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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
Cartoon 15.01.08
15 January 2008
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
Rape under duress
Reading judgement, Senior Magistrate Thato Mujaji said that not only did she not believe Mthakathi but that his evidence helped support the complainant's story that rape occurred. "Accused 2 says that he raped the complainant under duress because...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 15 January 2008
BCP demand protection against floods
However, the demonstration, led by the party's Vice President, Kesitegile Gobotswang went ahead and the petition was read in all the stations from Letloreng through Chadibe, Borotsi and it ended up in Sefhare. The party has since mobilised a...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 15 January 2008
Increase in forged travelling documents
"Most of the foreigners, who were in possession of fake ETDs were Zimbabweans. Some of them even had the same serial numbers," he said. He added that most Zimbabweans rounded up during the festive season were in possession of the ETDs...
KHONANI ONTEBETSE
Correspondent 15 January 2008
Border post opening delayed
According to a letter from Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) Acting Commissioner General Ken Morris, preparations to open the post are well under way and include the provision of portacamps for office and residential accommodation.But whilst...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 15 January 2008
BDP completes Palapye probe
Tlou was narrowly defeated by Moiseraele Goya in the election called to find a replacement for MP Boyce Sebetela, who resigned last November to join Debswana. The committee, comprising BDP executive secretary Comma Serema, Pelonomi...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 16 January 2008
Science university set for 2009
Speaking yesterday, Mogotsa Keoagamang said that they placed the advertisement of the recruitment in the media as they want "the best that we can get in the world. We want the best in the world but if that happens to be a Motswana it will be a...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 16 January 2008
Parmalat workers down tools over pay
The striking employees, who are mainly merchandisers (sales team), said their grievances started last year after calling for a salary increment, employee benefits, transport allowances and uniforms appropriate for their work. While waiting for a...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 16 January 2008
Judge quashes misguided prosecution
Justice Mosojane ordered that until the state has established a prima facie case against the applicant and formally charged Tawele, the applicant has no reason to attend the magistrate's court. "I also order costs against the respondents on the...
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent 16 January 2008
Court reserves sentence in tyres theft case
The three men pleaded guilty before senior magistrate Thato Mujaji. The recovered tyres were brought to court in trucks from the two companies, as exhibits. Peter Mlilo, Moses Mwangala and Noel Tsoko are accused of stealing tyres and rims worth...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 16 January 2008
Council hands clear chameleons
The woman who nearly steps on the smashed creature that is now a silhouette of white substance - chameleons have no specific colour on the black tar - suddenly shrieks disgustingly while the man shyly looks away. When they reach home, the woman goes...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 16 January 2008
'Ships of the desert' for cross breeding?
Handing over the gift on behalf of the Libyan leader, Assed M.Almuza, charge' d' Affaires of the Lybian People's Bureau based in Gaborone, briefed the small number of guests and government officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, police, Wildlife...
16 January 2008
Quit fidgeting with university
Firstly, a commission, made up of eminent personalities, was set-up to go around the country and solicit views on the most appropriate location for the proposed university. However, at the end of the day, government, in its wisdom, decided to...
EDITOR 16 January 2008
AS I SEE IT
In the public eye, the stealing of the elections in Kenya is so evident that though the EU and other observers do not elaborate, they emphatically describe them as severely flawed. Even the omniscient, forward USA confessed she had jumped the gun by...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 16 January 2008
Botswana is not rich, it needs help
If indeed this attitude is prevalent, it is an unfortunate thing for the country, because the current Government expenditure on HIV/AIDS, public sector wage bill and other things, suggests that the Government should worry about a highly probable...
16 January 2008
Cartoon Strip 16-01-08
16 January 2008
Dukwi CJSS ungrades refugee students
He said the curriculum and secondary education departments release a blueprint of what is to be taught and offered and the minimum requirements. "The current blueprint was released in 2005 and what happened at Dukwi is that they used the...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 16 January 2008
New bank licensed
According to a statement from the Bank of Botswana (BoB) PRO Chepete Chepete, the new bank, Capital Bank Limited, was granted an operating licence in December last year and is expected to start operations before year-end. "It is hereby...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 16 January 2008
Current intellectual property systems marginalise Africa - Tumelo
Tumelo also urged the agency to improve access to basic life savings and productivity enhancing technologies for poor countries and people. He was speaking at the official opening of the UNDP regional Bureau for Africa workshop on implementing its...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 16 January 2008
KDC contributes P14.6 million to budget
"This is an increase (of) P4 million from the previous financial year, which was P10.4 million," Mangole said. But Mangole said this is not enough: "We are still far in generating our own income as council." The money was raised from two sources -...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 16 January 2008
Strong diamond prices expected
"We should see very strong prices," Ernie Blom, also a founding member of the World Diamond Council, said in a telephone interview. He pointed out that the current supply shortfall would last for the foreseeable future, propping up prices, but...
16 January 2008
Dinyetse to release second album
The album should be available in all the music shops in the country. "Come January 31, the hit eight-track album will be available in the shops for the public to buy a copy," he said. Titled Khurumela, the album's eight tracks are: Khurumela,...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 16 January 2008
By 2 promise maturity on the third album
Last December's Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU) awards have left them more determined to refine their act and produce a mellow third album this year.The duo's Lekwalo Thobega told Showbiz that they have put the disappointment of not winning anything...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 16 January 2008
Zebras take on Bafana Bafana
While the Zebras will be using the game to prepare for the upcoming 2010 World Cup/African Nations Cup qualifiers, South Africa are sharpening themselves for the 2008 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) which starts in Ghana on Sunday. Bafana Bafana...
TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 16 January 2008
Police XI to pay former player
The Malawian took Police XI to court last year after the club ended his contract following the injury. After more than five months, a magistrate has ruled in his favour and instructed the club to pay him. "I am happy that this whole thing is...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 16 January 2008
Hunda shocked us - Gunners
"We were really shocked and disappointed at the way he handled this matter because he had just asked us to find certain players for him and while we were in the process of doing that, he quit. Often the media and the public blames managers for...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 16 January 2008
BNSC to rescue netball
It is meant to map the way forward and revive the sport. At the last Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Botswana Netball Association (BONA), BNSC chairperson Dorcas Makgatho-Malesu expressed worry that the sport is not doing well. She warned that if...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 16 January 2008
Botswana drops in world press ranking
The report reveals that Botswana is in the same ranking as Central African Republic, Angola, Mozambique, Ivory Coast, Brazil, Indonesia and India. In southern African region, South Africa, Tanzania, Madagascar and Namibia are the only countries...
STAFF WRITER 16 January 2008
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