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It is hard to overstate just how deeply divided the party became in this election. They were voting not just for the presidency, but for the six most senior positions within the ANC. Every one of Jacob Zuma's preferred candidates won over their...

PETER GRESTE
BBC News, Polokwane 20 December 2007

Lackluster mayoral contest in Phikwe

As a result, there are no serious tensions, hostile divisions and the backbiting that used to characterise the previous mayoral elections. Though there are traces of divisions about the preferred candidate for the seat, the campaigns are clean and...

ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 20 December 2007

Morwaeng denies warning GUS 'opponent'

After a bitter rivalry for the seat in the BDP primaries for the 2004 general elections, Morwaeng and Matlhabaphiri are now allies. It is reported that in all the rallies that the two have addressed, Morwaeng has warned to Kabo Sebele to forget...

OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 20 December 2007

18 motions not debated

Some MPs were playing truant and showed no interest in the debates whilst others wasted time passing jokes when they held the floor. The following motions were to be tabled: * Government to review the mandate of Botswana Housing Corporation - By...

BAME PIET
Staff Writer 20 December 2007

BDP contestants reveal what they will do for Palapye

The youngest of the quartet, 28-year-old Isaac Maforaga says he would not limit himself to issues that concern the youth. "I would look at the needs of the entire constituency and the whole nation in a holistic manner. Like it is happening in Cuba, I...

RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 20 December 2007

Palapye rank in mud and grime

Visitors to the rank had to wade through mud and grime Monday afternoon, at times having to dodge muddy water from the wheels of arriving and departing buses. The filth of the station belied the fact that Palapye is a place on the throes of a...

GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 20 December 2007

D-Day for Mhlauli

Elvidge Mhlauli who was on Monday convicted on two counts of abuse of office and giving false information to a Commissioner of Oaths was made to endure yet another day in prison, at least until this afternoon when the court will pass sentence. To an...

GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 20 December 2007

The extraordinary story of Mr Tagg

Mr T started his music career in 1997 in Orapa with a group called Geto Flava. The group released the now classic CD, Mr Chocolate, the same year under the tutalage of Soul Power Records. The album helped launch the careers of AK, Qbio and Brando...

SIDNEY BAITSILE
Correspondent 20 December 2007

Are Batswana artistes perpetrators of music piracy?

Cheap ink is used on these covers such that when it comes into contact with water it easily gets washed off. It is anyone's guess, the quality of the material contained in the CDs. But while many local musicians are complaining about the...

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 20 December 2007

Keba moves on despite the BOMU awards fiasco

She believes in living life to the fullest and not regret later. That is why she has been able to put behind the disappointment of not winning an award, let alone getting a nomination. "What is the point of complaining about something that you...

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 20 December 2007

De Beers to sell rough diamonds through Botswana, Namibia JVs

Until now, the DTC sold all its rough diamonds through its London operations. De Beers said in an emailed statement that it would now have 79 clients, or 'sightholders', across the world, 75 of which would be supplied through the London and South...

20 December 2007

Plant not behind schedule - Mine boss

Speaking at an end-of-year media update, Sebetlela refuted reports that construction of the plant was behind schedule, saying that infact, a pre-feasibility study to determine how to build the plant was currently underway. "We don't think there is...

WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 20 December 2007

BTC aims to be market leader

In BTC's annual report for 2007, Vincent Seretse says their Public Telecommunications Operator (PTO) Licence will enable BTC to provide virtually any type of telecommunications service. "This will no doubt change the course of direction for BTC and...

TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 20 December 2007

Zoom on South Africa

The elections pitted reigning president of the country and the organisation, Thabo Mbeki, against his former deputy at their equivalent of State House, and at Albert Luthuli party headquarters, Jacob Zuma. Both were revered heroes of the...

EDITOR 20 December 2007

Nuclear targets

And, in mid-November, London's Sunday Times reported that Israel put defenses around its Dimona nuclear reactor on "red alert" 30 times, as worries grew that Syria would avenge Israel's September attack on a suspected nuclear site in Syria....

* BENNETT RAMBERG 20 December 2007

Africa's HIV situation is highly coloured

In that article, I demonstrated how we could find marketing and public relations strategies to use the famous books to increase investors' confidence to see Botswana as the destination of business as well as to lure tourists to some of the...

