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Parliament passes foreign affairs budget
Merafhe told Parliament yesterday that the January 2008 AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, established a committee of 10 heads of state and government, following deliberations of the AU ministerial committee charged with strategising about...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 13 March 2008
De Beers Botswana offers supplies in tight market
De Beers, which accounts for around 40 percent of global rough diamond supply, is due to launch a new local marketing arm in Botswana this month to help boost the country's jewellery sector and create jobs. The move reflects an effort by African...
13 March 2008
'Consumers need a cheetah, not an elephant'
And asked him about this day and other consumer rights -related issues. Q. What is World Consumer Rights Day? A. It's another of those days that someone somewhere decides is a special day. They give us an opportunity to make some noise about a...
13 March 2008
Hot Kwaito hits the shelves
It is only through these things that you can reach success. But understand that there are obstacles that obstruct us from reaching our goals. It is like walking to the peak of a mountain and the route is very slippery, you meet all sorts of dangerous...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 13 March 2008
Mel-D releases a contemporary gospel album
The tracks in the album include What God Has Joined Together, All We Need, Together, Me And My House, Let It Rain, What God Has Joined Together (house mix) and You Make Me Dance. Although Mutuma insists that this is not a gospel album, it is evident...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 13 March 2008
Lister fulfils his musical dream
Boleseng made inroads into the music industry after the release of his acclaimed album, Life's a journey. It is every musician's wish to record and the success of Boleseng's album was the turning point. Suddenly everyone in jazz circles was...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 13 March 2008
Botho should not tax the poor
That is not surprising particularly when the gestures are viewed against one of the major pillars of Botswana's Vision 2016, botho. In the remotest or smallest villages and newly gazetted settlements that Mogae has visited, he has collected...
EDITOR 13 March 2008
The 'Teenage' returns as 'Malome'
But nowadays David Tsalaile is affectionately known as 'Malome Davor' by Gunners' faithful. To them he is not just another Gunners' player. He is an experienced leader capable of assuming the responsibility of an uncle in the Gunners' family. It is...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 13 March 2008
Enzinkomo promise to rise
But club spokesman Parks Buthiyi say they are reviving after last weekend's 2-0 victory against another relegation-threatened side, Jwaneng Comets at the Lobatse Stadium. He asserted that the players are now motivated for the next games starting with...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 13 March 2008
Double Action retain women's league title
Untouchables are assured of second place with 36 points already in the bag while Kanye Swallows with 29 will finish third. Lobatse-based Roosters finished the 10-club league without a win and are placed last. Double action now have the right to...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 13 March 2008
Alleged hired guns muddle state case
This comes after key state witnesses gave contradictory evidence in court last week. As a result, Sindiso Mazibisa, the lawyer representing the accused, Ray Dokotela-Moyo, has applied to be discharged at the end of the state case at the Bulawayo...
FRASER MPOFU
Correspondent 13 March 2008
Swallows coach blame double shift
He was speaking after the team lost to log leaders and champions-elect Double Action last weekend. The result left Swallows nine points behind the leaders. "Many factors have contributed to our downfall. But we have been hit hard by this double...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 13 March 2008
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13 March 2008
Cost-sharing in education: The untold story
Think of Councillors and MPs who think the world of the car scheme where they buy one 4x4 SUV at half price! Buy one get one free they say. Today Botswana is squirming in a lethargic pool of poor productivity and unabated corruption because people...
