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Khama asks SADC to act on Zimbabwe
Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Phandu Skelemani confirmed that Tsvangirai's visit prompted President Ian Khama to contact SADC Chairman, President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia, about what to do. "This is a matter that...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 10 April 2008
Domestic economy milks P478m from BCL
He told MPs after a tour of the BCL copper-nickel mine over the weekend that the company is the single largest consumer of power in the country at 18 percent annually. He said BCL pays more than P300 million in salaries per year and has an annual...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 10 April 2008
Daka dumps ECCO City
ECCO spokesperson Thuso Mudongo, who was still shocked by the move said yesterday that the tactician resigned with immediate effect on Monday. "I did not believe it when I received the news but I personally called him and he confirmed that indeed he...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 10 April 2008
Referees course billed for Gaborone
The commission's chairperson, Harris Lebotse said they expect about 30 aspiring referees to take part in the course. The same course has already been run in Ghanzi, Tswapong and Chobe where about 79 officials were trained. Lebotse said this is a...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 10 April 2008
Rugby teams cancel Zimbabwe trip
Troubled Zimbabwe is in another political crisis after delays in announcing the results of the presidential election last month. Botswana Rugby Union (BRU) secretary, Oupa Pandor told Mmegi Sport yesterday that Zimbabwe had invited them for...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 10 April 2008
Implement copyright law
The facilitator appeared alarmed that the law provides for fines of up to P20,000 and hefty imprisonment terms for certain infringements of 'IT' laws. Significantly, the Deputy Commissioner of Police Mme Mma Mosarwa speculated that the proposed jail...
10 April 2008
In support of the death penalty
We live in a Christian society and the Bible says 'an eye for an eye'. The Bible also talks about forgiveness somewhere but this is surely a printing error, do not be fooled. Only an idiot would read the entire Bible anyway, instead of just picking...
10 April 2008
Why burden Motsumi?
One tends to think that Khama retained those he has retained and dropped those he has dropped basing on their merits and demerits. I want to believe that Khama looked at the performance of the ministers at their current ministries and based his...
10 April 2008
Moupo compromises the BNF
You will recall that President Ian Khama is an alien in the philosophy of democracy. This is based on the premise that Khama is a chief. Chieftainship in terms of governance is in itself feudalistic, and in feudalism or monarchy there is no democracy...
10 April 2008
Cartoon Strip-09.04.08
10 April 2008
Mokolodi elephants kill two
The project's spokesman Jeroen van Wilgen said it is not known how the Sri Lankans died. He said they are investigating the deaths and a specialist is coming from Maun to look into the matter. He added that the deceased were trained elephant...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 10 April 2008
Top stars festival comes to Gabs
The festival is being organised by JJ Promotions, which is owned by ace guitarist John Selolwane. Some of the big names expected to feature at the festival include South Africa's Tshepo Tshola and Zimbabwe's ever green Afro pop artiste...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 10 April 2008
Mogoditshane produces more Kwaito artistes
Since more locals started taking music as a vocation, more Kwaito artistes have come out of Mogoditshane and the latest to emerge from this fast growing peri-urban area is the pair of Sesupo Ramokwapa and Mokgweetsi Kabomo who call themselves...
MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 10 April 2008
Dijammogo releases yet another thriller
The album is yet to be launched on April 25th in Selebi-Phikwe Town hall and it has not been distributed either. It is no doubt that the four army men, Joseph Ramocha, Alfred Keorete, James Nkomo and Moemedi Tlhomelang discovered and nourished...
ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 10 April 2008
UB dons launch book on social security
The book serves to justify the need for a proper comprehensive, accessible, integrated and inclusive Social Security Policy in Botswana as well as to be a policy, which will protect the lives and ensure greater welfare of Batswana. The book uses a...
10 April 2008
BOCCIM improves northern fair
The BOCCIM Northern Trade Fair (BNTF) has in the past received a lot of criticism from the public andexhibitors who rated it as poorly organised. This year's edition is scheduled for May 22-25. Most people have always complained that the fair grounds...
PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 10 April 2008
MDC leader flees into Botswana
He is alleged to have fled a plot on his life in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean politician is said to be staying at a Government-owned Guest House in the City Centre. Unconfirmed information reaching show that Tsvangirai was on his way from South Africa...
TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff Writer 10 April 2008
Booze law ambushes 'April Fools'
The Ministry of Trade and Industry issued a press statement yesterday confirming that the new regulations came into effect on April 1. "It has come to our attention that there is confusion as to when the Liquor Regulations, 2008 came into...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 10 April 2008
NDF officials decamp to BNF
The NDF is a splinter group of the BNF. The party was formed following a BNF congress in Kanye in 2001 at which Otsweletse Moupo and his allies took control of the party. Former president BNF president, the late Dr Kenneth Koma and...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 10 April 2008
P100,000 robbery sentence tomorrow
One of the factors that contributed to adjournment of the judgement was the unbearable heat that engulfed Courtroom 1. Perhaps, it precipitated the interpreter's stumbling over Setswana words, at times misinterpreting what Makati-Lesang was...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 10 April 2008
Woman robs sleeping lover
Assistant Superintendent Bonnie Bareki said that the two had just met at a night spot and they went to the man's home where they were to sleep. "Upon arrival the woman insisted on watching TV when the man went to sleep. Apparently the man had...
STAFF WRITER 10 April 2008
Women urged to seek political office
The women were lectured on democracy and good governance by Emang Basadi political education officer, Moemedi Tsimanyane yesterday at the ongoing three day workshop on 'Assertiveness Training and Gender Sensitisation Workshop for Aspiring Women in...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 10 April 2008
Sexual healing lands Janus-faced 'charlatan' in court
Appearing before Broadhust magistrate Pako Ralehika-Phiri, state prosecutor Thabo Malambane made an application for 'Lucky Maripe' to be remanded in custody because investigations were still ongoing as the accused was trading under three...
OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 10 April 2008
Halt the army, save the money and democracy
There has been adequate warning that a drift towards entrenchment of the military and royalty upon the arena of democratic governance, which must, by definition, be led by civil society, spells danger for the very future of the foundations of that...
RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE
Correspondent 11 April 2008
Over 1,200 teachers to pilot 'emotional intelligence'
Minister Jacob Nkate said yesterday, at the launch of the programme, that the training builds hope in a country be-devilled by social ills such as passion killings, violence, and vandalism at schools and property by students that Botswana is heading...
THATO CHWAANE
Staff Writer 11 April 2008
Rev up or pack and go - Khama
Addressing managers of the civil service comprising all permanent secretaries and their deputies on 3 April at Boipuso Hall in Gaborone with the new President, Merafhe reportedly assured the civil service that he and his boss would not resort to...
STRYKER MOTLALOSO
Staff Writer 11 April 2008
Nurses 'heated' over scarce skills pay
She said that after receiving countless call from concerned nurses, she was forced to call an emergency meeting yesterday to review the contents of the directive and to explore proper channels to address the issue. "The nurses want officials...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 11 April 2008
BACK STAGE
Juno swept an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay by Diablo Cody. Cody also got a Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. It also came in as Best Feature and Best Female Lead in the Spirit Awards. "Junebug" or Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) is the name...
SASA MAJUMA 11 April 2008
BOOK REVIEW
This volume, "Social Security and Social Protection in Botswana", is a product of a number of initiatives by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung or Foundation (known as FES) in Botswana, where they have worked for over 30 years. In 2004 a National...
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SHELDON G. WEEKS 11 April 2008
T.H.A.B.O, and that 'untshwarable' factor
There is a word doing the rounds in street lingo: "untshwarable". It is credit to Motswako man T.H.A.B.O that a word has been so fed, even force-fed, such a rowdy and rebellious collection as the young clubbers, the hedonist partygoers, the kombi...
11 April 2008
Photo exhibition explores social boundaries
The exhibition, which opened on Tuesday night, showcases exquisite photographic images sure to catch anyone's eye, at the same time giving someone a memorable picture of certain events, people or some aspects of certain cultures. The exhibition...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 11 April 2008
CONSUMER WATCHDOG
We seem to have a national obsession with discussing, over and over and over again, everything that we all already know and with sounding terribly important by using excessively long words and sentences when, to put it bluntly, we should just shut...
