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Angry teachers disrupt games
The teachers moved from one ground to another instructing students to follow them while BNSC officials were locked in a meeting. They also did not spare the BNSC executive secretary Kitso Kemoeng, saying he wanted to treat them like kids. This...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 13 December 2007
BNYC bill withdrawn
Legislators, Botlogile Tshireletso and Robert Molefhabangwe, have slammed Pheto for a poorly drafted bill that is 'lacking in depth'. Pheto advocates for the setting up of youth council by parliamentary statute to dissolve and replace the present...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 13 December 2007
BPC demand side management pays dividends
Unlike in neighbouring South Africa where load shedding or power outages in layperson's parlance have been a fact of life in the recent past, Botswana has not yet been forced to take that route. BPC spokesperson, Tlhomamiso Selato noted that...
STAFF WRITER 13 December 2007
Rural schools shock Nkate
He said that when school fees was re-introduced, the ministry thought it would have problems of payment in rural schools because of the high rate of unemployment in the countryside. But contrary to expectations, it is urban schools that are posing...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 13 December 2007
Why we won't rush- Nkate
The minister was briefing the media at an event held at Cresta Lodge, Gaborone on Wednesday. He said the initial indication by the task force that the university would be open by 2009 was unrealistic and it had to be revised. He explained that...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 13 December 2007
17 die in road crashes
During the past week, 17 people were killed, bringing to 443 the number of people who have died this year compared to 380 reported last year. In one of the accidents on the Francistown-Nata road (A3), four people died on December 3 when a minibus...
13 December 2007
Anglicans to worship or disco?
They would either have no priest to lead them into the celebrations, or the available one may not be their favourite. The sacking of seven priests has left the church in disarray with some members threatening to form their own congregations....
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 13 December 2007
BDP names candidates for Palapye primaries
The BDP primaries will be held on Sunday December 22. As expected, specially elected Member of Parliament and Minister of Health Professor Sheila Tlou has entered a four-horse race to become the party's candidate for Palapye. She faces Mater Goya,...
STAFF WRITER 13 December 2007
Govt must speak to Basarwa
While government and other interested parties may celebrate the resolution of the longest case in Botswana's legal history, for the Basarwa, this does not seem to be the case at all. Some of the findings of the Lobatse High Court last year were that:...
EDITOR 13 December 2007
Another black Christmas for workers
In firms and safari lodges across the country, the workers are subjected to the most humiliating treatment one could ever imagine. The local media is littered with cases of abuse, insults and sometimes beatings that the workers have to endure in the...
KESITEGILE GOBOTSWANG* 13 December 2007
WHITHER BOTSWANA
This is the provision of the Botswana constitution that enables the country's vice presidents to succeed to the presidency automatically in the event of the death or resignation, for whatever reason, of a president during the life of a Parliament....
DAN MOABI 13 December 2007
Re: An open letter to President Robert Mugabe, the public and Zimbabweans
With all due respect; we are fundamentally sustained by the same principles, we breath the same air and drink the same water. Africa, sovereign as she is, should remain for Africans, so that Europe can be for Europeans, as a way of avoiding the...
13 December 2007
Open letter to Mogae
As you know, the court found we had been illegally and unconstitutionally made to leave our land. It found that the government had acted against the law when it stopped issuing hunting licences to us in 2002 and that what was done to us was...
13 December 2007
Makgalemele obsessed with media
Makgalemele is so obsessed with publicity that he wants to comment on every matter relating to the BFA. Logically and administratively, he should have left the issue of salaries to BFA Chief Executive Officer, I bet Tosh Kgotlele would have handled...
13 December 2007
Open letter to Minister of Labour and Home Affairs
Some are fully enjoying their citizenship and even employed in Government institutions. We have to appreciate the improved accessibility of field officers since the departure of some field officers on the ground. However, as the year ends, some...