M.D. Lecha 13 March 2008
UB gives 15% pay hike, writes off P2million
This discipline includes the tools and techniques used in land surveying, remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS) and earth mapping. The course will be taught in the university's faculty of...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 13 March 2008
Sanitation managers urge use of 'wastewater'
They made the pledge at a press conference at Cresta Lodge on Monday, marking the National Week on Sanitation celebrations, which will be held countrywide. The main issue was to make a concerted effort in educating the nation about reuse...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 13 March 2008
BONELA demands HIV employment law
The enactment of such a law would protect workers affected or infected by HIV/AIDS in the workplace. A legal officer at BONELA, Uyapo Ndadi, said on Tuesday that since they served the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Charles Tibone, with a...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 13 March 2008
Abstinence is possible, Silabo
Officially opening the Kanye Police HIV/AIDS workshop at Motse Lodge yesterday, Bashi Silabo said that he was appalled at the way society is concentrating more on condom use than on other methods of prevention. "We have the ABC - abstain, be...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 13 March 2008
Voter registration cascades in Phikwe
During the November 2003 general voter registration, 6,743 people registered in Selebi-Phikwe West and after supplementary registration in 2004, the number increased to 9,211. However, in October last year only 4,231 registered. This indicates a...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 13 March 2008
Zimbabwe elections: SADC MPs uninvited, Europe barred
Member of Parliament for Shoshong, Duke Lefhoko, who is also member of SADC PF and former vice chairman of the organisation confirmed yesterday that they had not been invited as an independent body. "We have only seen a letter which says that...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 13 March 2008
'2008 holds promise for Botswana Life'
A good performance in 2007 has given the leading insurance provider fresh impetus of increased new business opportunities, particularly against the background of a mining boom in northern Botswana and the recent 15 percent salary hike for civil...
KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 13 March 2008
Against capital punishment
Over and over, proponents of the death penalty insist that it is right and useful. In reply, abolitionists argue that it is morally flawed and cite studies to demonstrate its failure to deter. Were the subject not so grim and compelling, the...
14 March 2008
Murder of lovers escalates - police
In the past week, the police clocked six cases of murder in which five suspects were arrested for five of the cases. This brings to 42 the total number of murder cases recorded since the beginning of the year, compared to 46 cases recorded during the...
14 March 2008
Conflict of interest knocks Ntime out
BNF chairman Bashi Sengwaketsi said Ntime will not preside over the case because he is an interested party. The case arose after a dispute over Ntime's relocation from Molepolole North constituency to Gaborone North. Mokhubami clashed with the party...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 14 March 2008
BCL employees in payslip deception scam
BCL Divisional Manager responsible for Marketing, Gerald Ndlovu, has confirmed the taking of disciplinary action against employees caught in a counterfeit payslip scam which allegedly involved replication of payslips bearing inflated salary figures...
KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 14 March 2008
Vendors jittery after mysterious registration
Hundreds of vendors who occupy nearly every square metre of the city thronged the town hall armed with their hawkers' licences and Identity Cards (Omang) where they were asked questions during the registration exercise. What made them more...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 14 March 2008
UB sacks two lecturers
The exam leakage lecturer was busted by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC). UB spokesman, Samuel Moribame, said the two lecturers were dismissed after internal disciplinary hearings. He revealed that the two were charged with...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 14 March 2008
Khama's 'Big Day' event to be less than an hour
All that happens is a parade by the Botswana Defence Force (BDF), an inspection of the Guard of Honour and the President is sworn in. According to the Clerk of the National Assembly, Ernest Mpofu, who is the coordinator of the organising...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 14 March 2008
BDP on election cruise
As the countdown to the Kgalagadi North and Palapye by-elections gains momentum, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) seems to be using state resources to bolster its campaign. The by elections will be held on Saturday in the two constituencies....
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 14 March 2008
Top private schools exhibit at Thapong
The participating schools are Westwood, Rainbow and Maruapula. Students in the performing arts from the three schools spiced up the opening evening with drama and music. The organisers of the exhibition say it is a show of selected works bearing...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 14 March 2008
A moving tale of stolen childhood
The book is interesting but sad. It can easily brings tears to the eyes. The abuse the main character suffers in the name of discipline is unbearable. The book follows the life of Kea, short for Kealeboga, from her childhood to early adulthood. It is...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 14 March 2008
BOOK REVIEW
'Tracking BuBu' is Catja Orford's highly personal and delightful multimedia presentation recorded on the pages of a book on her 15 months in Gabon at the Lope National Park based at the Mikongo Conservation Camp in 2003 and early 3004. 'BuBu' means...
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SHERIDAN GRISWOLD 14 March 2008
For capital punishment
In an average year about 20,000 homicides occur in the United States. Fewer than 300 convicted murderers are sentenced to death. But because no more than thirty murderers have been executed in any recent year, most convicts sentenced to death are...
14 March 2008
BACK STAGE
Nothing surprising in this. It confirms the thesis that American movies are addicted to gratuitous violence and that when it is 'done well' it is honoured. Violence must be in the American blood and to show that crime pays, killing people at the flip...