11 April 2008
Itekanele health scheme opens Phikwe branch
A relatively new player in the industry, Itekanele has already set-up shop in Gaborone and Francistown and plan more branches countrywide. Selebi-Phikwe mayor, Amogelang Mojuta, officially opened the Selebi-Phikwe branch on Friday...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 11 April 2008
PHK launches book on energy efficiency
The workshop was attended by representatives of the Botswana Power Corporations (BPC), MMEWR, the University of Botswana (UB), the Botswana Training Authority (BOTA), the Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology and of Local Government and...
TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 11 April 2008
Tsvangirai must be cautious about 'gov't of national unity'
The Zimbabwean electorate surprised and shamed many who underestimated them, including the old rogue, Robert Mugabe, himself. The Zimbabwean electorate showed their independent way of thinking. For all the political hype accompanying Simba Makoni's...
*TANONOKA JOSEPH WHANDE 11 April 2008
Johnson denies leaving Barclays
"This is a global group and one can be deployed to any Barclays Bank at any time. If it happens it will depend on whether I am able to take the opportunity. "In the meantime unless I say so or my board says so it remains a speculation. So, rest...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 11 April 2008
BCL lauded for corporate social responsibility
New Minister of Lands and Housing, Nonofo Molefhi said during the official opening of a resurfaced road in Botshabelo on Friday that BCL had chosen to invest in the community it operates in. In a speech read on his behalf by the Selebi-Phikwe mayor...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 11 April 2008
Minister re-affirms SA's commitment to Mmamabula
He told Parliament that South Africa is looking at many options to bolster its power supply and nuclear energy is one of them just like the Mmamabula project. Kedikilwe is the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources. He said demand for...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 11 April 2008
IFSC attracts three new funds
The sizeable funds, two of which are property focused and a resource sector fund, have been given conditional approval to commence operations by the IFSC Certification Board.Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the IFSC Alan Boshwaen said in an interview...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 11 April 2008
Botswana brace for massive food price hikes
Botswana, whose food basket contributes over 21 percent to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), imports about 90 percent of its food requirements. But the picture is looking gloomy for the near future because the situation is being exacerbated by...
BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 11 April 2008
SADC fault lines on Zim elections
* Botswana The leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Morgan Tsvangirai has been in Botswana following his emergency departure from his country allegedly as a result of threats to his life. He met with President Ian Khama who...
11 April 2008
Stigma a new form of virus
He manages to occupy one of the seats under the shade made for this phone operator's customers. This man and the phone operator seem to know each other well as they greet each other by names. His attempt to make a phone call is clumsy because of...
Dan Mosekaphofu
Correspondent 11 April 2008
NITTY GRITTY
As you know, dear readers, who in the last two years have been bombarded with all sorts of mottos for all sorts of brands, we have to choose the line that will sell the organization; 'the phrase that pays', so to speak. The central committee of...
BAROLONG SEBONI 11 April 2008
Zim crisis: We say hats off to Khama
That position has been that Zimbabwe's neighbours, and indeed the whole African continent, has not been sympathetic enough to the plight of the long-suffering Zimbabwean people. This Wednesday when Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Zimbabwe's...
EDITOR 11 April 2008
IEC must humble itself to PSP
These reports largely revolve around the alleged interference and meddling in the affairs of the IEC by PSP. Quite frankly, it is a disturbing scenario when these two sacred offices of the land trade accusations through the media thus generating...
11 April 2008
Botswana product set to enter US market
It is the brainchild of Peter Mabeo, a Mogoditshane-born man who joined the woodwork industry approximately 11 years ago. "I had just finished schooling and I had nowhere to go, so I decided to go into woodwork because I had a background in the...
BAME PIET
Staff Writer 11 April 2008
President Khama's magic 4Ds and democratic education
It is going to be a challenge, more so at the end of the day his government will have to answer the question; What kind of a legacy are we leaving behind for our future generations? All worries and speculations put aside regarding President Khama, I...
11 April 2008
The meaning of discipline
The other definition rendered in the same dictionary says discipline is "Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training." It also defines discipline as "Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order", or a "Systematic method to obtain...
*TITUS MBUYA 11 April 2008
Cartoon 11-04-08
11 April 2008
Tough weekend in the south
They have slipped at the last hurdle before but this time, the Siga club believes they will do it. On Sunday, Killer Giants host Gantsi Terrors in a game they need to win to cement their grip at the top of the table. Killer Giants lead the...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 11 April 2008
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