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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
French Film Festival starts today
This year's festival begins today (Friday) and runs until December 6 at the Riverwalk New Capitol Cinemas. The main objective of hosting the French Film Festival in Gaborone is to give the audience an opportunity to discover French cinema, both past...
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Young, hearty artists shine at Thapong
One of the things that make the competition special is that it promotes healthy living through the arts with the main focus on the heart, which is a first in Botswana. Organisers say that the 'Heart Art Competition' was initiated last...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
CONSUMER WATCHDOG
No. That's always our answer. Yes, there will always be a need for new laws. As the world develops new things come along that previous law makers couldn't have imagined. Over the last decade banks have been forced to adjust to the...
30 November 2007
Barclays' Step Ahead donates to sports development
Speaking at the handover ceremony held at the Gaborone Sun, the Managing Director of Barclays, Thuli Johnson, said the aim of the One Million Kilometre Step Ahead Challenge was to raise P4.5 million across Africa to mobilise and unify the bank's...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Discovery breaks new ground in ore processing
The resource company, also listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, said that several alternative methods for processing the nickel mineralisation were evaluated and the most promising was the bio-oxidation heap leaching using the GEOLEACH...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
FNB launches FirstPlus campaign
The focus of the campaign will be to cross-sell different single products as a unified package. The tailor-made packages will offer customers the right mix of value added services or financial solutions, thus making FNB customers multi-product...
30 November 2007
P27m for infrastructure in the North West District
In answer to a question by the Member of Parliament for Maun West Ronald Ridge, Motsumi said work on the airside is expected to commence in May next year. The project is divided into three sections: construction of airside facilities, relocation...
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Let's start the abortion debate now
Tshireletso wanted to know the number of registered cases that have come before the courts since 2000 for offences of infanticide, attempted infanticide, concealment of birth and procuring abortion. In his response, justice minister, Phandu Skelemani...
EDITOR 30 November 2007
What works - schools where students learn
So it makes an impression on me, standing in a classroom here, when a student says ''ain't'' and a teacher promptly and gently corrects him. It is a small difference, but on the basis of many small differences, Gaston College Preparatory and KIPP...
LEANORD PITTS JR* 30 November 2007
What can Ntuane do to a shark
Le badimo ba Domkrag golo ba go robetseng ba itse sentle gore kgaolo eo ke ya opposition. Ntuane fell for Khama's trap and he is not aware that he has been cheated by the BDP leadership. Nata was a safe constituency for him and he was going to win...
30 November 2007
HIV/AIDS is spreading among tribal peoples
West Papua has a rate of HIV/AIDS at least 15 times the rate in Indonesia as a whole. The province is home to 312 tribes who have suffered extreme oppression and violence since the Indonesian occupation in the 1960s. Many tribespeople even believe...
30 November 2007
Arms down comrades
Though their complaints are different in nature, one thing seem, to be similar. In the two cases there is a Sectarian clique or cabal that is the cause of their woes. Comrades allege nepotism, favoritism, and friendship and that all sorts of dirty...
30 November 2007
NITTY GRITTY
Hakere you remember gore last month there was this great debate about whether prostitution should be legalised, or at least regulated. Well, when our man Smooch got wind of it being debated on GABZ FM on the morning show, he set off as quick as a...
BAROLONG SEBONI 30 November 2007
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30 November 2007
It's derby time
BMC salvaged a 1-1 draw away against Jwaneng Comets. Gunners' win relieved pressure from embattled coach Clever Hunda. Yesterday, he told Mmegi Sport that his players need no motivation to take on their Lobatse neighbours on Sunday. "We would...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Chiefs' juggernaut reach Phikwe
As the Chiefs juggernaut rolls into town this weekend, the club's passionate fans are expected to turn the mining town into a sea of black and white. Chiefs know that they are in for a tricky assignment against a Majombolo side that is on a mini...
KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 30 November 2007
Botswana women face a stern test
A lot of people have cast doubts over the capability of the team but the players have shown that they have what it takes. The team boasts of the likes of Prisons' forward Tshepo Nkonyane, Double Action's duo of Neo Masimola and Thuto Ramafifi. On...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 30 November 2007
Ezinkomo dump Paul
Under Paul's mentorship, BMC produced some exciting football, which saw them beating giants like Mochudi Centre Chiefs, Notwane and ECCO City Greens on their way to Coke glory. Information reaching Mmegi Sport says that Ezinkomo decided to dump...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
Princess of the pitch
Yet Botswana's women's bowls champion Lebogang Mascarenhes shrugs off the accolades with typical modesty. "It's not a big deal. It is only that I have got love for bowls, which words can not describe," she says. A keen and talented bowler, she...
KHONANI ONTEBETSE
Correspondent 30 November 2007
Sikwane aspires to improve sports
According to Sikwane, the major objective of this initiative is to unearth talent, expose it, give it a breakthrough and sell it to more lucrative markets particularly in South Africa, Middle East and in the Major Soccer League in the USA. Sikwane...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 30 November 2007
The eve of the World Cup draw
On landing at OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg, we were met by Supersport International Marketing Coordinator (Africa), Itumeleng Senne, who was to take care of us in Durban until we return. Before leaving OR Tambo, I notice Orlando Pirates' youth...
30 November 2007
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