acknowledges that there were some administrative faults as opposed to criminal conduct. He indicated that they have carried out their investigations but could not find any criminal conduct. "It is maladministration or a...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 29 November 2007
Survival International answers to Martin Horwood MP
It also supported the groundbreaking court case which resulted in the Bushmen's rights being upheld, and which saw the legal concept of 'native title' recognised for the first time by an African court. Applauded by many, particularly by the Bushmen...
30 November 2007
Wame Molefhe wins prize in CBA
Her story, 'Sixpack', about the desperation of immigrants, is among the just over 20 winning stories chosen from thousands of entries from all over the Commonwealth. In 'Sixpack', a Zimbabwean woman comes to Botswana to earn money to pay for her sick...
LAURI KUBUITSILE
Correspondent 30 November 2007
The State of the Nation undressed
It is, however, incumbent upon the shareholders to scrutinise the balance sheet for any discrepancies. You see, I have always had this funny feeling that there is something surrealistic about the Botswana Democratic Party (the BDP). That is...
*MONAGENG MOGALAKWE 30 November 2007
Global Coalition demands human rights protections
In an unprecedented joint declaration, the coalition has stressed the need to put legal and human rights protections at the centre of HIV efforts. The declaration, "Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More Than Ever," focuses on populations most...
30 November 2007
Phikwe sheds unenviable AIDS title
Hardly anyone in the last few years would mention HIV/AIDS prevalence in Botswana without making reference to Selebi Phikwe. In 2004, according to a sentinel surveillance survey, at least 52 percent of pregnant women who visited health facilities...
KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 30 November 2007
SADC is assisting in the betrayal of Zimbabweans
I just came across the Patriotic Front Election Manifesto for the 1980 plebiscite that ushered in Zimbabwe's independence. I was struck by the manifesto's relevance, or irrelevance, to today's situation, 28 years on. Like normal human beings, the...
TANONOKA JOSEPH WHANDE 30 November 2007
Mhlauli: What if?
Count one: Any person who,being employed in the public service, does or directs to be done, in abuse of the authority of his office,any arbitrary act prejudicial to the rights of another is guilty of an offence. Under general punishment offences...
30 November 2007
What the lawyers said...
Manchwe: I shall only deal with facts and I will leave matters of the law to the court. I do not intend to lecture the court on matters of law (Wesson Manchwe, delivering his final submission). Manchwe: Oremeng has not been cross-examined on this...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Voice evidence will decide Mhlauli's fate, not paper work
When he rose to address the court for the last time, giving his final submission, advocate Van Zyl, acting for Mhlauli, said he must have had this uppermost in his mind. He prepared 37 pages of heads of argument in which he set out to punch holes in...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Mhlauli to fall or stand on Oremeng
The two men who were partners in a fabricated case but who in the present case have been turned foes with Mhlauli being the accused and Kadimo Oremeng turning the prosecution star witness as an accomplice. "Your Worship, the story that we are here...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Corruption on the increase
A Government appointed a consultant, de Speville has said that the causes of corruption include economic development, get rich mentality, and imported foreign business people (small and medium enterprises). Speaking at the Directorate on Corruption...
MARTIN NYIRENDA
Correspondent 30 November 2007
Is insurance fraud a major problem in Botswana?
But in industrialised countries like the United States and England, insurance fraud is a major problem that receives serious attention. It troubles insurance brokers, transnational corporations and governments. In the US, the Coalition Against...
*ALFRED MULENGA
Correspondent 30 November 2007
Classy Goodhope school on track for January
The construction of Goodhope Senior Secondary School, which started on January this year is about 98 percent done. Work continues round the clock to meet their January deadline. "I have visited the site earlier and I was told that the construction...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Valediction to Lettie Gaelesiwe
But instead he broke the bad news that my former colleague, Lettie Gaelesiwe is no more. It was a great shock to me as I had not heard she was unwell. My first instinct was that she may have been involved in a car accident. Moribame told me that...
