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Most farmers in the North East village of Nshakazhogwe admit that in recent years, they have stopped ploughing because it was always a waste of time due to unreliable rains. But now, they are going back to the fields they abandoned because they are...

By PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Gaborone Dam Drops, Shashe Bursts

According to Matida Mmipi, the Public Relations Manager at Water Utilities Corporation (WUC), this could be due to the fact that it has not been raining in the catchment areas of the dam. The Molatedi Dam was a measly 13 percent full, Bokaa Dam 96...

By Thato Chwaane
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Man Complains About Customary Court Procedures

The Molepolole Customary Court jailed Modisenyana Ntwayame in September 2006 after pleading guilty to a stock theft charge. His attorney Busang Manewe appealed to a panel of five judges that his client pleaded guilty because of the situation he found...

By Bame Piet
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Cllr Slams Magistrate

The councillor was at one time arrested in connection with the death of the boy, Lesego Phenyego. He has filed an urgent application against the court order ahead of the mention on Wednesday. Tawele has instructed his lawyers to sue the Commissioner...

By Oarabile Mosikare
Correspondent 14 January 2008

BCP Activist Wants Executive Mayors

BCP Selebi-Phikwe region chairman Nzwaligwa Nzwaligwa says an executive mayor would have powers and be directly accountable to the electorate. Under the current system, a mayor or council chairperson is elected by councillors and has limited powers....

By Kenneth Banda
Correspondent 14 January 2008

Injured By A Teacher

While his friends survived the pain and bruising, his hand started swelling between the fingers. Ontlametse Sera, the boy's elder sister, says that the punishment had traumatised his brother to an extent that he did not tell his parents. A lump...

By Oliver Modise
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

OUT TO LUNCH

We have to find a way to temper the excitement or, as the case may be, the trauma, that either came with this year or carried over from the previous one, and carry on doing what needs to be done. After all, before we know it, it will be 2009. And...

SHAMEELA WINSTON 14 January 2008

'Change Of Guard' At Botash Nears Completion

One bidder has been identified and the process is in the final stages of due-diligence. "Last year, Government set criteria for the bidders to achieve. A number of private companies bid until the final one was chosen by shareholders," Cochrane...

ByWanetsha Mosinyi
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Current Downpour Could Interrupt Production At Mines

The Managing Director of Botswana Ash (Botash) says the rains are already slowing down production at the soda ash mining company. "The rain is posing a challenge because there's than was predicted," Dereck Cochrane says. Sua Pan has already recorded...

By Wanetsha Mosinyi
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Well Done DCEC

The 90s saw a lot of commissions of inquiry which revealed that white-collar crime and corruption are rife in our society. Efforts made to stem this trend were viewed by many Batswana as window-dressing, since a lot of people at the centre of those...

EDITOR 14 January 2008

HEALTH CORNER

Models of Stress Management Transactional ModelStress can be thought of as resulting from an "imbalance between demands and resources" or as occurring when "pressure exceeds one's perceived ability to cope". Stress management was developed and...

DEBASHISH GANGOPADHYAY 14 January 2008

Women Advised To Go For Pap Smears

Speaking to Monitor on Friday, Dr Doreen Ramogola-Masire, who is in charge of women's health at the Botswana-UPenn (University of Pennsylvania) Partnership, said this cancer develops on the 'mouth' of the womb called the cervix and is fairly rare in...

By Thato Chwaane
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Issues In Education

In many nations the entry level for teachers at both primary and secondary levels is a bachelor's degree in a subject area plus a masters in education. Botswana is still a long way from this standard. Botswana does, though, take teacher development...

D. MOLEFE
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Etcetera II

This was, of course, just prior to Christmas and therefore in the earlier part of the country's annual Hibernation period. With prices as they are now, I probably asked for no more than P40 or P50's worth which was just as well because much of the...

SANDY GRANT 14 January 2008

The Winners Code

However, even more powerful is the fact that we have more than just the ability to dream and make resolutions. We can pursue our dreams, and we also have the cognitive ability to actually craft plans and strategies to make those dreams a...

GEORGE CHINGARANDE 14 January 2008

Keep It Up

This includes coverage of both domestic and international news. As someone who has not been home for over 10 years, reading it has always brought home to me in these parts of the world. I specially appreciate that the papers come on line...