13 December 2007
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13 December 2007
Music keeps dancer busy
He remembers an occasion when he invited his former Gabane schoolmate for dancing. He said the chap declined the invitation and landed in trouble. Lesilo said his schoolmate decided to go drinking and ended up stabbing somebody with a...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 13 December 2007
The Afro jazz singer
Now an aspiring Afro jazz singer, Thusego Mmolawa has come up with a sizzling album of a similar title. Mmolawa identifies his music as traditional jazz. Although he is new on the Afro jazz scene, Mmolawa sings like a...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 13 December 2007
US Credit crunch unlikely to affect Africa - the Economist
This is because economies in the sub-Saharan region are not directly integrated into the larger economy of the world. The report, titled Heading For The Rocks: Will Financial Turmoil Sink The World Economy?, puts African economies at a much more...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 13 December 2007
Moroka urges chain stores to 'Buy Botswana'
Speaking at the official opening of Foods by Melittah, a biscuit confectionery, Moroka commended stores like Meriting Spar, Tutume Spar and the Choppies group for giving Foods by Melittah a chance to supply them despite its early stage and small...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 13 December 2007
Knock off another three zeros, Central Bank Urged
As was the case before the currency reform last year, computers, calculators and cash registers can no longer compute the growing number of zeros as figures move from millions and billions to trillions and quadrillions due to rising...
13 December 2007
Embattled GU coach gets support
On Tuesday, the coach and his assistants took the team through its paces while officials held an emergency meeting with the supporters at the training ground. Some of the supporters claimed that Hunidzarira who joined GU this season would be...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 13 December 2007
Choppies to sponsor Gunners?
"As we speak, there is nothing concrete that I can say about it, but yes we have approached Choppies for sponsorship and we are hopeful that we will seal the deal in the near future," Dlamini said. It is reported that Gunners sent a proposal...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 13 December 2007
BAA holds inaugural awards ceremony
The BAA says that it has continued to improve in its development programmes and that is why it has found it fit to reward deserving athletes and officials. BAA spokesperson Glody Dube said the rewards will motivate athletes to work even more harder....
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 13 December 2007
Tall order for women team
The team left yesterday without the top two goalkeepers Lone Metlhaleng and Wame Guilty because of injuries from the first leg match. They have been replaced by Kagiso Mokeretane and Peloyame Mangope. Top striker Tshepo Nkonyana is also injured...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 13 December 2007
Malunga scoops two gold medals
In kumite, Malunga, a dominant force in the Botswana national team overcame Malebogo Robert, from Gaborone, Martha Motsamai of Francistown and Kesegofetse Keetile of North West. Robert scooped the silver medal while both Motsamai and Keetile settled...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 13 December 2007
Editorial in Business Day of Johannesburg
Despite an existing trade agreement with the EU (the Trade, Development and Co-operation Agreement, or TDCA), SA asked last year to be included in the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) that the EU was negotiating with African, Caribbean and...
14 December 2007
How Ntuane belled the BNF cat at UB
Till then, student politics at the university was the monopoly of the opposition Botswana National Front (BNF) organ known as Mass. GS 26 had always existed, but tended to operate as a marginal grouping that had little interest in seizing the...
14 December 2007
Priest celebrates silver jubilee
Coincidentally, 25 years ago in Ghana, a predominantly Catholic state, on the same date, a 25-year-old man was ordained as a priest. Twenty-five years down the line, Fr. William Serlom Horlu now heads the Catholic Women's Association's Mafulong Day...
ARNOLD LETSHOLO
Correspondent 14 December 2007
Second exile for Zim journalist
But 20 years later, he was on the run from the same government that liberated the country from colonial rule. He is currently a refugee in Botswana. When Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980, there was euphoria about Uhuru and the end of the war....
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 14 December 2007
Aussie PM ke mogwe wa rona
As a Motswana elder would say, "Jaanong Batswana betsho, Boora-Rudd ko Australia ke bagwe ba rona". (The Rudds in Australia are our sons-in-law). Kevin Rudd, the recently elected Prime Minister of Australia and Labour Party leader is a...
STAFF WRITER 14 December 2007
Labour staff donate tap to ailing woman
Their beneficence was in the form of a tap they installed at the humble home of 51-year old Kelennetse Raphala, an HIV/Aids patient. In accepting the gift, Raphala was bold enough to confess that she was largely responsible for her abjection, which...
ARNOLD LETSHOLO
Correspondent 14 December 2007
Sentence too harsh on mother and child - Judge
Mosojane believes that Matshidiso George's sentence was too harsh. He said he would grant a new sentence next week. "I will give a new sentence some time next week. So for now the ruling is reserved," he said. Mosojane made it was clear that he did...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 14 December 2007
Rape convict pleads misjudgement
Maphosa's main submission is that Taolo passed sentence that was beyond his jurisdiction. Then, Taolo held the position of Magistrate Grade One. He told Justice Moses Chinhengo that Taolo said that the mandatory minimum sentence of rape is 10...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 14 December 2007
Anglicans want Mwamba's explanation
Seven priests had their licences withdrawn last week. In an interview early this week, Father Benjamin Moleko explained that the priests had trampled on the church rules and can only be readmitted if they mend their ways and abide by the rules....
