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Claims of factionalism mar Phikwe mayoral polls
As usual, the election was a no contest after Botswana Democratic Party Councillors who dominate the council held a caucus to decide on the candidates who were elected unopposed. However, the SPTC mayoral polls produced a surprise when Ikageleng...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
Ministry sued for death in delivery
It is alleged that the hospital used a trainee nurse to carry out the delivery process. According to Kebadirejang's lawyer, Plato Gaoboi, the nurse turned and twisted the child resulting in multiple injuries. It is further stated that after the...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
Mogae, Nchindo: friends are not forever
It is public knowledge that Nchindo was first among Mogae's many friends. Urban legend has it that it was Nchindo who brokered the deal to coax Vice-President Ian Khama from the army barracks to be annointed as Mogae's deputy. In good times,...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
Achivas: Label with a difference
"I want to associate the label with people who want to achieve or have already achieved in whatever they are doing." Koboyankwe added that he wants "to make people proud when they have achieved". He stated that his prime target is entertainment and...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 09 January 2008
Zim company to repair BR passenger coaches
The Chief Executive Officer of Gulliver Consolidated, Cris Chitambira, said the group wants to further strengthen its regional profile. "We have been contracted by Botswana Railways to repair 30 passenger carriages," Chitambira said. "Gulliver has...
FRASER MPOFU
Correspondent 09 January 2008
Twenty million pounds of uranium discovered at Mokobaesi
The prospects, which form part of the larger Letlhakane Projcet in the North East, come from a resource covering an area of approximately six kilometres (east to west) by three kilometres (north to south) and extends from the surface to a depth of 45...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
Business sector predicts a gloomy 2008
A Business Expectations Survey carried out by the Bank of Botswana late last year shows that although general business confidence in the economy remains high, respondents tended to be less optimistic about overall economic activity, expecting (on...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
The cancerous corruption
Towards the end of last year, former Permanent Secretary, Elvidge Mhlauli, was convicted for abuse of office and giving false information to a Commissioner of Oaths. There have been several others involving some junior public servants who awarded...
EDITOR 09 January 2008
MELS New Year message
Our focus must not be on by-elections but harnessing our resources towards building a capacity to fight effectively in the general elections. To me the results of General Elections will mean two things: If our party is to fare badly in the general...
09 January 2008
BR management statement shocking
We were also shocked by the statements attributed to Management in the Gazette newspaper of the same period. It is not the Union's intentions to respond to the said press release and/or the comments alluded to Management. We would instead like to...
09 January 2008
We desperately need a Youth Conscious Organisation
We, the youth, have been and continues to allow ourselves to be relegated to the disorientating conditions harsh to bear. A whole lot of us young people are sadly discouraged, filled with broken and crushed spirits, with shattered and shattering...
09 January 2008
OPEC funds Botswana airport project
Ministry of Finance PS, Serwalo Tumelo says the country has got a loan of $20,590,000 (about P126,319,000) from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID). The airport project is expected to cost P526,883,100 and Tumelo says the balance is...
09 January 2008
Cartoon 09.01.08
09 January 2008
AS I SEE IT
For me, there is nothing like seeing other human beings happy and all people doing their best to make others as happy as humanly possible. This is what humanity is all about. The successful, the powerful, the eminent and famous in our society owe...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 09 January 2008
Bowling team leaves for world event
Botswana Bowling Association (BBA) spokesperson, Lebo Mascarenhas who will lead the side in the tournament, is optimistic that the five women team would post good results. The Botswana team is a mix of youth and experience. Tshenolo Maloisane is the...
KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 09 January 2008
Chiefs turn tables on Rollers
Though the club's spokesperson, Billie Loeto told Mmegi Sport yesterday that they are waiting for the coach to arrive today, there are reports the club has given up on the ex-Zambian international because Chiefs are reportedly keen to rehire him....
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
Bright vows to prove critics wrong
Bright was recently appointed Santos coach on a two-year contract and many people questioned his credentials. Already in South Africa, there are doubts if a Botswana coach is capable of succeeding in a demanding Premier League. Santos have been under...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
BDP wants committee in Phikwe East
The constituency is operating without a branch committee after their term of office elapsed two months ago. Other committees are also said to be inactive in the constituency. As such, the constituency did not take part in the recent elections of the...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
BNF cries foul over 'toothless' committees
Specially nominated councillor Jerry Rasetshwane said the Self Help Housing Agency (SHHA) committee, for instance, meets whenever there is business that requires urgent attention while the Education committee "meets only four times a...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 09 January 2008
Masire to mediate in Kenya conflict
The other members of the delegation are Tanzania's Benjamin Mkapa, Mozambique's Joachim Chissano and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda. The group intends to meet and work in concert with President John Kufuor of Ghana, the current Chairperson of the African...