KAGISO SEKOKONYANE
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Call to bar foreigners from harvesting phane
At a Kgotla meeting called by Selebi-Phikwe East MP Nonofo Molefhi on Wednesday, most residents said the new policy on the harvesting of natural resources has a loophole in that it allowed foreigners to harvest phane. Phane is rich in proteins...
KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 30 November 2007
Tripping boreholes trigger water dearth in Serowe
He however said that Serowe has a total of 41 boreholes. Speaking in a telephone interview from his Gaborone office, he said that the demand for water has been on the increase due to new developments in the village. He also said this is coupled with...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Disquiet over move to legalise abortion
The MP made the plea in Parliament where it was rejected by the government through cabinet minister Phandu Skelemani. Reverend Mpho Moruakgomo said abortion is a contradictory practice to Setswana culture and Christianity. In a telephone interview...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Imports standards to be put in place
Marobela said the regulations are still at final draft stage at the Attorney General's Chambers. She said the regulations are meant to monitor the quality of imported goods in the country. "There should be some form of mechanisms to stop some goods...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 30 November 2007
Thugs grab P100,000 from Meriting Spar
Central Police Station commander Superintendent Mokuedi Mphathi told Mmegi that they are investigating a case of burglary and theft. The thieves cut off a padlock from the supermarket's rear door to force their way into the supermarket after hours,...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Governments take war to cyberspace - report
As a result, the Internet is increasingly becoming a weapon of military, political and economic espionage. These are some of the findings of this year's McAfee Criminology Report released on Wednesday. Smaller countries will increasingly be under...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Air Botswana seeks management company
This follows hot on the heels of the collapse of the privatization exercise of the parastatal. A few months ago the Minister for Works and Transport Lesego Motsumi announced the suspension of the privatization exercise after a drama-filled period...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Skelemani, Kwelagobe bury All-Party Conference
On his appointment as Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Minister in 2004 before the ministry was sub-divided resulting in the creation of a new ministry that Skelemani heads today, he had vowed to call the All-Party Conference and look...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Electoral Act changes coming - DK assures
Speaking to Mmegi in an interview yesterday, Kwelagobe, who is also the MP for Molepolole South, said since the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) had consulted stakeholders over the issue, the ball is now in government's court. "The government...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Mogae visits pay P1bn dividends - Merafhe
He said that during a recent trip to the United States of America by President Mogae, the partners in the Africa Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership, (ACHAP) such as Bill and Melinda Gates and Merk Company Foundation renewed their partnership with...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
F/town wants 2nd Parliament
The motion was passed at the ongoing full council meeting yesterday after a heated debate on the motion that was tabled by Itekeng ward councillor Sam Masunga. Even though Masunga himself seemed unsure of his motion, the councillors argued the motion...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
GCC kept Daisy Loo in the dark
This emerged as the fraud case against Frank Molaletsi, Gilbert Sithole, Frank Stegling, Bitsang Abby and Daisy Loo cleaning company and its managing director Moemedi Dijeng continued on Wednesday. The four are in the dock on a charge of conspiring...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Mogae goes on leave
There are some family functions he has to attend and this will also give him time to relax before next year's programme starts," says Ramsay. He says that the President's domestic schedule would be tight at the beginning of next year. He will travel...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
BOOK REVIEW
Barbara Gowdy grew up in the Toronto suburb of Don Mills. She is now 57 and lives in Toronto. Over the last 20 years she has written six novels: The Romantic (2003), The White Bone (1999), Mister Sandman (1995), We So Seldom Look on Love - a...
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SHERIDAN GRISWOLD 30 November 2007
BACK STAGE
She and her husband Daniel Pearl are expecting their first child. She is seven months pregnant when the film starts on January 23, 2002. They are due to depart Karachi on the 24th for a well-earned leave. Daniel Pearl (played by Dan Futterman) is a...
SASA MAJUMA 30 November 2007
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