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 14 December 2007
Govt-De Beers agreement secret - PHK
"The agreement entails, among other points, that Diamond Trading Company Botswana will be established, the Botswana Diamond Valuing Company (BDVC) will be wound up, new sorting and valuation processes, (and) procedures and techniques will be adopted...
STAFF WRITER 14 December 2007
Hawkers, Plaza chiefs in court tussle
The company's lawyer, Plato Gaoboi, and lawyer Dick Bayford, acting for some of the affected hawkers, are set to fight it out in court. After an agreement between the Gaborone City Council and the company for the establishment of a 'hawkers...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 14 December 2007
Postal policy should glean from neighbours - Minister
This decision by stakeholders at the conference was arrived at after it was discovered that Botswana does not have a specific postal sector policy that takes into account developments in the postal sector worldwide and in the country itself....
14 December 2007
Businessman fires at suspected robbers
The three, two of who are aged 19 and 20, have been admitted at Princess Marina Hospital while a fourth one still at large. At the time of going to press, police were yet to establish the identities or nationalities of the suspects. While confirming...
STAFF WRITER 14 December 2007
I was betrayed - Pheto
He withdrew the Bill the following day saying "numerous proposed amendments which have been noticed over and above those that were agreed to in an All-Party Caucus, and some of which are so fundamental and far-reaching as to alter the complexion of...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 14 December 2007
Equality still a long way
While Botswana is placed at position 124 out a total of 177 countries, the country seems to be doing poorly in the Gender Related Development Index (GDI). Out of 156 countries with both HDI and GDI values, a total of 130 countries have a better...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 14 December 2007
Music awards must be run professionally
The Botswana Music Awards, present the culmination of musical events of the year, in a few hours, seeking to capture in a few hours, what was done in a year, perhaps even over a number of years. There have been about five instalments of this...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE
Correspondent 14 December 2007
Mma-Go: The Somerset magwinya merchant
But the gangly mother of 'Go' is not going anywhere fast. Since 1985, Mma-Go otherwise known as Lida Lentswe, 51, has become a permanent feature at the township where she sells 'magwinya' (fat cakes) in a ramshackle tuckshop. She starts frying the...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 14 December 2007
BOOK REVIEW
A remarkable book, perhaps the third and final one in Pakenham's series on remarkable trees. And a most welcome one too. This one is divided into five parts and 17 sections. In "A world turned upside down" he begins with Baines Baobabs and then...
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Sheridan Griswold 14 December 2007
BACK STAGE
It is a fantasy that is much more suitable for children than many of the other films playing this season. Parents should be aware, before they send their children off to watch it alone, that it has some sexual innuendos, includes a Shakespearean...
SASA MAJUMA 14 December 2007
'Tswana Gospel' according to Manu Manjesh Lal
Legend has it that when the executions stopped, all sorts of evil spirits, including ghosts, terrible serpents and other mystical creatures started inhabiting the place and to some die-hard traditionalists, it is a no-go area. Even today, some...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 14 December 2007
BOBS awards quality certificate to BVI
"This certificate is issued in recognition of BVI's Quality Management System which has been assessed by the Botswana Bureau of Standards and found to be in conformity with the BOS ISO 9001:2000 standard for quality management systems," said BOBS...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 14 December 2007
Standard Chartered is Africa's Bank of the Year
The awards include a major regional award, the Bank of the Year in Africa 2007, while the country awards are for the Best Bank in Afghanistan, Botswana, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and in Zambia in 2007. "We are delighted to win these awards,"...
14 December 2007
Anybody's call in Gaborone central
Dempsey, one of the most brutal of heavyweight champions must have known a thing or two about champions. After all, he himself had an impeccable record: 82 Fights, 66 Wins and 51 of them by knock-outs, 6 Losses, 9 Draws and 6 No contest. An...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
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GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 14 December 2007
BotswanaPost profits nosedive
The parastatal's annual report shows that the profit base was squeezed by an unprecedented increase in other expenses which jumped from P426 000 last year to P2.7 million in the current reporting period. But despite the fall in profits, BotswanaPost...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff writer 14 December 2007
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