09 January 2008
Police nab Choppies suspects
The two men in their late twenties, Keamogetswe Pholo and Kabelo Tom, both residents of Francistown, were arraigned before chief magistrate Lorraine Makati-Lesang to answer charges of armed robbery. Appearing for the state's chief prosecutions...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 09 January 2008
Pastor commits suicide by hanging
District Officer Commanding Number One Police District, Senior Superintendent Alakanani Makobo said that the deceased was arrested earlier on the day he hanged himself on a charge of threats to kill. "He hanged himself in the cell and he was found...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
Anglicans back in court
The pastors are from the congregations of Lobatse, Molepolole, Mahalapye, Broadhurst, Mogoditshane, Selebi-Phikwe and Tonota. They are Father Patrick Ncaagae, Father Essau Mosima, Father Paul Beleme, Father Botshabelo Beleme, Father Mooketsi...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
BDP to rule on Tlou's protest this week
This follows the hearing by a three-person central committee chaired by BDP deputy secretary general Kentse Rammidi in Palapye last Saturday. Other members were Communications, Science and Technology Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi and party...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 09 January 2008
Senator Jefferson graces Nchindo charge sheet
Jefferson, who late last year was served with a 95 page long indictment by the US department of justice on a wide range of criminal charges relating to his various trips to Africa, visited Botswana a few years ago on two occasions. Late last year,...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 10 January 2008
Security firm introduces new alarm system
Known as Cell Alert, the system provides customers/subscribers with a cell phone alert in the form of an SMS whenever an "incident is triggered" on the Security Systems' alarm. Managing director Gabriel Nkgetse says the system is in operation and...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 10 January 2008
Discovery metals plans expansion
This follows the discovery last year of a further 46 percent increase in the copper resource at the drilling in the NorthWest District. The new discoveries brought the total resource in the project to 46.1 tonnes, meaning the total...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 10 January 2008
Govt should speed up airports' project
It is said that the investors were not happy with the state of Sir Seretse Khama International Airport (SSKIA). Currently, the airport cannot accommodate large aircraft like Boeing 747 because of its short runway (1km). Passengers using the airport...
EDITOR 10 January 2008
Plea for help
Every one is in the dark about the situation and now we no longer have hope that we will ever receive our money since we have tried our best to contact the new appointed education attache based in Beijing China and he seems not to be like a...
10 January 2008
SADC chairperson's statement on Kenya
The killing of innocent Kenyans especially in the aftermath of what has been considered to have been peaceful and incident free polling can only be described as unfortunate and regrettable. As Chairperson of SADC, I wish to note that Kenya has over...
10 January 2008
Cartoon 10.01.08
10 January 2008
Boxers prepare for Olympics
The four are; Khumiso Ikgopoleng (54kg), Thato Batshegi (57kg), Gaolatlhe Mpotsang (60kg) and Hebert Nkabiti (64kg). Ikgopoleng, Batshegi and Nkabiti need no introduction as they have proved their mettle in the past. Mpotsang is a new boxer who made...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 10 January 2008
Molapise shuns FCC committees
He claimed that since a faction led by nominated councillor, Peter Ngoma gained the majority in the FCC in terms of numbers, "they have unleashed terror on opposition councillors who were sympathetic to the re-elected, Mayor Buti Billy". The...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 10 January 2008
Rising murder cases rile police
In the week under review, a total of six murder cases were recorded and five suspects have been brought to book for five of the cases. The Police have observed that the majority of these murder incidents result from misunderstandings at liquor...
10 January 2008
BCP vies for Palapye MP's seat
James Olesitse and Comfort Molosiwa will face each other in what promises to be a thriller. The two met in a general election contest before under different parties. The first time they faced each other was in a general election in 1999 in which...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 10 January 2008
Malaria pandemic threatens northwest
Malaria continues to be endemic in five areas of Botswana; the Okavango, Ngami, Chobe, Tutume and Boteti. However, it has not reached epidemic levels. The ministry continues to issue warnings for people to take action and take anti-malarial...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 10 January 2008
Poor JC results worry BOSETU
"There are a number of factors that could have led to the low pass rate but at the forefront it could have been the teacher-student ratio, which is one teacher to about 50 students in a class," BOSETU publicity secretary, Justin Hunyepa said in...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff writer 10 January 2008
Mogae's camel gifts land on Sir Seretse Khama Int.
The three animals were among others to be delivered in Lesotho, Mozambique, Madagascar and Sudan. The Trans Attico Cargo plane - IL 76TD - the largest to land at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, arrived at 5pm. It had already delivered its...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 10 January 2008
Big fish swim in banks
The grafters at the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) are said to be wrapping their investigations around a huge case of graft. There is a belief that the suspected plunderers burnt a heavy black hole of up to several tens of...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 10 January 2008
From the depths of Mafia Soul
Mafia Soul is the brainchild of one enterprising young man, Molefi Nkwete. The 26-year-old Gaborone-born Nkwete says that back in 2001 while studying at the University of Botswana (UB) he realised that genuine American clothing brands were lacking on...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 10 January 2008
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