SASA MAJUMA 14 March 2008
CONSUMER WATCHDOG
No, this is about pyramid selling schemes. Well, I have to be fair, reasonable and responsible, it's about multi-level marketing as well. I can't go around accusing companies of running pyramid selling schemes because in many countries of...
14 March 2008
ABC to raise convertible loan with Citigroup
Announcing their 2007 year-end results last Wednesday, ABC Group Chief Executive Officer Douglas Munatsi said Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI), a subsidiary of Citigroup, had approved an investment of US$25 million by way of a two-year...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 14 March 2008
Chinese donate to SOS village
The donation, which includes 50,000 Pula in cheque and goods such as blankets, clothes and toys amounting to 75,000 Pula, had been raised and collected among the Chinese business people who are based in Gaborone Oriental Plaza. Ambassador Ding said...
14 March 2008
LEA investigates copper beneficiation by SMMEs
The Director of Technology Innovation at LEA, Walter Kgabung says the results of the study are expected before the end of 2008. The insignificant participation of Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMME) in the mining sector and the invention of...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 14 March 2008
SADC is slow to sign agreed protocols - PHK
Speaking at a two-day SADC workshop on the strengthening of River Basin organisations at the GICC (Gaborone International Convention Centre) this week, Kedikilwe said SADC countries were slow to sign what they had agreed on. Kedikilwe said SADC...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 14 March 2008
Government lists new bonds on BSE
The two bonds, which were auctioned by the Bank of Botswana (BoB) last Friday, were highly oversubscribed, showing investors' strong thirst for investment instruments in the country's capital markets. On the day, the central bank also issued a...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 14 March 2008
PHK commissions Coal Washing Plant
The P87 million plant will improve the quality of coal by treating 30 000 tonnes of the black stone every month. It will also help Morupule's drive for a cleaner atmosphere. Washing coal improves its value by reducing its ash and sulphur content,...
STAFF WRITER 14 March 2008
New political regime pre-empts oversight at BDF
It took 40 years for the cycle to turn full circle from the dusty Botswana of 1966 under the prime ministership of Seretse Khama, to the presidency of Seretse Khama, with the variation of 'Ian'. Then, the country was firmly in the grip of a handful...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 14 March 2008
When 'Silent Diplomacy' takes hold
During the last Zimbabwean poll in 2002, of all the SADC institutions, it was only the SADC-PF that gave an independent - and quite thorough - assessment of the parody that passed for an electoral process there. The forum saw the poll for the sham...
EDITOR 14 March 2008
Survival targets Botswana movie
The film, part sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, is scheduled to screen today in South Bank, London, in a screening that will include selected guests, most of whom are involved in the tourism sector. Survival has been...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 14 March 2008
MOE got it right this time around
South Africa is very cheap to stay in. The government is giving us R1500 for accommodation but an apartment is between 1600 to 2000 Rands per person. Tranport costs R6 one-way trip (R500/month) but now we can go stay at places worst than old Naledi...
14 March 2008
Does inflation affect tertiary students?
Those in the private sector are already safe, Hon Kwelagobe bears testimony to this that government cannot match private sector salaries. However proceed from the premise whether or not inflation affects only those who are working, either in...
14 March 2008
Keep it up Mmegi
More of these surveys are vital on major issues affecting our nation. The fact that the survey was broad based and covered at least 52 personalities has merit. The exercise involved various age groups. Analysis by location indicated that Gaborone was...
14 March 2008
Civil servants also deserve praise
In a scientific experiment we have what is referred to as a catalyst to promote the reaction of the compound. I am not a scientist or an economist, so may my human frailty be excused to avoid that ferocity from those who feel that our civil servants...
14 March 2008
Globalisation and the Beautiful Game
To answer these questions, look no farther than soccer. Ever since European clubs loosened restrictions on the number of foreign players, the game has become truly global. African players, in particular, have become ubiquitous, supplementing the...
*DANI RODRIK 14 March 2008
Will new administration approach CKGR issue differently?
On December 2006, the court ruled that the government's decision to relocate the Bushmen from the CKGR was unlawful and unconstitutional. It also ruled that the government's refusal to issue special hunting licenses to the residents of CKGR was...
14 March 2008
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