20 December 2007

WHITHER BOTSWANA

That such positions may contradict the democratic and enlightened image that we like to be known for does not seem to matter at all. Similarly, we have some of the most modern educational, medical and other facilities in Africa, yet this does not...

DAN MOABI 20 December 2007

Cartoon 20.12.07

20 December 2007

BNSC faults games officials

BNSC chief executive officer (CEO), Kagiso Kemoeng said before the game that ended on Saturday, it was made clear to the district coordinators that coaches and managers would be paid P50 a day. He said nothing more was promised to the coaches and...

BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 20 December 2007

Marumo awaits Egyptian call

The custodian has travelled to Cairo, Egypt twice for trials and medical tests at ENPPI Sports and Culture Club. The Egyptian club is reported to have made a lucrative offer to Marumo. The player arrived home this week from Cairo and said he is only...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 20 December 2007

The never-ending song of 'Zimbos'

A chance to go and spend three weeks out there in Ghanzi, 830 km from Gaborone. Putting the ceiling and painting the nine-roomed house came at the right time. Seeing others boarding buses back to Zimbabwe for the Christmas and New Year's...

JACOB MAKUSHA
Correspondent 21 December 2007

Police Commissioner Ghannie dies in the US

A self-made man, Ghannie joined the police service in the 1980s as a constable. He was a man who believed in education. Over the years, when he was in the police service, he acquired an education diploma at the Molepolole College of Education...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 December 2007

Mayoral elections next month

Though there are traces of divisions on who is mostly preferred for the seat, the campaigns are clean and done in-house. However, ruling party councillors who are dominating the council may be busy lobbying for each other's support to strike a...

ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

Anglican priests take Mwamba to court

Sources in the church have informed this paper that their attorneys have called for the reinstatement of the priests with immediate effect and for the suspension of Bishop Trevor Mwamba of the Diocese of Botswana pending investigations. On the other...

BAME PIET
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

Dates set for BMWU elections

The replacement of the current committee under the leadership of Chimbidzani Chimidza, Jack Tlhagale, Golekanye Mogende and Lentsifetse Masilo could not take place in October as many union members had expected. The committee was elected into office...

ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

Botswana Police pilots set to fly

The 10 cadets comprise two women and eight men and Deputy Commissioner of Police responsible for Support Services Ikwatlhaeng Bagopi and other high-ranking officers recently visited their training institutions. Constables Razor Lefadola and...

STAFF WRITER 21 December 2007

Who is the fairest of them all?

As the stage is purely set for one of the bruising battles in the history of the BDP's stronghold of Palapye, Mmegi looks at the profiles of the four contestants, Professor Sheila Tlou, Moiseraele 'Master' Goya, Isaac Maforaga and Ogone Mogano. ...

RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

Politicians react warmly to Zuma's victory

Zuma had the support of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), with whom the ANC is in an increasingly uneasy tri-partite alliance, and ANCYL, its militant youth league. The Botswana...

BAME PIET
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

The day Mhlauli saw black

Black has been described as a symbol of despair. But black is just a colour. Moroka happened to have been wearing a suit of this colour or was he? Was this a bad omen? Judgement was meant to have been delivered at 2pm. At the top the of hour, all...

GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

Mhlauli gets seven years in jail

However, the two sentences, that started yesterday run concurrently and that means Mhlauli is effectively jailed for seven years. Moroka said the maximum punishment prescribed in the statutes are grossly disproportionate with the offence committed....

GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

BACK STAGE

The original Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem from around 700 A.D. In the tale Beowulf is a hero who goes to help the Danish king rid his fiefdom of a monster. In the poem Beowulf slays Grendel and later his awesome mother. In the past in many...

SASA MAJUMA 21 December 2007

BOOK REVIEW

Divisadero Divisadero (2007), by Michael Ondaatje, London, Bloomsbury, 276 pages, hardcover, P231, ISBN 0-7475-8924-0. Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on September 12, 1943. He is famous for The English Patient. He has shifted his focus...

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Sheridan Griswold 21 December 2007

Thapong Arts Centre had successful year - Bakwena

The centre has hosted a number of workshops, exhibitions and awards which all went smoothly. Thapong Artist of the Year 2007 was one of the highlights of this year. The award, whose primary objective is to discover, promote and encourage...

GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

2007 was an exciting year for the Arts

*International Awards A number of artists won different prestigious awards both locally and internationally. Batswana had over the years made Botswana proud by scooping international awards mainly in neighbouring South Africa. They repeated the feat...

21 December 2007

CONSUMER WATCHDOG

Our biggest success financially this year was helping to get getting a customer P10,000 compensation for a car he bought that turned out not to be exactly what he'd been told. However, we've also got people free meals in compensation for...

21 December 2007

SBC plans study on SMME hurdles

A member of the board Dr Howard Sigwele told a group of businesspeople from Palapye and surrounding areas that they will be approached for information during the study. Sigwele was speaking after the businesspeople raised concern about laws and...

KABO MOKGOABONE
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

Small Business Council meets Palapye entrepreneurs

The three-year old SBC brought along experts in tax, labour relations, and in company formation and company registration. The Chairman of the SBC Palalani Moitlhobogi said the board does not always have answers to questions asked by businesses; that...

STAFF WRITER 21 December 2007

CIC Energy begins feasibility study

This follows positive results from an internal scoping study, which indicated robust economics for the CTH Project, which is currently 100 percent owned by CIC Energy. "The CTH Project is one of the ways that CIC Energy is working to maximise...

21 December 2007

Phikwe over-reliant on BCL - official

The government has tried over the years, albeit with limited success, to resuscitate Phikwe's other economic sectors excluding mining. The state pumped millions of pula into the town's textile industry in a bid to diversify...

KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 21 December 2007

Orange goes beyond voice

The Public Relations Manager for the company, Karabo Tlhabiwe, said one of the products that they would be introducing is Orange World, a bouquet of mobile data and Internet services. He said Orange World delivers a mobile broadband Enhanced Data...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 21 December 2007

Soaring food prices push inflation up

This means prices of a general basket of goods and commodities have risen by an average of 7.7 percent from November 2006 to November 2007. The increase in November has all but thrown away any hopes that the Bank of Botswana had of achieving its 2007...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

Economy blossoms as mining shines

All the macroeconomic indicators seem to be pointing in the right direction with inflation being tamed to manageable levels, although at 7.7 percent in November, it is still out of the central bank's objective. Increased economic activity is likely...

BRIAN BENZA AND
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writers 21 December 2007

No African chess for Botswana juniors

It is open to all African players aged 20 years and below. It was expected that current Botswana junior champions Thabo Gumpo and Otshepo Seidisa would take part at the event but Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) has not made a formal explanation as to...

KENNETH BOIKHUTSWANE
Correspondent 21 December 2007

The Premier League campaign so far

Mochudi Centre ChiefsThere is no doubt that Chiefs is the most exciting team in this campaign. It started the season like a house on fire and now look set to win the league for the first time. They boast the best squad in the country. Best players...

BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

FIRST CUT

Let us make some few reflections on a year that went by in a blur of noises and recriminations. It was a year in which the politicians stepped up efforts to help catapult Botswana sport. Plans to construct stadiums in Lobatse and Francistown were...

BOITUMELO TSHIMOLOGO 21 December 2007

The stars of the Mascom Premier League

1 Noah Maposa (Mochudi Centre Chiefs)He continues to show that he has potential to become one of the best goalkeepers in the country. In 13 games, Maposa has only conceded seven goals, which is an impressive record. 2 Finkie Mothibi (Extension...

TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 21 December 2007

Failing the tactical test

The greatest challenge that faced the Zebras this year was for the 2008 African Cup of Nations to be played in Ghana from January 20 to February 10. The campaign was a see-saw with fans' hearts throbbing in anxiety every time the team took to the...

ERNEST KELAPILE
Correspondent 21 December 2007

Cartoon 21.12.07

21 December 2007

Let us journey together

It has been an uphill climb from a virtual village leaflet in 1963 to a thriving commercial enterprise in the era of globalisation at the turn of the century. But, as the American singer says, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going". We...

EDITOR 21 December 2007

Remembering Seretse

It is now official. Mogae is definitely going. I was not going to say anything until I was sure that he was going. Last month he told Parliament, in the State of the Nation address, that he is stepping down in March. When he made the announcement the...

TITUS MBUYA 21 December 2007

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