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Botswana Referees Officiate In SA

The referees are Joshua Bondo, Moora Silas and Meshack Medupe. Before travelling to South Africa, they were in charge of the Mascom Premier League game between Township Rollers and Police XI on Friday. The secretary of the Botswana referees...

By Tshepo Molwane
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Thriller Ends In Stalemate

The match left supporters asking for more even though it was a 0-0 stalemate. Rollers started like a house on fire and could have opened the scoring in the opening 15 minutes of the game. But they were either denied by Police XI goalkeeper Jackson...

By Tshepo Molwane
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Clubs Destroy Players' Careers?

TAFIC public relations officer, Jones Mosweu and Thuso Mudongo of national champions ECCO City Greens say that some clubs recruit certain players for ulterior reasons. They recruit such players because they fear them and not because they need them....

By Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 14 January 2008

Construction Of Lobatse Sports Facilities Starts

It is expected that the facilities will be a major boost for sports in Lobatse and neigbouring villages. Similar facilities have been constructed in Molepolole, Masunga, Maun and Serowe under a project that started in January 1998. It is estimated...

By Boitumelo Khutsafalo
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Senior Secondary Admission Goes Up

Principal Public Relations Officer in the ministry, Nomsah Zuze, said the increase is partly due to the increase in facilities and the expansion of double shift. The ministry has constructed Goodhope Senior Secondary School and rolled out of double...

By Chandapiwa Baputaki
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

GU Struggle

Gaborone United's woes continued when they were beaten 2-1 by fellow strugglers BDF XI in a Mascom Premier League game at the SSKB Stadium in Mogoditshane on Saturday. GU started the game well and played with urgency but soon things fell apart and...

By Tshepo Molwane
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Un-Graded Refugee Candidates Panic

BEC spokesman, Spencer Moreri says that the students who were not graded sat for eight subjects instead of the mandatory nine and so they did not meet the exam requirements. The junior certificate students are still waiting for feedback though the...

By Patricia Maganu
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Man Fights For Freedom After Love And Death

Chunga was jailed for killing Timothy Mupoperi at Otse Veterinary Camp in Central District on April 16, 2004. The sentence includes attempted murder of his girlfriend Semakaleng Modisaotsile of Lephepe Village in Kweneng District. The court heard...

By Bame Piet
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Food For The Soul

Not that much as long as you first focus on your nutrition, which is the foundation to life. I suppose it is time now to remember that indeed - 'we are what we eat' - as the old adage goes. Or to put it in cyberspace computer terminology, garbage in...

BOITSHEPO GIYOSE 14 January 2008

Talking Musica

Even as the underdeveloped societies lack the material resources that are available to the artists of the so-called developed world, the workers in the creative arts industry in the underdeveloped countries carry an infinitely greater responsibility...

RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 14 January 2008

M7 Unleashes New Kwaito Tunes

He dresses, walks and speaks like an obsessed ghetto lad. Though he has been working behind the scenes in the music industry, Moremi, otherwise known as Mseven, shot to fame late last year after releasing a balanced eight-track kwaito album. The...

By Mogomotsi Moloi
Correspondent 14 January 2008

Artistes Cash Over Holidays

Music giants Odirile 'Vee' Sento and Frank 'Franco' Lesokwane embarked on a nationwide tour, dubbed Vee v/s Franco which took them to 12 places including Serowe, Bobonong, Tsetsejwe, Ratholo, Goo-Tau, Rakops, Francistown, Maun and Palapye. The...

By Gasebalwe Seretse
Staff Writer 14 January 2008

Fire truck in an accident

Traffic flow was impeded as it took police, firemen and army officers seven hours to remove the truck, which had part of its body blocking the road. Acting Station Fire Officer Tladi Pilane told Mmegi that this was the second fire truck to be...

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 15 January 2008

BOMU goes to the polls in February

At a meeting last year, Taolo Moshaga came up with a motion that the elections should be postponed to help the executive prepare for awards. He said new officials would have problems negotiating with companies that the old committee had...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 15 January 2008

Losers bitter with BOMU, says Dedcoh

Dedcoh, who was nominated in the Best Newcomer category alongside Ghavorr, Thusego, and Stompie and in the Best Kwasa-kwasa category alongside, Franco, Alfredo Mos and ChrisManto7, says the organisers and the judges knew the criterion they were using...

GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 15 January 2008

Survival and greed mix in a war-torn Holland

Black Book is Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's testimony to courage and revenge in late 1944 and early 1945 in Den Haag in the Netherlands. It is the first film that he has made in Holland since Soldier of Orange (1979), a story of the heroic Dutch...

15 January 2008

Letshego clinches financing deal

The US $20 million loan facility has a seven-year term and will be used by Letshego to finance its existing operations in Botswana, Swaziland and Zambia.This will be the IFC's second investment in Letshego following the acquisition of a 7 percent...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 15 January 2008

Liquidity returns to stock market

The increased activity on the bourse is attributed to the forthcoming company results for mostly large cap counters, and has seen investors scramble for certain stocks or dispose of stock or take cover. "Most of the blue-chip counters have now...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 15 January 2008

BTC must jack up service

This, without doubt holds the competitive edge over the popular cell phones.Users of fixed line telephones would have noticed a disturbing trend that every time it rains, BTC lines usually go dead. We do not know whether this is the technology or...

Editor 15 January 2008

The year of the 'China Model'

Exciting new buildings, designed by the world's most famous architects, will make Beijing and Shanghai look like models of twenty-first century modernity. More Chinese will be featured in annual lists of the world's richest people. And Chinese...

IAN BURUMA 15 January 2008

Unresolved issues in the Balkans

Even with peace, major problems were left unresolved. Bosnia was divided between a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb republic, with little authority vested in the central government and a large international military - and eventually civilian -...

*DANIEL SERWER 15 January 2008

Arab Fathers and Sons

The problem of succession in the Arab secular republics highlights their predicament in the transition to a post-revolutionary phase, for succession in regimes that fail to build strong institutions always risks triggering a systemic crisis. While...

*SHLOMO BEN-AMI 15 January 2008

Writing should offer solutions

The writer intelligently introduces the theme in the opening paragraph but goes on to write on a completely different subject. Even the quotations that are made with reference to the Chobe MP do not back up what was to be the version of the...

15 January 2008

Mhlauli appeals

Magistrate Moroka convicted Mhlauli on two counts of abuse of office and that he knowingly made a false statement in an affidavit. On the count of abuse of office Mhlauli was slapped with a maximum sentence of two years imprisonment. Mhlauli also...

GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 15 January 2008

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Chiefs keep unbeaten run

After the shocking resignation of head coach Mike Sithole just before Christmas holidays, the Mochudi boys invested their faith in Morapedi to lead the title-chasing Chiefs against struggling Comets. After his side missed numerous scoring chances...

TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 15 January 2008

Hunda resigns from Gunners

The coach joined Gunners this season, replacing Fewdays Musonda, who once complained about lack of quality players. Before going to Gunners, Hunda was at Uniao Flamengo Santos where he had a relatively good time with the youthful side. Hunda was in...

BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 15 January 2008

TAFIC start on a high note

TAFIC, which is in the process of hiring a new coach from Zimbabwe, Willard Khumalo, had a field day at the expense of the limping champions. The game started at a high pace with both sides showing determination to win. Matjimenyenga got an early...

MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 15 January 2008

SuperSport cancel trip to Botswana

SuperSport is reported to have received invitations for the Gaborone and Maputo tournament the same time. A source at the club says the Maputo trip gives them an opportunity to honour their latest acquisition - Elias 'Dominguez' Pelembe signed...

15 January 2008

Olesitse claims glory in Palapye

Having joined the BCP last August from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), Molosiwa posed a serious threat to Olesitse who has represented the BCP in Palapye ever since its birth in 1998. Although Olesitse, did not participate in the 1998...

RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 15 January 2008

BIUST steps up hunt for VC

Speaking to Mmegi yesterday, project coordinator Badumetse Hubona said the BIUST council has engaged Academic Partners, a South African recruiting agency, to hire the vice chancellor. The agency has since advertised the post in newspapers in Botswana...

CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 15 January 2008

Rain foils phane trade

The only preservation method for the phane worms is to dry them in the sun to lengthen their shelf life. Exposure to humidity and damp conditions make them rot so that they are not good for eating. The heavy and continuous rains caught others...

ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 15 January 2008

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