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At long last Khama will face his son(Mogae Legacy)
This coming Tuesday when the sun rises throwing its shafts of light upon the leafy complex that is Government Enclave the statue of Seretse Khama will have its back towards it. At that point father will have his attention on son. Not anywhere else....
01 April 2008
'Batswana don't respond to aptitude testing'(Mogae Legacy)
If that should turn out to be the case, he believes the credit belongs to generations of a docile but apartheid-complicit political leadership. When Clem Sunter came on his wing-footed lecture tour in the last quarter of the 1980s, the man had the...
01 April 2008
Mogae's quotable quotes(Mogae Legacy)
An American scholar once remarked that when it comes to "presidential timber", it is painfully obvious that presidents do not all come from the same trees. Some are carved from redwoods, others from sturdy oaks, and then there are those whose origins...
01 April 2008
Parliamentary motions between 1998 and 2008(Mogae Legacy)
During his tenure Members of Parliament (MPs) had ideas in the form of motions through which they wanted to assist in the development of the country. Between 1998 and 2008 MPs from both the ruling party and opposition proposed 217 motions, the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
The Death penalty: Executions from 1998-2008(Mogae Legacy)
* ARMED ROBBERY - contrary to Section 292 (1) as reads with Section 292 (2) of the penal Code (Cap 08:01), it being alleged by the prosecution that on 21st May 1993 at Palapye in the Central Administrative District of Botswana, the Appellant acting...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
Mogae: portrait of a democrat(Mogae Legacy)
There were heightened anxieties that the experiment could go wrong at the implementation stage. Despite earlier indications that the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) experiment with automatic succession could go horribly wrong, Mogae will look back...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
Mogae on health and gender(Mogae Legacy)
Many have said that he will leave a legacy in Botswana's history in prolonging thousands of lives by preventing early death due to AIDS and setting a clear path towards controlling the epidemic. Mogae coined the phrase Ntwa e bolotse (the war has...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
Festus Gontebanye Mogae(Mogae Legacy)
He is currently serving his second term in office following his re-election in the October 2004 general election. He will leave the presidency on Monday 31 March 2008. Vice President Ian Khama will take over as President. Mogae was Vice-President...
01 April 2008
Mogae was the best teacher-Khama
I welcome you all to this farewell dinner for President Mogae, who is retiring after serving this nation with commitment and diligence spanning a period of 40 years. President Mogae started his national service back in 1968. He took up post...
01 April 2008
I trust Khama- Mogae
Madomi a a rategang, I welcome you to this momentous 2008 National Council of the Botswana Democratic Party. This is one of the many pleasant events I have attended in the last three months. As you are aware, I have spent the last few weeks...
01 April 2008
Chimidza ousted in BMWU elections
In a show of trust, delegates chose former BCL mine employee, Golekanye Mogende as chairman in place of the militant Chimbidzani Chimidza. Mogende was previously the deputy chairman. Rex Dambula, a BCL employee was elected Mogende's deputy while...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
Briton remanded for defilement
Tempest, an aircraft instructor, allegedly had carnal knowledge of two girls on unknown dates between February and March this year. He was not asked to plead. The police made an application for his remand, saying defilement was a serious...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
BOTEC boss sent packing
A reliable source informed Mmegi that a meeting was called yesterday where BOTEC employees were told Ndaba is no longer with the organisation. Reports say that Ndaba was given a letter and told to be out of the office by midday yesterday. Ndaba has...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
Public sector unions clash at congress
First to launch a scathing attack was the Botswana Land Board and Local Authorities Workers Union's (BLLAWU) president Pelotshweu Baeng who condemned the Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) and the Manual Workers Union for joining forces to form...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
BACK STAGE
Menschen am Sonntag is a film recreated by the BFI from archives held in Holland. They then found more missing footage at film libraries in Switzerland and Italy and from files held by the censors in Germany. As a result, at 73 minutes, it is a...
SASA MAJUMA 01 April 2008
Artistes still have faith in BOMU - Rasina
He explained that the reason why artistes do not renew their membership in time is because they lack awareness as to why BOMU exists. He would not admit that artistes have lost faith in BOMU but says that they do not understand its mandate. Showbiz...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 01 April 2008
BotswanaPost keen to help realise 'grand design'
BotswanaPost public relations manager Rafifing announced on Friday that the parastatal is currently working with the Ministry of Education in a bid to engage teachers in its stamp design drive. He said that the power of fine arts - through design -...
MARTIN NYIRENDA
Correspondent 01 April 2008
'Listen' and support Dollie
Dollie, as she prefers to be called, recently released an eight-track RnB album called Listen that contains love songs. She composed all her songs and recorded them at Mexyland in Gaborone. The Tsabong girl is yet to find some benevolent people or...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 01 April 2008
Power failures haunt Splash again
The show was the last of Splash's National Summer Tour, which started in February. Since the Lions Park festival late last month, the band took a break and only returned last Friday to perform first at Club 2016 in Molepolole and then Molapowabojang...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 01 April 2008
Mupane drags IAMGold down
Joseph Conway, president and CEO of IAMGold said in a press release on Friday that adjusted net earnings for 2007 were P380.736 million, a huge loss compared to adjusted net earnings of P489.801 million recorded in 2006. If impairment charges...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
Barclays overhaul its act after Lobtrans collapse
The collapse of Lobtrans saw the bank suffer a P73 million exposure and this pulled down its 2007 year end profit before tax by 16 percent from P349 million to P295 million. Speaking at a media briefing in Gaborone yesterday, Barclays...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
Dear President Ian Khama
One of the great Republicans that we hold in high esteem, President Festus Mogae, chose you to be his deputy and to succeed him as President. We could of course lecture you on how your ascendency to the presidency is an affront to democratic ethos in...
EDITOR 01 April 2008
AS I SEE IT
Ian Khama was born under the aura of greatness in the Khama royal house; he acquired greatness through army training, becoming deputy commander at 24; today he has had greatness thrust upon him by a 1997 constitutional amendment which made it...
MICHAEL DINGAKE 01 April 2008
Cartoon 01-04-08
01 April 2008
We were outclassed - BoBA
Speaking at a welcome reception for the national team at Yarona Lodge last Sunday, Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA) officials said the competition was very tough. BoBA technical director, Leo Viciedo Domeguez said that with boxers from countries...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 01 April 2008
Darts body records declining expenditure
The BNSC gave BODA P107,000. The association collected P6,000 in tournament fees while the rest of the money came from miscellaneous income. Ngele disclosed that the revenue indicated a 26 percent drop when compared to previous year's figure of P173,...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
Zebras hope to welcome Khama with victory
Khama takes over the reigns as Botswana's fourth president from Festus Mogae today. The game against the select side from Brasilia, Brazil's capital city comes six days after the Zebras lost 1-0 to Zimbabwe at the same venue. More importantly,...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 01 April 2008
Mogae also made a mark in sports(Mogae Legacy)
The creation of the ministry has seen him receive accolades though some people felt that Sport should have had its own ministry. In the past, sport fell under the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs headed by Moeng Pheto. After the creation of the...
01 April 2008
Brace up for 'royal military dictatorship'(Mogae Legacy)
Koma's pamphlet was utilitarian academic work that offered an assessment of the condition of the Bechuanaland Protectorate at the time it was written. At the same time it laid out a philosophy, programme, and mode of organisation that could help...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 01 April 2008
Mogae and the economy(Mogae Legacy)
But others who are initiated in economics believe there is a reverse, looking at current GDP performance and other economic indicators. This brings to the fore the question of currency debates that dominated 2005 over the under valued currency...
KABO MOKGOABONE
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
Mogae's civil service reforms(Mogae Legacy)
Below, Mmegi looks at a few of the reforms in the civil service that took shape whilst President Festus Mogae was at the helm. A few years ago, the government transformed what used to be the Customs and Excise into a robust Botswana Unified Revenue...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
Mining soars under Mogae(Mogae Legacy)
As bullish commodity prices continued their run in the past years, so has there been a significant growth in the mining sector and related activities, especially in the northern and central parts of Botswana. The contribution of mining to GDP was...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 01 April 2008
VP Merafhe will not be President
"He made it clear that by the end of his term, he would have been served by two vice presidents, with Merafhe being one, and the other one would eventually succeed him as President in April 2018," a BDP MP said. Several BDP MPs who attended the...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 02 April 2008
Khama fires five ministers
Two women ministers have been dropped from Khama's cabinet, Professor Shiela Tlou who is just smarting from back to back defeat from the BDP primaries in Palapye has been sent packing as Health Minister and in her place comes Lesego Motsumi. Motsumi...
GIDEON NKALA
Staff Writer 02 April 2008
Molale announces 'new look' civil service
Another army graduate, Col. Duke Masilo becomes Deputy private secretary to the President, where nearly returned, Samuel Rathedi will serve as senior private secretary, according to permanent secretary in the Office of the President, Eric Molale. A...
02 April 2008
Doctor-hopping pushes up medical insurance claims
Tatedi said because of this escalation, they have had to use reserve funds to pay for some of the claims. This has been a problem because contribution income has not been increasing at the same rate as claim costs. Tatedi said that to manage...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 02 April 2008
NEWS BRIEFS
He was accused of killing Ramotlhwa in Ditlhakane lands near Kumakwane in February 2002 after their love affair went sour. Other appellants are Rapula Molefhe, who is appealing against conviction and sentence for defilement of a girl under the...
Compiled by BAME PIET
Staff Writer 02 April 2008
Makgabaneng takes service to the people
Makgabaneng project coordinator Moratiwa Mangwegape said that the turnout was impressive. "We are very grateful to Sebina people for showing up in such large numbers to take advantage of the services that we have brought here with us," she said....
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 02 April 2008
Zimbabwe awaits official results
A local observer organisation has projected that Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader, will fall just short of an outright victory. The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), which deployed 8,000 local election observers, estimates that...
02 April 2008
Exciting but chaotic inauguration
Early in the pleasantly cloudy morning, a curious crowd gathered and waited for the arrival of the VIPs. By 7am, security had secured the Parliament Building area spanning Parliament Adjunct, Ntlo Ya Dikgosi Building and the parliamentary gardens....
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 02 April 2008
Khama's roadmap for Botswana
When looking back at his lifelong commitment to national service, it is hardlysurprising to anyone that he eventually ascended to the highest office in the land. Rre Mogae's achievements and the legacy he will bequeath us are well documented, as...
02 April 2008
BMWU honours Saleshando
The 'Ditiro Saleshando Memorial Union Centre' was officially opened on Saturday by Patrick Van Rensberg, the Director of Foundation for Education With Production. The Francistown block of offices is BMWU's second building in the country. The...
UYAPO KGOSI
Correspondent 02 April 2008
BDC investment portfolio grows
Some of the latest projects under implementation in the current financial year include expansions of a tile manufacturing entity and a can manufacturing company, both located in Lobatse. These investments are worth P108 million and P76 million...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 02 April 2008
Seminar identifies impediments to tourism
This effort is being achieved through the engagement of business leaders in the sector to address hurdles impeding productivity. A BNPC Tourism Sector breakfast seminar held last week recommended that a standing committee or networking seminar be...
MARTIN NYIRENDA
Correspondent 02 April 2008
An extraordinary Tuesday
While Khama's ascendancy was a foregone conclusion, the post of the VP has been Khama's closely-guarded secret. Speculation, some of it quite wild, had been thrown around regarding the appointment. Instead of doing the over-beaten path of...
EDITOR 02 April 2008
AG clarifies on automatic succession
Before the coming into effect of the Constitution (Amendment) Act No. 16 of 1997, the provisions relating to a vacancy in the office of President were contained in section 35 of the Constitution, which provided in the relevant sections as...
DR A. L. MOLOKOMME* 02 April 2008
BDF's retired officers body is exclusionist
So long as the association excludes the retired non-commissioned officers (NCOs) then it will fail, and even the commissioned officers themselves they know very well that they cannot do without non-commissioned officers. Yes I agree it is a good move...
02 April 2008
Cartoon Strip-02.04.08
02 April 2008
Kwaito celebrities inspire students
Thabo 'Mapetla' Ntirang, Tlhotlhomiso 'Skazo' Maruping, Pule 'P-Mag' Magashula and Ramatebele advised students to stay focused on their primary objective of learning and desist from mischief. They were speaking during a motivational presentation at...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 02 April 2008
GTV to launch four new channels
"Having firmly asserted itself as the home of live sports, Africa's best loved and fastest-growing pay-TV company is expanding its high quality programming and blazing a trail across the continent with the introduction of four new channels," the...
STAFF WRITER 02 April 2008
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